The Desire of Horror
Charla's love of horror movies combine with Marty's love of psychoanalysis and history of religions. This is a review and analysis of horror movies and what they say about desire.
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The Desire of Horror
19. Gremlins
Gremlins is a true Christmas classic. We had Marty's sister Andrea back for this very special Christmas addition of the Desire of Horror. Although there is much about the film that doesn't make sense, this nonsense makes it all the more madcap and raucous, which is enjoyable for some of the more demented among us. And Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without Phoebe Cates recounting the time that her idiot father died a gruesome death while trying to climb down the chimney with the family's Christmas booty. The message of this film may seem to have something to do with the grim reality of Christmas for those who are not the beneficiaries of Capitalism's bounties, or it may seem to be about the invasion of foreign products that reeked such havoc on American manufacturing, but probably its about how little Corey Feldman got excited about a grown man's comic book and knocked over some water onto an innocent Mogwai named "Gizmo," which started a plague of highly intelligent Gremlins that nearly destroyed Kingston Falls, and gave Phoebe Cates one more reason to hate Christmas.
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