davlghry wrote:
It's interesting that so much of our childhood exposure to horror comes not from the classic horror films themselves but from the send-ups and B comedies of the era that are often rife with monsters, mad scientists, phoney seances and haunted houses. 
...and cartoons of same. Seeing Bugs Bunny's "Water Water Every Hare" on TV one afternoon after kindergarten was a moment that changed me forever. 
Gateway drugs, I tells ya!