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with a girl a few years back. I like making horror

things, I don't -- I don't really like being --

I don't like watching horror movies, but as soon you give me

the project of making something explode, or into a gory

mess, I live for that. -There are little

ones everywhere. We're one of the biggest in

this side of the United States. There are a lot of individual

parties, children's parties, I get asked all the time how

to do a zombie kid's party. Things like that. -My name is Robyn Winn

and this is Sofia. I would consider myself

a hardcore horror fan. It's not all I live and breath,

but I am a really big fan, and I like them a

lot, which is weird 'cause when I was little I

was kind of scared. of them. -I wasn't allowed to watch a

lot of horror movies growing up. My parents took the R

rating very seriously, so I was restricted from

watching a lot of these films. -My family's really --

anything scary, horror, blood, it's, you know,

the devil's work. -My mother-in-law, Joe's mom,

she's not very supportive of us like letting her

watch horror stuff. There's nothing that's going

to warp her, and like I said, there's nothing overly

sexual or super, super gory, and not a lot of

realistic violence. -My son's 11 and

he's been watching horror movies since he was four. And it's nothing -- I

mean, I I'm not concerned. He doesn't talk about it to

a point where it scares me. He doesn't do anything

that would scare me. -The first horror movie I

ever saw was "Ghost Ship," and I was four. I was a smiling the

entire way through it. I just loved it. -The first movie I

ever saw in the theater was "Beauty and the

Beast," the Disney. And I actually was so,

I was really young, and I was so frightened of

the beast on the big screen when he was all angry, that I

actually ran out of the theater and had to like stay out

in the lobby and calm down. -What I know is every

Disney movie has a really bad scary guy in it,

and psychologists will tell you that kids gravitate towards

that part of the movie because they get to practice

handling their fear. -It was "King

Kong" or "Godzilla" or whatever, and it was really

funny because my mother would watch them with me for

the first couple of years, to make sure they didn't

tweak me out for some reason. -My name is Sally

Skelding, and I'm an early childhood specialists. And throughout my career

in early childhood, I've been very interested

in the impact of violence on television and movies,

and how that influences the behavior of young children. -With Kiara we watch like

Addams Family movies, and Army of Darkness,

'cause it's super campy. Nothing too gory,

nothing sexual. -Being a parent, I have

a six old daughter, so my horror community

has veered back towards the Munsters,

and the Addams Family, and Universal Monsters. -In the very early

years they do not think the way that we think. They do not construct a

reality the way that we do, and a lot of people

simply cannot accept that. They'll say, oh my

child understands this, I explained that to them. And the child will sit

there and go, oh yes, I know this is pretend,

but they really don't because until they're

about eight or nine years old they do not even begin to

think the way that we do. JOE: Hey, so when we

watch horror movies, you know it's not real, huh? -I know it's just fake. -Is it costumes? Some times they

use puppets, right? Remember you were asking

about Army of Darkness and if the skeletons

were on strings. And I told you they

were puppets, remember? -That's like "Pee

Wee's Play House." -She does understand that

it's costumes and props. -A very young children,

like a preschool child, will go to see one of

these horrible movies, and they think this is real. Even though they

bought the ticket, they've gone in

with their parents, everybody says this is pretend. What they see on

the screen is real because it resembles

their reality. -My first exposure

happened at age six, and this was back

in the 1970s when PG movies could get

away with a lot more. So I saw full-frontal naked

Brooke Adams, and Donald Sutherland smashing in the

head of his alien doppelgangers here with a shovel, and kinda

going, what am I looking at? I felt like I'd

been shown much more than I was supposed to see. -Children have to see it

over, and over, and over, and over again in order to

try to make sense out of it. So they see it, it

comes into their mind, they have to make an adaptation

between what they've seen and their reality. If they're young, up to like

seven or eight years of age, that can be almost impossible

sometimes for them. -Just as long as you talk

to your kids about it, and you're like, it's not real. But you can't really keep

them from having nightmares, but I mean, you know, watching

"Poltergeist" at eight didn't hurt me. -Part of the problem

is that, in this age, we think the child is

anything from zero to 18, and so what we would allow our

18-year-old child to watch, then we go ahead

and let our baby go to the movies with this. Or we take our three-year-old

or our four-year-old. We no longer make those

very clear distinctions about what is appropriate

for children who are in the early childhood

years and early primary years, and what would be

appropriate for an adult or for an older teenager. -As a mother, I don't have a

problem with horror movies. We don't, like we don't

shy away from her right now with her around 'cause she's

too little to really notice, but I do have a stepson

and he is seven. He will not watch

anything with blood in it. He's like, no I won't

watch that, it's scary, and if it's got blood

in it I won't watch it. And I mean it's

really like up to him. -You will find absolutely no

child guidance book, no book on child development, no

expert on early childhood that will say, oh yes, the

thing you need to do is to fill your child's

head with horror. -I think that horror

movies themselves don't affect anybody. I think it's how -- I think

it's the person that decides how the movie's going

to affect them. Because I do work with children,

and there are children who do watch horror movies,

and they come to school and they are perfectly behaved,

and they don't perseverate on the violence, or the horror. And then I have other kids who

come and that's all they do, is to perseverate on the

violence and the horror. -Bottom line is, the kids take

everything off of the parents' vibration about it, so if

the parents think it's OK and it's just another

movie, the the kids grow up thinking it's OK and

its just another movie. -I kinda grew up as a gentle

creature in a somewhat hostile environment, and I do

believe that horror films helped me process

my environment. -I don't think anybody ever

landed on a therapist's couch and said, I'm hear because

I watched horror films. -I just think that this

horror stuff, if it goes in, it's going to come out and

we don't know how it's going to come out, and we do

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