100th post!

Blogger says this is my 100th post since I started this blog. Seems like it should be more, but I did have several for years before this one.

I've posted a couple "what-ifs" before and this is something like that. Today I would like to share a little insight into why I am, as some would say, slightly disturbed or "weird".

There is this movie that will come to mind every once-in-a-while that I used to watch as a kid and I can never remember the name of it, which drives me crazy. The most of what I could remember was that it involved a boy who had body parts in a freezer that he made into a woman, yet it wasn't a horror/slasher movie. Yesterday I was thinking of it again, and decided to post on a couple forums to see if someone else knew what it was (I'd asked friends in the past, but it hadn't rang any bells with anyone, except my sister, who also couldn't remember the name). Within minutes of posting on the IMDB boards I had my answer: Frankenhooker!

Frankenhooker is about a medical school drop-out whose fiance gets in a lawnmower accident. He was able to save her head, but no other parts. So he "collects" body parts from hookers to rebuild her.

Here's a trailer:


I watched this when I was 7, 7! Which got me to thinking, and I've thought about it before, about all of the weird things my sister and I were allowed to watch as a kid. I know I talked about watching Killer Klowns from Outer Space and It before. We could pretty much pick anything off the shelf at the video store when we were with our aunt and it would be okay. Little Monsters and Drop Dead Fred were two of our favorites. Now, when you just think of those movies it doesn't seem like anything wrong, you think "there wasn't anything bad in those", and Little Monsters is only rated PG; however, if you watch them now, it's like "what were my parents thinking?" I can't see letting my elementary school-aged kids watch most of the movies I watched at that age, mostly because of language and sexual innuendos, but there is the just plain weird factor also.
There were plenty of other weird, crazy movies we watched too, and we were given free reign over the TV at our grandparents house, which had HBO. I wonder if our mom (no need to include dad in the whole "caring" thing, I know that answer) just didn't care or maybe she thought we wouldn't "get it" so it didn't matter? She admits she used the TV as a babysitter, but when we rented movies with our aunt, she even watched them with us.

I just wonder what we would be like today if our movie/TV watching had been filtered. I think it's beyond reasonable for people who grew up watching the kinds of things we did, to be at least slightly disturbed.

Oh, and to throw another twist in the plot: We weren't allowed to watch the Simpsons, and were forced to fast forward though "that scene" in Earth Girls are Easy. Some parenting.