he was deeply concerned with having a good upbringing for his son, unlike most parents today who don't even give a *beep* He did not deserve voodoo.
sharei agree. plus slapping your child back then wasnt uncommon. however there might be other instances where he was abusive and a poor parent. we just dont know.
shareI think it was to show that it was Billy who was pretty creepy and bad, at the end he becomes part of the comic too so I think it's supposed to be another creepy tale
shareI doubt his dad was abusive towards him unless he got out line(which he did)
His room with cluttered with toys that was bought by the man who puts the friggin' bread on the table .
The kid was an ungrateful little freak.
I was probably missing the whole point of the scene.
"His room with cluttered with toys that was bought by the man who puts the friggin' bread on the table . "
LOL. nice.
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That scene felt like a homage to my mother who would gripe about me reading all those Stephen King novels as a kid xD I can't be the only one!
Stephen King was just rubbing it in.
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His room with cluttered with toys that was bought by the man who puts the friggin' bread on the table .
A bad parent is still a bad parent even if he cares about his son. It does not matter how much you care, if you cant do the actual parenting your still bad at it. You dont learn to be a parent just by wishing it.
Even then, he was not concerned with having a good upbringing for his son. What he was concerned is that his son wasn't interested in same things he was, therefore he could not make him fulfill the wishes dad failed to fulfill, a common tradition in bad parenting. If he cared about his child growing up well he wouldnt have hit him to begin with.
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If he had given the boy a spanking, I could get behind that more than smacking the kid in the face hard enough to leave a big bruise on his cheek. This is like the joke Eddie Murphy used to tell about how a kid after getting a whipping from his mother would start saying things like "God, kill her!…Make her get hit by a truck and die!"
This also reminds me of an episode of "Gunsmoke": John Vernon (best remembered as Dean Wormer in "National Lampoon's Animal House") plays a farmer with a son (Lance Kerwin) who Vernon feels is spending too much time on his schoolwork and not enough on working the farm. At one point, the farmer whips the son so badly that it leaves marks all over the boy's back. The boy's teacher (played by Sorrell Booke, the original Boss Hogg) discovers the abuse and gives the boy a book. The farmer finds the book and orders the son to throw it into the fire. When the son refuses, the father takes it and throws it into the fire himself. The son's reaction: "I'd have rather you had whipped me than done that!"
You know, I've seen more psychos who hide behind the Bible than claiming anything from horror.
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It wasn't Booke as the teacher in the "Gunsmoke" ep. It was Allen Garfield.
"I'm in such bad shape, I'm wearing prescription underwear." Phyllis Diller 1917-2012
I think he had his good and bad qualities just like any other parent. He did seem to watch over his child a lot. Most parents today just let their kids do whatever they want and don't supervise them at all. I think it's important to keep a watchful eye on your child to make sure they're not doing something they aren't supposed to instead of just letting them run amok. But I think he also seemed harsh instead of loving. Being harsh is necessary sometimes but this father seemed to be mean all the time. The slap was a little too much.
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Yes, discipline is necessary sometimes but you also need to let your kids know you love them. I don't think the dad from Creepshow probably did that too often.
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The idea was that he didn't like the kid reading the horror "crap" in his opinion. The whole thing was based on the adults who raised a big stink over these kinds of horror comics that were made in the 50's. They felt that it was wrong for kids to read this stuff, when it really wasn't for them to begin with. Yes, I can see the dad's point, but the voodoo joke is also a sort of revenge gag to end the film.
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