Need help findin the name of this horror
 

there is a horror movie i saw a few times when i was very young. i was always too scared to watch it all the way. i have no idea what the name of this film is,and very little clues.here is all i can remember.

1) it was a movie that everyone watched once a year, like The Wizard of Oz ,Charlie Browns Holiday Shows, things like that.

2) it was black and white, and had to have been made around the 1950's or earlier , but i'm not real sure about that.

3) i remember kids in halloween costumes or something, and it seems like they
were in like a graveyard or something and scared to go into this haunted house.

4)i remember and old man,very scary in this film.

sorry thats all i remember.i was like between 3 and 6 years old (late 60's,early 70's)and when i got older,and asked about this movie, nobody knew what i was talking about. im 41 now and this has bugged me for decades.
anyone have any clues to what this mvoie might have been?
thanks! allen

It sounds a bit like To Kill a Mockingbird.

To Kill a Mockingbird
 

Good call. That's exactly what it sounds like. Any of this look familiar?

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/data/13...b0zm_00020.jpg

http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/scary/mockingbirdham.jpg

that looks like it might be it,i will buy that movie and see. after i thought about it some more, it seems like one of the kids was wearing a burlap sack or something,does that ring a bell ?

thanks!!!!!! allen

Yup. It is indeed the spinechilling horror classic To Kill a Mockingbird. You can tell it's scary because the guy from the Omen's in it.

Maybe the famous ham costume? See the photos above. Actually that scene in the woods is pretty scary, as are a number of other bits involving the creepy house next door. (Not to mention Truman Capote as a child.)

The kid who played Dill is that movie's only weakness.

Who would have been more convincing? Brandon de Wilde? Julie Harris? Some sort of South American tree frog?

I think the treefrog.

Sadly, I think so too ...

Wait.....To Kill a Mockingbird isn't horror is it? You guys got me hella confused, I thought it was about a black man on trial in the south way back in the 50's

Fits the description though.

nope.not it
 

to kill a mockingbird was a great movie,i just watched it for the first time,but its not the movie i was thinking of. i wish i could remember more or have a better description. the movie im thinking about is probably a bit older and not as polished as to kill a mockingbird. the movie im talking about had several kids dressed up for halloween, and there was a graveyard seen that was really scary. also,i came to the horror fourum because i believe it is a horror movie, to kill a mockingbird is not what i would really call a horror film.
but thanks a bunch for suggesting it might be that movie,it was a real pleasure to watch it,and mr. peck did an excellent job in it!

Well, tell us what the ids were dressed as, what they were doing in the graveyard, or something!

Damn! It sure seemed like the right fit.

And, no, of course it's not a horror movie, but I could sure see why a kid might find parts of it frightening and remember it as a scary film, what with the crazy guy nextdoor who stabbed his father and all, and the kids being attacked in the woods. Okay, never mind.

So what have we got? It's black and white? Made when? The fifties? Low budget? Kids, a cemetary, Halloween costumes? A burlap sack?

Why is this ringing no bells at all? We may need another clue.

It would have to have been in the fifties or early sixties because Trick or Treating wasn't all that popular in the 40s from what I read.

Vampyr?


It has a scary looking old guy in it... :rolleyes:

I believe that's actually an old woman. Besides ... what incredible place would you need to grow up in where a silent Danish horror film was on television every year? I'm moving there immediately.

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about the only thing i can remember that i have not mentioned is....... i remember the kids in their costumes at the graveyard,and they were laying on the ground,hiding from someone and/or plotting a prank or something. it did seem to be older than to kill a mockingbird,and/or just a cheaper B film.

don't fret if you can't help. i was very young,and for all i know my memory has played tricks on me after all these years, and maybe it was to kill a mockingbird. it was right at that age when you first start to remember things.

I know what you mean though. Funny how these images stay with us. I had horrible nightmares all through my earliest childhood about a man in pajamas who kept dead women in glass boxes. Years later, I just about went through the roof when I saw Karloff in THE BLACK CAT. So that's where the dream came from! I couldn't believe it.

One of these days, the same thing will happen to you. You'll be watching an old movie and -- wham! -- you'll suddenly recognize the bits that have lodged in your subconscious.