Oh my God, the dream sequence at the end of this film haunts me to this day. The whole movie is wonderfully, intelligently creepy but it's that dream sequence and the insistence that "This is not a dream, you are listening to a transmission from the year 1999..." and then the face of poor Catherine, trapped in the evil future...that scene will make you more afraid to go to sleep than a thousand Freddy Kreugers.
Incidentally, I did not see this movie until just a couple of years ago, when I watched it with my sister on VHS. Not long afterward I happened to meet Alice Cooper in a pizza restaurant in Scottsdale, AZ (he lives in Scottsdale, I think). He was there with his young daughter and he looked about as non-threatening as a man in white tennis shorts and sneakers can possibly look, and I had a hell of a time convincing my sister that it was Alice Cooper -- until he turned and smiled at us and she went "Oh my GOD, PRINCE OF DARKNESS!!"
So, yeah, very scary movie and I give it two or three or four thumbs up.
Incidentally, I did not see this movie until just a couple of years ago, when I watched it with my sister on VHS. Not long afterward I happened to meet Alice Cooper in a pizza restaurant in Scottsdale, AZ (he lives in Scottsdale, I think). He was there with his young daughter and he looked about as non-threatening as a man in white tennis shorts and sneakers can possibly look, and I had a hell of a time convincing my sister that it was Alice Cooper -- until he turned and smiled at us and she went "Oh my GOD, PRINCE OF DARKNESS!!"
So, yeah, very scary movie and I give it two or three or four thumbs up.
