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Yeah what I want out of a good entertaining Friday night film is shallow in your face Hollywood pandering on female empowerment and gender equality. It just makes for such a good cinematic experience.

I didn't realize my cat had a Lemmy account.

puppet master?

Regarding the doll coming to life movie, was it [Trilogy of Terror](Trilogy of Terror https://g.co/kgs/gKb1fTb)? My wife and I vividly recall this movie from our childhood and it definitely scared the crap out of me. The movie was a collection of 3 stories but the one with the doll is the only one people seem to remember.

I think the film you are thinking of with the dolls is Barbarella (1968).

Recently watched this with my kids after not seeing it since being a kid myself. My pet theory is that it's about coping with the death of a grandparent. When the scientists take E.T. away and hook him up to all the machines, it's like the experience of seeing grandma or grandpa in intensive care with tubes, ventilators, etc. We see things through the kid's eyes and there is a vague sense that the scientists are supposed to be trying to keep E.T. alive, but it looks like they are killing him.

In the end, the beloved companion E.T. goes up into the sky but says he will always be with Elliot in a sense (my memories of this part are pretty vague, but I think there was some message along these lines). Maybe this is just my personal experience, but it really brought back memories of going to see my grandparents in hospitals that were kind of threatening to me as a kid, and the idea that your relative is up in heaven now.

Spielberg used a lot of horror coded cinematography on E.T. During the film it flip flops a little between horror and family joyful. So much that in theory it shouldn't work. But when you are dealing with an extraterrestrial being or being manhandled by government scientists and military it is hard not to feel scared, and he conveyed that by showing that for a small child it would be absolutely terrifying. The 80s has a lot of films like this, where marketing and production were confused about whether they wanted these movies to be aimed at children or not. This gave us Gremlins, Terminator, Robocop and others that combined adult jokes, extreme gore and violence, cynic satire, but also toys tie ins, family fun sanitized trailers and marketing, and toy selling TV cartoons. If anything, E.T. is the tamest of the lot and is definitely, decidedly aimed at family audiences. I blame cocaine.

ADD: Just remembered all the sex innuendos and mortgage jokes in Ghostbusters.

I also found it very scary as a kid, though I haven't rewatched it later to know if it still feels like a horror film.

You found one! I also had to be carried out of the queue for the ET ride at Universal Studios because I was too frightened

That was my friend's dad's head!

I saw the shining at around that age too and I didn't find it scary at all. Then I saw the ring and it was scary. I was always afraid that the woman is coming from somewhere until I got annoyed of being scared and started pointing middlefinger to anywhere I thought she would appear from and I was no longer afraid. Later when my little brother was having recurring nightmares I told him the power of middlefinger and next time he had it instead of running away from the boogieman he showed middlefinger to it and he no longer got those nightmares.

That was the best big brother moment I ever had :D

Had to stay with Aunt and uncle on weekends for a long time when I was about 7 or so. I was the oldest cousin on that whole side of the family, so I guess they overestimated me? I had nightmares all night after Predator 2. Could do scary after that.

Dude, The Dark Crystal was unnerving when I first saw it almost 20 years old in the late 90s. I don't think you were wrong there.

The Dark Cauldron was the first movie I walked out of when I was 5, followed the next year with Return To OZ

and see it again for the first time?

The mummy, then, The Ring. The Ring doesn't really hold up, but goddamn that movie was the pinnacle for its timem

Jesus those scarab beetles going under the skin.

The cat probably sleeps with whomever doesn't want the cat to sleep with them.

I had the same experience when i watched it. The uncanny feeling lingered for a few days.

But, idk ... For me, it was a mistake to watch it again. Knowing what to expect, i paid more attention to everything else and i didn't like it, i don't remember why exactly.

PugMary sounds like a difficult woman to grow up with, sorry you had to go through that.