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I actually saw Parents in the cinema! Great film, funny weird and puts you off steak (the shots of food are really disgusting). Now we know this is what Randy Quaid is really like, alas. Excellent music, too.Parents ..
Parents was an incredibly obscure and difficult film to find, even back in 1989 .. starring Randy Quaid (enough said) ... Michael is a disturbed young boy in 1950's America, disturbed for a good reason ..
Kudos to you for seeing Parents in the cinemaI actually saw Parents in the cinema! Great film, funny weird and puts you off steak (the shots of food are really disgusting). Now we know this is what Randy Quaid is really like, alas. Excellent music, too.
Good anthology and another in my VHS ex rental collection ... without checking, I think Savini did the F/X for that episode and that's a young Drew Barrymore .... I could be getting mixed up with Creep Show on the Tom Savini thing though.Cats Eye is a memorable one, especially that little troll creature that steals your breath of energy.
it was a very thought provoking watch.Good anthology and another in my VHS ex rental collection ... without checking, I think Savini did the F/X for that episode and that's a young Drew Barrymore .... I could be getting mixed up with Creep Show on the Tom Savini thing though.
Slightly straying off topic but I remember an urban legend about cats lying on children's chests when they're asleep to steal their breath ..it was a very thought provoking watch.
Never knew that.Slightly straying off topic but I remember an urban legend about cats lying on children's chests when they're asleep to steal their breath ..
Just to take it alittle further, my aunt awoke one night a saw a little figure sat on the carpet by the bed. She apparently screamed the house down and when all lights were turned on nothing was there.That's Blair Witch creepy George![]()
I remember seeing that just after Christmas 1989, at the Hyde Park Picture House, I was vegetarian then but had stayed at a friends for Christmas and had caved in and was feeling guilty after eating dead animals, and then I watched this movie and felt quite ill... also I'm pretty sure cannilbalism was sort of an allegory for noncing. which just makes it even moreI actually saw Parents in the cinema! Great film, funny weird and puts you off steak (the shots of food are really disgusting). Now we know this is what Randy Quaid is really like, alas. Excellent music, too.
yep - I have heard about that oneSlightly straying off topic but I remember an urban legend about cats lying on children's chests when they're asleep to steal their breath ..
It's a creepy movie all right, but very funny too in its twisted way. I went to see it because Tony Slattery loved it - he had a movie review show at the time and raved about Parents. The ending in particular makes your head feel tight. Sadly when director Bob Balaban (the American ufologist from Close Encounters) tried to repeat the trick with My Boyfriend's Back he was struck down with a bad case of studio interference and it was a bit of a mess.I remember seeing that just after Christmas 1989, at the Hyde Park Picture House, I was vegetarian then but had stayed at a friends for Christmas and had caved in and was feeling guilty after eating dead animals, and then I watched this movie and felt quite ill... also I'm pretty sure cannilbalism was sort of an allegory for noncing. which just makes it even more![]()
I remember staying up to watch that on late night TV back in the 80s! James Woods is terrific in the quitting smoking one, a rare example of a Stephen King story doing as well on the screen as it does on the page (I think King wrote the cat story script especially for Drew to star in). Incidentally, the cat doesn't do any breath-stealing, it's the troll who does it, there's a bit when you think puss will turn evil but it turns out to be a gallant protector all along.Cats Eye is a memorable one, especially that little troll creature that steals your breath or energy.
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