Me & Mom & Horror (and More)
Some memories of mom as we approach the 20th anniversary of her death…
I got my love of horror from mom. Where mom got it from, who knows. But she was hooked on weird stuff fairly early on. One of my favourite stories that she liked to tell also explains her approach to me and horror movies when I was a kid.
In the summer of 1958, the UK was buzzing with the release of Hammer’s first entry in their Dracula series. Starring Christopher Lee as the Count and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, the word was that this movie was seriously, hard-core scary and maybe, too, a little bit (GASP!) sexy!
Mom was 15 years old on August 13th 1958. Dracula was an “X” certificate—she was too young to see it.
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