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In films such as Darkness FallsВ (2004) and BoogeymanВ (2005), mythical monsters such as the Tooth Fairy of The Boogeyman manifest in the place that children sleep. Sometimes, the child's bedroom and the fears found there are all about the stories or fairy tales we tell children. Hoopers' Invaders from MarsВ (1986) makes a lot of this fact, and the film's horror plays out, specifically, in the (mental) span between bedtime and morning. The bedroom is the last conscious sanctuary we have before monsters can enter our (unconscious) minds and threaten us. The bedroom is the gateway to dreams - and nightmaresВ - so it makes perfect sense that many horror films feature scenes set in this domain. When the bedroom is invaded, terror blossoms. When we sleep, we can't defend ourselves,В and so 'This Boy's Bedroom' is the very place where children feel most ill at ease. Poltergeist, Child's PlayВ and GremlinsВ all play on this conceit, whether with clown dolls, evil Good Guy dolls, or monster eggs. When we go to sleep, we are all vulnerable. In terms of narrative or thematic utility, the bedroom of a child is a pretty important location in a horror film. Here, your favorite franchise - down to the sugary Good Guys cereal, I supposeВ - could kill ya! More satirically, the notion of product placement run amok was commented upon in Tom Holland's extraordinary horror film Child's PlayВ (1988), which saw a little boy menaced by the very Good Guys toys he loved. I played with those trading cards! I had that model kit, and so forth. These pop culture items are not just period details, they generate nostalgia. Abrams' Super 8В (2011), which also charted a late 1970's/early 1980's bedroom, replete with models, toys, posters and board games. This idea was recently resurrected in J.J. When I first watched PoltergeistВ or Gremlins, I knew what I wanted my bedroom (and now my home office.) to look like. I must wonder if, in part, this is specifically so because of these films, and the product-placement that appeared in them so frequently. became, like me, life-long collectors of toys, models, trading cards and other movie/tv-related goodies. Return of the JediВ (1983) bed covers appeared in The Stuff,В and Star WarsВ figures and spaceships appeared in PoltergeistВ (along with Milton Bradley's Big Trak).ДЄccordingly, fans of horror films and non-horror films such as E.T.

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Specifically, toys from popular movies or television series (such as Star Wars) began appearing in prominent genre films in the 1980's ones that, like Star Wars, guaranteed big, devoted audiences. The production-design dictating the shape of a child's bedroom is important for another reason too: The media's understanding and application of advertising techniques.

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The unjust or villainous are punished here, and those who 'know' horror also realize how to survive because of their 'training' in the genre. By featuring these bedrooms in these films - bedrooms filled with monster posters or models - the directors are making a point that horror is in fact normal, and possesses value. In fact, kids who liked horror were teased and mocked not just by parents, but by classmates too.

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For the movie brat generation, parents did not always understand or approve of a love of the horror genre. In Romero's Creepshow, a little boy reads a comic-book (that his father does not approve of), in his bedroom, and he ultimately gets revenge on his Dad for being so cruel. In this situation, once more, the love of horror is the factor that saves and protects lives. Similarly, in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman) utilizes his love of monsters and even his talent making monster masks to put (a temporary) end to the monster Jason. The reason why he survives, explicitly, is his love of horror, and that love is reflected in the production design of his bedroom. When Mark Petrie (Lance Kerwin) is visited in his bedroom by friends transformed into menacing vampires, he knows what they are and that he is in danger. In Hooper's Salem's Lot, a love of magic and monsters is important, because that's the 'training' by which you detect the real vampire in your midst.

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