Around 1980, a family friend had a top-loading VCR and bootlegs of all these great films (we were still a few years away from VHS rental stores)… it was maybe a 6th generation copy, soft and smeared as all heck.,. but didn’t I watch the scene where the alien pops out of the egg like a million times.
It being R-rated, still lots of buzz and me only 10, felt like I had access to dark alchemy, things no mere mortal should have. It was glorious. It was inspiration.
- Had a chuckle when reporter was mentioning all these fantastic films off the top, true classics… then ‘Love Story’ … omg what a stinker.
