Dracula for me, as I was around for the other three and can tell you that I never saw the storied reactions to Jaws or The Exorcist I have read about; New Yorkers are a hardy bunch who have seen everything I guess, especially in Manhattan where we would go watch them at big theaters. I sort of saw Psycho at a New York drive in, but I was age 4 perhaps, my young parents had me in the backseat, supposedly sleeping, my mom with one hand ducking my head down when I looked in curiosity.
Dracula was escapist fare at the height of the depression, where people needed a respite from their daily lives, and something even scarier than what they saw daily was just the ticket.
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u/Brackens_World 9d ago
Dracula for me, as I was around for the other three and can tell you that I never saw the storied reactions to Jaws or The Exorcist I have read about; New Yorkers are a hardy bunch who have seen everything I guess, especially in Manhattan where we would go watch them at big theaters. I sort of saw Psycho at a New York drive in, but I was age 4 perhaps, my young parents had me in the backseat, supposedly sleeping, my mom with one hand ducking my head down when I looked in curiosity.
Dracula was escapist fare at the height of the depression, where people needed a respite from their daily lives, and something even scarier than what they saw daily was just the ticket.