The monsters of Cybersecurity Awareness Month are getting stronger

Every October, when horror movies start turning up again, I’m reminded of one particularly ambitious attempt from my childhood to make an old monster a little scarier.

In May 1982, DC’s Channel 20 turned a showing of Revenge of the Creature, the sequel to Creature From the Black Lagoon, into a local television event by broadcasting the movie in 3D. My friend Dan Murphy and I had picked up the required red-and-blue cardboard glasses from 7-Eleven and settled into the basement where we spent an enormous amount of our childhood playing games and watching movies. My mother kept us supplied with hot pizza bagel bites while we waited for the Creature to leap out of the television.

It never quite happened. I remember a monster’s hand reaching toward the camera and, for some reason, a boat rope being tossed in our direction. Contemporary accounts suggest there was also a...

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