Because the kid was obviously a freak. Between the way he talked and acted, his father didn't want his son reading that stuff. Look at the kid's reaction to seeing a skeleton at his window. Look at him in the end with the doll. The kid was a freak.
shareThat's no way to talk about Stephen King's son.
Besdies, I think it was the father that was out of line.
He seemed a VERY controling kind of guy. Maybe the kid's only escape from his father was his comics.
God didn't create man, man created God
That was Stephen Kings son? lol. Why does the kid talk like that with that voice?
shareWell mercury would you want your kid "reading that crap, all that horror crap, things coming out of crates and eating people, dead people coming back to life, people turning into weeds for christ sake"?.
hahaha love that line
Why kill 1 to save a thousand, when you can kill a thousand and 1?.
Well, it is also that parents in those days, or at least some of them, didn't like their children reading that horror crap.
shareOh yeah well my dad actually TRIED getting me into horror movies so I won't be scared of anything... I think it worked.
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This. I remember seeing b&w footage of parent throwing piles of EC comics into a massive bonfire.
shareNo, he threw it out because he represented the elders at the time who hated these stories and didn't want their children reading it. There was a big backlash in the 50's over horror comics.
shareBesides, the kid's behavior didn't justify his dad smacking him.
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For the same reason parents can get so uptight about what music their kids listen to.
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. - Ayn Rand
I would have told him I didn't want him reading that crap. I've never seen such rotten crap in all my life. Where would he get that stuff? Who would sell it to him?
Anyway, I'm glad he threw it into the garbage. That's were it belongs– right in the frickin' garbage!
That's why God made fathers, Mercury. That's why God made fathers.
He should've told him to not to read it anymore and not harshly punish him. He seemed abusive as he was doing that. Glad his bastardly @#$holish of a father was stuck by sharp pins that could've possibly killed him at the end of the movie. Such a terrible father.
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Italy's shaped like a boot for a reason...so they can stick it up your ass. - Don Vito
Yeah, and the kids room is already decorated with horror movie posters and toy monsters.So whats the big deal with a comic book? Still a great movie.
shareYeah, he represented the parents who didn't like their kids reading EC Comics like Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror, The Haunt of Fear, etc.
I mean, there was actually a point where parents would take the comics and then burn them, it was like Fahrenheit 451, only instead of normal books, it was horror and crime comics.
William M. Gaines actually testified before the committee that was meeting to decide if comic books were a cause of juvenile deliquency, which is what started the above, because now parents had a name to put to the filth their kids was reading.
Gaines went to the other comic book publishers to try to do something about it, and they did: they formed the Comics Code, which forbade most of the things EC was publishing, so not only did Gaines have to discontinue every comic they were publishing (Except for Mad, which had become a black and white magazine), but all of the companies that started copying EC were put out of business.
Eventually DC and Marvel realized how dumb the whole thing was and fought back by publishing comics like Tomb of Dracula, Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, etc. DC even switched back House of Mystery and House of Secrets back to publishing horror stories, and hired Joe Orlando, a former EC Comics artist, as the editor.
If they hadn't decided to do this, we might not have 30 Days of Night (Hell, Steve Niles wouldn't have a career to be honest), Hack\Slash, Blade, The Walking Dead, etc.
Creepshow is an affectionate love letter to the works of EC Comics which were a inspiration for a lot of people in the horror industry, including R.L. Stine, the EC Comics served as an inspiration for Goosebumps.
Eventually, a guy named Russ Cochran began republishing them in black and white (To get around the code), and they became popular again, leading to two movies by Amicus, and most infamously, a TV series on HBO that ran from 1989 to 1996 and in turn spawned a saturday morning cartoon series, a kids game show, three movies, a Christmas album, etc.
For a while, a company named Gemstone was publishing a series called The EC Archives, each volume contained full color reprints of the comics, they recently went bankrupt and the series was discontinued before they could publish a second volume for The Vault of Horror, a fourth for Tales, a first volume for Haunt, etc.
And Tale itself was revived......
Sorry this so long, but when it comes to EC Comics, I'm a little affectionate towards them, I mean, they brought storytelling, as well as horror and gore to comic books, and I believe we owe them a debt of gratitude for this
Why the kid's father threw the comic outBecause he's Tom Friggin' Atkins and he can do whatever the hell he wants.
At least the garbageman lets his kids read them, because they love this stuff . . . as does Tom Savini :) Unfortunately they can't get the authentic Voodoo doll.
shareUnfortunately they can't get the authentic Voodoo doll.
Billy's damn father shouldn't have smacked him hard and be abusive. He should've told him nicely. Didn't feel bad for him at the end of the movie. If I were Billy, I would've stuck him where it truelly counts since he's hypocritical about throwing his son's comics and still keeping his own sex magazines. Bastard.
shareBilly's father was a controlling sexist jerk. His whole "that's why god made fathers" line just shows how he believes men are the rulers of the house and family. I think he completely over reacted to his son having comic books. I mean how was he okay with the kid having bats hanging from his ceiling and skulls and posters of Dracula, but not okay with a comic book? He was a bully. But I have to admit Billy was a truly evil kid.
-Di
Well, the garbagemen were different kinds of parents, okay? They had no problem letting their children reading the comics? I'll bet they even read them together. I'll bet the one who said his kids love these things would bring that comic home to them so they could save money on the next issue.
shareThough the movie is inspired by horror comics from the Fifties, it's not SET in the decade. After all, the garbageman played by Tom Savini is using a Walkman-type stereo with the little headphones. Also, we see WWF wrestling (which didn't go into business until the Sixties), home VCRs, and disco music.
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