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If you like The Company of Wolves, then check out Angela Carter. She wrote the short story its based on and The Bloody Chamber is probably her best collection of short stories—all fairly dark explorations of fairy tales, but so, so good. Fun fact: the band Wolf Alice is named after one of her stories. Read more
did we forget to displace the water in the bath with our body in that math equation or is that included? I mean, I’m sure it’s not hard but I have no idea how to math that. Lets say my tub holds 80 gallons, but I weigh 180. I don’t know how many gallons that is, but I take up quite a bit of that tub. I suppose I could… Read more
The Towering Inferno from 1974. I was 9 years old, my parents brought me. The theatre had an intermission, and I was shaking from seeing people burned alive, I had to talk my mom into staying. I wish we left but damage had been done. To this day I have had a severe fear of burning alive, and of fire in tall buildings. … Read more
It was 1978, I was ten - Animal House. Read more
At a sleepover at my cousins house (the cousins were younger than me) I saw texas chainsaw massacre. My aunt made french toast that she gave us while we watched it. I couldn’t finish it due to the nature of the movie. Actually, I couldn’t eat french toast for years after. I was maybe 10-12 years old at the time.
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I am the first child and my very young parents made the classic mistake of listening to friends without kids who assured them that their four-year old would love the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Immediately after the first scene where the guys gets pulled into the velociraptor pen I started asking “where did the man go?… Read more
I was 5. My mother thought she was taking me and my friends to Battlestar Galactica the movie (yes I’m old). During the movie we kept telling her it wasn’t the right movie but she insisted that they had just changed the actors for the movie version. Only after the chest burster alien burst out of John Hurt and 4 kids… Read more
I loved Jurassic Park and saw it 4 times the summer I turned 11. I realized the the director has also made ET and Jaws, and all of my beloved Indiana Jones movies. When his next movie came out, I rode my bike to the theater near my grade school and got a ticket. I was not prepared for, first, a 3 hour film, and… Read more
My mother hated most cartoons and family-friendly fare, so after the first movie I saw in the theater (Benji), I remember going to see all the things my mom loved, which was specifically horror. The first horror film I remember seeing in a theater was Phantasm at age 7. I’ve also seen the likes of The Shining and… Read more
As a child I had vivid screaming nightmares of being impaled on a meathook. My parents always acted like it was my overactive imagination combined with the fact that my grandfather ran a meat locker. Read more
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I saw Harold and Kumar with my parents when I was 12. My mom went to cover my eyes during the scene with the topless ladies hanging out of the car for some reason. Even though I’m a girl and was growing boobs of my own at the time lol. There are worse things for a 12-year-old to see but it was just a very awkward… Read more
I was one of those 80's kids that got to see Temple of Doom in the theater. My poor, unsuspecting parents were just trying to kill time while our car had an alarm installed. I was 6. My mother screamed out loud at the eyeball soup. Still stands as my favorite Indy film. Read more
While babysitting us, my younger brother and I (ages 10 and 12 at the time) convinced my poor uncle to take us to see the South Park movie in 1999. I don’t think that was the 1st R-rated movie I had seen, but it is the one I remember seeing earlier than I should have. After we got out of the theater, he just laughed… Read more
Saw David Cronenberg’s “The Brood" in middle school about age 13, and it totally freaked me out. Would still freak me out today probably. Read more
kids will watch any old shit Read more