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starman · Sep 12, 2007, 12:09 PM

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Dakarʒ · Sep 12, 2007, 12:11 PM

God I hated that movie. Not something to see when you're 4.

All I remember from it the mother and a baby covered in jelly or blood in a tub or something. It was at the end.

That may be an insane imagined memory, but once again, I was like 4, and I haven't seen it since.

starman · Sep 12, 2007, 12:15 PM

You saw it at the age of 4?

Well, that explains a lot

Dakarʒ · Sep 12, 2007, 12:16 PM

I can't be sure of the age. It had to be on HBO, though.

Art Vandelay · Sep 12, 2007, 03:46 PM

I saw it as a kid on cable, I'd guess I was around 8. I don't remember it being too scary since I watched it many times as a kid.

xi_hyperon · Sep 12, 2007, 11:40 PM

Hard to believe that was 25 years ago. Getting old...

Stogieman · Sep 12, 2007, 11:50 PM

The scene with the clown puppet pulling the son under the bed scared the crap out of me when I was kid.

Railroader · Sep 12, 2007, 11:54 PM

Originally Posted by Stogieman

The scene with the clown puppet pulling the son under the bed scared the crap out of me when I was kid.

MAN! Me too! i hated clowns anyway, and this did not help.

zro · Sep 13, 2007, 12:39 AM

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ

God I hated that movie. Not something to see when you're 4.

All I remember from it the mother and a baby covered in jelly or blood in a tub or something. It was at the end.

That may be an insane imagined memory, but once again, I was like 4, and I haven't seen it since.

God, how do I tell you this... There was no scene like that in the movie at all. I'm so sorry.

nerd · Sep 13, 2007, 12:49 AM

I saw it when I was around 8. My older sister sleep in my room with me for weeks after that. If she didn't I would freak out thinking of the movie. That and War of the Worlds messed me up as a kid. I had bunk beds and every time I would climb the ladder I would think that eye from the spaceship would come up from the bottom bed and look at me.

JoshuaZ · Sep 13, 2007, 02:56 AM

Watching that movie as an adult gives you a whole different view of the family. heres what I can remember, without breaking out my DVD copy of it. (Not that I dislike any of these things, but its kind of funny realizing whats going on)

1) Parents doing drugs in bed.
2) Daughter is 16, mother is 32. (Explained during an interview)
3) Workmen in the back making some lude comments to the daughter. She flicking them off. Mom thinking it was really cute and laughing about it.
4) Mother talking about the hotel they'll be staying at. The daughter "The one on route 6?". Mom "You know it?" Daughter "ummm... no."
5) Daughter says she'll be staying at a friend's house for the night. In the morning when the house implodes, she gets out of a red sports car with some blond boy driving it.

Anyways, something to watch for. I found it all very funny in college, seeing how I remember this as a kids film.

Dakarʒ · Sep 13, 2007, 07:16 AM

Originally Posted by zro

God, how do I tell you this... There was no scene like that in the movie at all. I'm so sorry.

It's not like you're breaking my world here. I saw something when I was 4. I thought it was Poltergeist. Or maybe I'm mashing several movies together.

I'll be ok.

starman · Sep 13, 2007, 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by zro

God, how do I tell you this... There was no scene like that in the movie at all. I'm so sorry.

God, how do I tell you this...yes there was.

zro · Sep 13, 2007, 09:52 AM

Yeah, I know. He mentioned something about it possibly being a psychotic fuzzy memory so I was playing along.

mitchell_pgh · Sep 13, 2007, 09:53 AM

Ugh, that movie scared me and I was 7

http://home.comcast.net/~mlpaul/polt/braces.jpg

Needless to say, I didn't want braces after seeing it.

Dakarʒ · Sep 13, 2007, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by zro

Yeah, I know. He mentioned something about it possibly being a psychotic fuzzy memory so I was playing along.

You dirty scumbag. You had me going.

(I had my doubts since it was you, but I doubted my memory more. Well done)

mitchell_pgh · Sep 13, 2007, 10:04 AM

Tangina (the scary shorter lady that seemed to know everything, but not really) also freaked me out as I felt like I knew her from somewhere

Tangina: "This house is clean." <creepy>

IceEnclosure · Sep 13, 2007, 10:40 AM

I left the theater.

6 years old.

Vivid Recollection. It was right about when the tree came through the boy's window that I turned to my dad and said "lets go!" My older brother was pissed.

Dakarʒ · Sep 13, 2007, 10:45 AM

I've got to say, I'm somewhat surprised at the amount of people in here who saw it at an age where they really shouldn't have. WOuldn't we give parents heell if they pulled that nowadays?

starman · Sep 13, 2007, 10:49 AM

It was rated PG. There was no PG-13 back then.

Dakarʒ · Sep 13, 2007, 10:51 AM

Really? Oh man.

RAILhead · Sep 13, 2007, 10:58 AM

Classic movie.

Sad that Dominique Dunne was murdered, too.

For the record, the parents were smoking pot.

keekeeree · Sep 13, 2007, 12:43 PM

The scene the sticks with me after all these years is where the guy peels his face off while looking in a bathroom mirror. It's pretty fake looking by today's standards, but back then and being 12-years-old...