The other day Brian F posted his great atmospheric snaps of Wildwood pier and rides in the New Jersey night.
It reminded reader Mish of the opening to TV's Journey to the Unknown from 1968 and I agree, its one creepy eerie fairground with a hauntingly whistled theme!
What do you think?
Episodes of this old nerve-tingling series on You Tube.
Another ghostly fairground appeared in Herk Harvey's 1962 weirdster Carnival of Souls. I've seen a colourised version of this film but I have to admit for pure atmosphere I prefer the black and white original, available gratis on You Tube.
One of my fave fairground takes appears in the opening titles of The Lost Boys, that vampire-fest starring the Two Coreys [Haim sadly died in 2010, Feldman still around] and one Keifer Sutherland from way back in 1987.
There is something eerily sorrowful about the whole idea that young immortals hang around their town's fairground. Yes, I suppose that's the Lost in the title, a reference to Rufio and the gang in Peter Pan, trapped in Neverland forever.
The theme Cry Little Sister has stuck in my mind ever since first seeing this flick in the late Eighties.
Thou shalt not fall! Remember?
Do you like the Lost Boys?
To round off this ride on the fell rim of night here's a tale from my own neck of the woods, the sad demise of Lancashire's own Disneyland, the medieval theme park Camelot.
As if built from straight from the pages of Michael Crichton's Medieval World, Camelot, with castles and candy floss, rose from the earth in 1983. I'd already left Lancashire for pastures new so I never got to sample the delight's of this northern treat in Chorley.
Alas, like the aging knights of the round table themselves, Camelot went to seed and closed its drawbridge in 2012.
Abandoned, Camelot has become a magnet for the curious. You Tube is bristling with urban explorations into its decaying splendour. Here's a more professional look behind the scenes from TV's the One Show.
Have you an abandoned park or fairground near you? Have you ever come across one readers?
