Post by marianne48 on Jul 29, 2020 15:30:59 GMT
A very brief power outage in The Tingler--a weird little creature which strangles people is crawling around inside a movie theater; Vincent Price thinks the best way to catch it is to turn off all the lights in the theater, leaving the audience in total darkness. Totally illogical, but the point is to get everyone (onscreen and in the real audience) to scream at the top of their lungs. To add to the fun, during this film's original theatrical release, some theater seats were electrified to creep people out even further. A William Castle film, of course.
A bit of trivia: On the night of the massive power outage in NYC in July of 1977, the local WCBS station in New York had scheduled, for its nightly "Late Late Show" movie, an airing of the 1954 Dane Clark film Blackout. The movie didn't run because the station was knocked out by the citywide blackout.
A bit of trivia: On the night of the massive power outage in NYC in July of 1977, the local WCBS station in New York had scheduled, for its nightly "Late Late Show" movie, an airing of the 1954 Dane Clark film Blackout. The movie didn't run because the station was knocked out by the citywide blackout.