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Having a poster in the background is not as bad as getting killed by Sergio Carpenter in the old Romero House imo
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:If anything it's more realistic nowadays for kids to have weirder, more obscure interests with how available so many things are. Perhaps 2020s period horror will have kids who are really into Columbo. Duck Soup. Is that weird? My parents had to explain some of the references but me and my sisters loved the Marx Brothers when we were kids.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Duck Soup. Duck Soup is a great choice! I don't think it's weird necessarily, just some gentle ribbing since our friend didn't have any normal kid movies or shows growing up and would only watch classics and silent films because that's all his parents would show him. He also didn't have a cell phone until his mid-20s. He's a giant eccentric and also the best. I think having weird niche things you like as a kid is an important part of being a kid. There was a sense of pride in being the only kid in my class who subscribed to Shonen Jump or had multiple Daft Punk albums or whatever. It's fun to filter that through the lens of the period piece.
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Aug 16, 2023 16:18
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Google is telling me that its The Chamber of Horrors 1966 where the screen flashes red but I don't see any blurb about a hand being cut off.
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Aug 16, 2023 16:23
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Pope Corky the IX posted:They also show the kids watching Day of the Dead in the theater. There's no way a small local cinema would run an unrated film like that, much less let a bunch of thirteen year olds in. Things like that come from writers who are too distant from the era they're writing. I can't remember if it was in Stranger Things or Fear Street where someone doesn't use a payphone correctly. For example, my latest trainee when we were discussing home video/video rentals, she was confused over the concept of blank tapes and that we used them to record all sorts of stuff. The idea of your movie options back then being what's at the theater/what's at the rental place/what's getting shown edited on TV/whatever you managed to tape was also a bit of a shock.
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Aug 16, 2023 16:25
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:our friend didn't have any normal kid movies or shows growing up This is me, I still haven't seen most of the 80s comedies that everyone else I knew was watching, it was all old westerns (that I hated) and old monster movies (that I loved) in my house.
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Aug 16, 2023 16:35
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New poster got here today. The white parts are glow in the dark 
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Aug 16, 2023 16:46
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When I was around 4 or 5 my favorite thing to watch was a VHS of the original King Kong. I liked all kinds of other regular kids stuff too but I definitely continued to have a strong interest in old giant monster movies growing up and borrowed my grandparents' massive VHS camcorder to make my own movies with Godzilla action figures and micro machines.
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Aug 16, 2023 16:47
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:This is me, I still haven't seen most of the 80s comedies that everyone else I knew was watching, it was all old westerns (that I hated) and old monster movies (that I loved) in my house. I was the kid who knew every word to the original London cast recording of Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables; I'm well-aware none of our friend group had normal interests. But it is funny in a horror movie when a kid only likes The Vindicated-By-History Hits Of The Time.
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Aug 16, 2023 16:48
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What I’m getting out of this discussion is your friend sounds cool. My parents let us watch whatever we wanted growing up, but they’d at intervals decide to “culture” us by throwing in assigned material (that they love). It’s why I have an exhaustive knowledge of Doris Day movies and a German-language version of the James Fenimore Cooper novels. Thanks, mom.
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Aug 16, 2023 16:58
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M_Sinistrari posted:Things like that come from writers who are too distant from the era they're writing. I can't remember if it was in Stranger Things or Fear Street where someone doesn't use a payphone correctly. How did they manage to gently caress up using a pay phone?
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Aug 16, 2023 17:08
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To be fair, a movie failing at the box office doesn't necessarily mean that no one liked it. He could have been the one guy who saw The Thing and thought that it was neat.
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Aug 16, 2023 17:15
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Crescent Wrench posted:How did they manage to gently caress up using a pay phone? Depends where you are. Some payphones required you to put the money in before dialing, others only had you do it after the call was answered.
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Something I think about a lot is the experience of renting some weird movie that nobody else has ever seen (presumably because all the good movies were already rented) and having that become a cornerstone of your childhood. My mom and I rented The Lift once and then rented it almost one a month for the better part of a year afterwards. I still love that movie and somewhere I have the storyboard I tried to make for a similar movie about sentient showers that kill people (in my cluelessly gay little nine year old brain I was like "horror movies = women in showers" and ran with it).
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Aug 16, 2023 17:40
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I think that movie for me is Rock & Rule. I tried to describe it to the kids in my kindergarten class and they thought it sounded like the stupidest thing ever.
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Aug 16, 2023 17:45
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I saw Rock & Rule for the first time a few months ago. There's a lot to like about it. The Sonic OVA is probably that movie for me. I still have my childhood VHS copy I got from the mall and watched about every week. I tried showing it to my fourth grade classmates and they all got bored and wanted to watch Cats & Dogs instead and it was soul-crushing.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:(in my cluelessly gay little nine year old brain I was like "horror movies = women in showers" and ran with it). you were right.
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For some reason as a little kid I loved watching TCM and AMC, I guess I thought it made me more mature or something but it ended up getting me hooked on awesome old stuff like Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein and The Omega Man.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Something I think about a lot is the experience of renting some weird movie that nobody else has ever seen (presumably because all the good movies were already rented) and having that become a cornerstone of your childhood. My mom and I rented The Lift once and then rented it almost one a month for the better part of a year afterwards. I still love that movie and somewhere I have the storyboard I tried to make for a similar movie about sentient showers that kill people (in my cluelessly gay little nine year old brain I was like "horror movies = women in showers" and ran with it). It's not horror, but Captain Ron. "Ahh, they'll get out of our way, boss! Learned that drivin' the Saratoga" is practically a part of my personality, as is the need to clarify revolutionaries or apes when someone mentions gorillas without context. Robot Jox was a candidate but I only rented it a few times and as the designated robot dude in the family no-one else got into it quite so much
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Something I think about a lot is the experience of renting some weird movie that nobody else has ever seen (presumably because all the good movies were already rented) and having that become a cornerstone of your childhood. Duck Soup,, no lie. If we count teen years, then: The Kentucky Fried Movie, Blackbelt Jones, and horror movies In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro and The Killer Tongue
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Naked Man Punch posted:Duck Soup,, no lie. The Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon really did a number on my young brain.
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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend for me
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Kentucky Fried Movie has some bits that do not hold up so great in 2023 but A Fistful of Yen is the greatest movie parody of all time imo.Opopanax posted:Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend for me hahaha I had this on vhs
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I had a bunch of those childhood video store obscurities. Making Contact (Joey) and The Quest (Frog Dreaming) come to mind.
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I thought I made up the movie Ratboy in my mind until I finally found it again as an adult.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Kentucky Fried Movie has some bits that do not hold up so great in 2023 but A Fistful of Yen is the greatest movie parody of all time imo. Did your copy not come equipped with Big Jim Slade, then?
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Crescent Wrench posted:How did they manage to gently caress up using a pay phone? I think it was they put the money in before picking up the receiver. It was a minor thing that only those who've used payphones would notice. Kinda like the place a collect call from "Mom, pick us up at the mall".
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Origami Dali posted:Making Contact (Joey) Ooof, yeah. Between this, Child's Play, and the Zuni doll from Trilogy of Terror, I was certain as a child that it was only a matter of time until my toys became sentient and killed me.
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I grew up watching Jim Henson’s Toy so I simply believed all my toys played together when I wasn’t around and I should never ever try and catch them or else they’d all die. And that this would all be ripped off to make an Oscar winning classic film.
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Phy posted:It's not horror, but Captain Ron. "Ahh, they'll get out of our way, boss! Learned that drivin' the Saratoga" is practically a part of my personality, as is the need to clarify revolutionaries or apes when someone mentions gorillas without context. I still call people swab from time to time
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Halloween Jack posted:I think that movie for me is Rock & Rule. I tried to describe it to the kids in my kindergarten class and they thought it sounded like the stupidest thing ever. this title had to have been what inspired the Scharpling-Wurster bit, right?
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The Embarrassing Story my partner's mother once told me is that she once got a We Are Concerned About Your Child Phone Call when said partner was in first grade, with school administration asking if they had a history of mental illness because they were reporting "hearing voices". It turns out that they had just memorized and were quoting Tommy Boy. 
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13 year old me was not prepared for Toby Hoopers Life-force. It had a cool VHS cover! And Picard!
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:The Embarrassing Story my partner's mother once told me is that she once got a We Are Concerned About Your Child Phone Call when said partner was in first grade, with school administration asking if they had a history of mental illness because they were reporting "hearing voices".
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Martman posted:I wanted to quote a Tommy Boy joke but unfortunately it's impossible to know whether stuff happened in that movie or Black Sheep Remember the old saying: If Dennehy ye see, then Tommy Boy it be. If Busey's on screen, then Black Sheep you've seen.
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In terms of weird idiosyncratic childhood "classics," when I rewatched Vamp as an adult I was very surprised I was allowed free access to the VHS whenever the hell I wanted. Even as a kid, Grace Jones is by far the most memorable part.
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My obscure movie I was obsessed with as a kid was an obscure live action Disney superhero spy movie from the 70s called Condorman. We rented it weekly from the library.WHY BONER NOW posted:In Evil Dead, there's a hills have eyes poster in the cabin. Am I to believe the Allens were horror fans?? Just huge Michael Berryman fans. I assume you're already aware because you're posting in this thread, but for the 2 of you that don't know the reason behind that poster: In The Hills Have Eyes there's a torn poster for Jaws in the background at one point. Sam Raimi believed that was a sort of challenge, like "this movie is scarier than Jaws," and he wanted to one up it by saying Evil Dead is scarier than THHE.
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Nikumatic posted:More movies just need to do the It Follows thing and embrace period ambiguity. Except Friday the 13th. Every sequel should be a time capsule and every generation should get a Friday the 13th.
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Friday the 13th should have kept going with the original timeline where the movies were taking place further and further in the future. Jason X was a good start but they should have made Jason takes Mars where the majority of the movie takes place on a starship liner on the way to Mars. Then you have 15 minutes of Jason just being on Mars. In my Ted Talk I will..
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