AVQ&A: Gateways to horror

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Staff Writer Emma Keates asked the rest of <em>The A.V. Club</em>: What was your gateway to horror?</span></p> <div s="s" class="dfp" data-chars=""><div class="htlad-mid_leaderboard_rectangle_video" id="mid_leaderboard_rectangle_video" style="width:auto; height:auto;"><script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script><script id="a6a65fb9024c45f79e29d7fab97a0614">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=0a5a5d4b-02a8-43c5-b6cb-d47c44cae4bb&cid=f05e5dfa-afb4-420d-a94f-13c7f4af05fb'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "0a5a5d4b-02a8-43c5-b6cb-d47c44cae4bb" }).render("a6a65fb9024c45f79e29d7fab97a0614"); });</script></div></div><a name="slideshow" class="jezebel-slideshow-anchor"></a><div class="jezebel-slideshow"> <div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide"><div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide_title"><b><i>Beetlejuice</i></b> </div><div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide__embeds"><figure><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wLw3SVzu4rk?si=DZLrXFbBxFlPJGgZ" class="lazyload"></iframe> <figcaption></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide__body"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before I got around to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are You Afraid Of The Dark? </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Poltergeist</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, there was Tim Burton, the first director I knew by name. How could I possibly ignore the fact that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Batman</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and my favorite, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beetlejuice</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, were all made by the same person? (Unsurprisingly, Michael Keaton was my favorite actor) But </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beetlejuice,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> more so than the other two, informed my sense of the macabre and my sense of humor toward it. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beetlejuice</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s creatures, settings, and attitude toward death are plenty scary and subversive but in a more absurdly mundane manner that makes horror welcoming to outsiders or aspiring outsiders. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beetlejuice</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and its spin-off cartoon series, which I couldn’t get enough of, made death, tragedy, and horror in the macro funny to me, instilling a gallows humor that aided my transition to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gremlins</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and beyond. [Matt Schimkowitz]</span></p> </div></div><div class="dfp" data-chars=""><div class="htlad-mid_leaderboard_rectangle_1" id="mid_leaderboard_rectangle_1"></div></div> <a name="slideshow" class="jezebel-slideshow-anchor"></a><div class="jezebel-slideshow"> <div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide"><div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide_title"><b><i>Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory</i> (1971)</b> </div><div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide__embeds"><figure><iframe class="skip-lazy data-skip-lazy" title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XB401RfGMlM" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> <figcaption></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide__body"> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was the first horror movie I ever saw, and not just in a “the Oompa Loompas really freaked me out as a kid” kind of way. If you’ve watched it as an adult, you’ll know that this thing is as classic as they come. People point to the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB401RfGMlM"><span style="font-weight: 400;">boat scene</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (which is shocking to this day; there’s a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">chicken getting decapitated </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">in there), but there’s so much more. Charlie encounters a harbinger in the form of a creepy old janitor in the first ten minutes of the film. Wonka then makes the kids literally sign their life away before trapping them in his torture factory and picking them off one by one. We never even see them come out; for all we know, Veruca </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">was </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">burned alive in that furnace. It’s no wonder I gravitate toward films about body horror and crazed lunatics now.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">[Emma Keates]</span></p> </div></div><div class="dfp" data-chars=""><div class="htlad-mid_leaderboard_rectangle_2" id="mid_leaderboard_rectangle_2"></div></div> <div class="grid-x articles-inline-insert" id="inline-most_popular"> <div class="large-12 cell articles-header"> <a href="/articles/home/most-read" class="float-left hed v3"> Most Popular</a> </div> <ul class="articles grid-margin-x flex-container flex-dir-column"> <li class="grid-x grid-padding-x"> <a href="https://www.avclub.com/mike-tyson-reminds-child-reporter-that-she-too-will-die" class="auto cell copy-container "> <b class="title">Mike Tyson reminds child reporter that she, too, will die</b> </a> </li> <li class="grid-x grid-padding-x"> <a href="https://www.avclub.com/wicked-review" class="auto cell copy-container "> <b class="title">Strong leads and agile musical numbers can't fully colorize the first half of <I>Wicked</I></b> </a> </li> <li class="grid-x grid-padding-x"> <a href="https://www.avclub.com/tim-bagley-interview-random-roles-somebody-somewhere-curb-knocked-up" class="auto cell copy-container "> <b class="title">Tim Bagley on <i>Somebody Somewhere</i>, refusing to be flamboyant on <i>Curb</i>, and getting fired from <i>Friends</i></b> </a> </li> </ul> </div><div class="articles-inline-insert-slide"></div><a name="slideshow" class="jezebel-slideshow-anchor"></a><div class="jezebel-slideshow"> <div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide"><div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide_title"><b><i>We're Back! 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A Dinosaur’s Story</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a silly film for dino-obsessed kids that combines </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jurassic Park</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oliver & Company</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The post-Don Bluth folks at Amblimation gave a mismatched group of dinos big brains and sent them to present-day New York. Their foe was Professor Screweyes, the evil twin brother of their benefactor Captain Neweyes. (Yes, they are twins with different eye-based last names.) The brain-draining Screweyes is disproportionately scary throughout thanks to gravelly voiceover expert Kenneth Mars, but the most terrifying scene is his comeuppance. In an expressionist moment of shadows, spotlights, and shaky breathing, he’s devoured by a flock of crows, consumed in an instant, gobbled down to just a screw. [Jacob Oller]</span></p> </div></div><div class="dfp" data-chars=""><div class="htlad-mid_leaderboard_rectangle_3" id="mid_leaderboard_rectangle_3"></div></div> <a name="slideshow" class="jezebel-slideshow-anchor"></a><div class="jezebel-slideshow"> <div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide"><div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide_title"><b><i>Carrie</i> (1976)</b></div><div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide__embeds"><figure><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j9Mg-GRS46Y?si=xnoWZ4DPTXfyjUqY" class="lazyload"></iframe> <figcaption></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="jezebel-slideshow__slide__body"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Back in the days when people watched movies on network TV and would tune in in the middle, I half-watched most of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carrie </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">with my mom. 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