The teeth! The eyes! The horrifying, unearthly shreeking!
When a youngster of about 5 years old, my mother would take my younger brother and me to watch "The Children's Matinee" at an old, worn down cinema -- the type which was made to look a little like a theatre in its decoration and layout.
Anyhow, on one particular day, after the lights went down something happened which still traumatises me to this day and when my mother and I mention it we do so on hushed tones with grimaces on our faces.
That afternoon they showed an entire Elton John concert before the film, which I think was a re-run of the one about the kids with the aeroplane stopping smugglers. A whole 2 hours of that creepy, microphone-fellating queen!
Any time I hear Elton singing, or sometimes just hear his name, I get a mental image of a closeup of his prominent gnashers circling a microphone as though deciding whether to eat it or make love to it and I shudder.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 18:25, 5 replies)

did they show chico the rain maker?
used to love watching that at the saturday matinee.
the only film i remember was the one where diamond smugglers in holland were hiding diamonds in edam.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 18:33, closed)

I don't recall Chico, but the diamonds ring a bell.
I think the one that day may have been called something like "Sky Pirates", but the trauma means whenever I think of the children's films _his face_ springs to mind.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 18:59, closed)

i probably saw that one myself
chico was a shrunken head that could be summoned by 2 children playing drums and pan pipes.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 19:06, closed)

Eek - www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvfFia7QEVg
(Benzyl, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 23:36, closed)

jesus jumped-up christ on a chariot-driven sidecar!

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 12:03, closed)