Fear No Evil (1981) - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - April 23, 1981

Last year, on April 24, I posted the opening day ad, also clipped from the Oakland Tribune, for Frank LaLoggia's debut feature Fear No Evil. In that post I shared a clip from Creature Features that featured LaLoggia doing a promotional interview for the film.

Having done that, I thought it might be cool to track down one of the TV spots I remember seeing on television. I know that it featured Andrew (Stefan Arngrim), a birthday cake, and Andrew's father screaming "My son is the devil!"

This appears to be the one.

I feel the need to qualify this with the phrase "appears to be" as April 1981, at time of writing, is a whopping 45 years in my past. While the ad does feature what I remember, watching it did not trigger the dopamine hit response of, "Ah, that's the one! That's it!"

But it has been 45 years, man. That means a whole lot of memories smashing, mixing, or blending together. I think that it lodged in my memory at all is something of pop culture win.