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Joe Dante on Burbank Studios

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The Scullion on Joe Dante



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CoolRanch4Lyfe on Eerie Indiana

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TonyTimes2 on a the 'Burbs/Eerie Indiana mashup

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Dick Miller in a Gremlins themed Christmas sweater at his 90th birthday party

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Dave Lee Richards on Joe Dante

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Happy birthday to Joe Dante!

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Ask Metafilter thread: creepy movies and tv shows for a 9 year old

My nephew loves creepy movies, especially if they have a fascinating story or mystery behind them. He's too old now for most animated movies, and is very sensitive to watching anything he considers "baby" stuff. What to choose?

He likes: The Lady in White, Watcher in the Woods, Gremlins... He claims to have seen The Shining, but I think that's too scary for him. What really gets him scared and intrigued is ghosty stuff rather than murderous monster stuff.

I'd prefer he watch something with minimal gore and that isn't sexist.

I have no idea how they hold up -- maybe check out Eerie, Indiana or American Gothic? I remember being pretty weirded out by those when I was a little older than him. Also, Are You Afraid of the Dark.

Stranger Things obviously is a little more "murderous monster stuff" but there's ghostly-ness too.
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The Skinny: Joe Dante on Gremlins and modern horror movies

The sharp and witty director of Gremlins, Innerspace and The Howling visited Edinburgh International Film Festival to provide an insightful overview of his rich career

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Dante’s taken some knocks, but there’s a sense that his reputation is ever-growing, despite the paucity of his output (he’s only made three features this century). There has been a highfalutin book written about his work (“Yeah, in Austria,” he scoffs), while at Paris’ great church of cinema, La Cinémathèque française, he received a loving retrospective of his work last year, showing everything from his 1968 movie mashup The Movie Orgy to his wonderful kids’ show Eerie, Indiana, which was clearly a huge influence on Stranger Things (“I’m sure my cheque is in the mail somewhere,” Dante says knowingly when Romney mentions the Duffer Brothers’ wildly popular Netflix show).

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