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bipolarber	You know you're a Monster Fan when...	Lead	[-]
Jun 24 09 2:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You know you're a monster fan when... you can share stories about how your mother threw away your favorite comics/magazines. You know you're a monster fan when... someone quotes a line from The Thing, and you immediately think of the next line... You know you're a monster fan when... someone mentions an obscure film title to you, and you think... "1953, Paramount, starring Vincent Price..." You know you're a monster fan when... you are sitting in a Tim Burton movie, and you suddenly start laughing, because YOU get the reference, but no one else knows what's going on. You know you're a monster fan when... when you notice that the monster in the film you are watching was made of peices from several other creature suits... and you can name them all. You know you're a monster fan when... you remember a time when the only way you could watch a horror film on TV was to stay up until 2:00 am. You know you're a monster fan when... when you STILL have the autographed photo of your local horror host on the wall. "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
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Bifocals		#1	[-]
Jun 24 09 8:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You know you're a monster fan when...your girl friend gets angry when you keep saying the next line of The Bride of Frankenstein as you hear it in the phone background on TV from her house while she tries to have a conversation with you about something else entirely. You know you're a monster fan when... you went to the 'Dusk Till Dawn' Horror Shows in the late 80's/early 90's when the local drive-ins were going out of business even though you owned video tapes of all the movies. You know you're a monster fan when...every time you watch King Kong you keep hoping he'll make it back down the Empire State Building alive, well, and on the first boat back to Skull Island. You know you're a monster fan when... you remember going to the movies and the title card was spliced in & looked completely different from the footage before & after then realized the Dreaded Re-titling Beast had struck again but you couldn't keep a grudge for very long. You know you're a monster fan when... your TV memories of the shower scene from Psycho are curtains jerking back followed by a sudden jump cut then someone remotely female shaped/dressed running from the bathroom. You know you're a monster fan when... you actively search for the 'Americanized' versions of Japanese movies which added 'big name' American stars & usually edited running times because all the DVDs have been restored to their original glory.
Python		#2	[-]
Jun 26 09 12:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You know you're a monster fan when.....you have a framed photo of Forrest J. Ackerman in your home. You know you're a monster fan when.....you dress your 10 year old daughter as the Bride of Frankenstein and have to use a reference photo to get the suture lines correct on her neck - thinking that the rest of the elementary school will surely notice if they're wrong. You know you're a monster fan when......your daughter treats you to a movie on Father's Day and you choose Drag Me to Hell. Part II - your daughter fully expected it. You know you're a monster fan when.....one of the only two ties you own is your Universal Monsters tie. You know you're a monster fan when.....you have to check the cheat sheet for you bank account info, but you can name the release years for every Frankenstein, Creature, Dracula and Phantom of the Opera movie. You know you're a monster fan when....your home doesn't have a single copy of Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal or Time, but you can easily find old FMs, Creepy, Eerie, Rue Morgue and Filmfax issues anywhere. You know you're a monster fan when......you attend a massive flea market and the only thing you walk away with is a VHS copy of War of the Gargantuas. You know you're a monster fan when....you beg out of a day with your girlfriend so you can attend a Bob Wilkins(recently deceased San Francisco horror host) memorial tribute. You know you're a monster fan when.....you can only drink your morning coffee out of your Creature From the Black Lagoon mug.
Victor Frankenstein		#3	[-]
Jul 1 09 5:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Your posts are great guys! You know you are a monster fan when: August means the beginning of Halloween season You know you are a monster fan when: your Monster collection is the only thing that rivals your wife/girlfriend's shoe collection You know you are a monster fan when: someone offers you wine you think "I never drink....wine"

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