I saw it Back Then; & again a few months ago (the TZ episode). It was, I think, based on -- or took off (you should pardon the expression) from -- the notion of airplane "gremlins" (WWII). Probably scared me when I first saw it. Watching the recent re-run, *influenced by the Shatner threads here*, I couldn't stop laughing! Such ACTING, oy! (And the actress playing his wife, too. Astonishing.) What I liked the best was that at the end, having *shot* the gremlin (!), Cap'n Kirk falls out of the plane --- and LIVES!

OK, confession: "Pet Sematary", the book, frightened me. (Stephen King said it's one of his few that have frightened *him*. Said while writing it, it "scared the shit out of me".) When I'm out fishing & hear odd noises in the woods, I still think it's the fookin' Wendigo...

Um but also, I did *not* laugh at The Exorcist. / Wot can I tell ya: "I'm Cattlik, Fadduh. I'm Cattlik." ( -The Divil, in the guise of a street person, to Father Damien Karras in his dream.) / Well now looky here, I identified with the book & film, see; because I went to Georgetown U. in the '60s. As had author Bill Blatty, earlier. I've been down those long stone steps, many times. On foot, you undertsand, not airborne. / In those days the Dixie Liquor Store was at the bottom of 'em, on M Street. Coincidentally, you understand.

--Pazuzu