Trilogy of Terror was on TV in 1975, it was nominated for Blockbuster Movie of the Week at the TV Land awards in 2006.

125. Harrow Lake – Kat Ellis

This almost threw me right away because they say a horror movie won two Emmys in the first couple of pages and then never establish that it was a made for TV movie. It was then that I knew I was reading a book which had not been fact checked thoroughly for its US release. It would have been easy to say it was made for cable or a specific streaming service, with horror movies that works better in relation to what is considered TV. Just be clear, don’t act like an Emmy is an Oscar when these people are supposed to be established in the US film industry. Ringing true tip.

I did also have a hard time believing the whole town and the world was that into this Nightjar movie when I still don’t know what the title means or have any context for why it’s so beloved by fans. It sounds like a young woman is chased and eaten by her community, which is the kind of thing that women relate to as happening metaphorically all the time, but not something that causes a group celebration with parade. The entire town is involved in this festival for a horror movie and it’s not The Wicker Man? And it was a made for TV movie? And it’s a gruesome horror movie? And no one who worked on it shows up to sign autographs normal convention style? Really?

Anyway, I do think it had an interesting and creepy mythology for the Mr. Jitters character and it is interesting to me how horror stories can make things like tapping or any little noise very suspenseful. I recently watched The Cellar, a not slasher horror movie which involves math, and it made counting pretty creepy while also reminding me of The Beyond in a pleasant way, so good on them. And I was interested to find out what really happened to Lola’s mother, for a while I thought she had become Mr. Jitters’ apprentice or something along those lines, I’m both glad and not that wasn’t the story.

I usually like small town creepiness and I love horror movies, but the world of this story wasn’t very well established, especially with the glaringly nonsensical parts that had no explanation so I could ignore them.

 

Twiglet had no nonsensical parts and was too cute to be real, like a fuzzy hallucination at times.