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# kindertrauma

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- [Traumafession: Andreas from Germany on Invaders ('92) & Deadly Friend ('86)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-andreas-from-germany-on-invaders-92-deadly-friend-86/) - Hello Sir, My best friend and I were watching INTRUDERS on TV back in 1992 and were blown away. We recorded it and have re-watched it many times . At that time we were reading lots of books about UFO and alien stuff. We certainly tried to escape from something back then when we were
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-236/)
- [The Lodge (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-lodge-2019/) - Hey, THE LODGE is a horror film with a chilly snowbound setting so how can it not be fun? I'll tell you how; it also happens to be one of those new-fangled emotionally torturous artsy flicks that make you feel like you're losing your mind. You know the drill, fifty percent of the audience is
- [5 Post-Childhood Kindertraumas By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/5-post-childhood-kindertraumas-by-unk/) - HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (’85) I thought maybe to switch things up a bit I’d share some movies that scared the crap out of me not as a kid but as an adult. The first title that came to mind was John McNaughton’s unflinching study of a guy named Henry (the great Michael
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-272/)
- [Masters of the Universe](https://www.kindertrauma.com/masters-of-the-universe/) - I wasn’t sure if I should bring up Travis Knight’s MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE on these pages but hey, the movie features some awesome looking monsters (Beast Man!, Moss Man!, Mer Man! Etc.) so I say it’s all kinds of welcome here. Who knows, maybe Skeletor’s evil glowing eyes will freak out a few kids
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-271/)
- [Backrooms](https://www.kindertrauma.com/backrooms/) - I wasn’t aware of the initial creepypasta photo or viral web series that inspired Kane Parsons’ singularly unsettling BACKROOMS but it somehow seems strangely familiar to me anyway. I feel like I actually know and have experienced such liminal spaces in dreams my whole life. Most my dreams are about cat wrangling for sure, but
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-270/)
- [Obsession](https://www.kindertrauma.com/obsession/) - Writter/Director Curry Barker’s OBSESSION remarkably transforms a rudimentary TALES FROM THE CRYPT/DARKSIDE “Be Careful what you wish for” premise into an absolutely fascinating, truly engaging, wildly unpredictable and surprisingly cathartic grenade of horror. I have a hunch film academics will be dissecting and analyzing its bottomless pit of potential interpretations for many years to come.
- [Passenger](https://www.kindertrauma.com/passenger/) - Middle child syndrome is no joke so I have only sympathy for PASSENGER, the hapless horror film born between legit phenomenon OBSESSION and the highly anticipated BACKROOMS. It probably doesn’t help when your siblings are giving off fresh, of the moment, cultural zeitgeist vibes and you gotta peddle a throwback campfire tale/boogeyman legend/haunted highway flick
- [Hokum](https://www.kindertrauma.com/hokum/) - Oh man, I love a good ghost story & writer/director Damian McCarthy’s HOKUM is certainly that. It’s a spooky, dark, compact, well acted, sometimes riveting, sometimes heartbreaking, and eventually down right terrifying, ghost story. Its quiet, unassuming, downright sneaky nature may result in it not exactly taking the world by storm but even better, it’s
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-269/)
- [Lee Cronin's The Mummy](https://www.kindertrauma.com/lee-cronins-the-mummy/) - There’s always room in my heart for another creepy killer kid flick but LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY had me scratching my head so much you’d think a scarab crawled under my hat. There are some rich, intriguing elements dealing with the dread, repulsion and guilt that accompany the caretaking of a sick loved one yet
- [Name That Trauma:: Scott on an Alien Commercial](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-scott-on-an-alien-commercial/) - Hi KT Team, When I was young, probably somewhere between 3 and 6 (1989-1992) I was home sick with my grandmother. I was watching a claymation movie on tv about an older man and his hot air balloon. A commercial came on that traumatized me and left me scared of aliens. I can only relay
- [Name That Trauma:: R.B. on a Picnic Gone Wrong](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-r-b-on-a-picnic-gone-wrong/) - I am looking for a TV-movie, or an episode of an anthology, that I saw when I was very young. I remember there was a man and woman having a picnic with their dog. The dog ran off and entered a spooky gothic house. The couple followed, there were some scares, and when they tried
- [Ready Or Not 2: Here I come & They Will Kill You](https://www.kindertrauma.com/ready-or-not-2-here-i-come-they-will-kill-you/) - 2019’s READY OR NOT is a blend of kill or be killed motifs lifted from THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME dunked in seventies era occult paranoia and TOM & JERRY level violent slapstick. The jewel in its crowd-pleasing crown is a fierce performance by Samara Weaving portraying a betrayed woman on her wedding day forced to
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-268/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-267/)
- [Scream 7](https://www.kindertrauma.com/scream-7/) - Does the highly successful SCREAM 7 deserve the pummeling it received from critics? Nah, not at all. It’s got a spooky, surprisingly mature melancholy vibe going for it, one of the best kills in the franchise (clearly inspired by the classic 1981 slasher MY BLOODY VALENTINE), one of the stronger opening set pieces and juggles
- [Undertone](https://www.kindertrauma.com/undertone/) - I was on the fence about seeing UNDERTONE because even though critics seemed to be digging it for the most part, I was noticing it was divisive among horror fans in a very familiar way. This seems to happen a lot with small scale, intimate flicks that rely on viewers imagination/participation more than anything else.
- [Traumafession:: E. T. was Extra Terrifying! By Poke Trekkie](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-e-t-was-extra-terrifying-by-poke-trekkie/) - When I was a child, I only knew one horror movie, which was Gremlins, a movie that gave me nightmares for years. I thought nothing could ever scare me more than that one, but I was wrong. And it wasn't even a horror movie. One day my best friend brought her VHS tape of E.T.
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-266/)
- [A Few More From 2025! :: (Companion, Bone Lake, Dangerous Animals, The Toxic Avenger & The Ugly Stepsister)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/a-few-more-from-2025-companion-bone-lake-dangerous-animals-the-toxic-avenger-the-ugly-stepsister/) - Consider this an addendum to the (semi) recent post looking back at the horror films of 2025 (HERE)! There are still a few I need to track down but at least I’ve done my due diligence. Special thanks go to my local free library for filling in the gaps created by a multiple of slapdash
- [Kindertrauma Valentine The 13th Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-valentine-the-13th-funhouse/)
- [28 Weeks Later: The Bone Temple & Send Help](https://www.kindertrauma.com/28-weeks-later-the-bone-temple-send-help/) - I feel like I saw 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE a million years ago in another dimension because I viewed it before the 2026 snow-pocalypse and the general collapse of society. Those were the days…two weeks ago! From what I recall through the hazy mist of seasonal depression, BONE TEMPLE picks up right after
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Hosted By Elgrayso](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-hosted-by-elgrayso/)
- [Primate](https://www.kindertrauma.com/primate/) - I wasn’t sure if I wanted to see PRIMATE because I have grown to have zero tolerance as far as witnessing animals in any kind of distress. Plus, I wasn’t sure the scares would work on me due to my instinctively rooting for the animal against any human in any situation no matter how vicious
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-265/)
- [Unk's Look Back at 2025](https://www.kindertrauma.com/unks-look-back-at-2025/) - As far as favorite theatrical films go, it’s damn hard for me to choose between Ryan Coogler’s sensational SINNERS and Zach Cregger’s wonderful WEAPONS. Both are irrefutable instant classics. SINNERS delivered an awe inspiring old school cinematic experience while stoking enduring issues and themes and its reverence for the power of music is perfectly and
- [Name That Trauma:: J Lee on a Vampire PSA](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-j-lee-on-a-vampire-psa/) - I grew up in southern California and one of the local stations used to show a PSA. I don't remember what it was even about because I would literally leave the house when it was on. All I remember is a voiceover introducing "Count Alucard." So he's standing there perfectly normal but in the end
- [Mickster's Annual Christmas Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/micksters-annual-christmas-funhouse-4/)
- [Traumafession:: Bdwilcox on Chronicle (2012)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-bdwilcox-on-chronicle-2012/) - While not a true kindertrauma, more like an middle-age trauma, a trauma it was nonetheless. When I first started watching the movie Chronicle (2012), I was expecting a fun, science-fiction coming of age story. Basically, a fantasy what-if narrative, the musings of sleep-overs and camp discussions of what superheroes were the coolest, what superpower would you
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-264/)
- [Recently Viewed:: Frankenstein (2025), Match & Predator: Badlands](https://www.kindertrauma.com/recently-viewed-frankenstein-2025-match-predator-badlands/) - Dark fantasy horror meister Guillermo del Toro’s epic dream project FRANKENSTEIN is a glorious sight to behold. It’s got the lush goth visuals you’d expect (on par with Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA ('92) and Robert Eggers’ recent NOSFERATU) and easily stands as the freshest and most earnest modern take on Mary Shelley’s classic novel in
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-263/)
- [Horror Inspirations:: By Author Matt Forgit](https://www.kindertrauma.com/horror-inspirations-by-author-matt-forgit/) - Hello, beautiful, awesome, and brilliant Kindertrauma people! My name is Matt Forgit. I’m the author of It’s Always Halloween Here, How to be a Professional Mourner, The Felicitous, and You Better Watch Out. I am also a longtime fan and reader of this amazing website, as well as a lifelong horror geek. In honor of
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-262/)
- [Black Phone 2](https://www.kindertrauma.com/black-phone-2/) - Apparently, according to “science” Scott Derrickson has two films (SINISTER & THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE) lounging out in the top ten list of the scariest films ever made. I’m not sure if THE BLACK PHONE 2 will ever join them but it definitely belongs on a list of great sequels to movies that didn’t
- [Good Boy (2025) :: By Mickster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/good-boy-2025-by-mickster/) - A special note to animal lovers: take tissues because if you are like me, you are going to need them. I made the mistake of not bringing tissues, and my poor t-shirt and jeans paid the price for that rookie mistake. This movie is difficult to talk about without spoiling it, so I will be
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-261/)
- [Alternatives to The Strangers: Chapter 2](https://www.kindertrauma.com/alternatives-to-the-strangers-chapter-2/) - I try to see every horror movie that is theatrically released in my hood but I’m afraid I’m going to have to skip THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 2. I had planned to keep an open mind but how can I ignore the writing on the wall? I really didn’t like the previous effort and word on
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-260/)
- [The Conjuring & The Long Walk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-conjuring-the-long-walk/) - The central spine of THE CONJURING universe comes to some closure but lets not kid ourselves, this consistently lucrative horror franchise will likely outlive us all. THE CONJURING: LAST RITES is mostly a sentimental spotlight not on the real life supernatural investigators Ed & Lorraine Warren but of the indisputable chemistry between stars Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson. It’s
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-259/)
- [Weapons, Together & Alien: Earth](https://www.kindertrauma.com/weapons-together-alien-earth/) - Early the other morning before I was even fully awake, I went into my backyard to feed a stray cat that hangs out there. The back gate is chained shut but loosely so that the cat (Cookie) can come to and fro. As I was dispensing the goods, the gate clanked loudly as someone tried
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-258/)
- [I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/i-know-what-you-did-last-summer-2025/) - I feel for the deranged fisherman with a hook in the latest ‘90s horror legacy sequel I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER cuz I relate to being incapable of getting over the past and I sorta want revenge for the injuries this flick inflicted upon me; most notably, extreme whiplash thanks to the drastic
- [Five Underrated: Made For TV True Crime Edition By Mickster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-underrated-made-for-tv-true-crime-edition-by-mickster/) - Deadly Intentions (1985)-Michael Biehn is absolutely terrifying as sadist Dr. Charles Raynor who physically and mentally torments his new wife Katherine, played by Madolyn Smith. When I originally saw this film, I had already watched The Terminator (1984) and viewed Michael Biehn as a good guy, so I was astounded by how creepy and unhinged he was. Here
- [28 Years Later & M3gan 2.0](https://www.kindertrauma.com/28-years-later-m3gan-2-0/) - Director Danny Boyle and writer/director Alex Garland have collaborated once again to deliver 28 YEARS LATER a sequel to 2002’s 28 DAYS LATER and its 2007 continuation 28 WEEKS LATER and the result is well worth the wait. 12 year old Spike (newcomer Alfie Williams) lives with his parents in a gated survivalist community. His
- [Five Underrated: By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-underrated-by-unk/) - Summer is here and the time is right for hitting the great outdoors… but vicariously through a TV set because it’s way too hot to step outside. Nightmare road trips are a horror staple so here are a few underrated flicks about folks who live to regret going where they shouldn’t have gone… ANIMAL (2014)
- [Kindertrauma Friday The 13th Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-friday-the-13th-funhouse/)
- [Recently Viewed: Final Destination: Bloodline, Bring Her Back & Fear Street: Prom Night](https://www.kindertrauma.com/recently-viewed-final-destination-bloodline-bring-her-back-fear-street-prom-night/)
- [Name That Trauma:: K Cozy on a Angry Animal Record Cover](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-k-cozy-on-a-angry-animal-record-cover/) - Hello! I'm wondering if any out there of a certain age can help out. This is probably going to be pretty dang obscure. I have a vivid memory of seeing, in a Southern California record store in the early to mid 1970s, an album cover that I have never been able to forget. I can't
- [Recently Viewed: Sinners, Hell of a Summer, Werewolves & Until Dawn](https://www.kindertrauma.com/recently-viewed-sinners-hell-of-a-summer-werewolves-until-dawn/) - SINNERS is something truly special, an instant classic and one of the most impressive and epic vampire films ever made. This is true prestige horror that offers a full meal so do yourself a favor and see it in the theater where its glorious cinematography can shine and its outstanding score can be heard in
- [The Monkey](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-monkey/) - There’s an area in our home referred to as “The Black Hole” as things tend to disappear there never to be seen again. The notion that something uncanny exists in the space is backed up by the fact that our cats often stare into it as if seeing something we don’t. The corner consistently aggravates
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-257/)
- [Dancing With The Devil's Rejects](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-devils-rejects/) - Hey look it's THE DEVIL'S REJECTS the lone ROB ZOMBIE movie you're allowed to like without fear of being ostracized or spat upon! Naturally it's my least favorite of his output on account of I'm trying to be difficult. I think I'd agree that REJECTS is ZOMBIE's most technically efficient film but I've got personal
- [Heart Eyes](https://www.kindertrauma.com/heart-eyes/) - A part of me wishes that the entire planet blew up while I was watching HEART EYES to insure that I died happy and doing what I loved most. It’s no secret I love slasher movies and there’s a special fluffy space in my heart for a holiday slasher that I can count on to
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-256/)
- [Traumafession:: Unk on The Hills Have Eyes ('77)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-unk-on-the-hills-have-eyes-77/) - After seventeen plus years you’d think I would have relayed all of my childhood kindertraumas by now but it seems there’s always yet another gremlin hiding under the bed. Once upon a time, in the land of wood paneling and shag carpet the color of guacamole, the standard family had a giant crate sized TV
- [The Wolf Man (2025) & Presence](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-wolf-man-2025-presence/) - There’s much to admire about Leigh Whannell’s (perhaps too) tasteful take on THE WOLF MAN but while nobly attempting to bring something fresh to the lycanthrope table it gets a bit lost in the woods and sadly doesn’t quite scratch the werewolf itch. This movie boasts a thoughtful, script, sincere performances (Christopher Abbot, Julia Garner
- [Satan's Blade ('84)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/satans-blade-84/) - Here I am, after shrugging off a few of the most highly regarded films of the past year to sing the praises of a rickety, shoddily hobbled together would-be supernatural slasher from 1984 called ….SATAN’S BLADE. Writer/Director L. Scott Castillo Jr.’s stab at a FRIDAY THE 13th -style body count flick is stuffed with bad
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma/)
- [In Memoriam:: David Lynch](https://www.kindertrauma.com/in-memoriam-david-lynch/) - Flags fly at half mass today at Kindertrauma Castle as we have lost one of the true greats, the incredible David Lynch. The world is a lesser place for sure and it’s easily said that there will never ever be any one like him again. We’re all luckily to have lived in the same time
- [Unk's Year of Horror: 2024](https://www.kindertrauma.com/unks-year-of-horror-2024/) - I won't beat around the bush, Coralie Fargeat’s THE SUBSTANCE was by far my favorite film of 2024 and that’s that. This colorful, sometimes humorous film put me through an emotional ringer and the gooey special effects laden conclusion rocked me in ways I haven’t been rocked in literal decades. Demi Moore delivers a career
- [Merry Christmas 2024!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/merry-christmas-2024/)
- [Five More Underrated Ghost Movies (For X-mas)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-more-ghost-movies-for-x-mas/) - 2011’s THE AWAKENING is a ghostly stunner that stars the ever reliable Rebecca Hall (also splended in 2020's NIGHT HOUSE) and was at least partially written by Stephen Volk the brains behind 1992’s essential made for TV mind-screw GHOST WATCH. The year is 1921 and hard nosed proto ghostbuster Florence Cathcart (Hall) is summoned to
- [Mickster's Annual Christmas Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/micksters-annual-christmas-funhouse-3/)
- [Five Underrated Ghost Movies (For Christmas)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-underrated-ghost-movies-for-christmas/) - I’ve always been envious of the British tradition of sharing ghost stories around Christmastime and lament that America never took up the custom as well. I guess that in the states ghostly happenings got regulated to the Halloween holiday so that Christmas could focus on truly frightening things like family dysfunction, rampant consumerism and celebrating
- [Name That Trauma:: Kevin M. on a Movie Theater Murder](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-kevin-m-on-a-movie-theater-murder/) - Hello there! Maybe you can help me out with this one-I only remember this from an afternoon TV preview commercial for an upcoming horror movie they were going to be showing on TV and the part that sticks with me is a woman in a movie theater going to wake up her friend and discovering
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-255/)
- [Recently Viewed: Smile 2, The Pack, Oddity, Mr. Crocket, Heretic and Panic in Year Zero](https://www.kindertrauma.com/recently-viewed-smile-2-the-pack-oddity-mr-crocket-heretic-and-panic-in-year-zero/) - SMILE 2 (2024) is a confident slam dunk of a sequel written and directed by Parker Finn who skillfully expands upon the trippy paranoid universe he created in 2022’s SMILE and its precursor short film LAURA HASN’T SLEPT (2020). It’s a well crafted continuation that underlines and solidifies the power of the earlier entry while
- [Happy Halloween 2024!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-halloween-2024/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-254/)
- [Traumafession:: Lily D on Pencil Face & Other YouTube Oddities](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-lily-d-on-pencil-face-other-youtube-oddities/) - Hello to Kindertrauma! I’ve recently discovered this site and absolutely am in love with the charming early web aesthetic! I’ve browsed through stuff on the site and I really felt like adding my own thing. Forgive me if this is worded very awkwardly, I’ve never done anything like this before. First thing’s first, I am
- [Terrifier 3](https://www.kindertrauma.com/terrifier-3/) - I’d like to be able to tell you that TERRIFIER 3 is not quite my cup of tea but then I went and slurped that putrid cup of tea down and thoroughly enjoyed it so I can’t. I respected the first two gore-happy TERRIFIER flicks that featured Art the clown (portrayed by David Howard Thornton
- [Apartment 7A, Salem's Lot & It's What's Inside](https://www.kindertrauma.com/apartment-7a-salems-lot-its-whats-inside/) - Natalie Erika James (who delivered 2020’s impressively depressing RELIC)’s recent ROSEMARY’S BABY prequel APARTMENT 7A is commendably detailed and admirably respectful of its source material yet it lacks any punchy impact and for every fine, nuanced acting performance there’s a regrettably awkward dance number. As a huge fan of Ira Levin’s novel and Roman Polanski’s
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse From Hell](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-from-hell/)
- [I Saw The TV Glow & Speak No Evil](https://www.kindertrauma.com/i-saw-the-tv-glow-speak-no-evil/) - A24’s trailer for Jane (WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR) Schoenbrun’s I SAW THE TV GLOW had me all prepared for an IT FOLLOWS-esque suburban curse flick crammed into a Candle Cove repressed memory nineties nostalgia taco shell. While there certainly are sharp slivers of horror spiking this poetic, fluorescent fish aquarium-toned ode to
- [Name That Trauma:: Kathryngrace on an Oversized Eyewitness Ghost Book](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-kathryngrace-on-an-oversized-eyewitness-ghost-book/) - Hi, I know the “Name That Trauma” is usually about movies or TV, but there’s a book about ghosts I read as a kid that I’ve been trying to find for years and I thought someone might recognize what book I’m talking about. It was a book about “real" ghosts. It was blue and oversized
- [The Substance (Plus Special Funhouse)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-substance-plus-special-funhouse/) - I just had my underused brain yanked out of my head like a peach pit, dribbled around the room like a basketball and handed back to me like a letter to to Bigfoot without a stamp by THE SUBSTANCE. Oh, how ill prepared I was. Poor me wandered innocently into the movie theater (finally utilizing
- [Recently Viewed (By Unk)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/recently-viewed-by-unk/) - In PHANTOM OF DEATH (1988), Michael York (THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU ’77) portrays Robert Dominic, a concert pianist who suffers from a rare disease that speeds up his aging process and he’s so darn salty about it (who wouldn’t be?) that he goes on a cathartic murder rampage to let off some steam. Fortunately
- [Happy Friday the 13th!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-friday-the-13th-2/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse Hosted By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-hosted-by-ghastly1/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Zak B. On An Electrocuted Twin Sister](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-zak-b-on-an-electrocuted-twin-sister/) - I have a movie that been stuck in my head since I was 4 or 5 (1989-1990) My sister and I had a babysitter and we were watching a really scary movie (maybe 70’s or 80’s) about (possibly) a twin sister in jail like facility and one gets electrocuted but she didn’t die, her body
- [Traumafession:: Miss M on The Exorcist](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-miss-m-on-the-exorcist/) - I have a story to add. I grew up on horror thanks to having a young emotionally immature Mother lol. I was 14 when I saw this eye poppin' doozie of a movie. The horror could not be contained. I had to go to sleep for school the next morning but decided to prank my
- [Alien: Romulus](https://www.kindertrauma.com/alien-romulus/) - I am over the moon to report that ALIEN: ROMULUS is the ALIEN sequel that I’ve been waiting decades for. Not only does it take place between Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece ALIEN and James Cameron’s 1986 classic ALIENS but it cleverly borrows the best elements from both films (with a sprinkle of aesthetics from the
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-253/)
- [Playroom (1990)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/playroom-1990/) - It’s always a welcome gift when I stumble upon a horror movie from back in the video store days that I somehow missed. Manny (DR. GIGGLES) Coto’s directorial debut PLAYROOM (which oddly enough is based on a story by THE Jackie Earl Haley) was able to evade me for years as I confused it with
- [Ten Underrated Werewolf Movies](https://www.kindertrauma.com/ten-underrated-werewolf-movies/) - WER (2013). Writer/director William Brent Bell is notably loyal to the world of horror even if some of his efforts (THE BOY, ORPHAN: FIRST KILL, LORD OF MISRULE) are more successful than others (THE DEVIL INSIDE, BRAHMS: THE BOY II). His stark, nearly documentary-style exploration into the world of lycanthropy entitled WER, though under-seen, could
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-252/)
- [Recently Viewed:: Vol 2](https://www.kindertrauma.com/recently-viewed-vol-2/) - 1987’s THE CALLER is far beyond being a horse of a different color, this funky filly is a kaleidoscope of hues I’ve never even laid eyes on before. My biggest question may be why isn’t it much more notorious? Madolyn Smith portrays a nameless young woman who occupies an isolated cabin in the woods who
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-251/)
- [Longlegs](https://www.kindertrauma.com/longlegs/) - I’m not completely sure Oz Perkins’ new supernatural serial killer movie LONGLEGS comes together in a completely satisfying way but one thing is for sure, it’s creepy as all get out. It’s quite the juggling act to make something both so hyper-grounded that it resembles a documentary at times but also so wacked out bonkers
- [MaXXXine](https://www.kindertrauma.com/maxxxine/) - The year is 1985, John Parr’s “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)” is roaring up the charts, VHS is alive and kicking, Tipper Gore is making a hero out off Dee Snyder, Angeline is gracing billboards and the world (particularly Hollywood) is a low tech un-Disney-fied, glowing, glorious, albeit perilous place. Star-eyed Maxine Minx is
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-250/)
- [Recently Viewed::](https://www.kindertrauma.com/recently-viewed/) - BODY SNATCHERS (1993): Jack Finney’s 1954 science-fiction novel INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS inspired an entire sub-genre of film that seems endlessly relevant no matter the time period. There’s just something about the suspicion that once interesting people are being silently replaced by braindead automatons with zero sense of humor that feels completely relatable. In
- [Name That Trauma:: Luis on a Home Intruder and a Beloved Decapitation](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-luis-on-a-home-intruder-and-a-beloved-decapitation/) - I need help with two movies that I watched as a child in the 1970s. The first one is about a family who moves out of their house. The son appears to be against it or the parents die. He stays in the house alone. When the new owners move in, he takes refuge in
- [Tarot, The Strangers: Chapter One & The Brain (’88)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/tarot-the-strangers-chapter-one-the-brain-88/) - I realize reading about the latest “game gone wrong” horror movie may be about as appealing as watching it or writing about it, so my apologies in advance. I just feel compelled to leave a written bread crumb trail for my future self because on a few occasions I have excitedly googled a movie only
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-249/)
- [Happy Mother's Day](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-mothers-day-3/) - In the back (and front, and side) of my mind I’ve been dreading Mother’s Day this year because my own mother recently passed away (two days before my birthday, no less). It has now become clear that I didn’t fully appreciate the amount of covert comfort my ma’s mere existence provided and now I keenly
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-248/)
- [Lisa Frankenstein, Night Swim, There’s Something in the Barn](https://www.kindertrauma.com/lisa-frankenstein-night-swim-theres-something-in-the-barn/) - For a while there I thought Zelda William’s LISA FRANKENSTEIN was right up my eighties-loving alley but that dalley turned out to be a dead end and I ended up walking in circles looking for a viable exit and eventually, exhausted, fell asleep in a pile of trash in the corner and was urinated on
- [Abigail](https://www.kindertrauma.com/abigail/) - How much fun could a movie about a group of mostly dopey criminals being trapped in a mansion with a rampaging child vampire with a penchant for ballet be exactly? Well, tons of fun, obviously. Even if done poorly, I’d venture this particular set-up is fool proof entertainment but happily in this case it is
- [Traumafession: Ben2 on Scarface Claw](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-ben2-on-scarface-claw/) - Hairy Maclary's main antagonist, the abusive bully of a tomcat Scarface claw, was a mean hateful villain who terrified me as a child & my honest reaction is the exact same reaction as Henry Rhodes from the original Day of the Dead from 1985. He still terrifies me to this very day. I honestly mean no mistreatment
- [Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire](https://www.kindertrauma.com/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire/) - I was on the fence in regards to whether I wanted to see the latest monster mash-up GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE. I very much wanted to spend time with the giant ape and the humongous radioactive lizard but I knew I’d have to endure packing peanut scenes involving boring humans staring at computers,
- [Late Night with The Devil](https://www.kindertrauma.com/late-night-with-the-devil/) - Cameron and Colin Cairnes’ retro horror jaunt LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL has an irresistible cult-baiting premise. The year is 1977, Satanic panic is brewing and late night talk show host Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian, who with recent appearances in THE BOOGEYMAN & THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER is carving out some impressive genre
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-247/)
- [The First Omen](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-first-omen/) - It’s a tricky thing to mess around with an already established franchise, particularly in the realm of prequels. Like the perils of time travel, one minor blunder can seemingly tarnish or muddy the carefully placed previous groundwork. Arkasha Stevenson’s debut feature THE FIRST OMEN is that rarest of unicorns, it stands gallantly on its own
- [Five (More) Underrated Monster Movies](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-more-underrated-monster-movies-2/) - I will forever be grateful to my late father for taking me and my brothers to see the raging pile of cinematic pandemonium known as HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (1980). Rarely has a film delivered such a schizo-mix of goofy guilelessness and pure exploitation. How can anyone resist a film brave enough to expose the
- [Name That Trauma: Devil Bob on Skeletal Remains](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-devil-bob-on-skeletal-remains/) - Hi. I'm searching for a movie I watched as a little child by accident. It was hard gore stuff and very unusual to be shown by a state sponsoredTV channel. It was one scene I followed before freaking out and turning thetelevision off: POV of an creature and/or animal in a forest. It follows an
- [Five (or Six) Underrated Thrillers By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-or-six-underrated-thrillers-by-ghastly1/) - Anguish (1987) Very hard to describe but this is one hell of a film and definitely shouldn't be missed. A film-within-a-film thriller about a group of people who are terrorized in a movie theater by a killer while watching a horror film about a murderous optometrist looking for eyeballs who stalks his victims in a
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-246/)
- [Five (Very) Underrated Thrillers By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-very-underrated-thrillers-by-ghastly1/) - The Ghost Ship (1943) An incredible film about a psycho sea captain which I can't recommend enough. This is a film way ahead of its time, containing all the elements of films made forty and fifty years later and it is made all the more striking in that it was practically a lost film for
- [Name That Trauma:: Dom on a Skeletal Cheerleader](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-dom-on-a-skeletal-cheerleader/) - Hey-o. There was a film that scar(r)ed me as a kid. It was on TV in the early 90's. I only remember one image before I turned the channel. A man approaches a cheerleader from behind (or some girl dressed like a cheerleader). His hand touches her shoulder, she turns around, and her face is
- [My Kindertrauma(s) By Author Matt Forgit](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertraumas-by-author-matt-forgit/) - Hello, awesome people of Kindertrauma! As a lifelong horror fan, I have heard time and again that scary movies are bad for me, will keep me from sleeping, have no socially redeeming value, and turn ordinary, sweet people into savage murderers. Sound familiar? I would take the fictional creations that scared me as a child
- [Five (More) Triple Features By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-more-triple-features-by-ghastly1/) - Three films about killers in houses: FRIGHT (1971). THEY'RE PLAYING WITH FIRE (1984) and TORMENT (1986). Fright utilizes the babysitter-killer motif marvelously and is one of the best British horror films ever made. They're Playing with Fire is a highly entertaining film about a cougar seducing her student and utilizing his services in a murder
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-245/)
- [Three Triple Features By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/three-triple-features-by-ghastly1/) - Three crime films with some pretty horrific tones to them: The Black Panther (1977) The Candy Snatchers (1973) and Man on a Swing (1974). The Black Panther is one of the great unsung British crime films and chronicles the real-life robbery, kidnapping and murder spree of Donald Neilson, who most notably kidnapped, entombed and subsequently
- [5 Underrated Monster Movies (Part IV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/5-underrated-monster-movies-part-iv/) - THE FLY II (1989) comes nowhere near reaching the heights of its brilliant parent film but folks who dismiss it as an empty also-ran are missing out on a strangely effective monster flick. The previous film’s tortured lovers Seth Brundle and Ronnie Quaife are now deceased but their tormented offspring Martin (Eric Stolz) continues their
- [Five Underrated Monster Movies (Part 3)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-underrated-monster-movies-part-3/) - SHE CREATURE (2001) is the first in a short lived Cinemax series that utilized AIP (American International Pictures) movie titles as springboards for modern interpretations. The series was fittingly entitled “Creature Features” and this inaugural entry centers around a captured mermaid whose final boss monster form is beautifully realized by the late great Stan Winston.
- [Five (More) Underrated Monster Movies](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-more-underrated-monster-movies/) - DEEP RISING (1998) is a rousing horror adventure filled with intrigue, humor and plenty of sea serpent tentacles (courtesy of special effects master Rob “THE THING” Bottin). Written and directed by future THE MUMMY (’99)-helmer Stephen Sommers, this misunderstood mini-masterpiece also features an impeccable cast that includes Treat Williams (RIP, one of the true greats)
- [Kindertrauma Xmas Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-244/)
- [Five Underrated Monster Movies](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-underrated-monster-movies/) - THE RUNESTONE (1991) is an over the top, sense-defying would-be epic adventure that juggles Norse legends, a possessed Pennsylvanian archeologist and a glorious rubber-suited monster that terrorizes an art gallery with hilarious results. It’s supremely stylized, super silly and an overall singular experience that deserves to be far more notorious among genre fans than it
- [The Horrors of 2023](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-horrors-of-2023/) - TALK TO ME takes this year’s cake for me by a large margin. Danny & Michael Philippou’s merciless dunk into an unfriendly afterworld chilled me to the bone (and when I viewed it a second time it done my psyche equal damage). A wonderfully performed, freshly directed goosebump inflictor unafraid of exploring the complexities of
- [My Kindertrauma:: Seth S. on Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas ('77)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-seth-s-on-emmet-otters-jug-band-christmas-77/) - Growing up this time of year – as close as it is to the holidays – it was almost daily that I would return home from elementary school to find an errant rain check for a Christmas toy waiting for my parents in the mailbox; or to find the house toasty warm against the cold,
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse Hosted By Mickster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-hosted-by-mickster-3/)
- [Traumafession:: Writer/Director Christopher Wesley Moore on Poltergeist (1982)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-writer-director-chris-moore-on-poltergeist-1982/) - Around the age of 4, I was spending time at my Mamaw and Papaw's house which certainly wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Some of my happiest childhood memories took place inside their home and, usually, on the carpet in front of their RCA TV set or behind their recliners where they kept a handy
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-243/)
- [Recommended Double Features By Ghastly1 (Part2)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/recommended-double-features-by-ghastly1-part2/) - DeathDream (1974) and Fiend (1980) Two movies that are almost the same movie. DeathDream is one of the few truly scary films ever made in my opinion. The plot revolves around a soldier killed in Vietnam returning home to his family but not as he was, no, now he is a sort of zombie-vampire hybrid
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-242/)
- [Recommended Double Features By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/recommended-double-features-by-ghastly1/) - The Night Visitor (1971) and You'll Like My Mother (1972) Two Scandinavian winter thrillers. The Night Visitor follows the nocturnal exploits of a Nordic mental patient played by Max Von Sydow, seeking revenge on his family and others who railroaded him for murder and subsequently had him institutionalized. You'll Like My Mother, stars Patty Duke
- [Thanksgiving (2023)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/thanksgiving-2023/) - If you happen to be a slasher fan (and if you follow these pages, you know I’m a die hard), I highly recommend treading outdoors to catch Eli Roth’s on-point tribute to early eighties slice and dicers, aptly titled THANKSGIVING. I know Roth’s track record is a bit splotchy at best but he wisely does
- [Happy Halloween!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-halloween-2/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-241/)
- [Totally Killer, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines & Woodchipper Massacre](https://www.kindertrauma.com/totally-killer-pet-sematary-bloodlines-woodchipper-massacre/) - Totally Killer (2023) I was a bit skeptical concerning TOTALLY KILLER mostly out of loyalty to the fine film that is THE FINAL GIRLS (2015) which it seemed to be aping. In reality, it probably owes more to the HAPPY DEATH DAY flicks and I gotta say it eventually won me over due to its
- [The Exorcist: Believer](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-exorcist-believer/) - Oy vey, the missteps, miscalculations and missed opportunities in THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER are legion. It would be nice if an, “Oh well, at least you tried” sentiment were applicable here but I’m not sure this movie even earns that much faith. No late in the game tacked on, finger waving speech about love, understanding and
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-240/)
- [The Lords of Salem (2012) By Michael Campochiaro of Starfire Lounge](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-lords-of-salem-2012-by-michael-campochiaro-of-starfire-lounge/) - It’s October, the autumn air is turning cool and crisp, and I’m itching to watch as many horror movies as I can this month. Every year I make room in the Halloween watchlist for old favorites, but also for relatively new classics. One of those more recent classics is The Lords of Salem (2012). Written
- [No One Will Save You (2023)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/no-one-will-save-you-2023/) - Your standard home invasion is frightening enough but what if you learned the “invasion” in question went far beyond your own home to include say, the entire planet? That’s basically the plight of poor Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) who, when she’s not wrestling with progressively intimidating alien life forms, builds a scale model of the town
- [The Nun 2 & A Haunting in Venice](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-nun-2-a-haunting-in-venice/) - Lord help me, I rather enjoyed THE NUN 2. I’ve gathered this CONJURING universe offshoot is considered to be a lesser branch on the franchise tree but I appreciate its pure simplicity and love how it generously pours on the gothic ambiance.The ever unassuming Taissa Farmiga returns as sister Irene who, after some globetrotting and
- [The Outer Limits and Childhood Diak-Changing Compulsion Disorder By Bigwig](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-outer-limits-and-childhood-diak-changing-compulsion-disorder-by-bigwig/) - In our household, there are kids’ channels and picture-driven menus that corral my son and daughter to a safe haven of youth programming, and restrictions that prohibit them from most else, if they would even be so inclined to try venturing out of bounds at an early age. For any other pentagenarians out there, the
- [No Place To Hide (1981)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/no-place-to-hide-1981/) - Argh. I’m trapped in a heat wave and I have no place to hide. Might as well cover all the windows, blast my AC and hunker down to watch the made for TV movie NO PLACE TO HIDE (’81) (on ol' reliable YouTube). I got an itch and it can only be scratched by the
- [Name That Trauma:: Found!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-found/) - Unk Sez: Hey, check this awesomeness out! Many moons ago (I’m talking eleven years) we received a duel NTT (HERE) from the great & powerful Senski, one of which concerned a PSA on the danger of swimming pools… “The second PSA I only saw once, but it left an indelible impression. This would be late
- [Name That Trauma:: Meli K. on a Vengeful Gardener & a One Armed Infant](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-meli-k-on-a-vengeful-gardener-a-one-armed-infant/) - Hi! I’m searching for a film where a wealthy man has an affair with his gardener’s daughter, the gardener discovers the affair, and chops off the arm of his employer, and then his grandchild is born with only one arm. Would love any help!
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-239/)
- [Traumafession:: The Amityville Horror (Book) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-the-amityville-horror-book-by-unk/) - Every now and then I get a little re-obsessed with The Amityville Horror. I can’t help it. Even though I realize that the lion’s share of Jay Anson’s novel is completely fabricated, It made such a strong impression on me in my youth that I’m willing to shelve my doubts and just bask in the
- [Traumafession:: Natalie & Stacy on Hate Hurts You PSA](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-natalie-stacy-on-hate-hurts-you-psa/) - Natalie’s version: One night in the early ‘80s, my big sister Stacy, my mother and I were watching primetime TV on KTUL, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s ABC affiliate. For those too young to remember the time before digital, affiliates like KTUL showed programming from major broadcasters, but did so with their own style. In KTUL’s case, that
- [The Last Voyage of the Demeter](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-last-voyage-of-the-demeter/) - Ever since my very first kindertrauma watching SATAN’S TRIANGLE (’75) on TV as a kid, I’ve been especially partial to horror films that take place on a boat. THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER seems crafted to appeal specifically to me because it’s not only boat-bound but also takes place in 1897 and concerns none
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-238/)
- [Talk To Me](https://www.kindertrauma.com/talk-to-me/) - A little while back I posted a list of “post-childhood kindertraumas; movies that legitimately scared me even though I viewed them as a reasonably rational adult. Well, if I waited just a little while longer before posting I could have easily added the Australian A24 supernatural scare-fest TALK TO ME. This flick grabbed me by
- [High Rise Horror: Part 2 By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/high-rise-horror-part-2-by-ghastly1/) - I'm piggybacking off of Unk's stellar post about high-rise horror because I really like this little subgenre and while these may not exactly be horror films, more "thrillers", I've always tended to think of that as a fairly nebulous term and not too important a distinction as I find there is a lot of overlap.
- [Insidious: The Red Door](https://www.kindertrauma.com/insidious-the-red-door/) - When released in 2010, Leigh Whannell and James Wan’s INSIDIOUS provided a refreshing contrast to the gory splatter resurgence that dominated horror in the early aughts. With striking images, creepy tunes (that Tiny Tim song!) and clever, unsettling usage of darkness and tense silence, the film ushered in a new wave of supernatural features and
- [Name That Trauma:: JDS on a Foggy Western Children's Book](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-jds-on-a-foggy-western-childrens-book/) - Dearest Unkle, when I was a kid (circa 1993) I had a spooky children's book that I'd like to describe to you to see if anyone can name it so i can locate a copy It was a western. The town had the word "Gultch" in it which I think may have also been in the title.
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-237/)
- [5 Post- Childhood Kindertraumas By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/5-post-childhood-kindertraumas-by-ghastly1/) - PRIME CUT (1972) Lee Marvin as a hitman, Gene Hackman as a guy named Mary Ann and Sissy Spacek in her screen debut; I'm sold. This one threw me for a loop because ostensibly it's a crime/action film but it suddenly takes a sharp left turn and goes to some very unexpected and unsavory places.
- [5 Post-Childhood Kindertraumas By Mickster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/5-post-childhood-kindertraumas-by-mickster/) - 28 Days Later (2002) When I first saw this on the big screen, it was like having a dose of adrenaline. I kept thinking that I had too many windows in my house (that usually comes to mind with zombies of any kind). Another thing that struck me was how much I cared about the main
- [My Kindertrauma:: Dittimus Rex on a Kerosene Monster PSA](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-dittimus-rex-on-a-kerosene-monster-psa/) - I recently came across this PSA or PIF as it’s known In it’s country of origin, about a gas leak in a kerosene tank looking for a way out until it find an opening. It pours out into the living room and when the resident turns on the heater, BOOM. I was curious how many
- [My Kindertrauma:: Nina on The Twilight Zone Episode "Living Doll" & Talky Tina](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-nina-on-the-twilight-zone-episode-living-doll-talky-tina/) - When the blockbuster 1960s series called The Twilight Zone featured an episode entitled TALKING TINA, I was 6 years old, and a second grade student in a very strict and demanding Catholic school. I lived in an emotional state that ranged from hypervigilance to barely concealed panic- such an overwhelming atmosphere was this for a
- [PSA: Home For The Holidays (1972) on DVD!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/psa-home-for-the-holidays-1972-on-dvd/) - This is a public service announcement created to inform you that the classic 1972 TV-movie HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS is secretly available on DVD! The indispensable gem is discreetly hanging out in one of those cheap-o twenty movie combo packs you might easily overlook at your local Walmart! Check out the cover below and scan
- [Alien Abduction Triple Feature:: Intruders (1992), Progeny (1998) & Visitors of the Night (1995)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/alien-abduction-triple-feature-intruders-1992-progeny-1998-visitors-of-the-night-1995/) - I remember years back talking to a friend on the phone in my old apartment. We were yacking about creepy things you shouldn't yack about if you don't want to get the creeps. Suddenly all the lights went out and I stood in blackness. The phone spit out some garbled non-language that couldn't
- [The Boogeyman (2023)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-boogeyman-2023/) - You’d think the world wouldn’t need yet another movie entitled THE BOOGEYMAN (the boogey bog was muddy enough with 2005’s BOOGEYMAN, its sequels and of course Ulli Lommel’s notorious 1980 throw in the kitchen sink, supernatural slash-a-thon THE BOOGEYMAN ) but the latest heir to the moniker has a major ace up its sleeve as
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-235/)
- [Unhinged ('82)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/unhinged-82/) - I should probably be trying to keep up with all of the new horror movies that have been released this year but I can’t seem to stop returning to my familiar haunting grounds, the eighties. Real world chaos has got me yearning for comfort horror and it’s well recorded that I have a soft spot
- [Traumafession:: Unk on The Exorcist ('73)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-unk-on-the-exorcist-73/) - There’s not much that can be said about William Friedkin’s adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s brilliant novel THE EXORCIST that hasn’t been said before but I’ll give it a shot. Although I recently watched the film for the umpteenth time, I can tell you that there were many years in which I absolutely wouldn’t dare
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-234/)
- [High Rise Horror](https://www.kindertrauma.com/high-rise-horror/) - EVIL DEAD RISE has gotten me thinking about all the great horror movies set in skyscrapers and buildings so it seemed like a good time to compile a good old fashioned horror list. These are the flicks that immediately sprung to my mind but as always I’m sure to have missed a few so please
- [Traumafession:: E.G. on Open Season 2](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-e-g-on-open-season-2/) - First off: I am a very sensitive person, and this was especially true when I was a kid. Second: I do not enjoy animals being hurt for any reason. I worry constantly about the safety of my cats and dear god, if anything were to happen to them I’d lose my goddamn mind.So with that
- [Evil Dead Rise (2023)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/evil-dead-rise-2023/) - I’m not the type to look a gore strewn gift horse in the mouth and I eventually got on the same blood splattered page as EVIL DEAD RISE but it sure took a while. Maybe I was in a persnickety mood but I sure took my time buying what writer/director Lee Cronin was selling. Ya
- [My Kindertrauma:: Shock Waves ('77) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-shock-waves-77-by-unk/) - It’s somehow already time for my yearly ritual of shoving my air-conditioner back into my window and settling in for six months of sunless movie watching hibernation. I’ve never been a fan of summer and recall as a child much preferring the giant box TV in my family’s air-conditioned upstairs rec room (complete with olive
- [Name That Trauma:: G. Trout on Black Eyed Fire Safety Children](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-g-trout-on-black-eyed-fire-safety-children/) - I remember a PSA from the 70s which involved a woman presenting two children with a tray of matches, a silver platter as a matter of fact. The narration said something like ‘don’t leave matches where kids can find them , it’s like handing them to them on a platter’ The utterly creepy thing I
- [My Kindertrauma:: Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things ('72) By Avayander](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-children-shouldnt-play-with-dead-things-72-by-avayander/) - What happens when an impressionable child who has been fed a steady diet of divine wrath stumbles upon a simple 70s horror movie innocuous enough to be broadcast in its entirety on daytime television? Why Kindertrauma of course!!! My Kindertrauma didn't come from one of the brilliant horror movies of the 70s. There are a
- [Name That Trauma:: Helpful Jones on an Evil Tree](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-helpful-jones-on-an-evil-tree/) - Hi! Reddit pointed me to you and it looks like you may have the most in-depth horror movie knowledge base and knowledgeable fans, so I hope you will recognize this movie. I only have brief scenes in memory. I watched it on broadcast TV in the late 70's or early 80's. The setting and fashions
- [KIndertrauma SCREAM Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-scream-funhouse/)
- [KIndertrauma:: We Know What Scared You!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-we-know-what-scared-you/) - UNK SEZ: You may want to hold onto your hats because we've got some exciting news! KINDERTRAUMA: WE KNOW WHAT SCARED YOU is a forthcoming documentary all about the movies, TV shows and general media that scared us all as children and it's executive produced by your old pals at Kindertrauma! You can be a
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-233/)
- [Traumafession:: M. Graves on The Brothers Lionheart ('77)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-m-graves-on-the-brothers-lionheart-77/) - The Brothers Lionheart is a film I saw as a child that stuck with me because the two kid main characters die almost immediately and their afterlife is full of danger and struggle as well, and the film ends with them deciding to kill themselves again to get into yet another afterlife! The film starts
- [Skinamarink](https://www.kindertrauma.com/skinamarink/) - When I was little, me and my younger brother would play a game where we'd stare at each other's faces in the dark until we transformed into hideous monsters. The darkness, combined with our imaginations, would produce horrific hallucinatory results and we'd usually end up tapping out amidst screams while scrambling toward the light switch.
- [My Kindertrauma:: Seth S. on The Shining ('80)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-seth-s-on-the-shining-80/) - One's fear of something can sometimes be about repeated occurrences. Seeing something once that sends a shiver up your spine – that's one thing. Seeing something more than once – worse yet, coming at you in concert: that's something altogether horrifying. A singular greeting to horror, multiplied by two, one can likely think of nothing
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-232/)
- [M3GAN](https://www.kindertrauma.com/m3gan/) - Ya gotta feel bad for poor little Cady (Violet McGraw) who was involved in a deadly snowplow incident that snatched the lives of both of her parents. Mourning her inconceivable loss she is sent to live with her Aunt Gemma (Allison Williams) who means well but is so preoccupied with work she is anything but
- [My Kindertrauma:: Seth S. on The Twilight Zone](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-seth-s-on-the-twilight-zone/) - It's been more than a week since the ball dropped, and I think I've finally heard the last of the muffled marching band that's traipsed its way through my skull since Ryan Seacrest and a skin full of liquor ushered in the new year. In lieu of Tylenol and bottled water, I medicated myself with
- [Best of 2022 Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/best-of-2022-funhouse/)
- [My Kindertrauma:: Seth S. on Dracula ('31)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-seth-s-on-dracula-31/) - He lived down the street from me, and we weren't really friends. We were merely familiar faces on the bus ride to school and in the classroom, the two kids who periodically discovered each other at the local jungle gym. Perhaps he lived too close for comfort for me as I navigated the 5th grade
- [Mickster's Totally Eighties Holiday Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/micksters-totally-eighties-holiday-funhouse/)
- [Violent Night (2022)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/violent-night-2022/) - It's that time of year when we celebrate peace on Earth and goodwill to our fellow man so why am I chuckling at Santa Claus (STRANGER THING's David Harbour) shoving a hand grenade down someone's pants? Oh boy, am I a sucker for slapstick. It's probably because I'm very wimpy and abhor confrontation in real
- [Happy Halloween 2022!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-halloween-2022/)
- [Traumafession:: Unk on A.I. Artificial Intelligence](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-unk-on-a-i-artificial-intelligence/) - I was an adult when A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE was released in 2001 but I'm going to write a traumafession about it anyway. Let's call this a post-childhood kindertrauma. Ya see, there's this one scene in the movie that really curb-stomped my morbidly empathetic heart to such a degree that it stained the rest of the
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-231/)
- [My Kindertrauma:: Unk on Kolchak: The Night Stalker ('74)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-unk-on-kolchak-the-night-stalker-74/) - When I was a youngin' there wasn't anything on television quite as scary to me as KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER (except maybe NIGHT GALLERY's opening credits). I don't think I caught the original airings but I believe there was a summer when repeats aired on one of our local channels. Reporter Carl Kolchak (the late
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-230/)
- [Kindertrauma Classic:: Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-classic-dark-night-of-the-scarecrow-1981/) - Affable mentally challenged Bubba Ritter (Larry Drake) enjoys an innocent friendship with a sweet little girl named Marylee Williams (Tonya Crowe). The two spend autumn days in their small Southern town singing songs, playing games, and making flower chains. Unfortunately, their creepy postman Otis (Charles Durning) projects his own ugly thoughts upon them and declares
- [Name That Trauma:: Jason S. on a Floating Father & an Exploding Statue](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-jason-s-on-a-floating-father-an-exploding-statue/) - Hey! Ran across your site and was hoping you could help me solve this mystery that's been haunting me for almost 40 years: I saw this on TV on a mid-summer's night, probably in June, probably around 7-8 pm, probably 1988 but possibly as early as 1986. We were watching a movie or show on TV
- [Halloween Ends](https://www.kindertrauma.com/halloween-ends/) - Even though I could have easily watched HALLOWEEN ENDS at home on TV (cuz we got that Peacock channel), I ventured out into the rain to see it at my closest theater. I required the full experience. I wanted to walk through falling leaves past Halloween decorations on my way there and I wanted to
- [Name That Trauma:: Lighthouse Ghost on a Dead Wife, a Cabin, & an Attacking Puma](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-lighthouse-ghost-on-a-dead-wife-a-cabin-an-attacking-puma/) - I can't be certain what year the movie was made, but I and my entire 7th grade class saw it in 1982. Our teacher seemed to think she'd reserved a Disney movie or some other kids' film. I have searched and searched to find the name, production company, country of origin, anything, because I would
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-229/)
- [Trauma Scene:: Willy Wonka's Boat Ride](https://www.kindertrauma.com/trauma-scene-willy-wonkas-boat-ride/) - The 1971 PG-rated musical fantasy WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY is based on the book CHARLIE AND THE FACTORY by frequent kindertrauma inducer Roald Dahl (THE WITCHES, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, etc.). Having initially spawned from the mind of Dahl, exactly zero people will be surprised to learn that freaky, bizarre, and unsettling
- [Smile (2022)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/smile-2022/) - Writer/director Parker Finn's SMILE had my number from the get-go and appears to have been reading my diary. My very first kindertrauma involved haunting smiles (SATAN'S TRIANGLE (‘75)) and multiple freaky grimaces have haunted my psyche ever since (the ending of TV-movie DON'T GO TO SLEEP (‘82) is particularly culpable). Everything about SMILE from its
- [Kinder-News:: Kindertrauma turns 15!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kinder-news-kindertrauma-turns-15/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-228/)
- [Kindertrauma Bookmobile:: Run! Here Comes Jason!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-bookmobile-run-here-comes-jason/)
- [Pearl (2022)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/pearl-2022/) - It seems like just yesterday I was singing the praises of Ti West's "X" and now here comes PEARL, the prequel that reveals the foundation of horror that film is built on. PEARL is a truly singular experience and quite a sight to behold. It openly borrows from many a classic film before it (everything
- [Kindertrauma Toy Chest:: The Exorcist ('73) Movie Viewer](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-toy-chest-the-exorcist-73-movie-viewer/)
- [Barbarian (2022)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/barbarian-2022/) - Late one night during a raging storm, Tess Marshall (a relatable Georgina Campbell) arrives at the small house she rented for the weekend only to find the key missing from the lock box outside. She sees light and a figure inside so understandably exasperated; she bangs on the door, which is answered by an odd
- [My Kindertrauma:: Jaws ('75) By Unk-L](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-jaws-75-by-unk-l/) - My earliest film-going experience was seeing JAWS in a drive-in as a child. I recall one of my parents telling me if the movie got too scary I could opt to look out the rear window of the station wagon at the screen in back us. That screen was showing THE REVENGE OF THE PINK
- [Traumafession:: James of LARPing Real Life on The Gauntlet (1977)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-james-of-larping-real-life-on-the-gauntlet-1977/) - I have a confession to make before I even get to my Traumafession: I have never seen the Clint Eastwood movie The Gauntlet. My dad took me to see other Eastwood-Sondra Locke vehicles, namely the goofy but fun Any Which Way films, but never this 1977 crime flick. So how does a picture I've never
- [American Horror Stories: Bloody Mary](https://www.kindertrauma.com/american-horror-stories-bloody-mary/) - Lately, I'm super behind on my horror television viewing but recently I got a heads up that the latest episode of the stand-alone horror anthology series AMERICAN HORROR STORIES revolves around the legend of Bloody Mary so I could not resist checking it out. Bloody Mary was one of the many mental phantoms that haunted
- [Name That Trauma:: Cam on a Meat Cleaver Murder](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-cam-on-a-meat-cleaver-murder/) - Hey Folks! I got a bit of a weird one. When I was a very little kid in the 70's or early 80's I remember seeing the opening to a movie that really scared me. It was an animated title sequence that the closest thing I can think of is very similar to Moon Zero
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-227/)
- [Orphan: First Kill (2022)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/orphan-first-kill-2022/) - Oh, me of little faith. As a big fan of Jaume Collet-Serra's ORPHAN (2009), I was excited to hear that there would be a sequel but when I heard it would actually be a prequel that took place before the first film, I couldn't help but be a bit skeptical. How in the world were
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-226/)
- [Kindertrauma Classic:: Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-classic-poltergeist-ii-the-other-side-1986/) - POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE (1986) may not glow with the bright raw power of its superior predecessor, but its corny heart is in the right place; it sports some great performances, has a fantastic Jerry Goldsmith score (which I'm listening to now), and is the home to more than a few potent as hell
- [Trauma Scene:: Large Marge in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/trauma-scene-large-marge-in-pee-wees-big-adventure-1985/) - You wouldn't guess that a PG-rated movie that is essentially a love story between a special boy and his special bike would be such a notorious traumatizer but here we are. Of course, knowing that the film is also the directorial feature debut of Tim Burton makes it all that much more understandable. Poor Pee-Wee
- [Kidertrauma Classic:: IT: The Miniseries ('90)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kidertrauma-classic-it-the-miniseries-90/) - I'm not sure I could possibly think of a movie that better captures the essence of the term Kindertrauma than the 1990 TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's IT directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. (Its only competition may be the theatrical interpretation of King's novel or the mighty book itself). Beyond showcasing Tim Curry's iconic
- [Name That Trauma:: Julie B. on a Bedridden Corpse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-julie-b-on-a-bedridden-corpse/) - Hello Friends! I have been trying for a few years to find the film that terrified my sister when we were kids, but with no success. It was shown on Sammy Terry's show, our local late night horror host here in Indianapolis, and we had snuck downstairs to watch it. It was well past our
- [My Kindertrauma:: Creature from the Black Lagoon ('54) By Justin H.Q.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-54-by-justin-h-q/) - As it is with most children growing up, my sanctuary was my home. Home is where my parents raised me, where my older brother taught me what I needed to know of the world, where my toys promised to teleport me to another world when the earthly one got to be a little too much
- [Name That Trauma:: Rob B on Psychics & Seances](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-rob-b-on-psychics-seances/) - Hey, guys, this is my second post here. I received some help from the fan base about another movie I was trying to identify, and I was hoping you could help me with a couple of others, to wit: 1) I believe this first one was a made-for-TV movie from the 1970's. It begins with an
- [Kindertrauma Classic:: Return to Oz (1985)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-classic-return-to-oz-1985/) - RETURN TO OZ (‘85) deserves a great deal more respect than what it is often granted. It's safe to assume that 1939's THE WIZARD OF OZ is held in such high regard that critics simply could not accept such a wildly divergent interpretation of L. Frank Baum's "OZ" books (even if it was more loyal
- [My Kindertrauma:: Sesame Street Episode 847 ('76) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-sesame-street-episode-847-76-by-unk/) - Once upon a time in 1976, Margaret Hamilton reprised her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from THE WIZARD OF OZ ('39) on Sesame Street. It didn't go over so well; the episode freaked out many a child, there was a barrage of complaints from parents and the episode was pulled from future
- [X (2022)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/x-2022/) - One of the most satisfying experiences I've had going to the movies in many moons is when I went to see Ti West's X. It just looked so glorious on the big screen with its huge skies, stark horizons, and broad, eye-popping aerial shots. It's like an exquisite painting that uses every inch of the
- [The Black Phone (2022)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-black-phone-2022/) - Is modern life so bleak that THE BLACK PHONE, a horror-thriller concerning a boy who is abused both at home and at school and is abducted and kept prisoner by a devil-masked lunatic known as "the grabber" is somehow the feel-good movie of the summer? Yes. Don't blame the messenger. I'd even say it covertly
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-225/)
- [My Kindertrauma:: Where Have All The People Gone ('74) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-where-have-all-the-people-gone-74-by-unk/) - Directed by the great John Llewellyn Moxey (HORROR HOTEL '60) and co-written by Lewis John Carlino (A REFLECTION OF FEAR '72) and Sandor Stern (THE AMITYVILLE HORROR '79), the 1974 made-for-TV movie WHERE HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE GONE has occupied a large space in my brain ever since I was a child. I remember my
- [Name That Trauma:: Robert B. on a Mummified Mommy](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-robert-b-on-a-mummified-mommy/) - A few years back, I watched a documentary about a pair of Swedish brothers whose parents had home through a bitter divorce when they were younger; the mother had become obsessed with trying to wrest away a vacation property that she and her husband had owned that her life became focused on this legal case
- [My Kindertrauma:: The Wolf Man ('41) By Justin H. Q.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-the-wolf-man-41-by-justin-h-q/) - It had only been a matter of weeks since I'd first seen the music video for Michael Jackson's "Thriller," that near 15-minute masterful marriage of monsters and music, of ferocity and fun. It was my gateway drug to horror, teaching me in its way that horror should inspire screams as frequently as it inspires smiles.
- [Four Non-Horror Movies for Horror Fans:: By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/four-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans-by-ghastly1/) - Resurrection (1999)Christopher Lambert stars as a cop, out to stop a serial killer who is using the body parts of his victims to reconstruct the Corpus Christi in time for Easter- so it's really an Easter movie the whole family will enjoy. While it wears its Seven (1995) influences flagrantly, it wears them well; don't
- [Three Non-horror Movies for Horror Fans:: By bdwilcox](https://www.kindertrauma.com/three-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans-by-bdwilcox-2/) - An eclectic mix they may be, but three movies have been nagging me to compile them into a list of non-horror movies for horror fans. A fourth is pouting as he feels left out, so I'll include him as a bonus just to keep him happy. The first non-horror movie for horror fans is a
- [My Kindertrauma:: Poltergeist ('82) By Justin H.Q.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-poltergeist-82-by-justin-h-q/) - Think of the locations that haunted your worst nightmares growing up, and they were likely the things of shadowy forests, Gothic castles, and European villages haunted by one creature or ghoul or another. But as E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) seemed so close to home by recreating the neighborhoods that so closely resemble the ones we
- [Kindertrauma Classic:: The Witches (1990)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-classic-the-witches-1990/) - THE WITCHES is a swirling cauldron of kindertraumas and how could it not be when it's based on a book from the mind of Roald Dahl (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory), cunningly directed by Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now), enhanced by the genius of Jim Henson (The Dark Crystal), and features a fearless performance by
- [My Kindertrauma:: The Fly (1958) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-the-fly-1958-by-unk/) - The weather is so incredibly perfect today that it reminds me of the days in my youth when I'd hide away in a wood-paneled TV room with the air conditioner blasting, watching classic horror movies like THE FLY (‘58). I can never thank local Philly stations like 17, 29, and 48 enough for providing such
- [My Kindertrauma:: Satan's Triangle (1975) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-kindertrauma-satans-triangle-1975-by-unk/) - Over the years I've brought up the 1975 made-for-TV movie SATAN'S TRIANGLE numerous times on these pages. For some reason though, I've never truly dived into my own personal experience with the film, which is bizarre when you consider it is my ground zero Kindertrauma and the main catalyst for this space even existing. SATAN'S
- [Name That Trauma:: Sebastian L. on a Disintegrating Woman](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-sebastian-l-on-a-disintegrating-woman/) - Hello Kindertrauma! I have a very vivid memory of a terrifying TV moment that I experienced in the late 90s that I am hoping to finally resolve. It probably goes without saying that while this scene is seared in my mind, my recollections of it may not be entirely accurate. It's very likely my imagination
- [Name That Trauma:: Chris R. on Crime Fighting Kids](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-chris-r-on-crime-fighting-kids/) - I have childhood fragments of a ( not terribly traumatic) show that I have no idea how to go about researching. I don't believe this was a movie but a series, and I know it from a teacher wheeling a TV into a room and playing either a cable feed or VHS tape. This would
- [Kindertrauma Classic:: Bad Ronald ('74)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-classic-bad-ronald-74/) - BAD RONALD is a made-for-television movie based on a book of the same name by Jack Vance that originally aired on the 23rd of October 1974. In its brief seventy-four minute runtime, it packs many a creepy thrill as it examines the mind of an isolated outsider as he slides swiftly toward a psychotic break.
- [Kindertrauma Classic:: Don't Go To Sleep ('82)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-classic-dont-go-to-sleep-82/) - On December 10th, 1982 ABC aired the horror-thriller DON'T GO TO SLEEP at 9PM. This "ABC Friday Night Movie" was produced and directed by Richard Lang, executive produced by Aaron Spelling & Douglas S. Cramer, and written by actor/screenwriter Ned Wynn. The unique production combined BAD SEED-inspired evil child elements with the popular slasher movie
- [Happy Easter!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-easter-5/)
- [Trauma Scene:: The NeverEnding Story & the Death of Artax](https://www.kindertrauma.com/trauma-scene-the-neverending-story-the-death-of-artax/) - Wolfgang Peterson's 1984 adaption of Michael Ende's book THE NEVERENDING STORY presents a rich colorful world called Fantasia, which is strewn with many dangers. First and foremost is "The Nothing" which threatens to devour and erase everything in existence if a young hero named Atreyu (Noah Hathaway) can't find a way to thwart it. If
- [Traumafession:: Cosmo M. on The X-Files episode "Badlaa"](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-cosmo-m-on-the-x-files-episode-badlaa/) - Oh, my goodness! The first time I experienced kindertrauma happened in 2001 when I was 7 years old and THE X-FILES was a popular tv show. Deep Roy played a character called the "Badlaa" which is also the title of the episode. In this episode, the little monster crawled inside you, and ate you from
- [Traumafession:: Director Chris Moore on Night of the Living Dead (1968)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-director-chris-moore-on-night-of-the-living-dead-1968/) - I wasn't usually allowed to watch horror films as a kid unless they were rated PG (or possibly PG-13 if my folks were feeling liberal) or if they were on TV where all the gore, sex, nudity, and language would be cut out. The general rule was that, if it was made before 1970 or
- [Trauma-scene:: Superman III's Psycho Cyborg](https://www.kindertrauma.com/trauma-scene-superman-iiis-psycho-cyborg/) - Some of the most interesting Kindertraumas come from the most unlikely of places. We're all somewhat prepared for freaky happenings in horror films but few would expect mental turmoil from a comic book sequel centered on the most wholesome flying alien to ever wear tights. To be fair, SUPERMAN III does consciously dabble in darkness
- [Kindertrauma Toy Chest:: Man-Faced Dog from Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('78)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-toy-chest-man-faced-dog-from-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-78/)
- [Five Favorite Things:: Hannibal by Chuckles72](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-hannibal-by-chuckles72/) - Hannibal/ Mads Mikkelsen Mention Hannibal Lecter to most people and they think of the character portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs. I have no problem with that - Hopkins' portrayal is terrific. However, my favorite Hannibal is the character as portrayed by Mikkelsen. Mikkelsen's Hannibal is quite different from the version appearing
- [Kindertrauma Toy Chest:: April Fool's Day ('86) Board Game](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-toy-chest-april-fools-day-86-board-game/)
- [Kindertrauma Classics:: Burnt Offerings (‘76)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/font-face-font-familyｍｓ-明朝-mso-font-charset78-mso-generic-font-familyauto-mso-font-pitchvariable-mso-font-signature-536870145-1791491579-18-0-131231/) - Robert Marasco first wrote BURNT OFFERINGS as a script for a film meant to be directed by Bob Fosse in the late sixties. When that project fell through, he turned his ideas into a 1973 novel that was successful enough to be given its own film adaption. Fate probably had the right idea because this
- [Name That Trauma:: Michael C. on a Tiny Sister Who Gets Squashed](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-michael-c-on-a-tiny-sister-who-gets-squashed/) - Hi Kindertrauma, Thanks for the recent columns on Trilogy of Terror, Don' Be Afraid of the Dark, and Salem's Lot...all three scarred me for life when I was 10. I remember Horror Week on Channel 7's 4:00 Movie in Washington DC featuring the first two. Anyway, I hope that someone can help me find this
- [Name That Trauma:: DX on Overgrown Brows](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-ariel-k-on-overgrown-brows/) - HI! I'm told you may be able to help me... Do you know the name of this movie? I think it's a one-word title beginning with "D". 50's, 60's or 70's b/w. About radioactive waste off the coast somewhere in the British Isles. Possibly sunken in barrels. The people in the village get
- [Kindertrauma Classics:: Duel (1971)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-classics-duel-1971/) - DUEL is one of the greatest made for television movies of all time and you'd have a hard time finding anyone who has seen it who would disagree. The great Richard Matheson (I AM LEGEND) adapted the screenplay from his short story of the same name and it's the first feature length offering from legendary
- [Kindertrauma Classics:: Salem's Lot ('79)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-classics-salems-lot-79/) - Two horror titans joined forces on TV screens across America on the night of November 17, 1979 when CBS aired SALEM'S LOT. Tobe Hooper, who helmed the blood curdling THE TEXAS CHINSAW MASSACRE (‘74) and Stephen King, the mind responsible for the horror juggernaut CARRIE, were a powerful combination few could prepare themselves for. As
- [Kindertrauma Classics:: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark ('73)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-classics-dont-be-afraid-of-the-dark-73/) - On October 10, 1973, the ABC Movie of the Week featured a gaggle of gremlins maliciously terrorizing a young housewife. The made for television horror spectacle was entitled DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK. It was directed by John Newland (director/host of supernatural anthology series ONE STEP BEYOND) and showcased the well-established acting talents of
- [Kindertrauma Classics:: Trilogy of Terror (1975)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-classics-trilogy-of-terror-1975/) - Trilogy of Terror is an anthology horror film created for television that premiered on the night of March 4th, 1975 on the ABC network. The telefilm contains three distinct tales based on short stories written by Richard Matheson (I Am Legend, Hell House), features multiple performances by award winning actress Karen Black (Burnt Offerings, House
- [Name That Trauma:: Juan M. on a Hand Blender Threat](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-juan-m-on-a-hand-blender-threat/) - I saw this scene or part of this scene back in the early '90s or before, when I was a kid (I was probably 6,7 or 8 y.o). This is more or less what I remember from the scene: There is a girl that is attacked by 3 or 4 guys, probably in her kitchen.
- [Traumafession:: Grant G. on Mego Dolls and Cyborg Annie Ross in Superman III](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-grant-g-on-mego-dolls-and-cyborg-annie-ross-in-superman-iii/) - My name's Grant, and I write a blog called FIRE BREATHING DIMETRODON TIME where I watch wonderfully fun old adventure shows and movies with my son, now five, and see how he enjoys them. Since he's still small, we haven't hit anything like the heights of horror that you all celebrate,
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-224/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Wendy J. on an Ageing Lady Portrait](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-wendy-j-on-an-ageing-lady-portrait/) - I am trying to think of a scary movie made in either the late '70s or early '80s. All I can remember is there is a young beautiful lady who is cursed and even though she looks young in the mirror, there is a painting of her down the hall that keeps aging. Eventually, she
- [Happy Valentine's Day!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-valentines-day/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-223/)
- [Kindertrauma Toy Chest:: Evil Dead ('81) View-Master Reel](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-toy-chest-evil-dead-81-view-master-reel/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Dan Trashcan on Nuclear Meltdown & Anti-Smoking PSAs](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-dan-trashcan-on-nuclear-meltdown-anti-smoking-psas/) - A friend of mine told me about a PSA that spooked him, but fully traumatized his younger sister when they were kids, so I had to send it along. Here's the info: "It aired in the late ‘80s, I think it was on either public access or PBS. It was some anti-nuclear power short film
- [Traumafession:: James Lewis of LARPing Real Life on Reflections of Murder ('74)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-james-lewis-of-larping-real-life-on-reflections-of-murder-74/) - The Frankenstein Monster, submerged in a bathtub, slowly emerges from the water and sits bolt upright. Its hair is matted to its squared-off skull. The dark, half moons of its dead eyes are rolled back in their sockets. It steps out of the tub, dripping water on the floor, and towers over a cowering woman
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-222/)
- [Kindertrauma Toy Chest: Friday the 13th (1980) Movie Viewer](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-toy-chest-friday-the-13th-1980-movie-viewer/)
- [Rest in Peace, Paul Kelman of My Bloody Valentine (1981)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/rest-in-peace-paul-kelman-of-my-bloody-valentine-1981/) - Sadly, Paul Kelman star of MY BLOODY VALENTINE ('81) has passed away. He was an incredibly positive, supportive guy who really enjoyed engaging with fans of his work. He was so cool and so kind to once honor us with an interview so I'm reposting it HERE in his memory. I'm sure you can tell
- [Kindertrauma Interview:: Paul "T.J." Kelman of the Horror Classic "My Bloody Valentine" (1981)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-interview-paul-t-j-kelman-of-the-horror-classic-my-bloody-valentine-1981/) - KINDERTRAUMA: What is the first movie that ever scared you? PAUL KELMAN: Ha! Good one! It was "Curse of Frankenstein," 1957 Hammer Films with Peter Cushing playing the Doctor! I was around 8 or 9 years old. It was my first horror movie! My Father took me and I spent most of the time slumped
- [Kindertrauma Tagline Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-tagline-funhouse-2/)
- [Storm of the Century (1999)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/storm-of-the-century-1999/) - I love watching winter-set horror films in the summer for a little mental relief from the heat but I also love to watch wintry horror flicks in the heart of the season when they are the most relatable. Come to think of it, I also dig them in fall and spring so I just took
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-221/)
- [Scream (2022)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/scream-2022/) - I feel it's my civic duty to write a review for the latest SCREAM movie and yet all I really want to do is talk about how much I love the last installment in the franchise, SCREAM 4. I'm super happy that the new film is doing well with critics and audiences alike but where
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-220/)
- [Traumafession:: Sebastian P. on Round The Twist's Toy Love](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-sebastian-p-on-round-the-twists-toy-love/) - Long time listener, first time caller! That's what the kids say right? Well regardless, I've had this one little television show haunt me for as long as I can remember. It's a little Aussie icon known as Round the Twist. More specifically, the episode Toy Love. This episode was demented. It's like some psychologists banded
- [Kindertrauma 2021 Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-2021-funhouse/)
- [Happy New Year!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-new-year/)
- [Traumafession:: Jim C. on The Michelin Man](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-jim-c-on-the-michelin-man/) - The Michelin Man!My dad worked for Brockway trucks is the early 70's so whenever there was a truck show in town he would take me to see the big rigs. Naturally that fucking tower of squashed marshmallows was always there dancing around and just waiting for the moment he could find me alone and eat
- [Kindertrauma Christmas Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-christmas-funhouse/) - There are 10 differences between the image above (A) & the image below (B). How many can you find? Good luck & happy Christmas Eve!
- [Babes in Toyland (1986) By Electric Babysitter](https://www.kindertrauma.com/babes-in-toyland-1986-by-electric-babysitter/) - So I was just having a lazy, December day and looking for something holiday-ish to watch for the podcast. After perusing, I decided to revisit the lovably, bizarre 1986 Babes in Toyland. I was hoping you hadn't covered it, but I just read the review on the site, it was spot on! May I piggyback off that review and contribute my two cents, possibly make a humble, holiday recommendation? I watched this version
- [Christmas Evil ('80) By Michael Campochiaro of Starfire Lounge](https://www.kindertrauma.com/christmas-evil-80-by-michael-campochiaro-of-starfire-lounge/) - Lewis Jackson's cult classic Christmas Evil (1980)—or as it was known during production and before the distributor changed the name, You Better Watch Out—opened in a few theaters to little notice back in 1980. Then it mostly disappeared, only to see a revival of sorts in recent years on Blu-ray and streaming. For many of
- [Mickster's Annual Christmas Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/micksters-annual-christmas-funhouse-2/)
- [Traumafessions:: Maniac ('80) & Don't Answer The Phone! ('80) By Matt Forgit Author of You Better Watch Out: A Christmas Horror Comedy](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafessions-maniac-80-dont-answer-the-phone-80-by-matt-forgit-author-of-you-better-watch-out-a-christmas-horror-comedy/) - Picture this, if you will: A goofy, sheltered, nerdy, chunky, sensitive, and guileless ten-year-old boy who watched Scooby-Doo and read Nancy Drew and Choose Your Own Adventure books. This sweet, innocent ten-year-old wasn't interested in sports or hunting, like the other boys his age, and spent his time listening to Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner,
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-219/)
- [The Hand (1981)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-hand-1981/) - In a strange turn of events, it turns out I rather dig Oliver Stone's THE HAND. This is odd because I remember it boring the hell out of me when I watched it as a kid. To be fair to my younger self, 1981 was an incredible year for horror and it's still easy for
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-218/)
- [The Fury (1978) By Michael Campochiaro of Starfire Lounge](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-fury-1978-by-michael-campochiaro-of-starfire-lounge/) - Let's get this out of the way at the start: I'm a Brian De Palma fanatic. Of the New Hollywood directors who got their starts in the 1960s and 1970s, many are certified legends with their own signature styles, but none of them can touch De Palma's purely batshit crazy resume, especially during the 1970s.
- [Magdalena: Possessed by the Devil ('74) By Michael Campochiaro of Starfire Lounge](https://www.kindertrauma.com/magdalena-possessed-by-the-devil-74-by-john-campochiaro-of-starfire-lounge/) - I was feeling under the weather recently so I did what any normal human being would do: I curled up in bed to watch a 1970s West German Devil-possession flick dubbed into English on YouTube. What, you don't do that when you're sick? Truth be told, neither do I but sweet Satan am I glad
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-217/)
- [Happy Thanksgiving!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-thanksgiving-3/)
- [My Soul To Take (2010)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-soul-to-take-2010/) - Hmmm. While watching MY SOUL TO TAKE all I kept thinking was that the direction was serviceable and that the acting was passable but whoever wrote the script needs to be diagnosed and medicated appropriately as soon as possible. Now as I look on the IMDb I see that the writer of SOUL
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-216/)
- [Carnival of Souls ('62) By Michael Campochiaro of Starfire Lounge](https://www.kindertrauma.com/carnival-of-souls-62-by-michael-campochiaro-of-star-fire-lounge/) - The first time you see Carnival of Souls you're pretty sure you've seen it before. That's because any number of horror films in the nearly sixty years since its release have cribbed liberally off its look, feel, and twist ending. It's possible many of those filmmakers did so unknowingly—that's how much Carnival of Souls is
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-215/)
- [Last Night in Soho (2021)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/last-night-in-soho-2021/) - Edgar Wright's LAST NIGHT IN SOHO is so enrapturing to the eyes and ears that it's a shock to the system when the film ends and you have to return to gray, blaring reality. Thomasin McKenzie plays Eloise, a sixties-obsessed, aspiring young fashion designer who leaves behind cozy country life to study in the exciting
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-214/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Natalia B. on a Drunk Driving PSA](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-natalia-b-on-a-drunk-driving-psa/) - So, this was a PSA in the 90s that aired on Canadian TV. I am foggy on the actual dates, but I think it aired for quite a while. I think it was about drunk driving, and I recall a young woman who possibly had long curly hair riding in the passenger seat of her
- [Name That Trauma:: Jeff B. on a Red-Haired Skeleton](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-jeff-b-on-a-red-haired-skeleton/) - I remember watching an old horror film about 40 years ago - the opening scene was a mad scientist who had a red-haired (?) woman on a laboratory table and he had hooked up some kind of billows type pump to transfer her blood to something / someone else... An angry mob appears at the
- [Happy Halloween!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-halloween/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-213/)
- [Halloween Kills (2021)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/halloween-kills-2021/) - I was fascinated by horror at an early age but it was the viewing of John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN ('78) on TV one fateful night (while babysitting the night before the holiday) that spurred my lifelong obsession with the genre. The universe depicted in the Halloween franchise (regardless of timelines) will always be my home away
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Hosted by Dr. Nick!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-hosted-by-dr-nick/)
- [Three Non-Horror Movies For Horror Fans:: By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/three-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans-by-ghastly1-2/) - That Cold Day in the Park (1969). My favorite Robert Altman film -a distant second being Brewster McCloud- in which a lonely frigid spinster (Sandy Dennis) comes across a wet and shivering 19-year-old boy (Michael Burns) sitting on a park bench, who awakens long submerged and hopelessly deranged passions in her. One thing leads to
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-212/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Marko on a Monster Kid](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-marko-on-a-monster-kid/) - Hi, I hope someone can help me identify something I watched as a kid. None of the things I can remember may be reliable. It may have been from the 70s or 80s. The little I can remember is, a man goes to a mansion to do some type of work for a woman. I
- [Name That Trauma:: Rick B. on a Giant Yellow Alien Ball](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-rick-b-on-a-giant-yellow-alien-ball/) - Hi, While probably a benign little heart-warmer or lesson-imparter which was in no way meant to be unsettling, I'm haunted by a short film shown at summer camp. Reckoning it's from the mid 70s to very early 80s, as the music was all burping Moog (at least in memory). The most I can offer is
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-211/)
- [Nightbooks (2021)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/nightbooks-2021/) - I was feeling under the weather recently and wanted to watch a horror film but I wasn't in the mood for anything that was going to bum me out or destroy my last shred of will to live (you know how it goes). Luckily I found the PG-13 dark fantasy/gateway horror flick NIGHTBOOKS hanging out
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-210/)
- [Thank You All for 14 Years of Kindertrauma!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/thank-you-all-for-14-years-of-kindertrauma/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Naja M on a Svengoolie Skeleton](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-naja-m-on-a-svengoolie-skeleton/) - Hi, The movie I am asking about is not one that scared me. I barely remember it. The reason I do want the name is because it's the background of one of our most awesome childhood memories, and I really wish I had the name of the movie when I tell this story to people.
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-209/)
- [Kindertrauma Toy Chest:: The House by the Cemetery ('81) Game](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-toy-chest-the-house-by-the-cemetery-81-game/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Ploppa Smerph on a Time Loop Stalker](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-ploppa-smerph-on-a-time-loop-stalker/) - I'm helping a friend chase down an old memory and he has originally misapplied to the Friday the 13th series: This memory is set squarely in the '80s. As I recall it -- our "lone survivor" girl is running for her life at night, maybe from a camp. She gets into a car and starts
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-208/)
- [Malignant (2021)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/malignant-2021/) - There was a point while I was watching James Wan's MALIGNANT when my eyeballs fell out of my head and rolled across the floor. I had to get down on my hands and knees, scoop them up and push the damn bastards back into my skull. It's been far too long since a movie has
- [Name That Trauma:: Mike M. on a Post-Apocalyptic Pollution PSA](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-mike-m-on-a-post-apocalyptic-pollution-psa/) - Hi, Folks!I've been thinking about a terrifying ad from the early 1970s... it was a PSA about air pollution, and it went something like this: A regular-looking middle-aged guy wearing regular-looking 20th clothes is in some kind of underground, THX-1138-like Dystopia. There's a voiceover talking about the dangers of air pollution. The regular-looking guy is
- [Name That Trauma:: Phil on Death by Laughter](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-phil-on-death-by-laughter/) - Kindertrauma, Can you help me? I've been trying to understand this memory for years: It begins with the main character checking into a hotel or mansion to stay the night. That night, their sleep is interrupted by hysterical laughter. The next morning, they open the bedroom doors to investigate. There is a brief shot of
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-207/)
- [The Night House (2021)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-night-house-2021/) - Covid killed my go-to neighborhood movie theater so now I'm starting to frequent the brand new fancy movie joint they shoved into our local mall. It's all right I guess, maybe even a little easier to get to via subway but I'm not welcoming the place into my heart just yet. There I was sitting
- [Kindertrauma Toy Chest:: Stevie Wayne Radio DJ Play Set from The Fog (1980)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-toy-chest-stevie-wayne-radio-dj-dj-play-set-from-the-fog-1980/)
- [Kindertrauma Tagline Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-tagline-funhouse/)
- [Candyman (2021)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/candyman-2021/) - I realize it's not the best time to be going to the movies gratuitously but I've got an itch to sneak back and catch Nia DaCosta's sequel/relaunch to Bernard Rose's 1992 masterpiece (yeah, I said it) CANDYMAN again. Ya see, I'm pleased as punch with it and that's saying a lot because something deep down
- [Name That Trauma:: J. Smith on Suicide Prevention PSAs](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-j-smith-on-suicide-prevention-psas/) - Hi there! I'm looking for an old PSA that scared me shitless when Iwas around 6 or 7 around 2008-2011. It was a suicide hotline ad if I remember, which showed a kitchen,with a male narrator explaining something (was probably too scaredexactly what it was) while objects fell from the shelves. It endedwith the background
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-206/)
- [Kindertrauma Rewind:: Candyman: The Last Temptation of Helen Lyle](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-rewind-candyman-the-last-temptation-of-helen-lyle/) - In anticipation of the release of Nia DaCosta's CANDYMAN this Friday, let's take a trip back to a time when I had the mental capacity to organize my thoughts and wrote a post called CANDYMAN: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF HELEN LYLE by clicking right HERE!
- [Spot The Difference:: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/spot-the-difference-the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/) - There are ten differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). Can you spot them all?
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-205/)
- [Name That Trauma Solved:: Auto and the Porcelain Doll PSA](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-solved-auto-and-the-porcelain-doll-psa/) - Hi,A month or two ago I sent you guys a message about a creepy Lupus PSA which aired in upstate NY during the '90s, which I originally read about on Reddit. I'd not seen the commercial myself, but I've been vigorously hunting and I believe that I finally tracked it down. The OP wasn't lying
- [Kindertrauma Gallery:: Trapper Keepers of Horror](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-gallery-trapper-keepers-of-horror/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Hosted By Kathryngrace](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-hosted-by-kathryngrace-2/)
- [Kindertrauma Comix:: Li'l Jason Voorhees](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-comix-lil-jason-voorhees/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-204/)
- [Kindertrauma Toy Chest:: Horror Video Games](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-toy-chest-horror-video-games/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-203/)
- [Re-Watch:: Day of the Dead (1985) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/re-watch-day-of-the-dead-1985-by-unk/) - I finally did it. I finally watched DAY OF THE DEAD again. I've been talking about doing it for years. Here's the thing: back in let's say, 1986 after DOTD had completed its initial run, me and my younger brother went to see it at a midnight show at a local mall in Texas where
- [Traumafession:: Justin Howard Query on Michael Jackson's Thriller](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-justin-howard-query-on-michael-jacksons-thriller/) - Michael Jackson is the perfect monster No one forgets his first time, and a significant gateway into horror was the 1983 short film slash music video for Michael Jackson's "Thriller." Directed by John Landis with makeup effects by Rick Baker, this 14-minute video was the perfect introduction to horror for some: it introduced werewolf mythology,
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-202/)
- [Random Reviews:: By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/random-reviews-by-ghastly1/) - Frisk (1995). Based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Dennis Cooper, this delightful charmer tells the story of gay stoic psychopath Dennis (Michael Gunther) who early on developed a taste for murder and necrophilia after coming across some snuff magazines. Dennis's letters to his friend Julian (Jaie Laplante) who is having an
- [Kindertrauma Matinee:: How To Make A Shark Movie](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-matinee-how-to-make-a-shark-movie/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-201/)
- [Kindertrauma Book Shelf](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-book-shelf/)
- [Five Favorite Things:: Monkey Shines (1988) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-monkey-shines-1988-by-unk/) - I Hate Meddlers! MONKEY SHINES is about an easy on the eyes dude named Allan Mann who thanks to a barking dog, jogs into a truck and becomes paraplegic. He is given a monkey by a so-called friend to help him out and the two hit it off fantastically and it is such a beautiful
- [Oh Say Can You Scream?](https://www.kindertrauma.com/oh-say-can-you-scream/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-200/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Rob M. on a Dark Tunnel & a Bedridden Investigator](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-rob-m-on-a-dark-tunnel-a-bedridden-investigator/) - I'm trying to remember the name of a film. An investigator makes some rounds talking to various people about the disappearance or death of a woman... maybe? He begins questioning a man in a bar about a mishap in an abandoned warehouse. Some weird room there and power loss. The second interview is with a
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-199/)
- [Five Favorite Things:: Martin (1977) By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-martin-1977-by-ghastly1/) - George Romero, or as I like to call him: "the people's horror auteur" -insert clip of Rick from The Young Ones here- you're a very cool, switched on, hepcat if you get that reference, daddy-o- great guy, right? we all love him, don't we? Well, I am going to commit horror heresy here and state
- [Name That Trauma:: Auto on a Porcelain Doll PSA](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-auto-on-a-porcelain-doll-psa/) - Hi, I'd like to let you guys know about a weird PSA from the early to mid 90s (perhaps made in the 80s, since these things often have an odd shelf life) which aired in upstate NY. Now, I'd like to preface by saying that I've not seen this myself but I'm hell-bent on tracking
- [Name That Trauma:: Martin F. on a Dominatrix in a British Castle](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-martin-f-on-a-dominatrix-in-a-british-castle/) - I'd first like to say I love this website! My childhood trauma is this:1) a British film that at least takes place in a British castle.2) guy staying in said castle for a night.3) he rings a bell and a dominatrix walks in accompanied by a little girl.4). the little girl walks over to a
- [Name That Trauma:: Update on Carol & PSA Mannequin](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-update-on-carol-psa-mannequin/) - Hi guys! About six years ago (HERE) I sent in a Kindertrauma about a PSA that discussed hearing loss, to find out if anyone else experienced it and also got the creeps! I found it by accident today, in a compilation of WPIX Channel 11 promos and commercials uploaded just a year ago. I thought
- [Name That Trauma:: Carol on a Mannequin with Headphones PSA](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-catol-on-a-mannequin-with-headphones-psa/) - I have grown up in the NYC area my whole life, but this was probably a nationwide PSA that I have only seen once and never again. Saw it before I turned 10. I believe it was for some organization or institute: a featureless, unmoving mannequin head and neck in a dark room
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-198/)
- [The Amusement Park (1973) By Mickster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-amusement-park-1973-by-mickster/) - George Romero's long lost educational film commissioned by the Lutheran Society in 1973 has been found and restored. Upon viewing the finished product in 1973, the Lutheran Society found it too disturbing to be seen. I guess the truth of how the elderly are treated was too much to bear. Luckily for us, the George
- [Name That Trauma:: Arletta on Pilgrims & Possession](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-arletta-on-pilgrims-possession/) - Please help me if you can! This trauma has been skirting the edges of my memory for the longest time. I have searched and searched and keep coming up with nothing. I believe it is a movie, probably made-for-tv, but it could very well be an episode of an anthology show. When you're a kid
- [Five Favorite Things:: James of LARPing Real Life on The Dark Half (1993)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-james-of-larping-real-life-on-the-dark-half-1993/) - The Dark Half (George A. Romero, 1993) George A. Romero and Stephen King: two great tastes that taste great together. Sadly, Romero's chocolate and King's peanut butter didn't get together as often as they could or should have. The number of projects the two men were to produce together that failed to come to fruition
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-197/)
- [Name That Trauma:: JLopo on Quicksand & a Burning Bed](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-jlopo-on-quicksand-a-burning-bed/) - So, I've never quite been able to figure this out for 37 years or so. I live in metro Detroit and back in the 1980's they used to show 3 horror movies between 2 local channels on Saturday afternoon. This movie was on during that slot though it seemed more like a thriller. All I
- [The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-conjuring-the-devil-made-me-do-it-2021/) - I was all set to let CONJURING 3 be the first movie I went to see in an actual movie theater post-pandemic but then I saw it was on HBO. In a last minute decision, I instead decided to see A QUIET PLACE 2 in the theater and then watched CONJURING 3 on my computer
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-196/)
- [Traumafessions:: Unk on Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafessions-unk-on-look-whats-happened-to-rosemarys-baby-1976/) - LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY is not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination; it's every bit as clunky as its title. That doesn't mean that it didn't freak me the hell out as a child though. As I recall, the first twenty minutes were horrifying to me, and then I'm pretty
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-195/)
- [Traumafession:: Unk on Friday The 13th Part 3 (1982)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-unk-on-friday-the-13th-part-3-1982/) - About a month ago (April 30th), FRIDAY THE 13th PART 2 was celebrating its 40th anniversary. While singing its praises I nearly stated that Jason Voorhees, as presented in that film (with a THE ELEPHANT MAN-type sack on his head), is at his scariest (because generally he is) but something stopped me in my tracks
- [Name That Trauma Solved:: Dexterpie on The Undead (1957)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-solved-dexterpie-on-the-undead-1957/) - Once upon a time, way back HERE we got a Name That Trauma from Dexterpie that went a little something like this: Hello Kindertrauma, I'm trying to find a movie that I saw as a child. It had two witches in it. The ugly witch was good and the pretty witch was bad. The pretty
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- [Five Favorite Things:: Electric Babysitter on Waxwork (1988)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-electric-babysitter-on-waxwork-1988/) - It's fair to say Waxwork is not a great movie. However, when it comes to Anthony Hickox's resume, I'll take Waxwork over a CD cenobite any day (I'm looking at you Hellraiser III)! Take a moment with me, won't you? As I try to plead my case for this tonally awkward 80s oddball. The Cast
- [Kindertrauma Rewind:: An Open Letter to Mrs. Kobritz by Stevie Wayne](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-rewind-an-open-letter-to-mrs-kobritz-by-stevie-wayne/) - I'm sure I hardly need to introduce myself; I'm sorta a big deal. Unless you live under a rock or don't own a radio, you know who I am. If you have somehow not heard my awesome radio show (KAB rocks!) you've certainly seen me riding around Antonio Bay in my wicked convertible! Well, I'm
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- [Traumafessions:: Unk on Sleestaks](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafessions-unk-on-sleestaks/) - Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman; all seemed like cool guys I could pal around with when I was little... Sleestaks, not so much. Truth told, Sleestaks freaked me out. For those not familiar, Sleestaks are inter-dimensional, reptilian humanoids that appear in Sid and Marty Krofft's seventies-era Saturday morning adventure series LAND OF THE LOST. They're like
- [Name That Trauma:: Michael from Minnesota on an Enchanted Sword & a Maternal Witch](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-michael-from-minnesota-on-enchanted-sword-a-maternal-witch/) - Hello Kindertraumaniacs! Michael from Minnesota, here for a third time. You guys have done a dynamite job helping me in the past, now I come to you for a friend who recently asked me to identify a couple of movies he remembers watching in his adolescence. The first I knew immediately (Empire's "Eliminators"), but this
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-192/)
- [That's So Craven!:: Deadly Blessing (1981)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/thats-so-craven-deadly-blessing-1981/) - Wes Craven's DEADLY BLESSING (1981) will always hold a special place in my heart. It was one of the first R-rated horror films I experienced in a movie theater and naturally, it scared the crap out of me. It's comfort horror that I revisit every couple of years and I always manage to find new
- [Name That Trauma:: Tracey B. on a Crying Cleaver Killer](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-tracey-b-on-a-crying-cleaver-killer/) - Greetings from Chicagoland! Circa 1980, I'm flipping through a black-and-white horror mag, title unknown, and see a bit of story involving a man with a cleaver cutting up a conscious woman. A big panel shows her arched backwards over a table or butcher's block, her arm cut off at the elbow, while he's holding her
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-191/)
- [Five favorite Things:: Love and Monsters (2020)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-love-and-monsters-2020/) - THE DOG. Aw. Don't tell my cats but I'm legit in love with the doggie that is featured in this movie. It's really one of the greatest depictions of a canine's heart and personality that has ever been captured on film. Please never inform me that he was portrayed by more than one pooch. I
- [Name That Trauma:: Beth From Georgia on a Sickly Escapee](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-beth-from-georgia-on-a-sickly-escapee/) - Greetings! I've enjoyed the site for many years, but I believe this is my first request for help identifying an old trauma of mine. It's my hope that someone can help point me to a movie/show that deeply disturbed me as a young child in the early '90s. I know it had to have been
- [Name That Trauma:: Mike W. On a Magic Ball & Killer Toys](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-mike-w-on-a-magic-ball-killer-toys/) - Hello from South Africa! Long time fan, first time writer. Thanks to your site I was able to relive the memory of a movie that scared the bejesus out of me as a kid, "The Haunted" about the Smurl Haunting. I'm hoping you can -please- point me in the direction of another childhood trauma. Here
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-190/)
- [Kindertrauma Rewind:: The Fog (1980) vs The Birds (1963)!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-rewind-the-fog-1980-vs-the-birds-1963/) - UNK SEZ: Hey, it's April 21st and that makes it officially international THE FOG (1980) day! One way we can celebrate is to travel backwards and re-visit an ancient post in which I explore the similarities between John Carpenter's fantastic flick and Hitchcock's classic THE BIRDS (1963)! Sounds like great fun doesn't it? And all
- [Several Serial Killer Films:: By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/several-serial-killer-films-by-ghastly1/) - The Tenderness of Wolves (1973)Neuer Deutscher Film fanatics rejoice, Ulli Lommel is here and he brought Rainer Werner Fassbinder along with him. Fritz Haarmann lives the dream life, not only is he a rapist serial killer of boys and young men, who lives in an apartment decorated with kitsch paintings of angels and filled with
- [Traumafessions:: Xminus1 on The Baby From Outer Space](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafessions-xminus1-on-the-baby-from-outer-space/) - I thought for years I was making this up but there was a really weird short film on nickelodeon years ago called The Baby From Outer Space. This one freaked me out and has stayed with me throughout the years. I have no idea how this got past the censors at the time. This short
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-189/)
- [Five Favorite Things:: The Psychopath (1966) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-the-psychopath-1966-by-unk/) - Director Freddie Francis' 1966 Robert Bloch (PSYCHO) penned murder mystery THE PSYCHOPATH is so up my alley, I feel almost sad that I did not encounter it earlier in life. Sure, now as an adult I can appreciate it on a multitude of levels I may have missed before but this is the type of
- [Name That Trauma:: Doug P. on a Deadly Stuffed Snake](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-doug-p-on-a-deadly-stuffed-snake/) - Hello everyone, what movie features a death by a stuffed toy snake in a car or pick-up truck? I'm pretty sure it was late 80's or early 90's. It's beyond cool that Kindertrauma.com exists, you guys are the best.Doug P
- [Name That Trauma:: Meg N. on a Fire Safety Film](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-meg-n-on-a-fire-safety-film/) - Hi there! For years I've been trying to find a fire safety film I watched in elementary school back in 2003. Here's what I've managed to remember from the movie: I remember the camera zoomed into the fire as she was screaming and there was knocking heard at the door. I also remember one of
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-188/)
- [Godzilla Vs Kong (2021)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/godzilla-vs-kong-2021/) - As far as let downs go, GODZILLA VS KONG isn't so bad. It delivers some true eye-popping spectacle or maybe I'm just the easiest mark when it comes to buildings being destroyed and flashy neon colors. I wonder if it's possible I might have enjoyed it more if I was able to see it in
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-187/)
- [The Empty Man (2020](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-empty-man-2020/) - Wait a minute; something weird is going on here. I'm very much familiar with renting a movie hoping it will be great only for it to be clearly NOT great but it's very rare that I rent a movie hoping it will be dopey and it ends up being pretty damn awesome. Turns out, THE
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-186/)
- [The Wolf of Snow Hollow](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-wolf-of-snow-hollow/) - Yikes, I feel like I haven't written in a long time and am getting very close to the "and he never did again" zone so here I am forcing myself. Let's talk about THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW because I love that movie and that should take the edge off. I mean, this flick offers
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-185/) - There are ten differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B)> Can you find them all?
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- [In Memoriam:: Norman J. Warren](https://www.kindertrauma.com/in-memoriam-norman-j-warren/)
- [Kinder-News:: Rondo Award Nomination!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kinder-news-rondo-award-nomination/) - Hey! Kindertrauma has been nominated for a RONDO award for best horror website! You can vote for us HERE! And you don't even need to fill out the whole form; you can just vote for us and split if you are pressed for time! Thanks to all who support us & keep ya fingers crossed!
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- [Kindertrauma Rewind:: HBD Madhouse (1981)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-rewind-hbd-madhouse-1981/) - Hold up now, today is the 40th birthday of the beloved birthday-themed Gothic slasher flick MADHOUSE (thanks to pal ShamefulClutter for the remind). This being the case, why not celebrate with our original review back HERE and our more recent Blu-ray review HERE!
- [Five Favorite Things:: The Boogey Man (1980) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-the-boogey-man-1980-by-unk/) - It's legit creepy. I suppose there's plenty to pick apart when it comes to THE BOOGEY MAN, director Ulli Lommel's somewhat brazen, knee-jerk reaction to John Carpenter's mega-successful HALLOWEEN but I don't think anyone can pretend it doesn't maintain a consistently creepy vibe. Its opening scene is tailor-made to echo its inspiration's haunting prelude while
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-182/)
- [Relic (2020)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/relic-2020/) - Well, I cannot question whether RELIC is an effective horror film on account of the fact that the damn thing went and gave me nightmares. I'm not talking about the fun kind of nightmare where you get chased around an old house by a fuzzy monster; I'm talking about the shitty kind of nightmare where
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-181/)
- [Divine Providence: A Very Brief Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft and the Films Inspired by His Oeuvre:: By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/divine-providence-a-very-brief-tribute-to-h-p-lovecraft-and-the-films-inspired-by-his-oeuvre-by-ghastly1/) - I feel like being topical so I want to talk about H.P. Lovecraft, seeing as how his name every now and again is resurrected in the public consciousness and now is one such time, thanks to a stupid tv show- I'm looking at you Lovecraft Country. I am a confirmed Lovecraftophile. Not so much in the sense that
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Hosted By SmallDarkCloud](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-hosted-by-smalldarkcloud/)
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- [Name That Trauma:: Isaura on a Dastardly Dog Death](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-isaura-on-a-dastardly-dog-death/) - Hello there,I'm looking for a title again.Asian movie.. All I remember is this girl asking 3 guys if they can watch her dog for a minute while she goes in the store real quick and they wack that dog in a bag to the wall. They kill it and just leave it there on the
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-179/)
- [Kindertrauma Rewind:: For The Love of:: The Boogens!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-rewind-for-the-love-of-the-boogens/) - Hey! I'm looking out my window and it looks very much like BOOGENS weather to me! Let's jump into the rewind machine and travel back a couple years to when yours truly and our old pal Amanda (of MADE FOR TV MAYHEM fame) celebrated the rarely celebrated enough, early eighties, cabin-set, winter monster party, THE
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-178/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Isaura on a Roadside Puppy Trap](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-isaura-on-a-roadside-puppy-trap/) - Hey, I'm looking for a horror movie, i think its from 2000+ , It's about a couple (boy girl) that are driving in the car and they see a 'free puppy' sign or road sign.. once they arrive there, there's a truck with 2 guys and 1 of them lures the woman to the trunk
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-177/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Werewoof of London on a Twilight Zone Magazine Story](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-werewoof-of-london-on-a-twilight-zone-magazine-story/) - Back in the mid-80's my parents would bring us kids along when they would hang out at their friend's house. This friend had an EXTENSIVE horror and science fiction library, and I spent every hour over there reading all the Stephen King, Clive Barker, Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Magazines that I could get my hands
- [Kindertrauma Hiatus](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-hiatus/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-176/)
- [Kindertrauma Gallery:: Merricatt B.'s Dollhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-gallery-merricatt-b-s-dollhouse/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Hosted By Mickster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-hosted-by-mickster-2/)
- [Kindertrauma Rewind:: Avalanche of Christmas Horror!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-rewind-avalanche-of-christmas-horror/) - UNK SEZ: It's that time of year again- time to watch Christmas horror movies! Check out our Avalanche of Christmas Horror movies way back HERE! But hey, that list is ten years old! Make sure you help us update it by adding the titles of your favorite Christmas horror movies of the last decade in
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-175/)
- [Name That Trauma:: KRLH on a Christmas Window Death](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-krlh-on-a-christmas-window-death/) - UNK SEZ: Our old pal kirbyreedloveshorror found a short clip online of a woman being thrown out a window next to a prominent Santa Clause Christmas decoration. Kirby wanted to know if I could identify the film but sadly I could not! We're both big Christmas horror fans so now we're both going crazy with
- [Name That Trauma:: Drew P. on a Sherlock Holmes Robot](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-drew-p-on-a-sherlock-holmes-robot/) - Aloha!Last time I submitted A Name That Trauma, it was identified within 24-hours. Let's see if folks can beat that! Okay - so there was this TV show on daytime PBS during the early 90s. Probably between 1990 and 1994. I watched this on either Vermont Public Television or New Hampshire Public Television. IÂ don't think
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-174/)
- [Traumafesssions:: Unk on The Omen (1976)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafesssions-unk-on-the-omen-1976/) - Yep, I've been moderating this site about media that scared us all as children for (over) thirteen years and I've still got a few of my own trauma tales to tell. I was somewhere less than ten years old when I first encountered Richard Donner's 1976 demonic kid flick THE OMEN and a recent re-watch
- [Name That Trauma:: Rob M. on a Faked Home Invasion](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-rob-m-on-a-faked-home-invasion/) - Reaching out again because my mind isn't what it used to be. I'm trying to recall a movie that was released in the last 20 years. I don't know what year. I don't know any actors in the movie, but I feel like I would know the name if I saw it. It's set in
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-173/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Lena on a Clock That Strikes 13](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-lena-on-a-clock-that-strikes-13/) - Hello! I hopeYou can help me.I have never actually seen this movie it's one of those movies that one of my childhood friends told me about.Never forgot her telling me, but have never been able to find it.I don't have much to go on.I'm going to guess it's a 70's movie. Whether it was made
- [Traumafession:: James on Sleepaway Camp (1983)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-james-on-sleepaway-camp-1983/) - Sleepaway Camp. No other movie has psychologically scared me as extremely as this movie has. I actually watched it for the first time while CAMPING with my Dad and Uncle in a small Evil Dead-type cabin deep in the woods of Pennsylvania! The movie has a series of things that made me uncomfortable. These kids
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-172/)
- [Traumafession:: PopcornMonster on Laffun Heads](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-popcornmonster-on-laffun-heads/) - When I was a kid I remember these super creepy novelty heads that when the tie was pulled down would spit water, blink their eyes, and laugh while their tongues moved in and out. My aunt had the clown variety and it spooked me out but pretty much every version was high on the uncanny
- [Kindertrauma Rewind:: Carnival of Souls (1962)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-rewind-carnival-of-souls-1962/) - UNK SEZ: No submissions this week and come to think of it, I don't feel like writing myself as that may require the use of my brain. So why not let's utilize our time traveling machine and go check out Kindertrauma TEN long years ago back in 2010 when I was shamelessly shrieking the praises
- [Carnival of Souls (1962)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/carnival-of-souls-1962/) - Some call CARNIVAL OF SOULS, the cheap as they come, sometimes poorly acted, sometimes barbarically edited, sometimes inadequately dubbed drive-in movie from 1962 a masterpiece and one of those "some people" is me. If you have never seen CARNIVAL OF SOULS before, rather than continue reading this flimsy appraisal, watch it HERE. I
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-171/)
- [Kindertrauma Rewind:: Unk on Race with the Devil (1975)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-rewind-unk-on-race-with-the-devil-1975/) - Hey! Welcome to our exciting latest spectacular feature at Kindertrauma called "Kindertrauma Rewind" where we travel back in time to explore posts from the past! In other words, I just discovered a brand new level of laziness! I don't know what to tell ya folks, writing really cuts into my napping time and since my
- [Art Gallery: Children of the Corn (1984) Opening Credits](https://www.kindertrauma.com/art-gallery-children-of-the-corn-1984-opening-credits/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-170/)
- [Traumafessions:: Andrew H. of In Search of Darkness Part II on Witchtrap (1989)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafessions-andrew-h-of-in-search-of-darkness-part-ii-on-witchtrap-1989/) - Witchtrap is one of those kindertrauma movies that I saw one scene from, and it haunted me for years. I tried for about two decades to hunt it down after watching part of it in the early ‘90s when I was a kid, and finally after searching the internet for "neck shower death" over and
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-169/)
- [View From a Binge:: The Horror of Ami Dolenz](https://www.kindertrauma.com/view-from-a-binge-the-horror-of-ami-dolenz/) - WITCHBOARD 2: THE DEVIL'S DOORWAY (1993) It started out innocently enough. Having recently enjoyed the sequel to NIGHT OF THE DEMONS, I thought it would makes sense to revisit the follow up to another classic KEVIN TENNEY flick, WITCHBOARD 2. I wasn't a big fan when I caught it eons ago when it
- [Five Favorite Things:: Night of the Demons 2 (1994) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-night-of-the-demons-2-1994-by-unk/) - 1: Perfect for Halloween. The original NIGHT OF THE DEMONS is a well-acknowledged perennial Halloween-set horror favorite but somehow its nearly equal sequel gets somewhat shafted. NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2 kindly treats viewers to plenty of spooky season eye candy including but not limited to a plethora of costumes and decorations at an All
- [Kindertrauma Merchandise!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-merchandise/) - Hey! Check out that shop-link up in the upper right corner of this here page! Now you can own tons of official Kindertrauma merchandise! Are you frequently accused of being unfashionable? Maybe you need a Kindertrauma T-shirt! Does your coffee taste gross? Maybe you need to drink it out of a Kindertrauma coffee mug! Is
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- [Name That Trauma Solved:: Bill S. on Operation X-70](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-solved-bill-s-on-operation-x-70/) - Hey Kindertrauma!Many years ago, around 2016, I emailed you (HERE) about a film I only remembered the vaguest details about, which I saw at the tender age of four (or possibly five, but no later than that), in the early 1970s. The details I thought I knew became clouded, so it made it near impossible
- [Name That Trauma:: Mike from Minnesota on a Man in a Clown Mask](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-mike-from-minnesota-on-a-man-in-a-clown-mask/) - Hey folks, Michael from Minnesota here again. First, a million thanks for your wonderful website, it's become a genuine addiction! Second, thanks for the speedy help in solving my first submission ("The Ghost in the Shed"); I was half convinced that I'd dreamed the whole thing. With that in mind, I'd like to make TWO
- [Becky (2020)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/becky-2020/) - Death. Death really sucks and I'm not the best when it comes to dealing with it. Sure, I'm an old pro when it comes to the sadness, depression and general hopelessness involved; it's the unfathomable anger that arises that I find unwieldy. A little over a month ago, we lost our beloved cat daughter Rory
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-167/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Mike B. on a Supernatural Neighbor](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-mike-b-on-a-supernatural-neighbor/) - I remember something from when I was a kid that I wish I could identify. I seem to vaguely (and perhaps incorrectly) recall seeing something on TV where a couple lived next door to an eccentric/reclusive rich guy, who they may or may not know/suspect to be not-quite-human and/or in possession of some kind of
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-166/)
- [Five Favorite Things:: Humanoids From The Deep (1980) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-humanoids-from-the-deep-1980-by-unk/) - 1: Pure Nostalgia I often notice people speaking about nostalgia like it's a bad thing and I just don't agree with that at all. Nostalgia is a wonderful harmless drug and I enjoy partaking as frequently as needed. My father took my brothers and I when we were young to see HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP.
- [Name That Trauma:: Rob M. on a VHS Trap](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-rob-m-on-a-vhs-trap/) - Hey Unk, I hope you're doing well. I have another one that I can't seem to track down. It's from the Netflix early years... before they had their own content. It was one of those "You liked Cleopatra's Second Husband"... you might like. It's about a man and wife living in an apartment. Maybe Australia
- [Name That Trauma:: Matt S. on a Marked Witch Doll](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-matt-s-on-a-marked-witch-doll/) - OK Obi Wan, i think you might be my last hope.... I have searched the internet for years. I cannot find or ID this film. Not sure if it was made for TV or not. Here's all I can tell you... it was a film shown on tv (may just have been local to the
- [Name That Trauma:: Michael From Minnesota on a Haunted House Book](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-michael-from-minnesota-on-a-haunted-house-book/) - Hi guys, Michael from Minnesota here. Love the site and hoping you and your readers can help with a memory that's haunted me for decades. In grade school in the mid-80s, I remember watching a Reading Rainbow-type video that highlighted different children's books. The one that stuck with me was a book about a family
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- [Five Favorite Things:: Killer Party (1986) By Matty F.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-killer-party-1986-by-matty-f/) - Hello terrific and magnificent Kindertrauma readers! Killer Party is one of those underrated, bizarre movie finds that doesn't seem to get much credit or love from scary movie fans. As of right now, it only has a 5.1 on IMDb and rarely gets mentioned on horror websites, but that needs to change right now and
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- [Five Favorite Things:: The Sender (1982) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-the-sender-1982-by-unk/) - Everyone should know how great THE SENDER is by now and yet somehow they don't. All these years later and I still rarely see it mentioned. Obviously it's my duty to sing its praises yet again and so here we go... 1: The Tone THE SENDER is one somber piece of work and it's magnificently
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- [Five Favorite Things:: The Fog (1980) By Vince Liaguno of Slasher Speak](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-the-fog-1980-by-vince-liaguno-of-slasher-speak/) - On my last visit to the hallowed halls of Kindertrauma, I caused somewhat of a stir with my admission that Curtains—and not the more widely-regarded and revered Halloween or Friday the 13th or any number of other better crafted films from the subgenre's golden age—was my favorite slasher film. It was quite the scandal—pearls were
- [Five Favorite Things:: Ghost Story (1981) By Christine Hadden](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-ghost-story-1981-by-christine-hadden/) - Ghost Story remains a film I champion year after year, decades on. I remember being so affected by it the first time I saw it, for a multitude of reasons. Full disclosure: the source material it is adapted from is my favorite book and has been since I was a young teen. Peter Straub wrote
- [Five Non-Horror Movies For Horror Fans:: By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans-by-ghastly1/) - I don't know about anyone else, but I've been feeling extremely existentially depressed, hopeless and misanthropic lately-even more so than usual- as civilization collapses in real time all around us, but such is the nature of things- that's entropy for ya! That is something they tend not to show in all those futuristic "dystopian, post-Apocalyptic"
- [Name That Trauma:: Grayson K. on a Backwards Talking Boy](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-grayson-k-on-a-backwards-talking-boy/) - I remember, on at least one occasion as a kid, seeing parts of a movie on TV which totally freaked me out. I mainly remember seeing a boy walking around on the roof of a house while talking backwards; kind of like the weird Twin Peaks effect where they rewind the voices. There were police
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- [Five Favorite Things:: Bad Dreams (1988) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-bad-dreams-1988-by-unk/) - BAD DREAMS gets a lot of flack for resembling a certain other eighties horror franchise but it offers many unique charms of its own. Cynthia (Jennifer Rubin) survived a group cult suicide as a child (and a thirteen-year coma) only to wake and find the deceased cult leader (Richard Lynch) still has her number and
- [Three Non-Horror Movies For Horror Fans:: By Matty F.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/three-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans-by-matty-f/) - Hello wonderful people of Kindertrauma! I have some recommendations for awesome movies for you to check out. Narrowing down the list to three was a challenge. I didn't want to pick horror-adjacent movies I feel like most people have seen already (classics like Clue or Gremlins), and there's so many great underrated flicks out there
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- [Bad Dreams](https://www.kindertrauma.com/bad-dreams/) - I don't know how it happened but somewhere along the line during these past two decades I fell in love with the movie BAD DREAMS. When I originally saw it, I remember being pretty into it but being distracted by its similarities to NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: THE DREAM WARRIORS and being
- [Five Favorite Things:: The Attic (1980) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-the-attic-1980-by-unk/) - I wrote about THE ATTIC a bunch of years ago HERE but I can never get enough of this movie so I thought it deserved a Five Favorite Things flavored tribute... The Acting Hey! Two of my favorite actors in one movie! Although I doubt Carrie Snodgress and Ray Milland would identify THE ATTIC as
- [The Attic (1980)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-attic-1980/) - If you want to meet two of my favorite characters in the world of horror then you must watch producer/writer GEORGE (GAMES, RUBY) EDWARDS' lone directorial effort THE ATTIC. I can't get enough of meek, noodle-legged ticking-time bomb Louise Elmore (Oscar-nominated CARRIE SNODGRESS in one of her best roles) and her snidely, cantankerous
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- [Five Favorite Things:: Curtains (1983) By Vince Liaguno of Slasher Speak](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-curtains-1983-by-vince-liaguno-of-slasher-speak/) - It was June 2011. I was standing in front of a packed room in a Long Island hotel, leading a spirited panel on slasher films to celebrate the release of my then-latest anthology project Butcher Knives & Body Counts: Essays on the Formula, Frights, and Fun of the Slasher Film. Several of the book's contributors
- [Three Non-Horror Movies For Horror Fans:: By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/three-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans-by-unk/) - WARNING SIGN (1985) I came to WARNING SIGN very late in life on late-night cable. I wrongfully avoided it at the video store because its bland VHS cover art gave me the impression that it was a stuffy political thriller. It's actually much more like RESIDENT EVIL (2002) meets THE CRAZIES (1973/2010). Extremely likable yet
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- [Five Favorite Things:: Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973) By Bill Van Ryn](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-malatestas-carnival-of-blood-1973-by-bill-van-ryn/) - "Malatesta's Carnival of Blood" is an ultra low budget fave from the early 70s that isn't often discussed. Receiving only a very limited theatrical release (the earliest I could document is 1974), it vanished until its director, Christopher Speeth, resurrected it for a DVD release in 2003, and its later inclusion on the "American Horror
- [Five Favorite Things:: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) By Doc of Camera Viscera](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-halloween-4-the-return-of-michael-myers-1988-by-doc-of-camera-viscera/) - Nothing gets me in the mood for the spooky season like popping in my VHS of Halloween 4 and hearing the VCR hum to life. Even just typing that made me want to light some pumpkin spice candles and crawl under a blanket on the couch. Now, there is no doubt that the original Halloween
- [Five Favorite Things:: My Bloody Valentine (1981) By Matty F.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-my-bloody-valentine-1981-by-matty-f/) - Hello wonderful, awesome people of Kindertrauma! I'm Matt. Like many people here, I grew up on scary movie video rentals, along with USA's Up All Night and Saturday Nightmares, and have a special place in my heart for those films to this day. In the hopes that my other 728 favorite horror films will forgive
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-159/) - There are ten differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). Can you find them all?
- [Five Favorite Things:: Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) By Chris Moore](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-alice-sweet-alice-1976-by-chris-moore/) - For those unfamiliar, Alice, Sweet Alice is the story of a young girl named Alice (Paula Sheppard) who everyone thinks killed her little sister, Karen (a very young Brooke Shields), at her first communion because she was jealous of her getting more attention than her. As the story unfolds and becomes even more twisted and
- [Five Favorite Things:: The Legacy (1978) By Kathryngrace](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-the-legacy-1978-by-kathryngrace/) - The Legacy (1978) has been one of my favorite films since I first saw it almost 20 years ago. It's of a particular era and style that I really like. The Legacy is a combination satanic thriller and creepy old house film of the same vein as The Sentinel (1977) and Superstition (1982), two other
- [Five Favorite Things:: Psycho II (1983) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-psycho-ii-1983-by-unk/) - 1: Norman & Mary's Relationship Anthony Perkins and Meg Tilly apparently did not get along with each other on the set of PSYCHO II but something really clicks with them on screen and both are impeccable in their roles. Norman Bates and Mary Loomis share a generally platonic, almost familial bond, meshing together as two
- [Five Favorite Things:: Death Wish Club (1984) By Michael Ferrari of Cinema Du Meep](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-death-wish-club-1984-by-michael-ferrari-of-cinema-du-meep/) - Note: Michael can also be found at The Retro Movie Love Podcast & The Last American Video Store Podcast DEATH WISH CLUB (1984) AKA: THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE AKA: GRETTA AKA: CARNIVAL OF FOOLS DEATH WISH CLUB has many titles, but I've always gone by the title I discovered it as a kid with
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- [Three Non-Horror Movies For Horror Fans:: By Kevin M](https://www.kindertrauma.com/three-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans-by-kevin-m/) - The Double (2013) F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that "in the real dark night of the soul it is always 3 o'clock in the morning, day after day." Likewise, THE DOUBLE takes place in a world that's one long graveyard shift. You never see daylight, it's always dark and gloomy. This adds to the hero's heightened
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- [Five Favorite Things:: Night of the Creeps (1986) By Dylan Donnie-Duke](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-night-of-the-creeps-1986-by-dylan-donnie-duke/) - My two favorite genre films are Fright Night (85) and Night of the Creeps (86). Both are similar in their Those-Who-Came-Before homages, but differ greatly in tone; however, both remain in a perpetual tie for first place in my head. Mickster did a great Five Favs on Fright Night, so I am going to give
- [Five Favorite Things:: The Funhouse (1981) By SmallDarkCloud](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-the-funhouse-1981-by-smalldarkcloud/) - 1: The Opening Credits The Funhouse opens with the Universal Pictures logo, followed by the opening credits. Accompanied by John Beal's sinister title theme, the credits match the names of the major cast and crew members with animated puppets (we won't see these figures again until well into the film, as they reside within the
- [In Memoriam:: John Saxon](https://www.kindertrauma.com/in-memoriam-john-saxon/)
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- [Three Non-Horror Movies For Horror Fans:: By Robstercraws](https://www.kindertrauma.com/three-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans-by-robstercraws/) - Scalpel (1977) Directed by John Grissmer ("Blood Rage"), this movie may not be horror, but there are enough twisted and horrible things going on here to please most horror fans. A psychotic plastic surgeon helps a go-go dancer who had her face bashed in by giving her a brand new face....the face of his young
- [The Innocents (1961)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-innocents-1961/) - One of the most powerful aspects of HENRY JAMES's novella THE TURN OF THE SCREW is its elusive, hard to pin down nature. The story itself behaves in a ghostly manor, flittering and floating in and out of focus while cornering the reader into the position of questioning the validity of all they encounter. JACK
- [Five Favorite Things:: Don't Go To Sleep (1982) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-dont-go-to-sleep-1982-by-unk/) - DGTS is a 1982 telefilm about a girl named Mary (Robin Ignico of the same year's ANNIE) who is seemingly persuaded by the ghost of her dead sister Jennifer (Kristin Cumming) to murder the rest of their family. This "is it a ghost or are you insane?" flick is drowning in eighties-era eccentricities and is
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- [Three Non-Horror Movies For Horror Fans:: By bdwilcox](https://www.kindertrauma.com/three-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans-by-bdwilcox/) - OK, I'm going to totally cheat here because I'm about to give my three non-horror movies for horror fans as well as three runners-up. I will divide them into the categories of science fiction, comedy and fantasy. Science Fiction: Because horror so closely rides a parallel rail next to science fiction, I'll start with that
- [Five Favorite Things:: April Fool's Day (1986) By Luki8701](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-april-fools-day-1986-by-luki8701/) - 1: The Music Charles Bernstein knocked it out of the park. From the main theme, that could be best described as "playfully sinister", to the catchy end credits song "Too Bad You're Crazy", the soundtrack perfectly compliments the tone of the movie. 2: The Tone The movie has a lot of lighthearted fun with the
- [Five Favorite Things:: Lovely Molly (2011) By Robstercraws](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-lovely-molly-2011-by-robstercraws/) - Eduardo Sanchez is best known as the writer/director of the late 90's phenomenon The Blair Witch Project but, for my money, it's his film Lovely Molly that is his masterpiece...and one of the best horror movies of the last decade. For whatever reason however, this film was unheralded upon its release, remains criminally underseen by
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- [Five Favorite Things:: One Dark Night (1982) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-one-dark-night-1982-by-unk/) - 1: The Setting & Premise A trio of eighties era mean girls who call themselves "the sisters" convince Julie (Meg Tilly) to spend the night in a mausoleum as part of a group initiation, and plans to scare her become superfluous when an entombed psychic vampire utilizes telekinetic mojo to animate the corpses within. Who
- [Five Favorite Things:: Fright Night (1985) By Mickster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-fright-night-1985-by-mickster/) - 1:The high school drama (first love and best pals) At the beginning of the film, we learn that Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) is tired of his girlfriend (Amanda Bearse) putting off his advances. He wants to go "all the way" until he spies a couple of men carrying a coffin into the basement next door.
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- [Three Non-Horror Movies For Horror Fans:: By Eve Tushnet](https://www.kindertrauma.com/three-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans-by-eve-tushnet/) - 1: THE SISTERHOOD OF NIGHT (2014) This film looks like it's gonna be a teen horror, maybe about witches??, and it is indeed about a secret club of high-school girls who meet in the woods to perform mysterious rituals. But this update of "The Crucible" uses wiggy costumes and snappy dialogue, not spells and special
- [Three Non-Horror Movies For Horror Fans:: By Ghastly1](https://www.kindertrauma.com/three-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans-by-ghastly1/) - Titus (1999), is a film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Grand Guignolesque Titus Andronicus. Often called "the least of" Shakespeare's plays, due to certain people's distaste for the theatrical presentation of the violence of life and what it says about the nature of us anthropoids. Rape, revenge, mutilation, murder, cannibalism, despair as well as poetry abound
- [Five Favorite Things:: Full Metal Jacket (1987) By Bdwilcox](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-full-metal-jacket-1987-by-bdwilcox/) - First, let me preface this by assuring the reader that Full Metal Jacket (which I'll call FMJ from here on out) is one of the greatest horror films of all time. Many people would claim that FMJ is not a horror film but a war film and they would be wrong. FMJ is one of
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- [Five Favorite Things:: Hell Night (1981) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-hell-night-1981-by-unk/) - 1: Theme Song/ Score HELL NIGHT crashes open with a shrill scream followed by the rallying anthem ‘Theme from HELL NIGHT' sung by Leza Miller. Leza has a chirpy, raspy voice which is perfect because you can easily imagine star LINDA BLAIR belting out the lyrics warning about a creature with "real sharp teeth and
- [Five Favorite Things:: Prince of Darkness (1987) By Chuckles](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-prince-of-darkness-1987-by-chuckles/) - 1: The Brotherhood of Sleep Prince of Darkness gets far less respect than it deserves, in my humble opinion, but even its detractors own up to the spectacular creepiness of The Brotherhood of Sleep dream sequences. Years before the found footage craze, PoD showed just how scary shaky-cam video tape footage could be. Everything about
- [In Memoriam:: Ian Holm (1931- 2020)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/in-memoriam-ian-holm-1931-2020/)
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- [Five Favorite Things: Dead and Buried (1981) By Unk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/five-favorite-things-dead-and-buried-1981-by-unk/) - 1: The Opening Scene DEAD AND BURIED has the most horrific opening scene I've ever experienced and it still haunts me to this day. It seems no matter how familiar I become with this scenario it never fails to unnerve me. It's pretty simple; a photographer on a beach bumps into a pretty girl and
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- [Day of the Triffids (1962) is a zombie movie...hear me out. By Mickster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/day-of-the-triffids-1962-is-a-zombie-movie-hear-me-out-by-mickster/) - On a whim, I decided to watch Day of the Triffids on Tubi TV (it is also on Amazon Prime). I watched parts of it about 17 years ago, so I wanted to see all of it. As I watched, I noticed that film makers must have been inspired by this movie. Specifically, directors of
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-149/) - UNK SEZ: I don't think we should post a funhouse today with everything that is going on and with our beloved city Philadelphia, the country and the entire world in pain and turmoil. I was hoping that maybe we could provide a tiny moment of distraction for those who need it but- I'm just not
- [Spot the Difference:: Dolly Dearest](https://www.kindertrauma.com/spot-the-difference-dolly-dearest/) - There are ten differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). How many can you find?
- [Masters of Horror Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/masters-of-horror-funhouse/) - UNK SEZ: Below are ten images from the anthology series MASTERS OF HORROR. Can you name the episodes and the directors behind them? Apologies in advance if anyone is not familiar with the series because that would render today's puzzle kinda impossible for you. Don't fret though, The good news is that both seasons of
- [Traumafession:: Chris Moore on The Red Shoes](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-chris-moore-on-the-red-shoes/) - It was summer and I must have been about 4 or 5 at the time. My sister and I were being watched by a babysitter named Elise whose mother was one of the teachers at our school. Like most kids, I felt like anyone older than 12 years old was impossibly mature and Elise seemed
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- [Traumafession:: Unk on Laserblast (1978)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-unk-on-laserblast-1978/) - Back in the earliest days of VHS (yep, I'm that old), my family used to rent from a joint called STAGE DOOR VIDEO in King of Prussia Mall. It was actually more like an expanded kiosk that would pull down a metal gate when it was closed. Anyway, the horror/sci-fi section seemed immense to me
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- [Name That Trauma :: FilmFather on a Frankenstein Monster HBO Special](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-filmfather-on-a-frankenstein-monster-hbo-special/) - Hey guys -- I've got a Name That Trauma just in time for Halloween... I remember watching an HBO variety special, featuring a live audience, in the late '70s or early '80s. Only two acts still stick in my head: One was a ventriloquist whose dummy was a plant name Phil O'Dendron. (Sample dialogue between
- [Traumafesssion: Dustin in Minnesota on Jack and Jill and Gas Masks](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafesssion-dustin-in-minnesota-on-jack-and-jill-and-gas-masks/) - Greetings trauma fans! In these days of COVID-19 and mask-wearing, I was reminded of a childhood trauma I read in Jack and Jill magazine when I was maybe 9 or 10 years old. For those unfamiliar, Jack and Jill was a children's literary magazine aimed at elementary school-aged children. The 1970s being what they were, some
- [The Uncanny (1977) By Mickster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-uncanny-1977-by-mickster/) - Like everyone else, I am spending more time at home watching movies (in between e-learning with my students). So over the weekend, my husband and I were looking at all the choices on Amazon Prime, and we found The Uncanny. I love a good anthology horror film, but when that anthology features Peter Cushing AND
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- [Name That Trauma:: Glenn B. on a Bad Trip TV Special](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-glenn-b-on-a-bad-trip-tv-special/) - I was born in 1961, so was a fresh, damp and impressionable target for some of the upsetting TV material of the 1960s and early 1970s. One of my more vivid memories is of a television special clearly intended to scare the audience away from ever experimenting with illegal drugs -- and from LSD in
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- [Traumafession:: Robstercraws on The Ramones' Psycho Therapy Video](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-robstercraws-on-the-ramones-psychotherapy-video/) - Hi, Unk! I've got another Traumafession for you that, like my Three Dog Nightmare, is related to music. Funny how many traumatic images come to mind that have to do with album covers, music videos, and music in general as opposed to what one would expect from scary movies and such. Back when I was
- [Closed For Repairs](https://www.kindertrauma.com/closed-for-repairs/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Paul K. on a Tortured Family and a Television Trap](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-paul-k-on-a-tortured-family-and-a-television-trap/) - This happened when I was living in northern Minnesota during the '70s to the early '80s. We had 4 tv stations to choose from. I turned the channel to PBS and watched something strange. A dad, mom, boy and girl sat like crash-test dummies unmoving at a table. The room they sat in (maybe a
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- [In Memoriam:: Stuart Gordon 1947-2020](https://www.kindertrauma.com/in-memoriam-stuart-gordon-1947-2020/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Amanda Z. on a Madman's Torture Tunnel](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-amanda-z-on-a-madmans-torture-tunnel/) - Hey there and thank you for reading! This has been driving me mad for thirty years. I caught a brief moment in a movie when I was very young, and all I can remember about it is that there was a madman who was murdering people in various ridiculously complicated ways (sort of like The
- [Traumafession:: G.G.G. on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-g-g-g-on-the-texas-chainsaw-massacre/) - Like a lot of city kids, I would get shipped out to my grandparents' house in the suburbs for a week or two each summer, supposedly to give me an appreciation of grass, trees and fresh air. The candy was terrible, the plastic covers on the furniture annoyingly sticky in the heat, and the rules
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- [Traumafession:: Rob M. on a Classic PSA](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-rob-m-on-a-classic-psa/) - Probably my greatest trauma happened every day just before the ten o'clock news. I grew up in the late 70's/80's in the NYC suburbs. During this time, there was a lot of real life horror (Stranger Danger, Toxic Tylenol, Satanic Panic, Son of Sam, child abductions, AIDS, Drugs, Cold War etc). But I digress... imagine
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- [The Invisible Man (2020)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-invisible-man-2020/) - Remember when I was telling you a while back that I brought my friend who was going through a salty divorce to see BLACK CHRISTMAS (2019) hoping she'd find it cathartic but instead she found it silly and was left questioning my taste in cinema? Well, I've redeemed myself by taking the same troubled gal-pal
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- [Name That Trauma:: Ruben V. on a Tree Contraption Death](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-ruben-v-on-a-tree-contraption-death/) - Hey there, I stumbled upon your website the other day after seeing a Facebook post. I've been enjoying the content, and even found a few movies I may check out. I noticed that you, as well as your fans have a deep knowledge of horror flicks and I was wondering if you could possibly pin
- [Name That Trauma:: Unk on a Pig-Faced Litterbug](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-unk-on-a-pig-faced-litterbug/) - I wasn't exactly a child when I saw this commercial but I'm going to write about it anyway. I'm hoping that maybe there's someone out there who has seen it as well and needs confirmation that they didn't imagine it. From what I recall this environmental PSA played frequently because that is exactly how it
- [Traumafession:: Richie C. on a Curse of Frankenstein Mask](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-richie-c-on-a-curse-of-frankenstein-mask/) - Hi there, My big bro takes me to see Curse of Frankenstein with the immortal Christopher Lee in 57, maybe--I'm 6---and as a give-away they had masks of the monster with eye holes and an elastic band--I remember my brother wearing it after the movie and scaring the bajesus out of me, as up to
- [KinderTrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-138/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Ashley M. on a Family Staircase Stabbing](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-ashley-m-on-a-family-staircase-stabbing/) - Hi!Hoping you can help! Some idiot managed to take me to a scary movie when I was about 5 years old. I've thought of it many times and I can't figure out what it was. It was in a movie theater in probably 1987 or 1988, Kansas City. All I know is that generally, it was about
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-137/)
- [Traumafession:: Dan C. on a Junkie Ballarina PSA](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-dan-c-on-a-junkie-ballarina-psa/) - As long as I can remember, I've been fascinated and often terrified by the PSA as a format. An early memory of mine involves me laying in bed, holding aloft my Cookie Monster stuffed animal and miming what it would look like if Cookie was the talking head in a PSA; not saying any words,
- [Name That Trauma:: Drew P. on a Evil Grandma Robot](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-drew-p-on-a-evil-grandma-robot/) - Aloha!I'm a longtime fan of Kindertrauma and I'm wondering if you can help me identify a particularly paranoid kids cartoon from a long time ago... It would have been screened during a Saturday morning cartoon block on ABC or CBS sometime in the mid-nineties (probably no later than '96), but the animation looked noticeably different
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-136/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-135/)
- [Gretel and Hansel (2020)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/gretel-and-hansel-2020/) - Any time ALICE KRIGE appears in a horror movie it is an occasion for rejoicing. She's one of the greatest character actresses who ever lived plus she's got a near LON CHANEY-esque talent for meshing with monstrous roles. The KRIGE was all kinds of mesmerizing in GHOST STORY (‘81), seriously sinister in SLEEPWALKERS (‘92), ten
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-134/) - Let's celebrate SPOOKIES (1986) finally being available on Blu-ray (Thanks Vinegar Syndrome!) with this perplexing puzzle! There are ten differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). Can you spot them all?
- [Edge of the Axe (1988)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/edge-of-the-axe-1988/) - If my faithful TV was a fancy nightclub and I was its bouncer, I swear I'd never card an eighties slasher movie. I'd let them ALL in with a wink and a nod even if they were visibly drunk and not wearing shoes. EDGE OF THE AXE (1988) is just such a hard to reject
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-133/)
- [The Prodigy (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-prodigy-2019/) - Dear THE PRODIGY, this hurts me more than it hurts you. I hate writing negative reviews. I feel guilty afterward. Creating anything is admirable and dismissing someone's hard work is not cool. On the other hand, I'd hate for people to think I'm a chump who falls for anything. Plus, maybe disliking some movies helps
- [Name That Trauma:: Mystery32 on Gem Embedded Hands](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-mystery32-on-gem-embedded-hands/) - Hi there, I was telling my wife about Kindertrauma, and how I had a trauma resolved here years ago, and it turns out that she has one! She remembers that there was a large group of people in tan/brown robes standing near a lagoon in the desert, surrounded by desert rock formations. Each person had a
- [Traumafession:: Dr Future on The Andy Griffith Show Episode "Opie the Birdman"](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-dr-future-on-the-andy-griffith-show-episode-opie-the-birdman/) - I'll never forget, nor those of my generation, how Barney taught Opie how to use a weapon of violence, in the innocence of 'target practice." Opie took his new slingshot around outside, shooting at things, until he saw something move in the trees, as he quickly and instinctively aimed and shot, quickly seeing a bird
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-132/)
- [Underwater (2020)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/underwater-2020/) - Once upon a time when I was a little kid living in sunny California, an older neighbor dude kindly offered to teach my two older brothers and me how to use a scuba tank in our pool! Obviously it was the most exciting proposition human ears had ever heard. Firstly though, the neighbor insisted on
- [Interview:: Tucker Johnston Director of Blood Salvage!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/interview-tucker-johnston-director-of-blood-salvage/) - If you follow Kindertrauma with any regularity you're sure to know (thanks to posts like THIS) that we're big fans of director/writer Tucker Johnston's excellent yet elusive BLOOD SALVAGE. There's not a lot of information on BLOOD SALVAGE online so it was a great honor and privilege to talk to Tucker Johnston himself about his
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-131/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Kevin M. on a Cyclops Cat Children's Book](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-kevin-m-on-a-cyclops-cat-childrens-book/) - I read a children's picture book that must have been published sometime in the mid to late '70s. The book was about the size of a magazine, it had color illustrations and was about a young cat that went to sea. The cat stood upright and wore blue pants and a white shirt, along with
- [Name That Trauma:: Luke C. on a Circular Saw Safety Short](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-luke-c-on-a-circular-saw-safety-short/) - There's this child safety video that we were shown multiple times in grade school in the 80's that terrified me as a small child. A kid making popcorn outside with a raggedy extension cord that catches his house on fire, someone sawing off their finger with a circular saw, stranger danger, etc.
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-130/)
- [Unk's Favorite Horror Films of the Last Decade](https://www.kindertrauma.com/unks-favorite-horror-films-of-the-last-decade/)
- [Merry Christmas!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/merry-christmas-3/)
- [Mickster's Annual Christmas Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/micksters-annual-christmas-funhouse/)
- [Black Christmas (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/black-christmas-2019/) - I was excited when I heard Blumhouse was going to remake BLACK CHRISTMAS considering the respectful way they were able to help the HALLOWEEN franchise up on its feet and send it in a well-received and fruitful direction. Then the trailer popped up online and my faith buckled a bit because it looked sorta drab
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-129/)
- [Trauma-Scene:: Amityville 3-D (1983)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/trauma-scene-amityville-3-d-1983/) - Hear me out. I have to get this off my chest and I swear I'm not (totally) crazy. I'm not a fan of a silent house. If I'm not listening to music, I like to have a TV running in the background to keep my negative thoughts at bay. More often than not, I have
- [Traumafession:: Rob S. on a Three Dog Night-mare](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-rob-s-on-a-three-dog-night-mare/) - Hi, guys! This is truly my favorite site. Keep it going forever, please! I have a Traumafession for you that I'd be surprised if no one else my age could relate to. When I was growing up in the 70's, my parents had an extensive album collection that I would browse through from time to
- [Knives Out (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/knives-out-2019/) - Murder mysteries are the kissing cousins of horror flicks. KNIVES OUT is particularly horror adjacent thanks to the presence of eternal horror queen JAMIE LEE CURTIS and the always game for terror dipping TONI COLETTE. If that's not enough to pique your interest, this baby delivers a majestic mansion, autumnal atmosphere, a couple of corpses
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-128/)
- [Traumafession:: Dustin in Minnesota on Southern Gothic Country Music](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-dustin-in-minnesota-on-southern-gothic-country-music/) - Hey there Trauma fans! I have a traumafession from my youth involving country music. I grew up in the '70s and '80s, and my dad played in numerous local bands, both rock and country music. Because of this, my parents had a massive collection of vinyl. Some of it freaked me out, particularly three songs
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-127/) - There are 10 differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). Can you find them all?
- [Name That Trauma:: Xminus on an Avalanche and a Talking Rock](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-xminus-on-an-avalanche-and-a-talking-rock/) - I need your help as winter approaches. I have a movie stuck in my head and I can not find the name of it. All I have to go on is it was on TV, not sure when or what channel, and it might be a made for tv movie, I am not sure. All
- [In Memoriam:: Michael J. Pollard 5/30/39 - 11/20/19](https://www.kindertrauma.com/in-memoriam-michael-j-pollard-5-30-39-11-20-19/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-126/)
- [Witchcraft (1964)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/witchcraft-1964/) - I always have time for a movie concerning witches and if it's casting its spell in gorgeous black and white that's even better in my book. Directed by Don Sharp (who helmed the equally atmospheric KISS OF THE VAMPIRE a year earlier), WITCHCRAFT is a surprisingly dark and moody tale with a superbly gloomy ending.
- [Traumafession:: bdwilcox on Flash Gordon](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-bdwilcox-on-flash-gordon/) - It's been decades since I first saw Flash Gordon in the movie theater as a kid and to this day I am loathe to reach my arm into someplace I haven't thoroughly inspected. I still go through this circus every day when I need to check my mailbox. Each time I reach my arm into
- [Name That Trauma:: B. on Creepy Alien Plants](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-b-on-creepy-alien-plants/) - About 15 years ago there was a program on PBS I believe, maybe during their beg-a-thon, it seemed to be a documentary about a play(?) because there were clips of the thing and clips of people talking. Anyway, the particular scene in question was of a small child, a boy I believe, on an alien
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-125/)
- [Doctor Sleep (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/doctor-sleep-2019/) - Mike Flanagan is an incredibly talented filmmaker with singular talents and a sincere love of the genre that consistently flows through his work. He also doesn't mind driving me insane by wearing his heart on his sleeve, underlining things that don't require it and hitting sour notes at the worst possible time. Is it just
- [Name That Trauma:: Greg T. on Mellow Jazz and Black-Eyed Children](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-greg-t-on-mellow-jazz-and-black-eyed-children/) - OK, I have two super obscure ones and I am hoping someone somewhere can find clips. I have a couple more in the chamber but I don't want to bury you with these all at once. 1) I have a vague recollection of an animation on an early 70s Sesame Street that was a cut-out
- [Name That Trauma:: Caffeinated Joe on a Doll Mask Short](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-caffeinated-joe-on-a-doll-mask-short/) - My brother-in-law needs help: "I went to see some kinetic sculpture today and it reminded me of a creepy film short I've seen before but can't find it googling every different keyword I can think of. I think the filmmaker's name began with the letter K. It was in black and white and was creepy
- [Traumafession:: Jeff C. on The Spider God](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-jeff-c-on-the-spider-god/) - When I was in Elementary School on Vancouver Island, BC Canada, I borrowed this book from the school library. The book was published in 1974 and as I was born in 1969 I would have probably been 7 to 9 years old when I read it. The illustrations inside were scratchy and creepy as hell!
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-124/) - How many of these do you know?
- [Traumafession:: Carmen P. on Ghosts of the Old West](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-carmen-p-on-ghosts-of-the-old-west/) - I read a book as a child about ghost stories from the old West. I have bought a copy of the same book I remember from my school library, but there is ONE PHOTO in it that I SWEAR has been changed in the updated edition. I am wondering if anyone can confirm this. The book
- [So Underrated:: Blood Salvage (1990)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/so-underrated-blood-salvage-1990/) - As is my sworn duty, I'm here once again to sing the praises of 1990's BLOOD SALVAGE. Thanks to annoying ownership issues, writer/director TUCKER JOHNSTON's solidly offbeat dumpster dive into madcap depravity has still not been released on DVD and Blu-ray and that's a shame for lovers of horror. It should at least deserve the
- [Traumafession:: Derek B. on Kid Commercial Music](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-derek-b-on-kid-commercial-music/) - Thank you for all your hard work. I have a kindertraumatic question. It's not about movies or tv shows; it's about many, many commercials. In the seventies, commercials for local kid-oriented businesses would come on Southern Californian television. Arcades, circuses, restaurants. Three songs would be used, over and over. These songs were instrumental only and
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-123/)
- [Traumafession:: Unk on Halloween (1978)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-unk-on-halloween-1978/) - Today is Halloween! Happy Halloween! To mark the occasion I thought that I'd travel back in time and share with you all my first glimmer of Michael Myers, which seriously scared the bejesus out of little me. These days the image of Michael Myers and his ghostly pale mask is so ubiquitous it's hard to
- [Sunday Streaming:: Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-dark-night-of-the-scarecrow-1981/) - I've got many a complaint concerning the lack of progress in the world but I have to tip my hat and appreciate that DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW is so readily available to view these days (It's free on TubiTV HERE). This is one of those flicks that made a profound impact on my youth
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-122/)
- [Trauma Scene:: Burnt Offerings (1976)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/trauma-scene-burnt-offerings-1976/) - I've got a new odd obsession. I was able to purchase one of those small TV sets with a VCR built inside from my local thrift store ($3!) and attached a converter to it so that it could pick up broadcast television. Not only does it get COMET TV, it gets it on two different
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-121/)
- [Kinder-Gallery:: Eric Messina](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kinder-gallery-eric-messina/) - It turns out that our old pal Eric Messina (of Theater of Guts) is a truly gifted artist! Just take a look at the gallery below to view his stunning horror-inspired work! Incredibly, he'll draw commissions for a mere $40 so you'll probably want to look him up on Instagram under his profile name Erok
- [Trauma Scene:: Alligator (1980)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/trauma-scene-alligator-1980/) - I was watching ALLIGATOR the other night in honor of the late great Robert Forster when a particular scene popped out at me as exceptionally kindertraumatic. It's kinda crazy it never struck me as such before and I wondered why I hadn't noticed it the last time I watched ALLIGATOR (which strangely enough was about
- [Sunday Streaming:: Hammer House of Horror Marathon](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-hammer-house-of-horror-marathon/) - Once upon a time, your very own Unk had a "Name That Trauma" of his own. I had fallen asleep watching an episode of SATURDAY NIGHT DEAD hosted by Philly legend STELLA and woke up to a horrifying scenario on my TV. I caught only the very last moments of the program and they included
- [In Memoriam:: Robert Forster 7/13/41 - 10/11/19 R.I.P.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/in-memoriam-robert-forster-7-13-41-10-11-19-r-i-p/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-120/) - There are ten differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). Can you find them all?
- [As Above, So Below (2014)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/as-above-so-below-2014/) - As it turns out, it appears that I am a big fan of AS ABOVE, SO BELOW. I'm a little startled by this newfound awareness but maybe I shouldn't be so surprised; it was directed by JOHN ERICK DOWDLE the same guy who delivered above-average horror fare like DEVIL and QUARANTINE. It's just that I
- [Sunday Streaming:: Ticks (1993)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-ticks-1993/) - Hey! It has come to my attention that TICKS (1993) is available to stream for FREE on TubiTV and Vudu and even Amazon Prime. I don't think I've ever properly reviewed this gooey gem but I know for sure it was mentioned in my salute to AMI DOLENZ way back HERE. In retrospect, several fine
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Hosted By Matt Sunshine!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-hosted-by-matt-sunshine-2/)
- [Blu-ray Review:: The Prey (1984)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/blu-ray-review-the-prey-1984/) - Woodsy slasher flick THE PREY is finally on Blu-ray! I once caught this slippery fish on YouTube and reviewed it way back HERE. The gist of my take was that THE PREY is unquestionably lackadaisical in spots (it's famous for an over-reliance on nature footage) but kind of charming and adorable anyway and I'd certainly
- [Happy Birthday, Kindertrauma!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-birthday-kindertrauma-2/) - We're twelve (!) years old today! Thanks to all who visit us!
- [Sunday Streaming:: Creature (1985)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-creature-1985/) - Hey! My favorite hokey ALIEN rip-off CREATURE (earlier tribute HERE) is hanging out on TubiTV (apologies to all our faithful readers who don't get TubiTV in their area) and can be seen for free HERE! It looks super spectacular all widescreen and digitally re-mastered and it's even wearing its original title THE TITAN FIND. How
- [Traumafession:: Dave D. on a Bravestarr Drug Death](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-dave-d-on-a-bravestarr-drug-death/) - I was born in 1977 which means the heyday of my youth was spent watching cartoons like Transformers, G.I. Joe, and He-Man. But there was another cartoon, one oft overlooked by children of my era: Bravestarr. Bravestarr was produced by Filmation; the same company responsible for He-Man, She-Ra, Shazam, and The Ghostbusters (the one with
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-119/)
- [The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-strangers-prey-at-night-2018/) - I was at the library the other day and I saw they had The Strangers: Prey at Night and good lord, I borrowed it again! What is going on with me? Why do I like this movie? It makes little sense because I'm not much of a fan of the first movie, I'm not impressed
- [In Memoriam:: Sid Haig 7/14/1939 - 9/21/2019 R.I.P.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/in-memoriam-sid-haig-7-14-1939-9-21-2019-r-i-p/)
- [Sunday Streaming:: Celebrity Ghost Stories](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-celebrity-ghost-stories/) - Everybody knows by now that I love TubiTV but the news of the day is that TubiTV apparently loves me back because they are now offering three full seasons of the ever-elusive Celebrity Ghost Stories! It is also possible that I've been binge-watching said program all weekend and it has permanently altered my perception of
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-118/)
- [Traumafession:: Bigwig on an Egg Cellar Bottle Opener](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-bigwig-on-an-egg-cellar-bottle-opener/) - Hey Guys, A long time ago as a kid we used to go weekly to my grandparent's farm on the outskirts of Amish country. There wasn't much to do inside; the majority of the afternoon adventures came from outside work or wandering outdoors or in the barns, chicken coops, sheds or fields along with the
- [We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-2018/) - Uh-oh, looks like somebody finally made a film adaptation of one of my all-time favorite books, Shirley Jackson's WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE. I'm going to give all those involved a kudos for bravery right out of the gate because it couldn't have been easy translating such an intimate character-driven piece to the
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-117/)
- [It: Chapter Two (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/it-chapter-two-2019/) - Since the release of the first segment of Stephen King's IT in 2017, horror fans have been pretty much spoiled with back to back better than average genre fare. The crop has been so high caliber it's hard to believe there was ever a time when weeks and weeks would go by without any worthwhile
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-116/)
- [Ready or Not (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/ready-or-not-2019/) - Believe it or not, READY OR NOT is about as satisfying as thrillers get. It's all kinds of suspenseful, hits you with tasty blasts of true horror and the pitch-black humor that weaves throughout is exactly the right effortless tone that never ventures into the too broad and annoying zone. The unremarkable trailer misled me
- [Sunday Streaming:: The Evil (1978)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-the-evil-1978/) - Who doesn't love a haunted house flick? The problem is some reach for subtlety and grab uneventful and long-winded instead. THE EVIL seems to know that it doesn't have the mastery required to go the suggestive route so it pulls out all the stops and puts on a real show. This is a haunted house
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-115/)
- [Traumafession:: Unk on Helter Skelter (1976)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-unk-on-helter-skelter-1976/) - It's such a beautiful day outside, so I think I'll stay in and watch HELTER SKELTER. Lunatic Charles Manson seems to be popping up everywhere lately thanks at least partly to Damon Herriman's recent duo performances of the cult leader in the Netflix series MINDHUNTER (great show) and Quentin Tarantino's latest flick ONCE UPON A
- [News:: Anthony Michael Hall Cast as Tommy Doyle in Next Halloween Film!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/news-anthony-michael-hall-cast-as-tommy-doyle-in-next-halloween-film/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Brother Bill on Post Apocalyptic Cockroach Soup](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-brother-bill-on-post-apocalyptic-cockroach-soup/) - Back again, having given up trying to identify a short film (maybe 2 minutes long?) I saw on television in the early 90s (possibly on Night Flight, USA Up All Night or similar type clip show). It was in color and looked like it could have been made in the 1980s(?)Â It was about a
- [Sunday Streaming:: Darkroom](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-darkroom/) - Hey! It has come to my attention (Thanks to our old pal Amanda By Night of Made For TV Mayhem fame) that the excellent short-lived horror anthology series DARKROOM is available to watch for FREE (you don't even have to sign up!)! DARKROOM is hosted by the great JAMES COBURN and it came out right
- [My Amityville Horror Playhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/my-amityville-horror-playhouse/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-114/)
- [Name That Trauma:: XMinus on a Paralyzed Organ Donor](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-xminus-on-a-paralyzed-organ-donor/) - Dear Uncle Lancifer, I need some help with finding a trauma. I can not find this short film that is stuck in my head. I only know it was part of a collection of short films or some anthology series. I am not really sure. The plot is about a guy that gets in a
- [The Bermuda Triangle (1978)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-bermuda-triangle-1978/) - If you're feeling spiritually under the weather or generally hopeless about human existence don't make the mistake of watching 1978's THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE (currently FREE on TubiTV). You may think that its sloppy ineptness, super lame dubbing and terrible acting will bring you laughter and joy (and maybe it will for a while) but eventually
- [Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-2019/) - A bunch of years ago HarperCollins got the not so bright idea to release an updated version of Alvin Schwartz's classic SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK, replacing Stephen Gammell's haunting illustrations with less disturbing imagery. To say it didn't go over too well with fans of the book is putting it lightly. In
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-113/)
- [Traumafession:: Dylan Donnie-Duke on Pink Floyd and The Wizard of Oz](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-dylan-donnie-duke-on-pink-floyd-and-the-wizard-of-oz/) - Hello Unk L, Aunt J, and assorted cats, bats, and belfries; I know that there have been more than several mentions of Wizard of Oz as a traumatizer on this site, and I figured that I would never have anything to add to the discussion. Then came the discovery of WoO with Pink Floyd's Dark
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-112/) - SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK opens today! There are ten differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). Can you find them all?Â
- [Retribution (1987)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/retribution-1987/) - I finally caught up with 1987's RETRIBUTION after years of several folks urging me to check it out (thanks to Ghastly1 and Eric's IAHTKY). Sadly, I was all set to give you guys a heads up that it was streaming for free on TubiTv but when I went back there recently to grab some screenshots,
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-111/)
- [Leprechaun Returns (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/leprechaun-returns-2019/) - I just had to rent LEPRECHAUN RETURNS from my local Redbox. The pull was irresistible. This is just who I am. I can't say no to a straight-to-video horror sequel no matter how unpromising it may look. I will watch any HOWLING, CHILDREN OF THE CORN or HELLRAISER that is thrown at me. I've also
- [Traumafession:: Unk on Demon Seed (1977)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-unk-on-demon-seed-1977/) - In my tiny head, I think I can divide the types of movie scares that hit me hardest into three major categories. The first type of scare is PHYSICAL and it covers the fear of injury, violence, body damage and mutation. The second is SPIRITUAL and includes ghosts, demons, the supernatural and the unknown. The
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- [The Child (1977)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-child-1977/) - Although it comes off as almost ramshackle at times, 1977's backyard terror-tyke/zombie fest THE CHILD has a strange, eerie magic that's hard to dismiss. A spooky campfire story atmosphere radiates from out of the gate as howling winds, gnarly silhouettes of twisted trees and stock footage of lightening (that's the same bolt that downed the
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-109/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Hosted By Mickster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-hosted-by-mickster/)
- [Midsommar](https://www.kindertrauma.com/midsommar/) - Hey, just last week I was saying that I dug the low challenge comfort horror of a certain cursed doll movie and stated I was fine getting my nerves rattled elsewhere. Well, leave it to ARI ASTER the director of the soul-curdling HEREDITARY to take me up on the offer and deliver a giant slice
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-108/) - Happy July 4th weekend! There are ten differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). Can you spot them all?
- [Annabelle Comes Home](https://www.kindertrauma.com/annabelle-comes-home/) - ANNABELLE COMES HOME is some healing, good-natured horror comfort food. It delivers in the spooky scares department and harbors a potent enough current of demonic chaos yet still plays as mellow as a seventies-era pop song. You wouldn't think a movie about a cursed doll that acts as a magnet for evil entities would be
- [Child's Play (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/childs-play-2019/) - I've got a bunch of conflicting feelings about the new reimagining of CHILD'S PLAY. I loved the beginning of the movie, hated the middle and then somehow regained my original affection for the film's gleefully bonkers ending. My most positive endorsements would be for BEAR McCREARY's absolutely phenomenal score (he's batting a thousand after wowing
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- [Name That Trauma:: Aubrey T. on a Cabin Dwelling Dummy](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-aubrey-t-on-a-cabin-dwelling-dummy/) - Hello! I've been trying to figure out this movie I saw maybe in college or high school about a group of teens who go to a cabin the woods. I don't remember much about it but there is an evil ventriloquist dummy/puppet, made of wood. I seem to recall that Julian Sands owned the dummy/puppet,
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-106/)
- [Ma (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/ma-2019/) - The latest Blumhouse offering MA is a bit of an emotional pinball machine. It delivers some smart suspense, some genuine creeps and still finds time to be regularly hilarious (if you have a dark sense of humor) and strangely sad. I'm a big fan of horror character studies, revenge flicks and "person from hell" movies
- [Name That Trauma:: Art on a Terrifying Old Woman](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-art-on-a-terrifying-old-woman/) - Love the site, have been following for 12 years. I am trying to find an early to mid 70s, like a made for TV production. I only remember one scene, and it was terrifying as a 5 year old to watch, and my school classmates agreed. I think I saw it later in the early
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- [Name That Trauma:: Giacomo on a Force Feeding Cartoon](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-giacomo-on-a-force-feeding-cartoon/) - I was wondering if you are familiar with an educational cartoon that I saw during my gradeschool years (70s to 80s) that was about nutrition and hygiene that had an inflation scene in it. The film followed a number of characters with diet and hygiene issues and showed the pitfalls of each to the extreme.
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-104/) - There are 10 differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). Can you find them all?
- [Godzilla: King of the Monsters](https://www.kindertrauma.com/godzilla-king-of-the-monsters/) - Count me in as someone who loved GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS. I'm so glad I went to see it on the big screen so I could fully get lost inside its whirlpool of mayhem. There are images in this movie that are so beautiful as if they were religious paintings come to life, and
- [Traumafession:: Amanda M. on Perfect Murder, Perfect Town](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-amanda-m-on-perfect-murder-perfect-town/) - Hi! It's me again. I'm currently watching "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town". It's a movie about the murder of Jonbenet Ramsey. I wanted to watch it again...well to be truthful, I wanted to watch the whole movie for the first time. The first time I attempted to watch it was in 2008. The scene where John
- [Traumafession:: Bigwig on Gumby and The Small Planets](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-bigwig-on-gumby-and-the-small-planets/) - I recently introduced this site to my parents. Ma Bigwig found it particularly fascinating, and both enjoyed and remembered a great many of the subjects in my posts over the past decade. She brought up one that I hadn't thought about for dozens of years, that I only vaguely remembered since I was no
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-103/)
- [Scared Stiff (1987)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/scared-stiff-1987/) - If you're looking for a haunting, quiet, and subtle ghost story, 1987's SCARED STIFF sure ain't it because damn, this movie is bonkers. It's tacky, garish, politically incorrect on multiple levels and somehow, against all odds, entertaining as hell. It's hard to take seriously, with it's over the top acting and scrambled script but there's
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-102/)
- [Kindertrauma Toy Chest](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-toy-chest/)
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- [Name That Trauma:: Robert G. on a Ghost Book](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-robert-g-on-a-ghost-book/) - It was an illustrated book of ghost stories. I took it out from the public library several times as a kid. I'm 32 now, but I distinctly remember two pictures from it. One was the ghost of a well-dressed man drifting across a vaulted ceiling, with bookshelves lining the walls on both sides. The other image
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-99/)
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- [Name That Trauma:: Steel Jaw on a Satanic Cult](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-steel-jaw-on-a-satanic-cult/) - Hi there once again Kindertrauma, In the past you guys helped me out finding movies of which I forgot the name. I hope you can help me out with this one too. So I saw this movie many years ago at the BBC-channel. It was a seventies horror movie, I believe it was a British
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-97/)
- [Pet Sematary (2019)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/pet-sematary-2019/) - I was walking home the other night and saw a cat in an alley that reminded me so much of my dear departed Figgy. It was so dark that I had to use the flashlight on my phone which allowed me to barely make out her form playfully rolling about on the cement in a
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-96/)
- [Larry Cohen Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/larry-cohen-funhouse/)
- [Dead & Buried (1981)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/dead-buried-1981/) - The other night I was struggling with the age-old question of what to watch when I suddenly realized I was in the exact perfect mood for Gary Sherman's 1981 shocker DEAD & BURIED. This must have been the very first R-rated movie I had ever seen because once upon a time, nobody asked about your
- [Kindertrauma funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-94/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-95/) - Check out this super groovy TERROR HOUSE (aka TERROR AT RED WOLF INN) poster! There are ten differences between the one above (A) and the one below (B). How many can you spot?
- [Terror at Red Wolf Inn  (1972)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/terror-at-red-wolf-inn-1972/) - Mill Creek has put out a new movie collection entitled NO TELL MOTEL, which offers eight horror films focusing on ill-advised overnights in dangerous locations. The first disc sports spiffy letterboxed titles like VACANCY (a decent enough thriller) IDENTITY (love that one) and ELI ROTH's HOSTEL and its first sequel (both semi-annoying and yet very
- [Figgy](https://www.kindertrauma.com/figgy/) - It is with a pulverized heart that I share the sad news that we have lost an integral member of the Kindertrauma Family. Our beloved cat Figgy has passed away. She was a proud feline who was also a cherished daughter, a loyal sister, a best friend, an empathetic caretaker, a muse, a role model,
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-93/)
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- [Name That Trauma:: Kyle S. on a Window Witch](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-kyle-s-on-a-window-witch/) - Hello! Was looking for some help on this one. I remember watching either a movie or TV show probably late 70s/early 80s and it had this scene where a witch is hovering outside bedroom windows looking in to see which kids are still awake after a certain hour. The kids that were sleeping were left
- [Name That Trauma:: Alex S. on a Creepy Turntable](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-alex-s-on-a-creepy-turntable/) - Hey there, Kindertraumautizers... A friend of mind suggested reaching out to you guys. I can't remember where I was, who I was with or how I old I was when I saw it, but I remember watching a film on television -– a black-&-white mystery, possibly "noir" -– involving a protagonist haunted by a recurring
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-91/)
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- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-89/) - All of today's images are from movies available for free on TUBI TV! I'm away for the weekend so no answers until Monday. Good Luck!
- [Spot the Difference:: Doctor Butcher M.D.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/spot-the-difference-doctor-butcher-m-d/) - There are ten differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). How many can you find?
- [Name That Trauma: Rick J. on a Sinister Snake Tattoo](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-rick-j-on-a-sinister-snake-tattoo/) - Hello group, First timer and thank you. Saw a MFTV movie between '79 and '83 in the rural South so only got the one shot at seeing it... my recollection was it was set in the 30s or 40s, sinister in nature i.e. a secret group I recall were in men's suits like gangsters. My resounding
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-86/)
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- [Name That Trauma:: A.S. on Tentacle Monster Book](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-a-s-on-tentacle-monster-book/) - Howdy! I've got another Name That Trauma query. I'm struggling to remember the title of a Young Adult horror novel, in the vein of Fear Street but not from that series, involving a tentacled monster (which may have lived beneath a high school) that was killing students. I remember only one of the kills specifically,
- [Traumafession: Brian K. on Mister Rogers and a Dead Tree](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-brian-k-on-mister-rogers-and-a-dead-tree/) - Okay, you ever have one of those childhood memories where you think 'That couldn't possibly have happened, I must have misremembered it?' But then it turns out it did happen? I recall an episode of Mr. Roger's neighborhood that must have aired in the very early 80s. The citizens of the Neighborhood of Make Believe
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-88/)
- [Traumafession:: Mike R. On a Disturbing Hunger Project Commercial](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-mike-r-on-a-disturbing-hunger-project-commercial/) - Aha! I finally found it! Picture yourself a kid in the 1980's. You are watching The Brady Bunch or an old horror or Sci-fi movie. Then, it goes to a commercial break. And after a Fruity Pebbles and record store commercial comes THIS. It scared the hell out of me at first sight. And not
- [If I Only Had A Brain Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/if-i-only-had-a-brain-funhouse/) - Today's Funhouse is inspired by CINEMANIAC's brand new IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN film journal which is all about scarecrows in film and television. Every scarecrow you can imagine makes an appearance within this book and I was even fortunate to contribute a few essays myself (as did our old pal AMANDA BY NIGHT).
- [Name That Trauma:: Gary B. on a Crying Soldier](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-gary-b-on-a-crying-soldier/) - Hi! You've helped me with several of these fuzzy memories, and I've got another one for you. One night in my early teens (so early 80s), I was flipping channels and I saw a movie with a big, ol' fashioned military gun battle. Lots of soldiers shooting at each other. There was a quick 5-10
- [Unk's Year End Roundup! 2018!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/unks-year-end-roundup-2018/) - 2018 was a damn great year for horror films. I don't have the mental capacity to make a ranking list, so here are some of my favorite horror movie/TV memories of the past 365 days... PYEWACKET I can't resist this simple, straightforward telling of the dire consequences of negative wish fulfillment. It plays out like
- [Kindertrauma 2018 Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-2018-funhouse/)
- [Mickster's Holiday Trauma Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/micksters-holiday-trauma-funhouse/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Jeffrey C. on Mysterious Doors and an Acid Burn](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-jeffrey-c-on-mysterious-doors-and-an-acid-burn/) - Thinking about "Something Evil" made me remember another little piece of a film I saw in the early 70's. I think this was an older film, probably originally in black and white. There was something about a set of doors, maybe like French doors, that only opened once every 50 or 100 years. I also
- [Name That Trauma:: Jeffrey C on a Creepy Red Jar](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-jeffrey-c-on-a-creepy-red-jar/) - I can remember only one thing from this movie - in a daylit, sunny house, a woman opens up a kitchen cabinet and sees some kind of "mason jar full of boiling hell-stuff." It's red. Maybe it's blood, maybe it's hellfire? It was bubbling. I mostly remember the contrast of the horror with the sunny
- [Mickster's Holiday Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/micksters-holiday-funhouse-2/) - It's that time of year again! Mickster is hosting the Funhouse! Hint: The theme today is Holiday Movie Remakes! Good luck! Mickster, take it away!
- [Blu- Ray Review: Nightwing (1979) and Shadow of the Hawk (1976)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/blu-ray-review-nightwing-1979-and-shadow-of-the-hawk-1976/) - I've got to send out some fresh positive psychic vibes to MILL CREEK who just released a favorite flick from my adolescence on Blu-ray. I'm talking about ARTHUR HILLER's 1979 bonkers bat bonanza NIGHTWING! To make it even more irresistible it comes joined at the hip with the thematically similar SHADOW OF THE HAWK (1976).
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-85/)
- [Blu-ray Review: Cathy's Curse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/blu-ray-review-cathys-curse/) - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the CATHY'S CURSE Blu-ray; I am taking all my older copies and throwing them away (not really) I am marching down the hall to hand a drink to good ol' Paul: Her curse is marching on. (Chorus) Glory, Glory, Cathy's Blu-ray! Glory, Glory, Cathy's Blu-ray! Glory, Glory, Cathy's
- [Howl (2015)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/howl-2015/) - It's so sad; all my brick and mortar DVD shops have disappeared! First they came for Tower Records and I said nothing, then the came for FYE and I said, "Yikes!" and then they came and closed down CEX an South Street and I was left a mere shell of my former self, DVD-detoxing in
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Name That Tagline!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-name-that-tagline-3/)
- [Scalps (1983)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/scalps-1983/) - Something strange has happened! I have discovered that I have miraculously developed an appreciation for a film I previously balked at- FRED OLAN RAY's ever-shoddy SCALPS (1983)! Who would have thunk? As a burgeoning horror freak in the early eighties, I first developed anticipation for this undercooked oddity via FANGORIA magazine. I can still remember
- [Shadow Stalkers Collection](https://www.kindertrauma.com/shadow-stalkers-collection/) - I've got a serious penchant for DVD movie compilations. I try to collect as many as possible because they take up so little room and tend to introduce me to titles I might not purchase on their own. Plus, I'm such an old school VHS –head that the idea of getting ten or so titles
- [Kindertrauma Black Friday Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-black-friday-funhouse/)
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- [Name That Trauma:: Murphy T. L. on a Dark Haired Idol Worshiper](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-murphy-t-l-on-a-dark-haired-idol-worshiper/) - Ok. This would have been in late August/early September of 1985. I was living in Bradenton, FL, and WTOG would show movies on Saturday afternoons featuring Dr. Paul Bearer, Creature Feature. It was around Labor Day weekend because we were home from school due to Hurricane Elena. The movie was something about a girl with
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Remake City](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-remake-city/)
- [Vincent Price Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/vincent-price-funhouse/)
- [Kindertrauma Halloween 2018 Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-halloween-2018-funhouse/) - I can't pretend to care about anything besides the new HALLOWEEN movie that was released today. I'm going to the movie theater and I might just stay there forever. I hope everybody makes a point to go see HALLOWEEN this weekend so that it makes tons of money and inspires a litany of sequels. Below
- [Name That Trauma:: Matt R. on a TV Station Evil Entity](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-matt-r-on-a-tv-station-evil-entity/) - Hello, long time reader here. A rather creepy memory just popped out when I was talking to a friend about horror movies from our childhoods and It just keeps bugging me that I can't get some closure. To start I'm not even sure if my memory is about a movie or a TV show since
- [Name That Trauma:: Domingo M. on a Killer Pig and More.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-domingo-m-on-a-killer-pig-and-more/) - Hi, I've been trying to identify the following three films for years (although the first two may be chapters in a series). * This one I may have seen around 20-25 years ago. I remember two guys speaking, some extraterrestrial hotties had come to earth, and one of them was abducted and got half of
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Hosted By Matt Sunshine!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-hosted-by-matt-sunshine/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Leece on a Haunted School](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-leece-on-a-haunted-school/) - For years I've tried identifying a movie based on a few scenes from my memory with no luck. I went to a daycare as a child in a HUGE haunted plantation home here in Texas from the 1800s. My teacher knew I never napped during nap time, so she'd let me sit in a separate
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: 1980](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-1980/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Without Warning](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-without-warning/) - Can you find the 10 differences between poster A and poster B?
- [Name That Trauma:: George H. on Two Escaped Prisoners](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-george-h-on-two-escaped-prisoners/) - Hi Kindertrauma. I'm going crazy trying to remember a movie I saw in the NYC area on local tv in the late 70s. The movie itself is in color and made in the 70s as well. All I can remember is the end. Two possible escaped prisoners in a foreign land (one wounded) slowly make
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- [Name That Trauma:: SteelJaw on an Apartment Filled with Women](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-steeljaw-on-an-apartment-filled-with-women/) - Hi there Kindertrauma, I'm looking for a movie about a guy who is locked up in an apartment (could also be a hotel). The apartment is filled with women, and the man must run and hide from these women for some reason. I believe it's a movie from the seventies. It could also be that
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: X Y Z](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-x-y-z/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: W](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-w/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Invader on a Talking Box, a Holiday Ride and a Trap Door](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-invader-on-a-talking-box-a-holiday-ride-and-a-trap-door/) - Greetings uncle Lancifer I have two movies I can't think of the title right now. I could do with some help. 1. This one premiered on Chiller it is about a group of people that got stuck in an open house, and can't leave it. All I can recall is one scene with a box
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: V](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-v/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: U](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-u/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: T](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-t/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: S (Part 2)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-s-part-2/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: S](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-s/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Gary B. on a Bleeding Toy](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-gary-b-on-a-bleeding-toy/) - Hi.. You guys have helped me out twice in the past, and I'm back for my third request. Here is what I saw that scarred my brain forever. I was probably 7 or 8 years old, so this would've been in the early 70s. And I believe I was at a drive-in with my parents.
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: R](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-r/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Q](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-q/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: P](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-p/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: O](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-o/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: N](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-n/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Asat on a Surprise Coffin Ending](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-asat-on-a-surprise-coffin-ending/) - The mid-1980s was a gangbusters era for Trauma, what with the rise of mom-n-pop video-rental shops that knew better than to enforce strict policies about horror-movie rentals. But in addition to that, such places often had third-hand cassettes that Blockbuster woulda been ashamed to shelve. I am on a quest to turn up one such
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: M](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-m/)
- [Traumafession:: Andrew H. on The Believers (1987)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-andrew-h-on-the-believers-1987/) - For decades, I was haunted by a movie where a mom dies by getting electrocuted in a kitchen. I couldn't remember the details and when I saw it, I didn't know what the title was. It was a scene that terrified me and stayed fresh in my mind for nearly 30 years. Recently, my wife
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: L](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-l/) - Did you know COMET TV is showing a monster double feature every Sunday for the rest of the summer? Check out the schedule HERE! Today one lucky KT reader is going to win a COMET TV beach set including a beach towel, a beach ball, sunscreen and a cooler bag! More details soon! Good luck!
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: K](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-k/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: J](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-j/)
- [In Memoriam:: Margot Kidder](https://www.kindertrauma.com/in-memoriam-margot-kidder/) - I've got to pour one out for the great MARGOT KIDDER. In my book, she's one of the coolest actresses that ever graced the screen. As photogenic as she was, there was always something so real about her and she seemed like somebody you could know in real life. Maybe it's partially due to the
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: I](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-i/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: H](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-h/)
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- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: B](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-77/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: C](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-78/)
- [KinderTrauma Funhouse:: D](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-79/)
- [KinderTrauma Funhouse:: E](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-80/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: F](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-81/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: G](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-82/)
- [Traumafession:: Sophia D. on IT (1990)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-sophia-d-on-it-1990/) - Something has been driving me crazy. I have a pretty clear childhood memory of a scene in the movie IT (1990) where Pennywise the clown says "Beat it, Audra! Beat it! Beat it!" in a mocking fashion and laughs scarily. But I've watched the movie a few times in the last couple years and the
- [Name That Trauma:: Adam W. on Two Alien Terrors](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-adam-w-on-two-alien-terrors/) - Hi Unk, Longtime reader here, I love your site. It always brightens my day to read through all of the writing here. I have a pair of film images that have been rattling around in my skull for close to forty years, and it's now driving me crazy that I can't figure out where they
- [Name That Trauma:: Amanda M. on a Stabbing Cloaked Figure](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-amanda-m-on-a-stabbing-cloaked-figure/) - Years ago I saw a couple scenes from an old black and white movie. In one scene there was a blond woman standing at a mirror in her bedroom, getting ready to go out. A cloaked figure comes up behind her and stabs her. She screams and falls dead. Later another blond lady stands at
- [Name That Trauma:: Gil on Two Horrifying Little Men](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-gil-on-two-horrifying-little-men/) - Hello, I just stumbled across your site while researching "One Step Beyond's" "Reunion" episode and after reading your manifesto, it occurred to me that perhaps you could answer a question that's bugged me for years. I remember as a small boy of seven of eight years old in 1972, I was living with my mother
- [Traumafession:: Amanda M. on Incident at Dark River (1989)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-amanda-m-on-incident-at-dark-river-1989/) - I caught part of a movie on TV when I was a teenager. There was a little girl with a doll playing in a river. Soon, she becomes deathly ill and has to go to the hospital. Some time later they let her out, only she's pretty much in a catatonic state, and only days
- [Name That Trauma:: Chris D. on a Firing Squad Execution](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-chris-d-on-a-firing-squad-execution/) - Greetings Kindertrauma: Was wondering if you could help, or if anyone out there might be able to shed some light on a snippet of a film that I saw on Channel 13 (Tri-State Area, some sort of TV special I think - not positive) ? Here's my only recollection particulars: There was this TV special
- [Name That Trauma:: Brian N. on an Upsetting Table Setting](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-brian-n-on-an-upsetting-table-setting/) - Howdy Kindertrauma! I've solved all of my childhood mystery movie memories -- save one -- and it's perplexed me for years! Here is what I can recall: The scene takes place in a bar/restaurant. Some people are sitting around a table, and there may be some sort of aquariums (?) in the background. A man
- [Name That Trauma:: Amanda M. on a Sterile, White Prison Cafeteria](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-amanda-m-on-a-sterile-white-prison-cafeteria/) - One of my early traumas comes from a snippet of a movie I don't know the name of. My cousin was watching this movie one day and I walked in and caught a scene that's stayed with me ever since (I was in my single digits I think). There was a man surrounded by a
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-75/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-74/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Name That Tagline!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-name-that-tagline-2/)
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Hosted by Dylan Donnie-Duke!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-hosted-by-dylan-donnie-duke/) - UNK SEZ: Today's Funhouse is hosted by Dylan Donnie-Duke of THE WALTER PAISLEY MOVIE HOUSE! The Walter Paisley Movie House is dedicated to the appreciation of the little engines that could not. A bearer of witness to those who try so, so hard, and fail with the beauty and grace of a Van Damme splits
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-73/) - There are ten differences between the SILENT MADNESS poster above (A) and the SILENT MADNESS poster below (B). Can you find them all?
- [Name That Trauma:: Vojta on a Creepy Creature Sitting at a Desk](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-vojta-on-a-creepy-creature-sitting-at-a-desk/) - Hello there, My name is Vojta, 25 years of age and I'm from Czech Republic. A friend of mine recommended me your site and told me, that you could - perhaps - help me. I'm struggling with finding this movie for a really long time now. I literally had nightmares and trauma still many years
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-72/) - Hey, let's celebrate THE RITUAL being on NETFLIX by taking a trip to the woods today! How many of these woody movies do you recognize?
- [I Recommend...](https://www.kindertrauma.com/i-recommend/) - Dear kinder-kritters, I'm going to be going on a trip to visit family and my computer is not invited so the lights are going to be off in Kindertrauma Kastle for a spell. Normally I'd hire a sitter but since sitters attract home invasions and unwanted telephone solicitation, I have decided against it. I won't
- [Name That Haunted House Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-haunted-house-movie/) - Hey! WINCHESTER opens today and the screenplay was written by my very own brother so make sure you go see it! In the meantime, below are images from twenty haunted house flicks. How many can you identify?
- [Name That Trauma:: Scott P. on Multiple Monsters in an Old House](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-scott-p-on-multiple-monsters-in-an-old-house/) - Scott P: Not my trauma, but one of my favorite musicians ( Ginger Wildheart ) was asking about this on Twitter, & I suggested he come here to see if any of the experts can crack it. In case he didn't see that Tweet, I thought I'd send the details he mentioned : Trying to
- [Name That 30 Year Old Horror Movie Poster!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-30-year-old-horror-movie-poster/)
- [For the Love of:: The Boogens (1981)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/for-the-love-of-the-boogens-1981/) - UNK SEZ: Today is all about THE BOOGENS! Your Unkle Lancifer has teamed up with fellow BOOGENS enthusiast Amanda Reyes of MADE FOR TV MAYHEM fame and we're both going to share our five favorite things about this lovable 1981 flick which STEPHEN KING himself recommended as a "wildly energetic monster movie"! I think we
- [Name That Trauma:: Koddie K. on Jacuzzi Murders and More](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-koddie-k-on-jacuzzi-murders-and-more/) - Hey, I'm looking for titles from a few movies. I'll try to be as specific as possible. Hope you can help me. Movie number 1 Horror film from the ‘80s, I think. It's about a troubled boy who has to take his medication on time to make sure he doesn't go crazy. His parents go
- [Name That 1998 Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-1998-movie/) - All of the images below are from movies that are (ouch!) twenty years old this year! How many of the horror flicks from 1998 do you recognize?
- [Insidious: The Last Key](https://www.kindertrauma.com/insidious-the-last-key/) - Dagnabbit, the unthinkable has happened. They finally made an INSIDIOUS installment that yours truly has zero gumption to rally behind. We must be trapped in an alternate dimension because I had more fun watching a football game (Go Eagles!) this past weekend than a horror movie (a sign of the Apocalypse?). It's not that the
- [Goodbye, 2017!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/goodbye-2017/) - I can't say I was a big fan of life in general circa 2017 but mercifully, it was a gonzo year in horror entertainment. It's like the old saying goes, "When life hands you lemons, sell those lemons and use the cash to buy a movie ticket." The list below represents my favorite horror offerings
- [Name That Lin Shaye Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-lin-shaye-movie/) - INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY opens in theaters today so our funhouse is dedicated to horror royalty LIN SHAYE. How many of these ten films that featured SHAYE can you identify?
- [Name That Rankin/Bass Holiday Trauma:: Hosted by Mickster!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-rankin-bass-holiday-trauma-hosted-by-mickster/) - Mickster Sez: Name the Rankin-Bass special, the year it originally aired, and name the specific trauma pictured. I will share my thoughts on each scene once they are all identified.
- [Name That Christmas Horror Tagline!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-christmas-horror-tagline/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Richard R. on a Creepy PBS Halloween Program](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-richard-r-on-a-creepy-pbs-halloween-program/) - Hello, Kindertrauma! This must have been the mid-to-late-70's. There was a show on PBS that I actually saw a couple of times--I believe it was broadcast for a few years around Halloween. It was a group of actors with ghoulish makeup on a plain black-box set performing a series of stories in a sort of
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-71/) - In anticipation of Guillermo del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER, here are ten images from ten waterlogged horror flicks. How many can you identify?
- [Name That Trauma:: Sebastian L. on an Attic Staircase Apparition](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-sebastian-l-on-an-attic-staircase-apparition/) - Hey there, Kindertrauma! I have a super obscure Name That Trauma that I'm hoping someone out there might be able to help me with. I remember seeing a commercial on TV, probably sometime in the very late 1990s or very early 2000s. It was for what I am pretty sure was a TV movie (though
- [The Horror of Losing My Dear Wife by Randolph M.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-horror-of-losing-my-dear-wife-by-randolph-m/) - Dear KINDERTRAUMA brothers and sisters: First of all, I would like to point out that my dear wife was an ardent Stephen King fan. She used to watch me browsing KINDERTRAUMA and giggle at the silliness of it all. To be able to take celluloid horror with a sense of humour like that is something
- [Traumafession:: Mary C. on Bizarro Santa from Space Ghost Coast to Coast](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-mary-c-on-bizarro-santa-from-space-ghost-coast-to-coast/) - I recently ran into something that messed me up as a young child (6? 7?) and seeing how it was Christmas-related and it's December now, I'd like to share it to you guys. It's Bizarro Santa from Space Ghost Coast to Coast. See, I was a huge fan of C2C, Zorak was the best, tied
- [Name That VHS Tagline Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-vhs-tagline-funhouse/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Xminus on a Chiller Van Helsing Short](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-xminus-on-a-chiller-van-helsing-short/) - A while ago on the TV channel Chiller I watched a short. I can't find it or remember the time I watched it. It was some time in the past 14 years. I think it was about the five senses of fear. It involved a guy looking for love who finds a rather attractive woman
- [Name That Turkey!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-turkey/) - I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving! I know it's not nice to call a movie a turkey but I'm going to do it anyway in order to make this post holiday themed. Below are ten images from ten semi-terrible movies that are hated by normal humans but loved to death by yours truly.
- [Streaming Alert:: Comet's Freaky Feast Marathon](https://www.kindertrauma.com/streaming-alert-comets-freaky-feast-marathon/) - Heads up! On Thanksgiving Day, if you end up hungry for some killer entertainment, our old pals over at COMET TV have got you covered in fantastic horror gravy with their FREAKY FEAST MARATHON! You can catch COMET for FREE on your home computer HERE or on your trusty TV via cable or magical airwaves!
- [Name That Trauma:: Dylan Donnie-Duke on a Lascivious Chameleon](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-dylan-donnie-duke-on-a-lascivious-chameleon/) - Hey Kindertrauma! Dylan Donnie-Duke from The Walter Paisley Movie House here! A TWPMH member asked this question, and I am at a loss, so I am looking to the real experts for help. Thanks in advance! Here's what he asked: Do any of you Gen Xers remember an animated movie from the early 80s? I
- [Name That Trauma:: Dustin in Minnesota on a Candlelight Translation](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-dustin-in-minnesota-on-a-candlelight-translation/) - Hello Horror Fans! I am trying to recall the title of either a short story adapted for television, or a television episode that I saw around 1979-1983. I don't remember much about it. It was on one of those PBS educational shows where they would adapt a youth novel or short story for television. The
- [Name That Blood Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-blood-movie/) - Below are ten images from ten films that all have the word BLOOD in the title! How many of these BLOOD-titled moves can you identify?
- [Screening Alert:: Blessed Are the Children](https://www.kindertrauma.com/screening-alert-blessed-are-the-children/) - If you live in the lovely city of Philadelphia or are Philly-adjacent you should scrap whatever plans you've made for this Saturday night (November 18) and swing on down to South Street. I say this because KINDERTRAUMA and THE PHILADELPHIA UNNAMED FILM FESTIVAL (AKA PUFF) are teaming up to host a very special screening of
- [For My Dad](https://www.kindertrauma.com/for-my-dad/) - I haven't posted in a while because my Dad died. He went to the hospital complaining of back pains and he passed away three days later. It was cancer and there were complications and I'm not going to elaborate further. The important thing for me was that I got to see him, look into his
- [Kindertrauma Halloween Special Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-halloween-special-funhouse/) - Below are ten images from ten Halloween themed episodes of popular TV shows. How many can you identify?
- [Traumafession:: Danielle P. on The Electric Company and Jack Bowser](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-danielle-p-on-the-electric-company-and-jack-bowser/) - When I was a kid I grew up on PBS. There were some spooks here and there (like how Sesame Street started a phobia I outgrew around the time the subject I'm focusing on happened) but right now, I wanna talk to you about the 2010 Electric Company show. It's not as good as the
- [Streaming Alert:: Amityville: The Awakening (2017)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/streaming-alert-amityville-the-awakening-2017/) - I know it's not easy to muster up enthusiasm for yet another Amityville sequel but this latest addition has at least two difficult to resist things going for it: it stars the always compelling JENNIFER JASON LIEGH and it's currently absolutely FREE on GOOGLE PLAY. Another ace up its sleeve is that the action takes
- [Name That Killer Thriller!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-killer-thriller/) - Below are ten images from ten thrillers. How many can you identify? Leave a comment and you could win a special surprise pack from THE SNOWMAN (opening today at a theater near you)!
- [Traumafession:: Dustin in Minnesota on The Soupman (1980)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-dustin-in-minnesota-on-the-soupman-1980/) - Greetings traumathusiasts! It's been a long time since I have posted, but I do try to at least visit the site every week. This place has been great for naming my past traumas, especially now that IMDB removed all of their discussion boards. That said, I am traumafessing this 1980 episode of the apparently religious
- [Name That Non-Friday the 13th Film!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-non-friday-the-13th-film/) - Happy Friday the 13th! Here are 10 images from 10 NON-Friday the 13th films that happen to feature actors that have appeared in the Friday the 13th series! How many do you know? Points for movie titles, names of actors and identifying which Friday the 13th film the actor has appeared in. Good luck!
- [Cult of Chucky (2017)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/cult-of-chucky-2017/) - I'm a huge fan of 2013's CURSE OF CHUCKY. It reestablished my favorite killer doll's innate creepiness, introduced me to the phenomenal FIONA DOURIF and works splendidly as a rainy night, old dark house flick. I'm pretty sure I've watched it every year since it came out because that's how I do. One of the
- [Name That Future Dystopia!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-future-dystopia/) - I can't believe I've lived long enough to see a sequel to BLADE RUNNER! Who would have thought? To celebrate the today's release of BLADE RUNNER 2049, here are ten images representing ten dystopian future movies. If you can't identify at least five you may be a replicant.
- [Happy Birthday to Us! It's Kindertrauma's Tenth Anniversary!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-birthday-to-us-its-kindertraumas-tenth-anniversary/) - We have to interrupt our regularly scheduled Friday afternoon movie puzzle because today's the day we celebrate KINDERTRAUMA's ten-year anniversary (actually, our true birthday is tomorrow but I won't be here tomorrow- and if our site stats are accurate, neither will many of you). It's not easy being a middle child running a horror blog
- [Name That Trauma:: Stephen B. on a Creepy Black and White TV Show Intro](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-stephen-b-on-a-creepy-black-and-white-tv-show-intro/) - Hi Kindertrauma, I've just stumbled upon your site after wandering through the web. Most interested in your "name that trauma" section as I have been haunted for many years by a TV show opener. It is in black and white and is animated, one scene morphs into another and another an so on. I cannot
- [Book Review:: Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction](https://www.kindertrauma.com/book-review-paperbacks-from-hell-the-twisted-history-of-70s-and-80s-horror-fiction/) - Help! I'm trapped inside a book and I can't get out! On second thought, don't help! I like it in here! I'm stuck inside GRADY HENDRIX's PAPERBACKS FROM HELL and it has transported me back to my youth in the eighties when perusing the horror section of a book store was almost as fun as
- [Name That Trauma:: Geoff C. on a Screaming Mother and a Skeleton Brother](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-geoff-c-on-a-screaming-mother-and-a-skeleton-brother/) - Hi Kindertrauma! Love your website and have been enjoying your posts for many years. I'm finally going to submit my Name That Trauma that's been haunting me for 40+ years. I was very young so some details may be inaccurate but I'm open to any suggestions. A woman returns to her family home after being
- [Terrifier (2017) (Via PUFF 2)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/terrifier-2017-via-puff-2/) - If your first thought after seeing the recent hit IT was "Gee, I wish that evil clown savagely mutilated more people" then DAMIEN LEONE's TERRIFIER may be right up your blood strewn alley. The killer clown in this movie truly isn't playing around. In fact, I think I might have even been offended by a
- [Name That Trauma:: Chris H. on a White Clad Figure](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-chris-h-on-a-white-clad-figure/) - Hey there KinderTrauma, I hope this is the right way to reach you about a certain program I saw on TV that scarred me early on and I have been trying to uncover for close to 22 years. So at some point in the mid 90's I was traveling with my dad on business and
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-70/) - Ten images from from ten horror films! How many can YOU identify?
- [Name That Trauma:: Sean P. on a Corpse in a Window](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-sean-p-on-a-corpse-in-a-window/) - Hey guys, I saw this movie as a kid and I've never been able to find it again. All I remember is that there is a woman and her family is trying to drive her crazy. They put a corpse in a window of the house directly across the street for her to see. Does
- [For the Love of:: The Slayer (1982)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/for-the-love-of-the-slayer-1982/) - ARROW VIDEO is really hitting them out of the park lately. I don't think I've ever been more excited for a release than their new 2-disc (one Blu, one DVD) offering of THE SLAYER, which until now has only been available on hard to find VHS. I have an extended history with this movie. It
- [Name That Trauma:: Bee on a Creepy Scribble in a Mirror](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-bee-on-a-creepy-scribble-in-a-mirror/) - Hello! This is what I can remember about a movie that freaked me out when I was 7 years old. I saw in on TV, in Spanish... so, that may not help. A brother and his sister are in the attic (?), laying on their stomachs, maybe in front of a mirror, drawing a squiggly
- [Name That (Free on Tubi TV) Horror Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-free-on-tubi-tv-horror-movie-2/) - Here are ten images from ten movies that you could be watching for free on TUBI TV right now! How many can you identify? Check out TUBI TV HERE!
- [IT (2017)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/it-2017/) - IT (2017) is a blast from its first moments to its last. It's as moving as it is freakishly frightening and thanks to a multitude of outstanding performances and consistently keen direction, I'm comfortable calling it an instant classic. I don't want to spoil the experience by dissecting it too much, so I'm just going
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-69/) - I'm not going to lie- all I can think about is going to see IT. That's why you now find yourself looking at a ridiculous "Help Unk get to IT" maze. Sorry, my stubborn brain refused to offer up anything else. If it doesn't float your paper boat then may I suggest this super cool
- [Name That Trauma:: Art L. on a Woman Slowly Losing Her Mind](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-art-l-on-a-woman-slowly-losing-her-mind/) - Hey gang! Asking for a friend, so could get touch and go if you need additional info. They told a story this weekend about a movie their parents exposed them to when they were but a wee lass that has ruined their brain for most of their life. They said it was new-ish at the
- [Traumafession:: L.L. on Suspiria's TV Commercial](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-l-l-on-suspirias-tv-commercial/) - It's 1977. My older brother and I are staying up late watching The Twilight Zone alone in the darkened living room. He's 12 years old and I'm 11. Everyone else is asleep and I feel pretty cool for being awake after midnight, watching and enjoying this "scary" grownup show. I don't recall for sure which
- [Name That Tagline!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-tagline/)
- [Traumafession:: Julia D. on Pingu's Nightmare](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-julia-d-on-pingus-nightmare/) - Hey guys! I just happily discovered your blog and I think I've got just the right kindertrauma gem for you: Many people on the internet will agree that there are a lot of traumatizing moments in the Swiss claymation show "Pingu". And young me has been scarred by this show as well. The worst: The
- [Traumafession:: Katie B. on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-katie-b-on-chitty-chitty-bang-bang/) - I was recently thinking back on favorite movies from my childhood and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang came to mind. While The Child Catcher always gave me the heeby-jeebies, there was another character and scene in the film which particularly traumatized me to the point that I would always fast forward or leave the room. It
- [In Memoriam:: Tobe Hooper](https://www.kindertrauma.com/in-memoriam-tobe-hooper/) - TOBE HOOPER is well known for creating one of the most frightening and influential horror films of all time. I personally found THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE so fiercely disturbing upon my first viewing that I was left feeling queasy for hours afterward. I'm not kidding; just ask my little brother who suffers from the same
- [Spot the Difference:: Demonoid (1980)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/spot-the-difference-demonoid-1980/) - There are ten differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). How many can you find?
- [Name That Trauma:: Chris B. on a Bizarre Family and a Desert Casino](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-chris-b-on-a-bizarre-family-and-a-desert-casino/) - These movies (most likely Italian) were played late night around 1989-1991 on cable TV usually around 1-3 am. A very strange movie where a man is essentially lost and stumbles upon a family in a house where the family is a little weird. It's a bizarre movie and during a dinner scene they converse with
- [Name That Trauma:: Emma D. on a Bothersome Bee](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-emma-d-on-a-bothersome-bee/) - Hi, First off, I love your website! The Name That Trauma section is one of my favorites to browse in my down time. I was an easily traumatized child and searching the depths of the internet for the culprits of my fears has been a long term hobby. However, there's one vague memory I have
- [Eclipse Special:: Ben Sher on The Watcher in the Woods (1980)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/eclipse-special-ben-sher-on-the-watcher-in-the-woods-1980/) - I was lying on my parents' bed alone watching TV on a babysitter night. It's funny how, especially when you're young, you don't know when a movie is suddenly going to emerge and weave itself forever into the fabric of your life. Of course there are direct parallels with falling in love. The scrolling TV
- [Sunday Streaming:: Excision (2012) (Via Tubi TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-excision-2012-via-tubi-tv/) - Oy veh, sometimes I'll be having a perfectly nice day and then out of nowhere the movie EXCISION pops into my head and re-haunts me. Have you guys witnessed this beautiful yet horrendously ugly dive into tragic madness yet? It may ruin your life but it does have TRACI LORDS in it (and she's phenomenal).
- [Name That Horror Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-horror-movie/) - Here are ten images from ten horror movies. How many can you identify? Extra points for figuring out what they all have in common. Good luck!
- [Name That Trauma:: Dennis A. on B&W Quintuplets](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-dennis-a-on-bw-quintuplets/) - It was an old B&W horror about identical quint boys who are about 10yo. 4 of them were adopted out to good families. But at 10 they start getting terrorized and murdered. Turns out it was by the 5th baby. The grandmother comes forward and explains that #5 killed her young daughter so she threw
- [Sunday Streaming:: Extinction (2015) (Via Crackle)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/extinction-2015-via-crackle/) - I gravitated toward EXTINCTION not because I'm a huge zombie fan but because I have a warm spot for snowbound horror. I caught the icy trailer on a random DVD and I couldn't understand why I had never heard of it before and then fortuitously, a couple weeks later, it popped up at a yard
- [Annabelle: Creation (2017)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/annabelle-creation-2017/) - I thought the previous ANNABELLE (2014) movie was an entertaining enough diversion but I can't say I remember much of it. I may have passed up its new prequel ANNABELLE: CREATION altogether but then I heard they were showing a 4-minute sneak peek of IT introduced by STEPHEN KING himself and that sealed the deal
- [Name That Movie! (Hosted by Matt Sunshine)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-movie-hosted-by-matt-sunshine/) - Hey, it's Freaky Friday and me and Matt Sunshine Have switched places! Matt knows all the answers and I know none! How many of these mystery film images kindly provided by Matt Sunshine can you identify?
- [Name That Trauma:: Maria M. on a Shocking Cartoon](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-maria-m-on-a-shocking-cartoon/) - Hello. I am from Spain and I just discovered you. I was looking up the hot sauce scene from SpongeBob and found a trauma confession about it. I do not believe people got scared about it. I thought it was funny. However there was something I was scared about when I was a little girl.
- [Traumafession:: Miyamoto Y. on Fatal Frame and Bimbo's Initiation](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-miyamoto-y-on-fatal-frame-and-bimbos-initiation/) - Hi there! I am Miyamoto from Japan and a friend in the US told me about this site. I must say, there's a lot of good stuff on here! Glad you know about Matango and "Kinderpal Bigwig on Pigmon" was f*cking funny! I used to watch Ultraman reruns as a kid here in the country
- [Sunday Streaming:: Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive (1977) (Via Viewster)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-tobe-hoopers-eaten-alive-1977-via-viewster/) - TOBE HOOPER's EATEN ALIVE knows how to creep me out. The opening music alone is a swirling miasma of otherworldly chirps and moans that can turn any hour of the day into half past midnight. I know some folks have a hard time digesting its fluorescent fever dream atmosphere after THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE's gritty
- [Name That TV Guide Ad! (Featuring: Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium: 1964-1999 Edited by Amanda Reyes)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-tv-guide-ad-featuring-are-you-in-the-house-alone-a-tv-movie-compendium-1964-1999-edited-by-amanda-reyes/) - NOTE: Today's images come courtesy of our dear chum, TV movie historian extraordinaire Amanda Reyes. Amanda's new book ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE? A TV MOVIE COMPENDIUM: 1964-1999 is available now and that strange weeping noise you can't identify at night is probably your bookshelf begging for it. This book is the ultimate tribute
- [Name That Trauma:: Bridget N. on a Creepy Cult](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-bridget-n-on-a-creepy-cult/) - Hi! My brother and I have been trying to search for an older movie that scared the crap out of us when we were children. We both remember it might have been made anytime between the 70's to the early 90's. It was about two guys travelling by bus in a foreign country and they
- [Blu-ray Review:: Madhouse (1981) (Arrow Video)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/blu-ray-review-madhouse-1981-arrow-video/) - I don't always upgrade from DVD to Blu-ray but when I do, it's for a movie that I especially enjoy on a visual level. MADHOUSE is just such a film. I've already fawned all over this underrated gem way back HERE so I'll try not to repeat myself by focusing on this particular release from
- [Dark Shadows (The Revival 1991) shouldn't have been cancelled! By Mickster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/dark-shadows-the-revival-1991-shouldnt-have-been-cancelled-by-mickster/) - UNK SEZ: Hey, it's our old pal Mickster! She's got some viewing advice and an axe to grind concerning a show she loved getting the hook! Take it away, Mickster... MICKSTER: Twenty-six years ago, a show was canceled before being given a fair shake. Had the Internet, as we know it, existed at the time,
- [Sunday Streaming: Madman (1982) (Via Tubi TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-madman-1982-via-tubi-tv/) - I should probably be forcing myself to check out one of the many recent horror movies I haven't caught up with yet but instead I'm going to watch MADMAN for the millionth time. It's the perfect time of year for a summer slasher movie especially when that summer slasher movie completely ignores the existence of
- [Name That Movie on Comet TV!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-movie-on-comet-tv/) - I hope you all have been doing your homework and watching plenty of COMET TV! Below are ten images from ten movies recently shown on COMET TV. How many can you identify? The stakes are high today because one lucky player will be randomly picked to win a fabulous secret prize from COMET TV!
- [Devil Times Chic:: The High Fashion of Devil Times Five](https://www.kindertrauma.com/devil-times-chic-the-high-fashion-of-devil-times-five/) - DEVIL TIMES FIVE is the most fashionable film ever made and I've got the evidence to prove it. Look at these people! They should be world famous fashion icons. And these image captures are only a drop in the bucket- I had to restrain myself from including more. Whoever was responsible for the wardrobe in
- [Sunday Streaming:: Devil Times Five (1974) (Via Tubi TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-devil-times-five-1975-via-tubi-tv/) - Hey, DEVIL TIMES FIVE (1974) is trying to hide from me on Tubi TV by wearing its alternative title THE HORRIBLE HOUSE ON THE HILL. It won't work! I see you DT5 and you look crisper, cleaner and more colorful than ever. The only proper way to combat a hot, humid and hellish summer day
- [Spot the Difference:: Night of the Living Dead (1968)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/spot-the-difference-night-of-the-living-dead-1968/) - You might need to fetch your reading glasses! There are ten differences between the poster above (A) and the poster below (B). Can you find all ten?
- [In Memoriam:: George A. Romero](https://www.kindertrauma.com/in-memoriam-george-a-romero/) - It's a pretty good bet that I'm going to spend the entire day thinking about GEORGE A. ROMERO and the better part of the evening watching his remarkable, groundbreaking films. If a bomb dropped across the street it would be of secondary interest. Like many in the horror community I'm sure, I feel shell-shocked, it
- [Sunday Streaming:: Bad Moon (1996) (Via Shout Factory TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-bad-moon-1996-via-shout-factory-tv/) - Hey, it's been a while since we visited the fine folks over at the free streaming joint SHOUT FACTORY TV and it looks like they have a bunch of cool new stuff up! BAD MOON! That's a good one! Let's have a BAD MOON party! I'm going to let you in on a little life
- [Name That Tom Holland Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-tom-holland-movie/) - The great TOM HOLLAND had a birthday this past week (July 11th) so let's say we celebrate his wonderful career. Below are twelve images from twelve movies (or TV episodes) that he either wrote or directed or in some cases, both! How many can you identify?
- [Sunday Streaming:: The Void (2016) (Via Netflix)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-the-void-2016-via-netflix/) - I feel like it's been way too long since I've seen a movie like THE VOID. It's not as streamlined as I would prefer but it's full of boundary-pushing imagination and its playing field expands in ways you wouldn't predict. There's probably a little too much going on in it but I have a feeling
- [Friday The 13th: The Game](https://www.kindertrauma.com/friday-the-13th-the-game/) - I almost forgot to tell you fine folks that I got an opportunity to play the mind-blowing FRIDAY THE 13th video game! No, I'm not fancy enough to have a state of the art PS4 but I have a friend who is that fancy and we all know it's not what you know but who
- [Name That Arrow Video Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-arrow-video-movie/) - I was visiting a lovely land called Ardmore yesterday and I came across the greatest thing. It was a fantastic movie rental joint called VIVA VIDEO! They had one of the coolest, heartiest horror sections I've ever seen. These righteous dudes even proudly carried SCREAM FOR HELP on VHS! Cooler still, their New Release wall
- [Traumafession:: Trouble on a Scary Santa Train](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-trouble-on-a-scary-santa-train/) - Pretty standard fare, I suppose: I was three. There was a special attraction Santa Claus Train ride. Mom was all excited and I was, too. Then we got on the train. First came the clowns. Loud ones. With balloons. Cue me burying my head in mom's lap and shrieking. Nonstop. Santa Claus came along and
- [Name That Shark Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-shark-movie/)
- [Alien: Covenant (2017)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/alien-covenant-2017/) - Hey, I wrote this review right after I saw ALIEN: COVENANT opening day but I didn't post it because I thought it sounded a bit too much like an Annie Wilkes nerd-tantrum. Plus, the movie got some decent reviews and I didn't want to be a wet blanket or something. As it turns out though,
- [Name That Trauma:: Rob M. on a 3-D Jewel Thief](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-rob-m-on-a-3-d-jewel-thief/) - It's an early 80's film (between 1981-1984). The film is essentially a one man show. I think it was originally in 3D. It's a low budget sci-fi flick. The protagonist is a thief of sorts. He's trying to steal a gem or gems from a church that has large number of booby traps. The entire
- [Name That Summer Horror Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-summer-horror-movie/)
- [Split (2016)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/split-2016/) - Holy Toledo, I dug me some SPLIT. And I've been suffering a miserable movie track record lately! I found ALIEN: COVENANT to be a profound disappointment, I thought the abysmally titled RINGS was an atrocious snooze-fest and IT COMES AT NIGHT though undeniably impressive, made me want to hang myself. SPLIT is a good time!
- [Name That Creepy Cartoon!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-creepy-cartoon/)
- [It Comes at Night (2017)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/it-comes-at-night-2017/) - There's this song by a band called THE CHAMELEONS that has haunted me for decades. It's called "Swamp Thing" and it's so epic in my head. It starts out stomping ominously and then it twists into some kind of dark poetic hurricane and then it breaks into this strange inspirational anthem type-thing. I'm not sure
- [Name That Eighties Horror Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-eighties-horror-movie/)
- [Traumafession: Beth L. on The Believers](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-beth-l-on-the-believers/) - Hey guys! I have a weird one for you. When I was about ten I watched a movie with my dad and for years I only remembered the very beginning. There was a scene with a mother making coffee who somehow electrocutes herself by standing in a puddle while touching a faulty coffee maker. It
- [Sunday Movie:: Blood and Lace (1971) (Via Comet TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-blood-and-lace-1971-via-comet-tv/) - Today is obviously going to be the greatest day ever because the coolest channel that ever existed COMET TV, is going to be airing BLOOD AND LACE at 2pm! Man, I love that BLOOD AND LACE! What a great movie! How did I survive for so many years without it in my life? Furthermore, how
- [Name That Horror Movie (on Comet TV)!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-horror-movie-on-comet-tv/) - Hey, it's June! How'd that happen? All of today's images are form horror movies that are scheduled to air on COMET TV this month! You can watch these fine flicks on your faithful TV set or check them out live streaming HERE!
- [Traumafession:: Leia M. on Ghost, Six Weeks and A Mom for Christmas](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-leia-m-on-ghost-six-weeks-and-a-mom-for-christmas/) - Evening, The late hour, lack of work tomorrow and a bit of whiskey now necessitate that I point out a handful of unlikely traumas: those that appeared, not just in movies that wouldn't be labeled as horror, but moves that are best known for their moments of romance and/or sentimentality. Yes, for a burgeoning existential
- [Traumafession:: Eric D. on The Death of the Guyver](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-eric-d-on-the-death-of-the-guyver/) - EVIL TOONS. What do a babysitter, the Japanese and cartoons have to do with personal trauma? Don't worry this isn't a molestation story, Pearl Harbor is safe and despite the title, this has nothing to do with Fred Olen Ray's 1992 film, which I rather enjoyed- you should check it out. Think cartoons are kids
- [Sunday Movie:: Cooties (2014) (Via Tubi TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-cooties-2014-via-tubi-tv/) - Critter crew, I gotta go to this thing at this thing but I am loath to leave ya with nothing to occupy your peepers so I'm sending you all on a field trip to Tubi TV to watch COOTIES! Hey, COOTIES is pretty good, particularly the kooky and kindertraumatic slo-mo playground contagion scene. I love
- [Name That Trauma:: Reader Lorraine: on a Lady Running Around Screaming While Burning Alive](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-reader-lorraine-on-a-lady-running-around-screaming-while-burning-alive/) - This has been driving me nuts. It's been practically forever, and I still cannot find what movie this scene was from. It's the only scene I remember from the movie. I don't remember being scared to the point of crying or running to one of my parents, but it did deeply disturb me. It's one
- [Name That Seventies Horror Film!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-seventies-horror-film/)
- [Traumafession:: Reader Clegane on Aguirre, the Wrath of God](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-reader-clegane-on-aguirre-the-wrath-of-god/) - Greetings from Ukraine! I'm a long-time lurker of your amazing site and want to tell my little story of Kindertruma and TV. I was eight and was alone at home, I was sick from school, ma was at work, pa went out to the shop and told me not to play with matches, not climb
- [Name That Horror Poster!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-horror-poster/)
- [Traumafession:: John Shipley on Beyond The Door's TV Spot](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-john-shipley-on-beyond-the-doors-tv-spot/) - Greetings Kindertrauma friends! I'd like to share some trauma. When I was child, nearly every piece of horror I came across freaked my shit, whether it was a photo in Cornelius Ryan's "A Bridge Too Far" or a snippet of Night Gallery caught from behind the couch. And because my parents didn't let me watch
- [Name That Trauma:: OnlyChild1213 on Missing Faces, Materializing Eyes and a Mad Drug Boss](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-onlychild1213-on-missing-faces-materializing-eyes-and-a-mad-drug-boss/) - Hello All, it's been entirely too long! Follower for - I can barely believe it - SEVEN years now, and I still wear my fantabulous white-with-green-trim Kindertrauma clown t-shirt proudly. Three quick hits for you today, that have surfaced to haunt me here and there over the years: 1) Episode of what I've always thought
- [Traumafession:: GCG on The Toolbox Murders (1978)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-gcg-on-the-toolbox-murders-1978/) - "Will you take me? Take me to your secret world again..." Watching the original The Toolbox Murders recently, I suddenly realized I had seen this movie already when two kitschy plaques appeared on the wall of doomed masturbator Dee Anne Devore's apartment. In Old-West-saloon font, one read: "BEER 5¢ a glass." The other was square
- [Sunday Movie:: Cellar Dweller (1988) (Via Comet TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-cellar-dweller-1988-via-comet-tv/) - Have you ever spent the better part of a day sobbing uncontrollably while throwing fine china against the wall because the multi-talented JOHN CARL BUECHLER (TROLL) never directed a movie based on a screenplay written by DON (CHILD'S PLAY) MANCINI? Well, stop doing that because such a film does indeed exist and it goes by
- [Spot the Difference:: Pieces (1982)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/spot-the-difference-pieces-1982/) - This puzzle is exactly what you think it is! There are ten differences between the image above (A) and the image below (B). How many can you find?
- [Streaming Alert:: Pluto TV](https://www.kindertrauma.com/streaming-alert-pluto-tv/) - The time has come for me to alert you dear people to the wonder that is PLUTO TV! PLUTO TV is an ingenious app you download for free and then all of the sudden you've got over 75 TV channels tap dancing for your entertainment. You can put it on your computer, Apple or Roku
- [Sunday Streaming:: Anna To The Infinite Power By Kevin Maher](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-anna-to-the-infinite-power-by-kevin-maher/) - "There are 32 ways to write a story, and I've used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem." – Jim Thompson, pulp novelist The difference between Columbo and Murder, She Wrote is that in Murder, She Wrote the viewer tries to solve the crime while Jessica Fletcher
- [Cathy's Curse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/cathys-curse/) - CATHY'S CURSE (a.k.a. CAUCHEMARES) is an awful movie and I love it. I love subjecting people to it. I love watching a smiling, hopeful face, eager for a night of entertainment, slowly melt into one of disappointment and abject nausea. How many times have I forced others to watch this celluloid catastrophe with me? How
- [Name That (Free on Tubi TV) Horror Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-free-on-tubi-tv-horror-movie/) - If the good folks at Tubi TV are going to provide me with FREE entertainment then I think it's my duty to pay them back by spreading the word. Here are ten images from ten horror moves currently available to view for FREE on Tubi TV. How many can you identify? Did I mention you
- [Streaming Alert:: The Keep (1983) (Via Tubi TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/streaming-alert-the-keep-1983-via-tubi-tv/) - Hey, you can be watching MICHAEL MANN's flawed but forever fascinating THE KEEP (1983) for FREE right now! I've given up hope that THE KEEP will ever make it to DVD and I (sobs in hands) lost my precious VHS tape years ago (a widescreen version that a friend copied from laserDisc!) so this is
- [Name That Trauma:: Maggie L. on Tongue Tied Teenagers](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-maggie-l-on-tongue-tied-teenagers/) - Hi at Kindertrauma- I watched these movies when I was little but turned off the TV and walked away immediately after these scenes. I watched these on basic cable in the early 90s... -two teenagers making out in the hospital and their tongues become attached -possessed girl gets needle from under bed and pushes in
- [Sunday Movie:: Ava's Possessions (2015) (Via Crackle)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-avas-possessions-2015-via-crackle/) - It's in every horror fan's best interest to periodically drop on over at CRACKLE and see what's new. I'm happy to report they have recently added AVA'S POSSESSIONS, a neon, neo-noir, post-possession character study that plays like prime SUSAN SEIDELMAN directing a horror version of THE LOST WEEKEND. It meanders at times and the tone
- [VHSaturday:: Anguish (1987)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/vhsaturday-anguish-1987/) - Who in the world is strong enough to resist the VHS box for 1987's ANGUISH? Why, it's positively hypnotic! I'm not sure why the good people of KEY VIDEO (one of my all time favorite distributors) decided to drop ANGUISH's charming eye-filled theatrical poster art and simply zoom in on ZELDA (POLTERGEIST) RUBENSTEIN's scowling mug
- [Name That VHS Box!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-vhs-box/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Solved!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-solved/) - Hello! Some time back (HERE) I asked for help remembering the name of a creepy live action movie where a St. Bernard dreams of being chased by a man dressed as a terrifying skiing cat. Turns out it was called Fantasy on Skis, a 1962 film that later showed up on Walt Disney's Wonderful World
- [Name That Possession Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-possession-movie/) - Let's celebrate the release of the restored CATHY'S CURSE on Blu-ray & DVD with a possession puzzle! Here are ten images from ten possessed movies. How many can you identify?
- [Check This Out :: Philly's Alien Covenant Subway Car!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/check-this-out-phillys-alien-covenant-subway-car/) - I'm super old and slightly cranky but that didn't stop me from turning into a giddy 12-year-old the other day when I fortuitously found myself walking into a Philly subway car that was taken over from top to bottom with ALIEN COVENANT advertising. It was even on the roof! To the chagrin of my fellow
- [It's a Horror to Know You :: Reader Eric!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/its-a-horror-to-know-you-eric-dease/) - 1.) What is the first film that ever scared you? The first film that ever scared me had to be The Wolfman (1941). It was the first horror movie I ever saw as well as one of if not the first movie I ever saw. My father had a copy of the Gene Shalit Critic's
- [Easter Sunday Movie:: Dolls (1987) (Via Comet TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/easter-sunday-movie-dolls-1987-via-comet-tv/) - Hey it's Easter Sunday so it's likely many of you are hanging out with a giant bunny. But just in case some of you fine folks need something to watch later, let me inform you that our pals at COMET TV will be airing a favorite of mine this afternoon, STUART GORDON'S 1987 masterwork DOLLS!
- [VHSaturday: Scream For Help (1984)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/vhsaturday-scream-for-help-1984/) - Sometimes you worship a VHS tape simply because you have no other options and SCREAM FOR HELP (1984) is just such a tape. Due to the death of righteousness caused by the extinction of unicorns (or more likely, music rights issues) this difficult to categorize teen thriller has yet to find its way to DVD
- [Name That Airplane Horror Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-airplane-horror-movie/)
- [Four Underrated Final Girls by Mathew A.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/four-underrated-final-girls-by-mathew-a/) - Hello, Unk! The twitch to write about horror movies doesn't hit me often, but when it does I immediately think of you. You are forever my #1, Kindertrauma. I started to write another piece about underrated horror flicks (I have LOTS of thoughts on Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2), but then I realized there
- [Sunday Movie:: The Immortalizer (1989)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-the-immortalizer-1989/) - I swear I had every intention of broadening my horizons beyond COMET TV this weekend but how can I when they perpetually insist upon showing such awesome stuff? I can't escape! Tonight they are showing this weird obscure cult-ready fiasco called THE IMMORTALIZER from 1989 (1990?). From what I can tell everybody and their mother
- [VHSaturday:: Bad Ronald and The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane.](https://www.kindertrauma.com/vhsaturday-bad-ronald-and-the-little-girl-who-lives-down-the-lane/) - Somebody needs to make gold Popsicle stick thrones for these two VHS tapes to sit on. Did I mention they are married and should never be separated? Both THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE and BAD RONALD had an immeasurable impact on my youth. Although I'm sure I was born attracted to horror,
- [Name That Horror Dog!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-horror-dog/) - We've gone to the dogs! Below are ten images of ten dogs from ten horror films. How many can you identify? While we're on the subject, there's a brand new book coming out all about the making of the classic movie CUJO ! It's called NOPE, NOTHING WRONG HERE: THE MAKING OF CUJO and it's
- [It's a Horror to Know You:: Long Time Fan Lake!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/its-a-horror-to-know-you-long-time-fan-lake/) - 1. What is the first film that ever scared you? The first one that really got me was Tourist Trap. I caught the plaster on the face scene on TV when I was around seven. It scared me so much I couldn't fall asleep that night. I told my mom and she told me to
- [Sunday Movie:: The Video Dead (1987) (Via Comet TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-the-video-dead-1987-via-comet-tv/) - There is no reason to leave the house today! There is nothing out there in the sun. As long as you have popcorn for popping you should be all set. You see, the generous folks at COMET TV are showing THE VIDEO DEAD at 4! Let me tell you, THE VIDEO DEAD is a true
- [Fake Horror Posters:: Happy April Fool's Day!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/fake-horror-posters-happy-april-fools-day/) - Happy April Fool's Day! Here are a bunch of fake horror movie sequel posters I made in the early days of Kindertrauma. Some of them surely stink but be kind; I taught myself (with help from John) and they're just for fun and fandom. We will return to VHSaturday next week! I promise!
- [Life (2017)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/life-2017/) - Hey, I'm absolutely allowed to enjoy a not-so-good movie if I feel like it, right? LIFE is all kinds of mundane, its monster is inconsistently threatening and the script overall is painfully mechanical to the point where somebody actually pulls out a corny copy of "Goodnight Moon". I'm guessing LIFE's largest selling point is its
- [Name That Horror Comedy!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-horror-comedy/)
- [Get Out and The Belko Experiment](https://www.kindertrauma.com/get-out-and-the-belko-experiment/) - I visited New York City last weekend (shout out to the FORBIDDEN PLANET store that sold me SEVERIN's's excellent DOCTOR BUTCHER M.D. DVD with the sublimely timely doc on the history of 42nd Street movie theaters!). You haven't lived until you've seen the Bramford Building from ROSEMARY'S BABY looming over a baffled Central Park covered
- [Sunday Movie:: Train to Busan (2016) (Via Netflix Streaming)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-train-to-busan-2016-via-netflix-streaming/) - We're having some technical difficulties (gremlin outbreak) so today's Sunday streaming recommendation will be short and sweet. If you have NETFLIX (and why would anybody not?), you must promise your old pal Unk that you will watch the South Korean end of the world zombie nightmare movie TRAIN TO BUSAN! Even if you think you've
- [Name That Horror Video Game!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-horror-video-game/) - Below you will find 13 images from 13 terrifying horror themed video games. How many can you identify before GAME OVER?
- [Name That Trauma:: Alex M. on a Crying Baby and a Victorian Doll](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-alex-m-on-a-crying-baby-and-a-victorian-doll/) - Hi there, Terrific site. I was wondering if you could help me with a half-remembered TV-based trauma from my childhood. My brain's telling me it was a scene from an American TV series, like Columbo, although it could have been a made for TV movie, and it would have been shown during the day on
- [Sunday Movie:: Dead of Winter (1987) (Via Comet TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-dead-of-winter-1987-via-comet-tv/) - Here comes one last icy blast of winter! Let me tell ya, one of my most favorite memories of seeing a movie in the theater was when I first saw DEAD OF WINTER way back in the olden days. My first year of college I had no TV but I happened to be renting a
- [VHSaturday:: Writer/Director Chris Moore on Prom Night (1980)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/vhsaturday-writerdirector-chris-moore-on-prom-night-1980/) - UNK SEZ: Hey! We have a special guest today! It's CHRIS MOORE the writer and director of the super creepy BLESSED ARE THE CHILDREN! Check out this trailer and then read Chris's ode to the VHS tape of PROM NIGHT below! Picture it! (Sicily. Just kidding.) A young fella of about 7 sneaks out of
- [Name That Favorite Horror Bar!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-favorite-horror-bar/) - Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Let's say we visit some of our favorite horror watering holes! Below are ten images of ten bars from ten horror movies. How many movies can you identify? Good Luck!
- [Kong: Skull Island (2017)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kong-skull-island-2017/) - When I was a little kid living in California during the seventies, I'll never forgot one of our neighbors (who worked in the biz!) handed out small movie posters of KING KONG (1976) for Halloween! I was just the type of weird kid who would much rather have a miniature advertisement featuring a giant ape
- [Sunday Movie:: Night of the Living Dead (1990) (Via Crackle)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-night-of-the-living-dead-1990-via-crackle/) - TOM SAVINI's 1990 refurbishing of his buddy GEORGE ROMERO's immortal NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD has got to be one of the most underrated remakes of all time. I'm not surprised folks were skeptical before it hit the big screen but I'm more than a little shocked anyone was able to cling to their cynicism
- [VHSaturday: Grotesque (1988)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/vhsaturday-grotesque-1988/) - GROTESQUE (1988) is a hilariously weird (and possibly terrible) movie that you should watch immediately because it stars four of the greatest people who ever lived: LINDA BLAIR, DONNA WILKES, TAB HUNTER and the late, great ROBERT Z'DAR. If you dig gawky, inexplicable exploitation, it's a bountiful bargain because you get a gory monster movie
- [Name That Giant Monster Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-giant-monster-movie/) - I'm at the movie theater because of that KONG: SKULL ISLAND. Below are ten images from ten movies featuring giant monsters. How many of these giant monster movies do you recognize?
- [Name That Trauma:: Chik S. on a Red (Possibly Orange) CGI Demon](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-chik-s-on-a-red-possibly-orange-cgi-demon/) - I'm about 23 now and I have a VERY vague memory of something I saw that scared the crap out of me when I was 7 or 8 years old. I don't know where it was, I want to say Sesame Street since I watched it so often, but I also watched Cartoon Network back
- [Sunday Movie:: After Midnight (1989) (Via Comet TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-after-midnight-1989-via-comet-tv/) - I don't ask for much out of this universe, I just ask that every human person who I interact with at some point watches the 1989 horror anthology AFTER MIDNIGHT. If you've been playing hard to get in regards to this simple request today is the day that you can heed my plea with relative
- [VHSaturday:: Cousin Wil on Hard To Die (1990)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/vhsaturday-cousin-wil-on-hard-to-die-1990/) - UNK SEZ: Hey, look! Our old pal Cousin Wil sent in a love letter to his HARD TO DIE tape! If you have a favorite VHS tape you'd like to write about feel free to do the same and we'll feature you in a future installment of VHSaturday! Here's Cousin Wil... During the blogging boom
- [The Evil Within (2016)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-evil-within-2016/) - Wow, I just woke up from the craziest, most impossibly elaborate dream(s) and I'm definitely blaming super bonkers THE EVIL WITHIN rather than the LAVERNE & SHIRLEY marathon I chased it down with. THE EVIL WITHIN was written and directed by the late ANDREW GETTY (grandson of billionaire Jean Paul Getty) and it's one of
- [Name That David DeCoteau Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-david-decoteau-movie/) - Here are ten images from ten movies directed by the ever prolific David DeCoteau! How many can you identify?
- [Sunday Movie:: Strange Invaders (1983) (Via Comet TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-strange-invaders-1983-via-comet-tv/) - I've got a fantastic flick for y'all but I better tell you about it fast because it's going to be on soon! At 2pm today, good old COMET is going to be airing 1983's STRANGE INVADERS and you can watch it for free just by clicking HERE! I'm not going to lie to you, even
- [VHSaturday :: Screams of a Winter Night (1979)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/vhsaturday-screams-of-a-winter-night-1979/) - This may just be my number one most prized VHS possession! This tape may even be worth a pretty penny. Sure, it probably wouldn't fetch enough cash to pay for a single cable bill but it's worth something just the same! Seeing SCREAMS OF A WINTER NIGHT on the big screen was a monumental moment
- [Kindertrauma Funhouse:: Name That Tagline!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-funhouse-name-that-tagline/)
- [Kinder-Gallery:: The Fine Art of Vestron CEDs](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kinder-gallery-the-fine-art-of-vestron-ceds/) - Now I might be kind of obsessed with VESTRON flavored SelectaVision CED cartridges. I've always appreciated a good CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) as a decorative wall hanging (I've got a few like the often paired together EVILSPEAK, POPEYE and CRUISING) but the VESTRON type takes the coolness to a whole new level on account of
- [Traumafession:: Unk on the Masks in A Gun in the House (1981)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-unk-on-the-masks-in-a-gun-in-the-house-1981/) - I'm currently trapped in a scary mask spiral and the swirling center of said spiral seems to be the year 1981. After being reminded of the hosiery-headed creep in THE BOOGEY MAN (or THE BOOGEYMAN depending on where you live) I had a flashback to the fateful night I recorded SNL as a kid and
- [Name That Trauma:: Jackball74 on a Blue Glass Ghost](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-jackball74-on-a-blue-glass-ghost/) - One fine Saturday morning back in the early '80s I jumped out of bed, bolted for the living room and promptly switched on the TV, thinking I would get in a couple of cartoons before everyone else woke up - the usual weekend routine. This morning, however, I was met with a jolt. The (color)
- [Sunday Streaming:: The Boogey Man (1980)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-the-boogey-man-1980/) - Hold up now, did you realize that there is absolutely nothing to stop you from watching 1980's THE BOOGEYMAN for free on super swell and generous CRACKLE (HERE)? Please don't tell me you're one of those people trying to rewrite history and claim this movie doesn't rule. That's nonsense. C'mon, if being derivative of HALLOWEEN
- [The Boogey Man (1980)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-boogey-man-1980/) - One of the very first horror movies that I ever caught on VHS was 1980's THE BOOGEY MAN directed by ULLI LOMMEL. It's box art and title had me assuming I would be viewing something along the same lines as HALLOWEEN. Boy, was I in for a surprise. Sure the opening scenes visually crib from
- [VHSaturday:: The Incubus (1982)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/vhsaturday-the-incubus-1982/) - Hey, let's start a new feature around these parts! I get super lazy without structure! Without structure there's absolutely nothing to stop me from sleeping. Do you think death will be like sleeping forever? I sure hope so. Anyway, VHSaturday will be all about me sharing my love of VHS tapes! I even wrote a
- [Name That Techno Terror!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-techno-terror/) - Ack! We got hacked! Oh well, I'll take any time away from the computer I can. That's precisely what I've been stockpiling all of these fine movies for! How many of the tech-inspired horror movies below do you recognize?
- [Sunday Movie:: Mom (1991) (Via Comet TV)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-movie-mom-1991-via-comet-tv/) - My name is Unk and I'm addicted to COMET TV. I can't help it because they're always showing the best stuff. And I love watching on my bunny-eared TV with clothes hangers and aluminum foil wrapped around the antenna. God help me, I even like the weird commercials that rudely assume I'm in golden years
- [Diane Franklin Double Feature:: Deadly Lessons and Summer Girl](https://www.kindertrauma.com/diane-franklin-double-feature-deadly-lessons-and-summer-girl/) - Hey, today is DIANE FRANKLIN's birthday! I don't have to tell you that DIANE FRANKLIN is wonderful in BETTER OFF DEAD (which we recently discussed) or that she excels in the new wave classic THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN or that she's downright heartbreaking in AMITYVILLE II: The Possession (which everybody with a working brain agrees
- [Name That Jerry Goldsmith Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-jerry-goldsmith-movie/) - Happy Birthday to the late, great composer JERRY GOLDSMITH who was born on this date! Let's count the ways we appreciate this beyond brilliant dude by identifying ten images from ten flicks he lent his awesome talent to!
- [Name That Trauma:: David A. on a Giant Raggedy Anne Doll](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-david-a-on-a-giant-raggedy-anne-doll/) - Dear fine folks at Kindertrauma, I'm hoping you can help me with a memory that has plagued me most of my adult life. Before I started elementary school in the very early eighties (had to be 1981 or 82) and became a slasher freak at far too young of an age (thanks to the advent
- [Traumafession :: Reader Donny O. on The Last Starfighter](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-reader-donny-o-on-the-last-starfighter/) - Hey guys, I love your site. When I was about nine or ten my father took me to see "The Last Starfighter." I loved the movie but one scene nearly made me pee my pants. When the main character is sent off to battle aliens in space he is replaced in his home by a
- [Sunday Streaming:: Daughter of the Mind (1969)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-daughter-of-the-mind-1969/) - Earlier this week we had a Name That Trauma involving a father staring into a fireplace and lamenting the loss of a child. I didn't come close to being able to identify it but it sure reminded me of a Name That Trauma from our early days (HERE) which turned out to be the 1969
- [Name That Trauma:: Kelly M. on a Possessed Hamburger](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-kelly-m-on-a-possessed-hamburger/) - Hey! First of all - love your blog! It's so comprehensive, plus funny - it's amazing :D Down to brass tacks - I vaguely remember watching a movie on TV maybe 7 or 8 years ago which still nags at me sometimes. I believe it was a horror movie - here are the details I
- [Name That Medical Mayhem!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-medical-mayhem/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Dan C. on a Creepy Fireplace Vision](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-dan-c-on-a-creepy-fireplace-vision/) - Been checking your site out for a while now and it's astounding! Going so deep into this stuff brought out an early childhood memory that I had forgotten about, prob cuz I obsessed over finding all my other kindertrauma's years ago and found em all! So asking this as a serious long shot, cuz the
- [80s Beat:: Featuring Flatliners (1990) and The New Kids (1985)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/80s-beat-featuring-flatliners-1990-and-the-new-kids-1985/) - I love budget DVD sets exactly as much as the last time I told you I love budget DVD sets. They're cheap, the picture quality is usually decent and there's something exciting about ending up with a bunch of titles that you normally wouldn't seek out. It can be a gamble but while securing a
- [Sunday Streaming:: I Saw What You Did (1988)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-i-saw-what-you-did-1988/) - I'm just going to come right out and tell you that I prefer the 1988 TV remake of I SAW WHAT YOU DID over its WILLIAM CASTLE directed, JOAN CRAWFORD starring, 1966 predecessor. You can threaten me with wire hangers all you like, I won't budge. The revamp is directed by the criminally underrated suspense
- [Name That Horror Anthology!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-horror-anthology/)
- [Sunday Streaming:: When Michael Calls (1972)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-when-michael-calls-1972/) - Hey, let's say we all watch the TV movie classic WHEN MICHAEL CALLS! I'm not sure if it's scary but it's definitely creepy and sometimes I think creepy is better than scary because it lasts so much longer. I mean, there's just some sort of feeling or tone to this movie that gets to me
- [Name That Scary School Bus Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-scary-school-bus-movie/) - It's never the wrong time to learn about school bus safety! How many of these scary school bus movies are you able to identify?
- [Traumafessions:: Jason L. on When Havoc Struck and The Acid Queen](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafessions-jason-l-on-when-havoc-struck-and-the-acid-queen/) - I'm sure you all are going to laugh but here's my first (and probably worst) Kindertrauma. In the late 70s, on Wednesday nights, my parents would go to church and leave me with my grandparents. I'd sit and watch TV with them for an hour until my parents came home. I remember watching The Muppet
- [Sunday Streaming:: The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-the-legend-of-boggy-creek-1972/) - Back in the day, one of the scariest movies you could crash into while driving down the UHF highway was the drive-in classic THE LEGEND OF BOOGGY CREEK. It didn't matter what time of day it was, something about this flick could make you feel like it was the dead of night. Based on so-called
- [Kindertrauma Horror Mix Tape](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-horror-mix-tape/) - Sometimes I hate writing because it reminds me so much of talking and talking reminds me so much of a very loud headache factory I wish to demolish. And so I'm off to walk a dog named Nelson. Hey, let's make a horror mix tape! Here are some songs that I must put on my
- [Name That Trauma:: Johnnie W. on an Eyeball and an Awful Orphanage](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-johnnie-w-on-an-eyeball-and-an-awful-orphanage/) - Hello Uncle Lancifer, Love your site. I've had this film in my mind since I was traumatized by it as a child in the late 1970s. I'm hoping you can help me find its title, if you please.Here are some details (the first 3 which may be conflated/misremembered/wrong). 1. Opening credits/title zooms in/pans out to
- [Name That Twenty Year Old Horror Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-twenty-year-old-horror-movie/) - Are you ready to feel super old? All of the images below belong to films released twenty darn years ago! How many of these ancient relics can you identify?
- [Traumafessions: Unk on Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafessions-unk-on-children-shouldnt-play-with-dead-things/) - Director BOB CLARK's name rightfully pops up every holiday season in connection to his contrasting holiday classics A CHRISTMAS STORY and BLACK CHRISTMAS. If those monumental movies weren't enough to cement his status as a potent filmmaker you've also got the influential teen sex comedy PORKY'S and the allegorical Vietnam war zombie flick DEATH DREAM
- [Name That Thirty Year Old Horror Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-thirty-year-old-horror-movie/) - Happy Birthday to all of the groovy 1987 horror flicks that turn 30 this year! These gems are aging like fine wine! How many can you identify?
- [Kinder-Link:: Amanda Reyes Visits Dangerous Minds](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kinder-link-amanda-reyes-visits-dangerous-minds/) - Let's take a field trip over to DANGEROUS MINDS! That cool joint is interviewing our pal AMANDA REYES about her upcoming book entitled ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE? A TV MOVIE COMPENDIUM 1964-1999! Amanda gives an overview of some of the shiniest jewels in the TV Movie universe and the full flicks are even
- [Happy New Year! Love, Kindertrauma!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-new-year-love-kindertrauma-2/)
- [Official Traumatizer: Author Richard Adams](https://www.kindertrauma.com/official-traumatizer-author-richard-adams/) - Very recently (12,24,16) we lost the great and noble inadvertent traumatizer, author RICHARD ADAMS who passed away at the ripe old age of 96. Two of ADAMS' books, WATERSHIP DOWN and PLAGUE DOGS, both concerning the plight of vulnerable animals in a heartless world, were turned into animated feature films which subsequently have been responsible
- [Name That Cinematic Skeleton!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-cinematic-skeleton/)
- [Official Traumatizer:: Suspiria TV Commercial](https://www.kindertrauma.com/official-traumatizer-suspiria-tv-commercial/) - Now seems like a good time to award the infamous SUSPIRIA TV commercial with the coveted OFFICIAL TRAUMATIZER award! I mean, what could be more 2016 than a benign, almost comforting image that spins around to reveal a shrieking death skull? Seriously- what gives with this evil commercial? You don't have to be Don Draper
- [Name That Trauma:: Vincent T. on White-Haired Humanoid Cavern Dwellers](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-vincent-t-on-white-haired-humanoid-cavern-dwellers/) - Hi Kinder! Maybe you can help me! I'm looking for a movie I saw 25 years ago and I can't remember the name. Here is the story I remember: a couple of adventurers (speleologists, I think) go into some caverns where they discover humanoid inhabitants. These people have all white hair and skin. As I
- [The Night That Krampus Saved Christmas](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-night-that-krampus-saved-christmas/) - Merry Christmas kindertots! My plan today is to watch MICHAEL DOUGHERTY's KRAMPUS (2015) over and over again in a perpetual A CHRISTMAS STORY-style loop! KRAMPUS was my very favorite movie last year and now somehow I am miraculously discovering that I enjoy it even more than I previously thought! How is that possible? Why, it
- [Official Traumatizer: The Day After (1983)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/official-traumatizer-the-day-after-1983/) - Hey kids! Would you like to render every horror movie you've ever seen into a relatively benign, shrug-worthy snore-fest? Just watch THE DAY AFTER (1983)! You'll wish you were being stalked by a mutant serial killer, tormented by devil worshipers or mercilessly hunted by space creatures when you get a glimpse of the very real
- [Mickster's A Christmas Carol Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/micksters-a-christmas-carol-funhouse/) - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas because our old pal Mickster has stopped by to host the annual holiday funhouse! This year she's picked various versions of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Good luck!
- [Traumafession:: Reader Walt on Burnt Offerings (1976)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-reader-walt-on-burnt-offerings-1976/) - Waaaay tooooo long, no talk. Many moons ago you posted a few confessions from me (Reader Walt - way back in 2008). I've been away for a long time, but I haven't forgotten you guys! Over this time I had a complete trauma happen that finally put a button on a nightmare from when I
- [Traumafession:: Leslie G. on The Owl in The Secret of NIMH](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-leslie-g-on-the-owl-in-the-secret-of-nimh/) - Hey all, Long time reader, first time submitter. I thought of you guys recently when my kids were watching The Secret of NIMH. I had forgotten how frightening the giant owl is in that movie. I remember being terrified of him as a kid. There's something about those glowing yellow eyes. My children (who are
- [The Shallows (2016)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/the-shallows-2016/) - About a month ago I was trekking home from a dead-media hunting excursion when I happened upon a granny-esque abode with a LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY-style sidewalk-level basement window. Behind the glass stood a bird but not the type of bird you'd expect to see indoors. It wasn't a colorful pet shop parakeet that escaped from
- [Sunday Streaming:: Fortress (1985)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-fortress-1985/) - Even though the super suspenseful mid-eighties cable staple FORTRESS (1985) isn't exactly a Christmas movie, there's no denying that if features one of the scariest Santa Claus masks of all time! Don't believe me? Check out the images above and below and click HERE to read a classic traumafession on the matter! Better yet, watch
- [Name That Trauma:: Vlad from Ghoul A Go-Go on a Fearsome Phone Call](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-vlad-from-ghoul-a-go-go-on-a-fearsome-phone-call/) - Hello, Vlad here, from Ghoul A Go-Go, When I was around 7, I caught this movie, probably on channel 9(NY). 40 years later I'm still asking people for help in identifying it.The scene that stuck with me (and has even made its way into my dreams) is of a woman answering the telephone. The phone
- [Kindertrauma Rewind Christmas Special](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-rewind-christmas-special/) - Jump into the time machine and visit KT's Christmas past! Yep, it's a clip show. Top 10 Least Loved RANKIN & BASS Characters. 12 Movie Characters Not To Invite to Your Holiday Party! Silent Night, Deadly Night: All of 'em! Kindertrauma Funhouse :: Xmas Horror! Kinder-Spotlight :: Christmas Evil! X-Mas Poster Funhouse! Avalanche of Christmas
- [Comet TV Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/comet-tv-funhouse/) - Have I told you lately how much I love COMET TV? I was stuck in bed with a cold the other day and it practically saved my life! In gratitude, today's FUNHOUSE features movies exclusive to COMET TV this month! Watch them all for FREE on your TV or check them out live-streaming HERE!
- [Traumafession:: Danielle P. on SpongeBob SquarePants and Very Naughty Hot Sauce](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-danielle-p-on-spongebob-squarepants-and-very-naughty-hot-sauce/) - Hello, Kindertrauma. I'm 14 years old, a bit younger than everyone else on this site, but I was scared of some things as a kid as well, and I only want to confess fears I've gotten over. Today I want to bring to your attention a scene from SpongeBob that used to scare me as
- [Traumafession:: Allison G. on Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-allison-g-on-baron-samedi-in-live-and-let-die/) - Hi guys. My movie trauma is the ending of the James Bond film Live and Let Die. I have never got over seeing Baron Samedi on the front of the train, laughing his head off! Just no!
- [Name That Trauma:: Tomb on a Creepy Masked Public Access Couple](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-tomb-on-a-creepy-masked-public-access-couple/) - This might have been shown West coast/California. Public access show early 90's Produced in Southern California, but shown on my local San Francisco public access. This couple inside a home would wear these muppet style masks and, for example, reminisce about the 60's. They'd be talking then it would cut to an exterior shot of
- [Apocalypse Soon Funhouse](https://www.kindertrauma.com/apocalypse-soon-funhouse/) - Hey kids, we have a great giveaway today sponsored by our pals at COMET. COMET has an incredible array of movies that you simply can't get with a subscription to streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu. From wild adventures on Mars to critically acclaimed classics, COMET is the ultimate home of sci-fi and horror...
- [Name That Werewolf Movie!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-werewolf-movie/)
- [Happy Halloween, 2016! Love, Kindertrauma](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-halloween-2016-love-kindertrauma/)
- [Kindertrauma Jukebox:: Total Coelo "Dracula's Tango"](https://www.kindertrauma.com/kindertrauma-jukebox-total-coelo-draculas-tango/)
- [Halloween (1978):: Death and the Maiden](https://www.kindertrauma.com/halloween-1978-death-and-the-maiden/) - The first time I saw Michael Myers's face (mask, really), I turned (sprinted, really) away. It was during a review for HALLOWEEN on SISKEL & EBERT and it was just a clip but I had to leave the room and shake his visage from my mind by jumping up and down. His image is now
- [Halloween III: Season of the Witch (A Holiday Classic!)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/halloween-iii-season-of-the-witch-a-holiday-classic/) - In 1982 audiences across the globe cried like big babies because they didn't get their Michael Myers rattle in HALLOWEEN 3: SEASON OF THE WITCH. Talk about pearls before swine, a critical and commercial failure, H3, or as I like to call it "The non-stop genius show" was considered the redheaded step child, black sheep,
- [Almost Halloween Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/almost-halloween-funhouse/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Becca M. on a Crazed Cuckoo Clock Creature](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-becca-m-on-a-crazed-cuckoo-clock-creature/) - I was watching a movie or TV show when I was young (behind the couch because my parents didn't know I was watching). I am dying to know what it is and cannot find it anywhere! Two red eyes were glowing in the middle of a cuckoo clock. A red imp/demon/thing comes out of it
- [PUFF Piece: Dead Bodies, Night of Something Strange, Bad Blood and We Go On](https://www.kindertrauma.com/puff-piece-dead-bodies-night-of-something-strange-bad-blood-and-we-go-on/) - Poor me because I have to sit back and watch all my pals in L.A., New York and even Texas get to see all the cool movies! Although my beloved city of Philadelphia is certainly rich in pretzels and cheez whiz, it's got little to brag about in the movie going options department. So thank
- [Name That Trauma: Nathan B. on Dead Truckers and a Devil Monster](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-nathan-b-on-dead-truckers-and-a-devil-monster/) - Hey there! I'm on the hunt for a horror film that no one can seem to remember. A friend of mine pointed me in your direction to see if you could help me solve this mystery. I can give you what I remember which isn't much but if you can't help me, I'm gonna say
- [Name That Sunday Streaming :: Mind Killer (1987)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-sunday-streaming-mind-killer-1987/) - Email from Babydudeish: I'm trying to figure out the name of a movie from the '80s where a college student's brain keeps enlarging and so does his head. There's a scene where he is chased in a library. Reply from UNK: I know that one! That's MIND KILLER! It's from the same kooky director as
- [Name That 1988 Horror Flick!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-1988-horror-flick/)
- [Lyin' Tie-In:: My Bloody Valentine](https://www.kindertrauma.com/lyin-tie-in-my-bloody-valentine/)
- [Lyin' Tie-In:: Happy Birthday to Me](https://www.kindertrauma.com/lyin-tie-in-happy-birthday-to-me/)
- [Sunday Streaming:: Cemetery of Terror (1985)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-cemetery-of-terror-1985/) - For the past five or so years Mexico's CEMETERY OF TERROR (1985, aka Cementerio del terror) has been an important part of my Halloween diet. Director RUBEN GALINDO Jr. (DON'T PANIC) deliciously mixes up sweet and seasonal graveyard hijinks (sort of like ABC's fellow THRILLER-wannabe of the same year, THE MIDIGHT HOUR) with some sharp
- [For the Love of:: Poltergeist III](https://www.kindertrauma.com/for-the-love-of-poltergeist-iii/) - UNK SEZ: Hey, hold the toy phone! It turns out my long time pals MEEP and BEN of RETRO MOVIE LOVE PODCAST both love POLTERGEIST III as much as I do! What if the three of us picked our three favorite things from this shamefully undervalued third installment? This pyramid of power must come to
- [Name That Sci-Fi Horror Flick!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-sci-fi-horror-flick/)
- [Traumafession:: Kevin M. on the Unblinking Stare in Encounter with the Unknown](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-kevin-m-on-the-unblinking-stare-in-encounter-with-the-unknown/) - ENCOUNTER WITH THE UNKNOWN is a largely forgotten 1973 anthology horror film that today's viewers will dismiss as cheap, stupid, boring and clumsy. But many Kindertrauma readers will remember Mrs. Davis. (Either from the movie or previous posts.) ENCOUNTER makes the most of its unknown actors, because it's a 70s docu-drama (like those low-budget Bigfoot
- [Sunday Streaming: Hollow Gate (1988)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/sunday-streaming-hollow-gate-1988/) - Hey, it's high time for another installment of Sunday Streaming! I don't exactly recommend today's pick because it's mostly aggravating and generally tedious but I'm going to spotlight it here anyway so that I know where to find it! Ya see, just about every year, at around this time, I wonder to myself what is
- [For the Love of: The Mutilator (1984)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/for-the-love-of-the-mutilator-1984/) - UNKLE LANCIFER: Let's all take a premature fall break and lovingly fawn over a horror jaunt like no other, Buddy Cooper's 1984 slash-terpiece, THE MUTILATOR! To salute this bad boy properly I have secured the help of stalwart MUTILATOR super-fan Amanda Reyes of MADE FOR TV MAYHEM fame. Ya'll know our pal Amanda is an
- [Traumafession:: Doctor Pseudonymous of Senseless Cinema on Deadly Blessing](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-doctor-pseudonymous-of-senseless-cinema-on-deadly-blessing/) - Hello. I have been reading your site for years and have always enjoyed all your features and quizzes. Your Sunday Streaming links have led me to a lot of great, underrated movies. I would like to share a traumafession (and also, not to be too self-serving, I hope you can share a link to the
- [Name That Trauma:: Tristan R. on an Unsolved Trauma From Six Years Ago!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-tristan-r-on-an-unsolved-trauma-from-six-years-ago/) - Traumatic mission to name my trauma!!! 6 Years ago I left this trauma (HERE) in the hands of the good folks at Kindertrauma but have still never managed to find the culprit...it's time to try again!!! I remember seeing this on TV in the early nineties ( it was in colour). Hope I'm not getting
- [Name That Horror Poster Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-horror-poster-funhouse/)
- [Name That Trauma:: Michael A. on a Repeated Staircase Stumble](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-michael-a-on-a-repeated-staircase-stumble/) - When I was a kid in the early '80s, I made a point to catch Suspense Theater every Saturday afternoon. It aired on WPGH in Pittsburgh and showed mostly horror movies -- like Hammer/Amicus/AIP stuff -- with a dash of sci-fi (including timeless classics like Starcrash and Starship Invasions). It also showed one unidentified movie
- [Name That Trauma:: Brother Bill on a Sightless Backwoods Cabin Dweller](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-brother-bill-on-a-sightless-backwoods-cabin-dweller/) - It's one thing to forget the name of a movie you saw as a little kid 20, 30, 40 years ago but this "Name That Trauma" is just plain embarrassing because the film I'm trying to place couldn't be more than a decade old, meaning it came out sometime in the late 2000s. All I
- [Mini-Tribute:: Creature (1985)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/mini-tribute-creature-1985/) - Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before. The other day I snagged a used VHS tape of a movie I had vague negative memories towards at one of my favorite thrift shops because what the hell? It was only a dollar. But halt the presses! After watching the movie, I ‘m
- [Blessed Are the Children (2016)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/blessed-are-the-children-2016/) - When I was in art school a million years ago all I wanted to do was paint drippy abstract monstrosities while my teachers seemed bent on forcing me to draw stiff bowls of stale fruit. I had a class in which the entire semester consisted of sketching exactly ONE drawing of a boring statue. I
- [Looking Back At The World Trade Center](https://www.kindertrauma.com/looking-back-at-the-world-trade-center/) - UNK SEZ: My big plan was to grab all the images of the World Trade Center that I could find in horror films but mid way through my endeavor I discovered someone had beaten me to it. Many of these images come courtesy of the site WORLD TRADE CENTER IN MOVIES which catalogues shots of
- [Name That Creepy Crawler Funhouse!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-creepy-crawler-funhouse/)
- [15 More Non-Horror Movies For Horror Fans](https://www.kindertrauma.com/15-more-non-horror-movies-for-horror-fans/) - A while ago, yours truly and MEEP of CINEMA DUMEEP did a post called 40 Non-Horror Flicks for Horror Fans (HERE). I always swore we'd do a sequel because it was such a fun subject but we never did. Truth is, I suffer from a debilitating disorder called sheer laziness so I avoided the idea
- [Name That Trauma:: Jared D. on a Black and White Horror Trivia Book](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-jared-d-on-a-black-and-white-horror-trivia-book/) - So, back in middle school, I checked out this book from the library more times than I can count. I can't remember the name of it to save my life though. It had a hand-drawn black and white cover and the bulk of it was filled with information regarding Dracula and other generic scary things.
- [Happy Labor Day!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/happy-labor-day/)
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- [It's a Horror to Know You:: Jon Clark!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/its-a-horror-to-know-you-jon-clark/) - It's a Horror to know You Jon Clark! What is the first film that scared you? Halloween 3, I know it gets a bad rep and all that but when I saw it, it was on TV (edited for TV at that) I was just a little boy, maybe six (who didn't know or CARE
- [It's a Horror  to Know You:: Chris Moore Writer/Director of Blessed Are The Children](https://www.kindertrauma.com/its-a-horror-to-know-you-chris-moore-writerdirector-of-blessed-are-the-children/) - What is the first film that scared you? The last time I did this, I named THE WITCHES, which is still about as traumatic as it gets (and I know there are millions of people who'd agree with me), but I just recently remembered that I first saw CARRIE around the same time I saw
- [It's a Horror to Know You:: Chris Trebilcock Writer/Director of The Dark Stranger](https://www.kindertrauma.com/its-a-horror-to-know-you-chris-trebilcock-writerdirector-of-the-dark-stranger/) - It's a Horror to Know You: Chris Trebilcock Writer/Director of The Dark Stranger! What is the first film that scared you? I started watching horror movies at a young age - Jaws and Halloween were early favorites - but before I really got into them, one traumatic early viewing experience was the Disney cartoon of
- [Faux-ster:: St. Elmo's Fire Reunion Massacre](https://www.kindertrauma.com/faux-ster-st-elmos-fire-reunion-massacre/)
- [Re-Watch Review:: Blood Rage (1987)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/re-watch-review-blood-rage-1987/) - I love all types of horror films but it's no secret that slasher flicks, particularly those born in the eighties, stand as my golden child favorites. It's all because they carried me from fan to fanatical and I can always count on them to bring the fun. No matter how many times haters try to
- [Re-Watch Review:: Magic (1978)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/re-watch-review-magic-1978/) - Take heart kiddies, for every movie that is not quite as good as you recall there is another film that is way better than you remember. Take RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH'S 1978 deadly dummy opus MAGIC for example; once you adjust to the idea that there's nothing supernatural going on, it's really a fantastic, character-driven, psychological horror
- [Traumafession:: Chanter on a Menacing Hot Potato Recording](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-chanter-on-a-menacing-hot-potato-recording/) - Hi Kindertrauma,　 I've been batting this particular admission around for a while now while trying in vain to find a full recording of the source, scary bits included. No luck. The closest I can find is the admittedly perfectly innocent song that followed the traumatizing two-second snippet. Oddly enough, or maybe not oddly at all,
- [Unearthed:: Unk's Very Own D&D Miniatures!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/unearthed-unks-very-own-dd-miniatures/) - UNK SEZ: All that STRANGER THINGS watchin' has got me wanting to do something I never thought I would- share my very own D&D figurines! I hand painted these die cast puppies myself around the same time STRANGER THINGS took place (1983)! I even sold them at a local mom & pop hobby shop and
- [Traumafession:: Kyle S. on The Haunted River Commercial](https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafession-kyle-s-on-the-haunted-river-commercial/) - Hi Kindertrauma folks, Great site! I've just recently found it while looking up the "Bunyip Moon" sequence from "Dot and the Kangaroo", and I love that you are covering things that used to spook us kids something fierce. Below is my contribution... Kings Dominion- The Haunted River commercial (1980)
- [Unk's Favorite Stranger Things](https://www.kindertrauma.com/unks-favorite-stranger-things/) - Howdy, I'm taking a cue from my old pal Mickster and sharing some of my own STRANGER THINGS favorite things. If you're sick of hearing about STRANGER THINGS, write a letter to your local Congressman and demand better TV shows so that this one doesn't stand out like a beautiful neon sore thumb anymore! Winona
- [Mickster loves Stranger Things (2016)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/mickster-loves-stranger-things-2016/) - Unk Sez: Big thanks to our old pal Mickster (Kindertrauma's very own Eleven!) for taking time out of her busy schedule to share with us her favorite things about STRANGER THINGS. Take it away, Mickster.... It has been a long time since I have been so overwhelmed with joy by a show. When I first
- [Review:: Lake Nowhere (2016)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/review-lake-nowhere-2016/) - It's my duty as a citizen to inform you all about a lil' horror movie that impressed the heck out of me called LAKE NOWHERE. Honestly, I'm not always the best audience for ultra low budget cinema because I can only hold back the bitter critical voice in my head for so long and I've
- [Review:: Ghostbusters (2016)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/review-ghostbusters-2016/) - I've got a bone to pick with this new GHOSTBUSTERS! Now that I've seen it I can't seem to get the theme song by living legend RAY PARKER JR. out of my head! This has been going on for days. Help! Besides that valid gripe, I'd say this newfangled GHOSTBUSTERS is my favorite GHOSTBUSTERS movie
- [Name That Trauma:: Robin F. on a Nude Dude and a Foggy Gazebo](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-robin-f-on-a-nude-dude-and-a-foggy-gazebo/) - HI, (I've never done this) Can anyone there help me find a movie that I caught a glimpse of when I was a kid? It starts right off with there being a male nude scene in the credits and my Mom and Granny instantly turned it off, I however when they weren't looking put the
- [Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (Plus Friday Funhouse)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/ray-harryhausen-special-effects-titan-plus-friday-funhouse/) - If you want me to go to church, build a church in honor of Ray Harryhausen; that is a church I will have no qualms going to. I'll even put coins instead of buttons in the collection basket when it comes my way. Besides being a true artistic genius (geez, the guy's drawings are as
- [Name That Trauma:: Dr. Nick on a Talking Skull Ghost Book](https://www.kindertrauma.com/name-that-trauma-dr-nick-on-a-talking-skull-ghost-book/) - Hey! Love the show! Long-time listener, first-time caller, etc. I've had this on my mind for quite some time and am just now getting around to putting pixels to screen to get it solved. It is not a particularly traumatic memory that I need help with but it is one that has stumped me for
- [DVD Review:: Animal Apocalypse (Featuring Nightwing!)](https://www.kindertrauma.com/dvd-review-animal-apocalypse-featuring-nightwing/) - My dreaded birthday rolled around again a little while back and all I could think to want was some Amazon flavored credit to put to use filling the unsightly holes in my DVD collection. Imagine if you dare, an adult human in this day and age living without a physical copy of the 1992 LAMBERTA
- [Groovy Doom's Drive-in Asylum Issue 4!](https://www.kindertrauma.com/groovy-dooms-drive-in-asylum-issue-4/) - Hey! Groovy Doom's awesome Drive-in Asylum fanzine has a brand new issue (#4) and it's out NOW! This one sports a super special spotlight on everybody's favorite fright flick FROGS! Plus yours truly is even featured in it! Get your issue HERE and while you wait for the postman, FIND THE TEN DIFFERENCES between the

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