Hippo Birdie to me
I live by the sea
I'm up to my eyes in snowdrifts
and think I'll climb a tree.

I am 65 today, which makes me officially old.

Now for the important stuff.

1) "The Thing", in all its various incarnations, is based on the story "Who Goes There?" by John Campbell.

2) The army had no hesitation in giving live weapons and ammo to the cast of "THEM!" because most of them, including the two male leads, were World War II veterans and knew damned well how to handle the equipment.

3) All during the movie "5 Million Years to Earth" the plot emphasizes the link between the aliens and human racial memories of devils and demons. The goat-eyes are just another such link.

4) Although the use of lightning to reanimate the monster in the original "Frankenstein" movie is now so iconic, no one would think of doing it any other way, Mary Shelley never actually describes the reanimation method used in her novel. All she says is that it took place in Frankenstein's university dorm room.

5) The building used for exterior shots in "13 Ghosts" was the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. The House was shot from the side rather than the front so that it would not be too obvious, but it's the Winchester House all the same.

6) In the 50s-60s, there were all sorts of gimmicks used to heightened the fear of audiences attending second-rate "Date Night" horror flicks, including spray smells, plants in the audience who "fainted" and were then removed by equally phony emergency personnel, and a skeleton-puppet that emerged through a split movie screen and was then drawn up into the rafters. In the the case of "The Tingler", some of the theater seats were equipped with buzzers to simulate an attack by the monster. Some were badly installed, resulting in shocks. There were also supposed to be ropes strung under the seats and hung with beanbags that were pulled by the ushers, causing the beanbags to rub against the spectators' legs, frightening them into thinking the monster was under their chair, but just how this was supposed to work, I don't know.