Gremlins (aka Life in Whitetown) with Shawn Pryor
White people can not be trusted.
Fear Level: Spoopy/Spooky
Trigger Warnings: Anti-Asian racism, xenophobia, violence to animals, elderly abuse, classism, capitalism
Trigger Warnings: Anti-Asian racism, xenophobia, violence to animals, elderly abuse, classism, capitalism
A boy gets a pet that can talk, watches tv, and reproduces asexually and nobody even thinks it's weird
- Director: Joe Dante
- Writers: Chris Columbus
- Stars: Zack Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Corey Feldman, Dick Miller, and Hoyt Axton
Topics of Discussion:
- Joe Dante and Chris Columbus, what an odd couple
- Chinatown USA
- The miracle juicer
- The Spiel-verse
- Having it both ways
- Racism and gremlins
- Be a two knife mom
- That puppet has a real fucking gun!
- Kids' monsters with guns
- While other people are opening their presents...
Recommendations:
- Hobgoblins
- Alien
- Poltergeist
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Chuck Jones Looney Tunes
- Pet Shop of Horrors
- Attack the Block
- Ghostbusters
- Beetlejuice
- Child’s Play
- Monster Squad
- The Thing
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