Friday, January 22, 2010

Look to the heptagon for it is there...

When we were kids my brothers and I saw this creepy movie more times than I can remember --- but not enough times to remember the name of it. Thank God for YouTube. It's Rod Serling's masterpiece Encounter With the Unknown (1973) and it must have been on every Friday night up through the 1980's. My little brother and I like the first part in particular with the college kids and the curse laid on them by "the seventh daughter of the seventh son":

"Listen you well to my word. One by land. Two by sky."



It's part Hammer Horror, part Ed Wood, which makes it both fantastic and a little slow and dreary. Still ... "Seven times around go the three of you." How can you ever get that out of your head?

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