<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Those were the days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Those Were The Days]]></description><link>https://millergothic.wixsite.com/those-were-the-days/my-blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:35:09 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://millergothic.wixsite.com/those-were-the-days/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Salems Lot (1979)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Director Tobe Hooper's entire career had stalled a tad after the flop of the troubled but worthwhile "Eaten Alive". Other projects had to be done and were to his credit. Stephen King's popular pulp success "Salems Lot" (1975) had been a great best seller with its Gothic  atmosphere and sense of conquering moodiness and a hostile threat to the American blue collar everyday world. Here Hooper had another directing job and went with it. It proved a great television success as well as a second...]]></description><link>https://millergothic.wixsite.com/those-were-the-days/post/salems-lot-1979</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a299b6cb34d9652f55456c2</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:19:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7f36a8_79768aa39fcd46d69cf3425480bfacfa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>millergothic</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willard (1971)]]></title><description><![CDATA[A truly great horror movie rarely exists in the business but competent ones did and do get made but here I get off the point and I truly don't mean to get off the whole point. A truly good horror movie is of its time as the Universal movies were and so were the Hammer movies. A Tobe Hooper or Wes Craven movie this isn't; Willard (1971) isn't a good movie. There are just some movie horror tropes and characters that can be sympathetic in a movie. 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He has something moral to say, not...]]></description><link>https://millergothic.wixsite.com/those-were-the-days/post/eraserhead-1977</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6570c25bc0538199dedd3fcb</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:56:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7f36a8_643eebffa9ff45509e6646270d413bd6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>millergothic</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mutations (1973)]]></title><description><![CDATA[English terror and horror stories going back in literature and also in movie making for decades now have a real history. 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