I was recently listening to a podcast interviewing Chris Columbus on how they adapted the novel. It was the first thing he wrote that got picked up. I’ve never read the original screenplay, but they ended up cutting out the most graphic stuff. For example, at one point a disembodied head comes rolling down the stairs due to gremlin shenanigans.
So you experience could definitely have been worse.
You know those movies as a young kid that you watch over and over? This was mine. From like 7 to 12 I would have these recurring dreams of a school with a flag in front and then going the stairs into a basement. I wondered where the hell it was coming from, then I watched the intro to the movie again in my 20s.
The weirdest thing, I didn’t find out that this and Poltergeist weren’t kids movies until highschool. It’s been a bit of a wild ride since because I keep running into movies that aren’t as pg as I remember.
Lol, my parents for some completely out of character reason I’ll never understand took me to see Gremlins 2 when I was 8. This was not a request from me, Im pretty sure I had never heard of Grenlins before. I loved it, but I’m not sure it didn’t traumatize me.
Gremlins
I recently showed this movie to someone and I didn’t remember it being that scary/gory! This is some crazy PG movie lol
I was recently listening to a podcast interviewing Chris Columbus on how they adapted the novel. It was the first thing he wrote that got picked up. I’ve never read the original screenplay, but they ended up cutting out the most graphic stuff. For example, at one point a disembodied head comes rolling down the stairs due to gremlin shenanigans.
So you experience could definitely have been worse.
Pretty sure Gremlins caused the creation of a new certification in the US. Too many complaints about it being PG.
Yep, it and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom! The first PG-13 movie was Red Dawn, which would probably be R today.
You know those movies as a young kid that you watch over and over? This was mine. From like 7 to 12 I would have these recurring dreams of a school with a flag in front and then going the stairs into a basement. I wondered where the hell it was coming from, then I watched the intro to the movie again in my 20s.
The weirdest thing, I didn’t find out that this and Poltergeist weren’t kids movies until highschool. It’s been a bit of a wild ride since because I keep running into movies that aren’t as pg as I remember.
Lol, my parents for some completely out of character reason I’ll never understand took me to see Gremlins 2 when I was 8. This was not a request from me, Im pretty sure I had never heard of Grenlins before. I loved it, but I’m not sure it didn’t traumatize me.