The "S from Hell" is what some kids called the Screen Gems logo which closed 60s/70s TV shows like The Monkees, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie and The Partridge Family.Some kids were spooked by the strange music played while the dot in the middle was approached by menacing lines.
There is a short film at Sundance about this childhood fear.
Personally, I never feared a damn logo as a kid - I would have watched a beheading as long as it followed my beloved Samantha and Jeannie and Flying Nun.
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That's just as nutty as a fruitcake! Those kooks better not come to Wilmywood-the airport is right down the road from....SCREEN GEMS STUDIOS, taunting them with their giant logo on the soundstage!
Hell, I thought Screen Gems was an much more recent branch of Sony Pictures.
I always thought Screen Gems would make a great Toothpaste name..
I used to say "Zis has been a Filmvays presentation, dahling" out loud at the end of "Green Acres" along with Eva Gabor . . .
There wasn't much that scared me as a kid.
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