The Blind Dead
04-30-2007, 06:30 AM
I know I'm not alone in this sentiment, but I feel it strongly: Prepubescent boys creep me out something awful. Don't get me wrong-- by and large, I like children. Babies are great, four-year olds are funny as hell, and when kids hit six or so they become fascinating conversationalists. I once participated in a heated debate with a seven-year old concerning the merits of cubed cheese. True story.
Having said that, there is nothing in this world that can send me spinning into a week-long attack of the jibblies so much as a twelve-year old boy. Hovering right on the precipice of hormonal chaos, there's something about them that seems barely restrained, vaguely menacing, and utterly batshit crazy. This goes ten-fold if the kid in question is "A Good Boy." Niles Perry (Christopher Udvarnoky), one of the protagonists of the 1972 thriller The Other is an extremely Good Boy and the mere thought of his floppy page-boy haircut swaying in the summer breeze makes me want to hide under my bed and never come out.
Niles' twin brother Holland (Martin Udvarnoky), on the other hand, is a right bastard and for some reason that scares me less. I guess that's because you know what you're going to get from him, which is unbridled li'l jackassery. He'll carelessly break a jar of preserves, kill a rat for revenge, use his slingshot in...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000791.html)
Having said that, there is nothing in this world that can send me spinning into a week-long attack of the jibblies so much as a twelve-year old boy. Hovering right on the precipice of hormonal chaos, there's something about them that seems barely restrained, vaguely menacing, and utterly batshit crazy. This goes ten-fold if the kid in question is "A Good Boy." Niles Perry (Christopher Udvarnoky), one of the protagonists of the 1972 thriller The Other is an extremely Good Boy and the mere thought of his floppy page-boy haircut swaying in the summer breeze makes me want to hide under my bed and never come out.
Niles' twin brother Holland (Martin Udvarnoky), on the other hand, is a right bastard and for some reason that scares me less. I guess that's because you know what you're going to get from him, which is unbridled li'l jackassery. He'll carelessly break a jar of preserves, kill a rat for revenge, use his slingshot in...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000791.html)