Halloween Movie Pick #18

War of the Worlds.
Not the new one. The good one. The really good one. A show so horrifying that people I know...I have yet to read the book. What the War of the Worlds is most remembered for is the panic it caused in New Jersey and New York during the short radio broadcast.

Pittsburgh—A man returned home in the midst of the broadcast and found his wife, a bottle of poison in her hand, screaming: "I’d rather die this way than like that." Brevard, N. C.—Five Brevard College students fainted and panic gripped the campus for a half hour with many students fighting for telephones to inform their parents to come and get them. Kansas City—One telephone informant said he had loaded all his children into his car, had filled it with gasoline, and was going somewhere. "Where is it safe?" he wanted to know. The Associated press Bureau received queries on the "meteors" from Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Beaumont, Tex., and St. Joseph, Mo.