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Inspired childhoods

post #1 of 5
12/29/04 at 12:12pm
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I had an inspired childhood. I had a Edward Gorey pop-up book called the "Dwindling Party". In the book a family visits a gothic estate and one by one gets bumped off by various creatures inhabiting the grounds, except the little boy who camly leaves and replies "Perhaps its all for the best"




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post #2 of 5
12/29/04 at 4:03pm
At the age of 2 1/2, my father let me watch both Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's The Fly with him in a self-created double-feature one night. I was warped at an early age.
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post #3 of 5
12/29/04 at 5:51pm
A steady diet of VHS tapes in those early giantass clamshell boxes.

Creepshow
Rabid
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
The Thing (1982)
Christine
The Hills Have Eyes
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th I-IV
Halloween I-III
Poltergeist
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Alien
The Exorcist
Night of the Creeps
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post #4 of 5
12/29/04 at 6:07pm
One of my first memories is of the decapitation scene in Silver Bullet in the beginning when the head hits the train tracks. Except for some reason I always remembered it as a bare skull flying through the air, like the force of impact tore all the flesh from it.
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post #5 of 5
12/29/04 at 7:28pm
In the fourth grade, we all had to line up with the book were going to do for that term's book report, show it to the teacher and then head back to our desks for quiet reading.

I strode up, my finger marking my place around page 100, and held up Silence of the Lambs.

She called my house later that afternoon.

Needless to say, it was Hardy Boys' Casefiles #7: Deathgame (I fucking dare anyone to disagree it is one of the best books written... on paper... ever.) again.
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