As a boy watching TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE, I couldn't help being envious of young MATTHEW LAWRENCE. To me, his involvement as the prisoner of DEBORAH HARRY seemed both terrorizing and titillating. DEBBIE is calm and cool, caging this boy and getting ready to cook him for dinner. Meanwhile, the middle LAWRENCE child desperately reads stories from this book in an attempt to distract her, and hopefully keep himself off the menu. My point being that at a young age, I found myself completely attracted to Chef DEBBIE's dominance over little MATTHEW. Even though it would have been terrifying, I always wished that I could switch places and be that boy in the cage, while the Blonde One pre-heated the oven, as well as my libido. Was I the only youngster to be turned on by this scenario? I still think TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE holds up today as a great and scary film, and my fantasies of being Ms. HARRY's little pet to be devoured have never gone away. Eat to that beat!
UNK SEZ: Ralphus, I second your love of DEBBIE but maybe not the cage thing so much. Did you know that currently you can watch TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE on the Youtubes starting HERE? Plus, check out this traumafession on the movie's segment THE CAT FROM HELL right around over HERE!
There's actually a fetish that involves feelings like that called Vorarephilia .. Look it up..
Ralphus is one kinky little munkee ;-)>
If "Tales from the Darkside" had this effect on you, Ralphus, then "Videodrome" must have knocked you senseless!
I second what Senski said. I re-watched it this weekend. Very kinky.
Yes, videodrome was intense, however I didnt see it till much later in life. Funny, at that point, she was younger and I was older. Also, I looked up vorarephilia. Wow! Luckily I didnt go all the way on that one.
Those so inclined may want to check out an episode of Showtime's horror series "The Hunger" – "The Secret Shih Tan," adapted from a short story by Graham Masterson.
No advocacy here…I'm just saying if you're interested…:-)
Screw Debbie Harry, I wanna eat the Lawrence brothers! It used to be Just Joey (we're about the same age) but then over the eyars the younger ones "blossom"-ed ( a pun!) too! Great genes, that Lawrence family! I wanna send their parents a nice fruit basket and a note thanking them for giving me years of spank material with their 3 hot sons!
By the way the other day during a storm I caught a TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE where Debbie was a dying voo doo practicioner. Right before the end the storm blew my satelite dish out! Denied!
Also worth a mention – wasnt she in BODY BAGS too???
If the Lawrence boy had been about ten years older, I would have gladly switched places with Debbie Harry.
I had a different sort of traumatic experience watching this sequence. My aunt took me to see TALES in the theater when I was far too young (after I begged). When Debbie said she was going to cut the kid open like a fish, I ran out of the theater and never came back! I still regret that. I guess I was more sophisticated by the time it came out on video–because I watched it, and was disappointed that it didn't live up to my horrendous expectations!
i feel the same way. i also would have loved to see debby eat matthew