Countdown to Halloween: Where … ?

Nostalgia is a powerful thing. It gives us a lifelong love for things that can be shared passions or complete crap to other people. Sometimes that love is reinforced by being re-experienced – watching a favorite movie over and over, or faithfully showing up for 80s night at the club.

But sometimes it makes you wonder what the hell you were thinking.

I was lucky enough to see 1976’s Food of the Gods in the theater (I was six — my parents had a very open-minded view on kids and movies). Naturally, it scared the cheese out of me. Giant rats, giant bugs, giant chickens … have you ever been chased by a chicken? I have, and I can tell you that as a fairly high-strung kid, this wasn’t helping.

But looking at it now … well, Food of the Gods is kinda charming, what with its trying-as-hard-as-it-can special effects and goofy dialogue (and the ending, which I won’t spoil, is still killer). Speaking of goofy dialogue, be sure to stick around until the end of this clip — it’s worth its weight in giant rubber chickens.