Horror Movie Month of Halloween
It must have been in 1985 in rural Parker, Idaho when I was almost 9 years old and the neighbors down the street from us rented 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' on VHS. My 5 year old brother and I were invited over to watch the movie with our similarly aged friends. It left an indelible mark on our impressionable psyche as one of the most frightening and wonderful horror fillms that graced our eyes at the time. After the movie ended I still remember running home as fast as I could late that night with my brother through a farm field thinking that Freddy might be right on our tail and he was going to get me! In fact I drew a map to illustrate the path we took to get home after watching A Nightmare on Elm Street. I mean the images replayed in my mind as we ran home of a girl getting slashed by invisible razors who floated up to and crawled around on the ceiling, another girl falling asleep in a tub and then being dragged down into the dark depths of water, a hovering apparition ...