Parents undoubtedly love their children, but every now and then, they want some time off. That’s where a babysitter or nanny comes in. If everything goes to plan, these domestic godsends can be in and out in a few hours with some extra money in hand, as well as the satisfaction of knowing they helped ease a parent’s stress for a short while.
However, not every one of these caregivers (or their charges) gets off scot-free; the ones in horror count themselves lucky if they can go home after their excruciating ordeals.
And as these five dreadful episodes from TV anthology series demonstrate, childcare can be downright scary…
Tales from the Darkside (1983-1988)
Hush
Tales from the Darkside was not exactly a straightforward anthology. So often this iconic creepshow was vague, existential, and sometimes artsy. The episodes fans tend to remember most are the ones where the threat...
However, not every one of these caregivers (or their charges) gets off scot-free; the ones in horror count themselves lucky if they can go home after their excruciating ordeals.
And as these five dreadful episodes from TV anthology series demonstrate, childcare can be downright scary…
Tales from the Darkside (1983-1988)
Hush
Tales from the Darkside was not exactly a straightforward anthology. So often this iconic creepshow was vague, existential, and sometimes artsy. The episodes fans tend to remember most are the ones where the threat...
- 9/26/2022
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
Sometimes words and pictures come together in the same story. There’s more than one way of accomplishing this — comics is the most obvious, with the story told in a sequence of pictures and text (captions and/or dialogue), but there are other options — and books for pre-adults have typically made more use of pictures than those in the more adult portions of the library.
Remember: adults are dull and staid, and must not be upset or disconcerted by mere pictures in their very, very serious books. Children are more mentally flexible, and can handle the shock of the pictorial.
Teens are somewhere in between: they usually want to be adults, but they’re still young enough to question that dull stolidity, and still, sometimes, will gravitate to books with pictures in them. The two books I have in front of me today were published to be read by pre-adults...
Remember: adults are dull and staid, and must not be upset or disconcerted by mere pictures in their very, very serious books. Children are more mentally flexible, and can handle the shock of the pictorial.
Teens are somewhere in between: they usually want to be adults, but they’re still young enough to question that dull stolidity, and still, sometimes, will gravitate to books with pictures in them. The two books I have in front of me today were published to be read by pre-adults...
- 10/20/2011
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
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