Fear Level: Spoopy/Spooky
Trigger Warnings:  Anti-Asian racism, xenophobia, violence to animals, elderly abuse, classism, capitalism

A boy gets a pet that can talk, watches tv, and reproduces asexually and nobody even thinks it's weird

• Director: Joe Dante
• Writers: Chris Columbus
• Stars: Zack Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Corey Feldman, Dick Miller, and Hoyt Axton

Topics of Discussion:

• Joe Dante and Chris Columbus, what an odd couple
• Chinatown USA
• The miracle juicer
• The Spiel-verse
• Having it both ways
• Racism and gremlins
• Be a two knife mom
• That puppet has a real fucking gun!
• Kids' monsters with guns
• While other people are opening their presents...

Recommendations:

• Hobgoblins
• Alien
• Poltergeist
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Chuck Jones Looney Tunes
• Pet Shop of Horrors
• Attack the Block
• Ghostbusters
• Beetlejuice
• Child’s Play
• Monster Squad
• The Thing

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