Alisha Grauso: I think about the movies I watched as a kid and the fact I started reading Stephen King when I was about 10 and so much of how I am makes sense now.

Return to Oz - a movie that had a subplot about Dorothy being committed to a psych ward and given electroshock therapy because everyone thought she was delusional - was a thing that all of us just watched. As kids!

Once again, in case you’re wondering why Gen Xers are “like this,” watch any Disney movie between Walt’s death & The Little Mermaid, the shit we were raised on. Tried to rewatch The Rescuers last night and it is utterly Bananapants that a single soul thought this was acceptable kids’ fare

Is that the movie with the room full of heads?

It is

I can see it so clearly, still, and I must have been...8? 9?...when I watched it. 😶

I think about the movies I watched as a kid and the fact I started reading Stephen King when I was about 10 and so much of how I am makes sense now.

This is precisely why I am the way I am. Throw in Roald Dahl's adult short stories when I was 12 or so, stir, salt to taste...

And Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark with Stephen Gammell's original illustrations.

I have no memory of reading those. Probably just as well.

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