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Flashback Friday - Oh, the Horror Pt.4

10/30/2015

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by Maria
​The summer before I started the sixth grade, my parents spent a week visiting my aunt in Florida. They had cable! My parents thought cable had a lot of racy TV, which wasn’t a good thing to have in a household with young kids. Turns out they were right. 
​Whenever the grownups left us unsupervised, we snuck over to turn on HBO. Although several years had passed since it had been in theaters, The Exorcist was on rotation on HBO that summer. Probably the greatest shock of the film, for anyone unfamiliar, is the use of repeated blasphemous obscenities - and at a couple of priests, no less. 
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​When this movie first came to theaters in 1973, showings were sold out all over the country. Audiences could barely stomach the film, with some having to step out into the lobby or leaving the cinema entirely because it was considered too graphic. No one had ever seen horror so realistic and so violent.
​Many of the famous scenes are also the same ones that left an imprint on a young girl who didn’t know what sex was, much less that crucifixes could be used like that.
 
In one famous scene, the head-spinning done by the child is disturbing because it’s done slowly, so that the audience doesn't perhaps note it for a few seconds. 
​Now that I’m a mom, I’m familiar with real-life projectile vomit, but as a ten-year-old kid watching a movie character who’s about my own age, this was the most disgusting thing I’d ever witnessed. 
​Whenever I see this movie on cable, I’ll always stop and watch for at least a few minutes. It doesn't scare me the way it did the first time, but the story of a child being possessed by evil, the idea that a mother and other adults might not have the power to help that child, is still deeply unsettling. 
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Flashback Friday - Oh, the Horror Pt. 3

10/23/2015

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by Brooke
Arachnophobia VS. Trainspotting
​Or:  “Forget Spiders, You Should Really Be Worried about Heroin Addiction.”
 
For my 13th birthday I invited few friends to my house for a sleepover and movie night. We chose what we expected to be two very adult movies: classic horror flick Arachnophobia and the new and oh so Euro trendy Trainspotting. God, we were so edgy. 
​As it turned out, Arachnophobia, the movie that was supposed to give us the late-night heebie-jeebies in my dark old farmhouse living room, ended up being our palette cleanser. 
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​The real scary movie that night was Trainspotting. Drugs, dirty toilets and dead babies? Now THAT was the stuff of nightmares. We were cowering behind pillows, eyes wide, our impressionable minds forever tainted by the horrors of urban poverty and heroin addiction in 1980s Edinburgh. Clearly we were not so edgy. 
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​Sick to our stomachs, we turned to Jeff Daniels, spiders and small-town America to reassure us that all would be well in the world. These were problems you could just kill with fire. It was positively life affirming.
 
Good thing I waited until the following year to watch Kids, huh?
​Author’s Note:
Arachnophobia is the perfect campy movie for a family-friendly throwback Halloween night. Check out the theatrical trailer: 
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Flashback Friday - Oh, the horror! Part 2

10/16/2015

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by Jen
Thanks to Stephen King, I know that I never want to live in New England.  Also, if a clown asks you if you'd like a balloon, the answer is always NO.

Let me back up and give you some history: I grew up in a pretty conservative home, and wasn't allowed to see much in the way of horror movies (or, really, anything that wasn't rated PG).  So there was no way my parents were going to let me watch the 1990 miniseries based on Stephen King's It, despite my penchant for scary tales.  (I may not have been allowed to watch scary movies, but I loved horror novels - I think I read everything Christopher Pike ever wrote!)

But then I grew up and went away to college, and one night the miniseries was on TV again - and there was no one to make me change the channel, so I settled in for a good scare.
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I think it's safe to say I was scarred for life.  The tale of a group of childhood friends reuniting in a small New England town after thirty years to fight an evil they thought they'd defeated as children was haunting and suspenseful.  

Tim Curry is the stuff of dreams and nightmares - I had seen him in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and as the red devil in Legend, but nothing is quite as scary as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. 
And if the clown wasn't scary enough, there were the sewers.   And the blood.  Blood in the photo album, blood in the bathroom sink - all that blood that the adults couldn't see, because they apparently didn't believe in the evil.  It was like a horrible reverse Polar Express.  

Quite some time passed before I was able to walk past a sewer without giving it an extraordinarily wide berth, or go into a bathroom without flinching if the sink so much as gurgled.  

It's been at least twenty years since I saw It on TV, and I decided to bravely rent the miniseries to watch as research for this article.  It wasn't quite as traumatizing as I recall it being the first time, but then again it was daylight and I was watching it on my computer screen.  (Also, the late 80's/early 90's special effects don't really hold up.)

Maybe someday I'll be brave enough to read the novel...
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Flashback Friday - Oh, the Horror! Pt. 1

10/9/2015

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by Lauren
It's October - Halloween season - our favorite time of year*. Last year, we reminisced about our favorite Halloween movies and TV- most of which were family friendly - but this year, it's time to get scared! Each week in October we will share our favorite or scariest horror movie memories...
For me, Poltergiest (1982), was the 'thing-that-scarred-me-for-life.'
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In 1983, I was 10 years old. A sheltered little Long Island girl with straight A's and pigtails that had never seen a truly scary movie in her life**. And we had HBO...
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One day my parents were busy doing yard work, and I happened across a movie about a little girl and her family. She had a brother and a dog, just like me.

I started watching, unaware of what was to come...

​It literally broke my brain.
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To this day I am petrified of clowns.
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I ran from the couch in fear of  the clown - and fled to the nearby staircase where I could still peak around the corner and see the TV.

I will never know WHY I stayed and watched the whole thing.
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Yeah, wasn't a fan of pools for a while either...
I had nightmares for days. I threw out all of the clown dolls and figurines I had in my room. I refused to go anywhere near a TV that had static on it. We had an old TV downstairs that would randomly turn itself on and off - I was convinced our rental house was haunted and I would die any minute.
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Explaining to my husband why I still won't sleep with the closet door open... was awkward.
It wan't until college that I watched another 'horror movie.' By then I could laugh at most of the schlocky scary film classics of the 80's and 90's - but I have only ever sat through Poltergeist once more as an adult - and I didn't laugh. It still scares the heck out of me.
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As far as the 2014 remake goes - hell no. The clown poster alone is a HARD PASS.

* Except DragonCon
​**Except that time my 3rd grade teacher let us watch Disney's Watcher in the Woods - IN CLASS - which is still scary as shit.
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