The elder child requested GREMLINS over BLADE as part of our ongoing review of classic horror flicks. I respect his aesthetic. It’s not entirely in tune with mine, but we don’t want our children to end up carbon copies of us. There’s a lot of 80s/90s comic horror that we can go on to examine, really. BEETLEJUICE comes to mind, for example. ARMY OF DARKNESS. PLEASANTVILLE.
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Gremlins is a horror flick?
Monster flick with PG violence and cartoonish gore. My eldest is definitely of the THE THING/TREMORS school of practical SFX.
Gremlins is a Christmas movie!
Sure. It has the bit where they get a dire warning at the beginning and break the rules anyway and everything.
Well then, Queue up
Dark City
The Frighteners
Darkman
The Fly
The Fly in particular might work: the kid’s also fond of the old black-and-white monster flicks.