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Podcast: Progressively Horrified
Episode:

Gremlins (aka Life in Whitetown) with Shawn Pryor
Category: TV & Film
Duration: 02:29:30
Publish Date: 2021-12-10 10:00:00
Description:

Fear Level: Spoopy/Spooky
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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