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[PA Comic] Monday, May 6, 2013 - The Young
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Did you know in Red Riding Hood a wolf eats a woman?
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That's some good parenting.
I don't see the issue.
Is Slenderman appreciably scarier than Goosebumps and all that stuff? I feel like kids love scary shit cos while they think it's real, they secretly know they're invincible. Adults who love scary stuff kind of approach it from the other end.
Hansel and Gretel is about cannibalism
Depends on how old the kid is. I mean...like 7 or 9. I probably wouldn't let a kid of mine watch bones. 11+ Meh. Depends on the kid.
It all depends on what you view as scary. I think I was like 12 when my parents (my dad was a surgeon and my mother has been a surgical nurse among other things) were going over a video of open heart surgery at dinner.
Other people have taken their kids hunting at age 8-10.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Lives in a metal tube hundreds of feet underwater for months
Scared of a fictional creature.
I don't have to worry about it popping out of a bush and ripping my jaw off because I walked in to the wrong house.
HahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Yes.
One actually has a chance of happening though!
Disclaimer: If people are freaked out by things easily you don't want to look that up - and I can't decide if it counts as NSFW.
If there are bushes in the house, stay out. They need a landscaper.
I didn't see what the big deal is. It's an all-white boogeyman. There's scarier things in many kids stories, and I didn't really see what was so "adult" about slenderman (let alone what the big deal is). The game itself is like the archetypical "kids hiding on each other and going BOO" game.
Full of restful sleep.
Sleep that doesn't involve a child wandering into mom and dad's room saying "can I sleep with you tonight?"
Inappropriate horror is clearly mom's clever way to thwart dad's efforts to get some action at night. Instead of "I have a headache" it's "oh, I let our small child watch the Japanese version of The Ring."
Now if the little girl had asked Gabe to draw:
That melty face lookin mother fucker from Amnesia
A Cacodemon
One of those terrifying asthmatic guys from RE4
Anything from Condemned: Criminal Origins
Alma
Superman from Superman64
Then I would want to call her dad up too... maybe social services as well.
You don't want to see someone in a clown suit when you're walking home at one in the morning.
Total Recall and Terminator 2 fucked me up. T2 I ended up taking by the reins and owning that fear, but Total Recall still freaks me the fuck out.
Tits and violence from ~7, yeah, no problems from that as an adult.
Straight-up horror? Shit, man, if I stay up too late or take in too much caffeine while I'm alone, lights are all coming on, doors are getting locked, closets are getting checked. And I still can't play horror games alone.
I start jotting down scenarios for a horror novel I'm planning, I get creeped and have to stop and go do something else.
edit: Though I do have anxiety issues as part of my mental ailments package (genetic stuff, not environmental), so I was probably unusually susceptible to problems with horror.
I feel like the prostitute with the three boobs offsets Kuato in Total Recall.
I tend to view horror like Stephen King explained it once. When his son was very young, he would let the boy watch Salem's Lot. He would not let him watch Carrie. One is about vampires, which are just pretend. One is about a girl being bullied and then killing all of her classmates, which is not really very pretend at all.