I agree, Children should not be allowed to watch any type of horror movie until they are at least 12. by then they are usually capable of separating fact and fiction on the TV. Semi-Horror or thriller such as paranormal, scifi or doctor who is usually safe after the age of 8 though, depending on how old or campy the film is. Older movies frequently look very fake for the costumes and props, and the acting is either really bad, or campy fake acting, like even the actors couldn’t take the film seriously.
My grandparents once let my siblings [all younger] watch a horror movie about dogs that killed people, I read the back of the box, my grandparents didn’t and they and my siblings didn’t listen to my reasons why they shouldn’t watch it. [because how could a movie about dogs be bad?] they watched it and regretted it. for the clips I did see, it was fairly campy, I think it was made in the 80’s.
I think it depends, I don’t think age is that great an indicator to go off of, atleast if there’s nore details available. I enjoyed that elephants on parade bit from dumbo, think it helped make me the man I am today.
Agreed. I never watched actual horror movies as a kid, but I *did* watch lots of 18A/R-rated movies when I was as young as 8 years old. I am still remembering old movies and discovering that they were rated for audiences many years older than I was at the time. And most of them most likely would have been rated differently if they had been made today. But through a combination of the acting and special effects, it really didn’t look real enough to freak me out.
Ironically, the only movie that ever gave me nightmares was one rated 14A, that I saw when I was almost the ‘appropriate’ age. It was Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Giant man-eating snakes? Meh, that’s not real. Electrocution execution? Hasn’t been done in years. Crazy pageant mom killing off the competition? OH #@$&% THAT COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN!!!
It’s been almost 20 years since I saw it, and I have never been that freaked out by any movie in any of the years since.
I managed to convince my parents to let me watch Poltergeist when i was about 4-5 years old. This still ranks as one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made.
Depends on the kid and the horror movie. I was an anxious and overly literal child, very easy to traumatize, very much the poster kid for not letting your kid watch scary movies.
My husband, on the other hand, was freaked out by Beauty and the Beast when he was 6 or so, so he left and went to find something else to watch in another room. An hour later, his dad came in and found him watching Tremors, calm as you please. When asked why he wasn’t scared, kid-husband looked up at his dad and scornfully said, “It’s not REAL, Dad.”
It can be kind of a toss-up as to what any given kid will find scary. Beauty and the Beast? Scary. Tremors? Psh. But if I’d watched Tremors at age 6, I’d have had nightmares for a MONTH.
My Mom generally let me watch horror movies when I was Amanda’s age. But she’d usually watch them first to make sure I wouldn’t have nightmares. :/ Maybe Todd should’ve done the same?
Most of the movies that I saw when I was their age were of the Frankenstein/Dracula or Godzilla genres. The first “true” horror movie that I saw was “Quatermass and The Pit”, which actually *did* scare me; but it also instilled in me a love for British Sci-Fi that only grew when I got to see Gerry Anderson’s works and, later, Dr. Who.
Was plagued by nightmares as a kid, didn’t want more, so I didn’t watch scary stuff. There was enough scary stuff in the community.
We were in late-teens/early 20s when the Exorcist came out. I didn’t go, my BFF did. He just stared at the ceiling for three nights, trying to sleep with the lights on. He would not turn them out, his Mom told me. …..Rea….gan…..
My dad watched horror movies alot when I was a kid. I had a good ear for them, and occasionally peeked. Not really an action he frowned upon particularly, but not an action he actively encouraged either. This may have since bled into my writing style when I write out descriptions of scenes. If I do it in public I often get told to tone back the gore. -shrugs-
I can’t recall which was my first horror movie. I think it was either Saturday the 14th (which was more comedy than horror), or Raiders of the Lost Ark. The latter was just action/adventure, right up until… well… I couldn’t watch all the way through that scene until my teens.
Heh, I was listening to the hair dresser go on with my 9 year old telling her she should watch Stranger Things, and I simply had to shake my head (the woman *obviously* does not have children). Luckily, Kiddo really doesn’t have much interest watching anything more than cartoons right now (knock on wood). I do look forward to when she’s in middle school, and we can enjoy things such as that together, but that’s not happening for a while.
I couldn’t imagine showing that to a kid. I didn’t even show it to my girlfriend because I knew it would freak her out too much. *Maybe* if it had actually been made in the 80s, with all the campiness and obviously-fake special effects that implies, it would be okay. But as it was? No.
If you’re looking for quick progress web comics are probably the wrong place to be, at least still in progress ones. You might want to stick to already completed works instead.
Yeah… You don’t read webcomics to get to the end. You read them to journey with the characters. It’s a free ride with all the stops you want, though:) No one needs to get on and they don’t have to stay for the whole ride if they don’t like it.
I don’t think yue can conclude that anything is “filler” until you see it in context. This page turns out to be very much not filler, given the next page.
*I’m using “yue” as the generic “you” since the other day I came to the conclusion that we seriously need a separate form. After I read one too many forum fights over people assuming the generic “you” was directed at them personally :\
whatever that clown-wig is doing, it can´t be as gross as garlic shampoo *shudder* though i´m totally voting for selkie taking amanda´s ‘christmas wish’ seriously and getting her that exactly 😉
as for horror movies i generally prefer the intelligent ones, where the horror is more psychological and you don´t see gallons of fake blood – rosemarie´s baby, omen – or the ones with such glaring fakeness and plotholes the size of godzilla that you can only laugh about it – the remake of the wicker man comes to mind, nicholas cage caterwauling about bees is pure comedy gold!
Quarts, Amanda, or litres. They don’t sell shampoo by weight.
My mistake in childhood was reading my mother’s Lovecraft. Seven-years-old is no age to read “The Colour of Outer Space” Horror movies didn’t work for me. The tension made me scared before anything happened, but this annoyed me as I thought it was manipulative, so I always walked out.
As a kid I was absolutely terrified of zombies thanks to the Romero Saga. Just Reading the sinopsis of the films gave me shivers. They strike me like some kind of unstoppable monsters. But the turning point was one night, after whe finished dinner when my father was browsing along the tv channels when he casually tunnend one that was playing “Day of the Dead”… Yeah… exactly in”that” scene… with Rhodes.
I nearly threw up.
It was many years later when, thanks to Resident Evil and House of the Dead, I learned that zombies could be killed by shooting them in the head and stop having nightmares about them. ^^U
Ah, but those are only for Virus-based zombies. Fungal zombies have to be burned, and god help you if you run into Chemical or Bacterial zombies- those can only be stopped by complete dismemberment.
I judge that you are someone who likes, ‘short back and sides,’ but not a really close shave. Am I right?
Remember The Little Rascals, when Alfafa would try to sing, “I’m the Barber of Seville!” at the top of his range and lungs?
“Wait! True, we don’t have clown — yet — but we do have something I think you’ll fancy even better.”
“What is that?”
“Eldritch Abomination From Beyond Space and Time!”
I don’t recall how old I was when the It miniseries hit TV — almost certainly in my early teens — but I remember considering myself too old to have the nightmares I had both Sunday nights :\
Back when I was a kid right before Gilligan’s Island they had ’50s monster movies, you know giant insects, brain sucking invisible space aliens, giant shrews (really). The only ones that gave me nightmares were the giant insect ones, especially the one with the praying mantis the size of a DC3.
I had nightmares for ages and literally jumped into bed every night for 8-10 years after watching The Nightmare before Christmas, which should tell you exactly how much of a scaredycat I was (and am). I was afraid of the monster under the bed (with teeth so sharp and eyes glowing red).
Meanwhile my little sister watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre at about the same age and reacted by chasing me with the biggest/heaviest things she could find while screaming, “TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE!” and trying to break down the doors of any rooms I hid in.
I’m showing my age, but I remember watching first run episodes of the “Twilight Zone”, “Outer Limits” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” when I was 3. Also there was the Saturday afternoon “Creature Feature”; two monster/horror movies from the 50s…
Now that I think upon it, that may explain some things.
Horror movies and rollercoasters generally work the same way; you can usually tell whether you can handle it by viewing it from afar (or viewing the trailer I suppose).
That being said, this isn’t always a perfect system. XD
I grew up with a horror author for a mother and teacher, but horror movies never bothered me, except for the grudge. I used to enjoy watching anaconda and such with my mom and dad xD\I was like 8 at the time, too, so it’s subjective, not a blanket diagnosis.
I assume it was an “earned priviledge” thing and not an “old hat” kind of thing, in that he was allowing her special time because Selkie was getting special time, and she possibly had not seen a true gore-fest before. Maybe she considered “Alien” a horror movie…?
I assume it was an “earned priviledge” thing and not an “old hat” kind of thing, in that he was allowing her special time because Selkie was getting special time, and she possibly had not seen a true gore-fest before. Maybe she considered “Alien” a horror movie…?
I remember watching a movie in the 80’s called “Killer Klowns from Outer Space.” Word to the wise: Don’t watch it if you are fond of cotton candy and/or popcorn.
Horror movies and kids don’t tend to mix well.
I agree, Children should not be allowed to watch any type of horror movie until they are at least 12. by then they are usually capable of separating fact and fiction on the TV. Semi-Horror or thriller such as paranormal, scifi or doctor who is usually safe after the age of 8 though, depending on how old or campy the film is. Older movies frequently look very fake for the costumes and props, and the acting is either really bad, or campy fake acting, like even the actors couldn’t take the film seriously.
My grandparents once let my siblings [all younger] watch a horror movie about dogs that killed people, I read the back of the box, my grandparents didn’t and they and my siblings didn’t listen to my reasons why they shouldn’t watch it. [because how could a movie about dogs be bad?] they watched it and regretted it. for the clips I did see, it was fairly campy, I think it was made in the 80’s.
I think it depends, I don’t think age is that great an indicator to go off of, atleast if there’s nore details available. I enjoyed that elephants on parade bit from dumbo, think it helped make me the man I am today.
Agreed. I never watched actual horror movies as a kid, but I *did* watch lots of 18A/R-rated movies when I was as young as 8 years old. I am still remembering old movies and discovering that they were rated for audiences many years older than I was at the time. And most of them most likely would have been rated differently if they had been made today. But through a combination of the acting and special effects, it really didn’t look real enough to freak me out.
Ironically, the only movie that ever gave me nightmares was one rated 14A, that I saw when I was almost the ‘appropriate’ age. It was Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Giant man-eating snakes? Meh, that’s not real. Electrocution execution? Hasn’t been done in years. Crazy pageant mom killing off the competition? OH #@$&% THAT COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN!!!
It’s been almost 20 years since I saw it, and I have never been that freaked out by any movie in any of the years since.
I managed to convince my parents to let me watch Poltergeist when i was about 4-5 years old. This still ranks as one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made.
Depends on the kid and the horror movie. I was an anxious and overly literal child, very easy to traumatize, very much the poster kid for not letting your kid watch scary movies.
My husband, on the other hand, was freaked out by Beauty and the Beast when he was 6 or so, so he left and went to find something else to watch in another room. An hour later, his dad came in and found him watching Tremors, calm as you please. When asked why he wasn’t scared, kid-husband looked up at his dad and scornfully said, “It’s not REAL, Dad.”
It can be kind of a toss-up as to what any given kid will find scary. Beauty and the Beast? Scary. Tremors? Psh. But if I’d watched Tremors at age 6, I’d have had nightmares for a MONTH.
My Mom generally let me watch horror movies when I was Amanda’s age. But she’d usually watch them first to make sure I wouldn’t have nightmares. :/ Maybe Todd should’ve done the same?
“Parenting mistakes… May have been made.”
I lol’d.
I admit, I chuckle snorted
first horror flick I ever saw, I was 11ish and it was one of the Jason movies. I didn’t sleep that night
Most of the movies that I saw when I was their age were of the Frankenstein/Dracula or Godzilla genres. The first “true” horror movie that I saw was “Quatermass and The Pit”, which actually *did* scare me; but it also instilled in me a love for British Sci-Fi that only grew when I got to see Gerry Anderson’s works and, later, Dr. Who.
My mom is a great fan of horror films. She used to let me watch with her.
Then one came on that completely flipped me out, I don’t even remember it through the brain scars.
Then the next week The Shining came on and I was back at it.
Was plagued by nightmares as a kid, didn’t want more, so I didn’t watch scary stuff. There was enough scary stuff in the community.
We were in late-teens/early 20s when the Exorcist came out. I didn’t go, my BFF did. He just stared at the ceiling for three nights, trying to sleep with the lights on. He would not turn them out, his Mom told me. …..Rea….gan…..
My first horror movie, some time under 7 I think, would have been the magnificently schlocky 50s flick “I Married a Monster from Outer Space.”
It was scary, but I think it was actually too weird to give me nightmares.
My dad watched horror movies alot when I was a kid. I had a good ear for them, and occasionally peeked. Not really an action he frowned upon particularly, but not an action he actively encouraged either. This may have since bled into my writing style when I write out descriptions of scenes. If I do it in public I often get told to tone back the gore. -shrugs-
I can’t recall which was my first horror movie. I think it was either Saturday the 14th (which was more comedy than horror), or Raiders of the Lost Ark. The latter was just action/adventure, right up until… well… I couldn’t watch all the way through that scene until my teens.
I like animated horror & horror comedy, but not straight up live-action horror.
Heh, I was listening to the hair dresser go on with my 9 year old telling her she should watch Stranger Things, and I simply had to shake my head (the woman *obviously* does not have children). Luckily, Kiddo really doesn’t have much interest watching anything more than cartoons right now (knock on wood). I do look forward to when she’s in middle school, and we can enjoy things such as that together, but that’s not happening for a while.
I couldn’t imagine showing that to a kid. I didn’t even show it to my girlfriend because I knew it would freak her out too much. *Maybe* if it had actually been made in the 80s, with all the campiness and obviously-fake special effects that implies, it would be okay. But as it was? No.
Reminds me of the time I let my oldest boys watch Van Helsing. Talk about a parenting mistake.
If it can make Selkie squeamish it MUST be bad
Honestly, filler like this is why we’ll never get through this comic.
Really? Really?
Maybe this isn’t your type of humour. What other webcomics do you read?
If you’re looking for quick progress web comics are probably the wrong place to be, at least still in progress ones. You might want to stick to already completed works instead.
Yeah… You don’t read webcomics to get to the end. You read them to journey with the characters. It’s a free ride with all the stops you want, though:) No one needs to get on and they don’t have to stay for the whole ride if they don’t like it.
Dave> I enjoy the ride:)
I don’t think yue can conclude that anything is “filler” until you see it in context. This page turns out to be very much not filler, given the next page.
*I’m using “yue” as the generic “you” since the other day I came to the conclusion that we seriously need a separate form. After I read one too many forum fights over people assuming the generic “you” was directed at them personally :\
whatever that clown-wig is doing, it can´t be as gross as garlic shampoo *shudder* though i´m totally voting for selkie taking amanda´s ‘christmas wish’ seriously and getting her that exactly 😉
as for horror movies i generally prefer the intelligent ones, where the horror is more psychological and you don´t see gallons of fake blood – rosemarie´s baby, omen – or the ones with such glaring fakeness and plotholes the size of godzilla that you can only laugh about it – the remake of the wicker man comes to mind, nicholas cage caterwauling about bees is pure comedy gold!
If we’re going to watch a movie about bees, it may as well be The Swarm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJtyE2N6l4
If you’re looking for a silly werewolf movie, I recommend Wolfcop. Does contain brief male nudity though.
Quarts, Amanda, or litres. They don’t sell shampoo by weight.
My mistake in childhood was reading my mother’s Lovecraft. Seven-years-old is no age to read “The Colour of Outer Space” Horror movies didn’t work for me. The tension made me scared before anything happened, but this annoyed me as I thought it was manipulative, so I always walked out.
And now I write horror, like Chameon.
Oh yeah, he’s a dad too. Now the judging of human parenting skills can truly begin!
My siblings used to rent horror movies when I was a kid. It messed me up, but I really like the campy 80’s stuff because of that.
As a kid I was absolutely terrified of zombies thanks to the Romero Saga. Just Reading the sinopsis of the films gave me shivers. They strike me like some kind of unstoppable monsters. But the turning point was one night, after whe finished dinner when my father was browsing along the tv channels when he casually tunnend one that was playing “Day of the Dead”… Yeah… exactly in”that” scene… with Rhodes.
I nearly threw up.
It was many years later when, thanks to Resident Evil and House of the Dead, I learned that zombies could be killed by shooting them in the head and stop having nightmares about them. ^^U
Ah, but those are only for Virus-based zombies. Fungal zombies have to be burned, and god help you if you run into Chemical or Bacterial zombies- those can only be stopped by complete dismemberment.
Daniel, how many of them did you watch?
? I’ll come again when you have clown on the menu! ?
I judge that you are someone who likes, ‘short back and sides,’ but not a really close shave. Am I right?
Remember The Little Rascals, when Alfafa would try to sing, “I’m the Barber of Seville!” at the top of his range and lungs?
“Wait! True, we don’t have clown — yet — but we do have something I think you’ll fancy even better.”
“What is that?”
“Eldritch Abomination From Beyond Space and Time!”
Never had an issue with scary movies. Never had nightmares. Except once.
ALIEN
First time I saw it. Nightmares that night. Never had them again, though.
I don’t recall how old I was when the It miniseries hit TV — almost certainly in my early teens — but I remember considering myself too old to have the nightmares I had both Sunday nights :\
The first horror film I saw was ‘Showgirls.’ I haven’t slept since.
Back when I was a kid right before Gilligan’s Island they had ’50s monster movies, you know giant insects, brain sucking invisible space aliens, giant shrews (really). The only ones that gave me nightmares were the giant insect ones, especially the one with the praying mantis the size of a DC3.
Aren’t these guys like eight years old or something? I watched Evil Dead 2 and Dead Alive by the time I was 6.
The only movie that ever scared or bothered me was Coujo. And I think that was because it was a realistic fear of rabid dogs.
I had nightmares for ages and literally jumped into bed every night for 8-10 years after watching The Nightmare before Christmas, which should tell you exactly how much of a scaredycat I was (and am). I was afraid of the monster under the bed (with teeth so sharp and eyes glowing red).
Meanwhile my little sister watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre at about the same age and reacted by chasing me with the biggest/heaviest things she could find while screaming, “TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE!” and trying to break down the doors of any rooms I hid in.
So uh. Maybe no scary movies? Todd? Yeah?
I’m showing my age, but I remember watching first run episodes of the “Twilight Zone”, “Outer Limits” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” when I was 3. Also there was the Saturday afternoon “Creature Feature”; two monster/horror movies from the 50s…
Now that I think upon it, that may explain some things.
Horror movies and rollercoasters generally work the same way; you can usually tell whether you can handle it by viewing it from afar (or viewing the trailer I suppose).
That being said, this isn’t always a perfect system. XD
Are you seriously telling me that prior to this moment Amanda was the only child on earth to actually LIKE clowns?
I grew up with a horror author for a mother and teacher, but horror movies never bothered me, except for the grudge. I used to enjoy watching anaconda and such with my mom and dad xD\I was like 8 at the time, too, so it’s subjective, not a blanket diagnosis.
Huh, since Amanda *asked* for a horror movie, I’m kinda surprised by her reaction. What has she seen of them before?
I agree, Todd should have started her off with; “The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera.” A send-up of almost all the movies from the 1950s.
I assume it was an “earned priviledge” thing and not an “old hat” kind of thing, in that he was allowing her special time because Selkie was getting special time, and she possibly had not seen a true gore-fest before. Maybe she considered “Alien” a horror movie…?
I assume it was an “earned priviledge” thing and not an “old hat” kind of thing, in that he was allowing her special time because Selkie was getting special time, and she possibly had not seen a true gore-fest before. Maybe she considered “Alien” a horror movie…?
So…no one else considered Willy Wonka a horror movie, huh?
I remember watching a movie in the 80’s called “Killer Klowns from Outer Space.” Word to the wise: Don’t watch it if you are fond of cotton candy and/or popcorn.