Oct 29, 2026 · 22 min · 8 segments
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So when they tied in with obviously the inspiration for the Babadook, was that just done from the still pictures then?
Yes, it would have been.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They nobody.
I mean, there was a thing like in it's really odd.
America to British with horror is so completely different.
Yeah.
So they could watch Phantom of the Opera.
They could watch Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Both of those still exist.
So they'd lent the school.
Now, in this country, in the UK, the school would, like, they'd have priests in sort of, you know, laying waste and holy water everywhere if you tried doing that.
Yeah.
um so
that's my school that's my school days well yeah yeah
yeah just about everything like this was banned over where you were i
grew up in northern ireland as you can tell
so yeah so it was just very very different and and these creatures you know these like the universal characters became staple for kids.
You know, those films were shown in the late fifties and sixties in the afternoon on American TV.
They were put on in the UK at about after 10 o'clock.
Yeah.
Okay.
So when they tied in with obviously the inspiration for the Babadook, was that just done from the still pictures then?
Yes, it would have been.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They nobody.
I mean, there was a thing like in it's really odd.
America to British with horror is so completely different.
Yeah.
So they could watch Phantom of the Opera.
They could watch Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Both of those still exist.
So they'd lent the school.
Now, in this country, in the UK, the school would, like, they'd have priests in sort of, you know, laying waste and holy water everywhere if you tried doing that.
Yeah.
um so
that's my school that's my school days well yeah yeah
yeah just about everything like this was banned over where you were i
grew up in northern ireland as you can tell
so yeah so it was just very very different and and these creatures you know these like the universal characters became staple for kids.
You know, those films were shown in the late fifties and sixties in the afternoon on American TV.
They were put on in the UK at about after 10 o'clock.
Yeah.
Okay.
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