I have another feeling this is going to be like the TV version of The Mist which turned out to be a disaster and was canceled.  I don't have netflix, so if it goes through, I won't be able to offer my critiques. 

Gerard

How interesting that The Conjuring was number one.  Even though I'm a total skeptic, I attended a lecture given by Ed and Lorraine Warren, and they mentioned "a case" they were not ready to discuss because it was "too personal."  That, of course, was The Conjuring.

Gerard

Fangoria was a part of my growing up.  Of course, none of our moms would ever allow us to purchase it.  So, on our way from school, we would stop in a local "drug store" to page through it.  We would look at all those photos from the latest William Castle film (being spooked by the walking skeleton from The House on Haunted Hill), the decapicated heads from Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte and Straight-Jacket and whatever gruesome thing was in a Roger Corman flick.  We all wanted to see those movies, but like the magazine we were strictly forbidden.  And then, while DS was already on the air and was being featured, there were those pictures of the "ghouls" (zombies) from the controversial Night of the Living Dead."  The white-coat-wearing guy, who ran the "drug-store," looking like Fran Barrone, tolerated our visits and flipping through the pages, so long as we didn't wrinkle them.  Oh, look, there's a pic of Dracula or a werewolf from one of those" English" (Hammer) films!  Blood covered the mouths.  If our moms only knew.

Gerard

When I saw the movie in the theater, I remember being puzzled about what suddenly happened to Jeff.  The scene with Barnabas telling Willie he did something "for" him was all that was mentioned and then he was gone until returning for the climactic blood bath.  It wasn't until I read the novelization that it all made sense.

Gerard

MB, how could you break my heart like that?  Now what am I going to do after Thursday night when I can watch it on-line and then kvetch about it?  Somehow I'll pick up the pieces.  There must be a support-group for people like me.  With the holidays approaching, maybe I can start posting how awful all those Hallmark movies with Lisa Welchel are:  Love at Christmas; Christmas Love; Holiday Love; Love on New Year's; Love Under the Mistletoe; Fake-Tree Love, etc.  I'll watch them all:  girl meets boy; girl hates boy; girl dances with boy, girl loves boy.  I'll watch them all and report back here.  Maybe David Selby will have a cameo.

Gerard

I wish I could see it to offer my impression, but due to certain health issues I can't go to movie theaters anymore.  Well, considering what it costs now, even for matinees and "cheap nights on Tuesdays," it's not like I can afford it.

Gerard

I do remember those ads and several others.  Our local newspaper ran them in turns.  Another one also had snips from the movie, including Willie getting choked after he opened the coffin, Carolyn staked and Barnabas attacking Maggie (there's a pic of it on the wiki HoDS page).  And then there was the ultimate, a photo of the cast on the grounds of Lyndhurst that also served as the cover of the Ross novelization.  Like Gothic, I clipped and saved them all.  Where they are now, no one knows.

Gerard