tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667620598366061914.post2173594001396161285..comments2023-11-28T16:46:27.400-05:00Comments on The Blog Where Horror Dwells: Trauma of the Living DeadStephen Mark Raineyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10338247201048681867noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667620598366061914.post-53862763557751764482017-07-18T00:04:57.478-04:002017-07-18T00:04:57.478-04:00When I was younger I was always horrified when I m...When I was younger I was always horrified when I met kids whose parents wouldn't let them watch certain movies or read certain books/comics/magazines. My parents never put any kind of censorship like that over on me. I recall one of my pals was forbidden to so much as look at Mad Magazine while I had them by the stacks.<br /><br />My parents allowed me to read anything I wanted (including Playboy) or watch anything I wanted (including all monster movies).<br /><br />I would likely have been traumatized if I'd seen NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD as a kid of eleven (which is how old I was when it came out). They did drop me off at the theater to see THE THREE HEADED MONSTER that year, though. It was playing a double-bill with another kaiju film. But I do remember that GHIDORA horrified me. Scared the shit out of me. Especially the opening credits. HOLY HELL!!<br /><br />I have read stories about kids who went to see NOTLD and their parents hadn't screened it to see what it was about. And then picking up the kids only to find them quiet, like someone had slipped them some kind of downer. Yeah. Traumatized. Hell...I was in my 20s before I finally saw it, and it just about did me that way. <br /><br />Not sure I'd have wanted to see it as an eleven or twelve year old kid. Zombies eating guts were just not my bag, man. In this case, your parents likely did the right thing.<br /><br />James Robert Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17281049641681225389noreply@blogger.com