I'm not that much older than you, Harley, and I remember watching all the old 1940s movies as a kid on those "Monster Movie Matinee" TV shows. I'm a little surprised anyone over thirty wouldn't have been exposed to the old 1940s stuff.
Was I at the tail end of that kind of movie exposure or something?
I think so.
Not only monster movies but everything from the 30's-60's. I remember getting everything on TV from Old Monster movies, to old Godzilla films, to classics like Topper, and The Hope/Crosby Road pictures to the Little Rascals, 3 Stooges, Abbott & Costello, The Twilight Zone, etc. etc.
With the advent of cable TV where we were promised unlimited channels, we all thought we'd get MORE content, including all this stuff, but really, I've seen LESS and less as time goes by. It's to the point now where I don't find anyone younger than I that even knows about a lot of this stuff.
Plus I gotta agree with Harleykwinn's original post. I tell my wife, who happens to be a big slasher horror movie fan that i get enough misery, blood, and murder every single day in real life without having to see it for entertainment. My idea of a good Halloween is to watch Lon Chaney's Wolf-Man or Karloff's Frankenstein. It's scary-eerie without it being gratuitous and simply about murder.
