The ’90s Horror Kid Starter Pack
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The ’90s Horror Kid Starter Pack

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 18, 202647 min

Send us Fan Mail This week we’re building the ’90s Horror Kid Starter Pack. We revisit the movies that scared us too young, retrace the video-store rituals that shaped our tastes, and celebrate the books, television, games, and toys that made horror feel like a childhood lifestyle. Support the show Thanks for listening to Hack or Slash! Want more from the show? Join us on Patreon for extended episodes, bonus reviews, B-sides, watchalongs, behind-the-scenes extras, and more ways to help keep the show alive and slashing. Support us on Patreo...

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We're talking about nostalgia, revisiting the things that we grew up with, and trying

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As a fun general note here, Shion and I are both technically children of the 80s.

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We are right in the middle of spooky season and this year we've been spending all the time looking backward. We're talking about nostalgia, revisiting the things that we grew up with, and trying to recapture some of that feeling of what Halloween and horror used to be like.

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As a fun general note here, Shion and I are both technically children of the 80s. They managed to experience the 80s for about 5 minutes before the universe deposited me directly into the 90s, that's what happens when you're a New Year's Eve baby. But because of that, I think discovering horror is specifically tied to growing up

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the 90s. And it wasn't just the movies, it was going to Blockbuster or Hollywood video, it was wandering through the horror section, staring at VHS covers for movies you had absolutely no business watching, it was catching something on TV halfway through and having no idea what the hell you were watching, it was

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