[Little Monsters] Ugh, I now think this childhood favourite of mine is actually about pedophiles. submitted 1 year ago * by King_Buliwyf EDIT: This theory comes from my brother, who has now ruined another part of my childhood. EDIT: BOMBSHELL - SCROLL DOWN TO #9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Monsters For the initiated, the film stars Fred Savage as a young boy who discovers that monsters are real. They are former. Children who live in another dimension, the doors to which are located under beds. Maurice (Howie Mandel) is a monster who Brian befriends. He starts visiting the monster world and causing mischief with them until he gets scared when he begins to change into one. He then finds out that he's being groomed to be handed off to the monsters' evil dictator, Boy. THEMES AND IMAGERY: Strange man-child (Maurice) stealing a young boy away to a world where "no one tells you what you can't do." Parents mustn't be told. The stolen child is from a broken (breaking) home and is looking for a friend when he is taken advantage of. The boy is taken under the pretense of friendship, but is eventually meant to be given to another, even stranger man-child (Boy). Boy, by the way, wears a schoolboy outfit with knee-high socks. He also wears a young face to hide a literal monster underneath. Even assuming Maurice and the other Little Monsters are children, they are rounding up other innocent children to be used and abused by the only two adults in their world, Snick and Boy. Brian only sees how awful their world is when they try to abuse a baby right in its crib, and refuse to stop. Boy kidnaps Brian's little brother Eric and keeps him obviously drugged and in a box. When Brian refuses to submit, he tosses him into a box as well. The villains can only be defeated by "shining a light" on them and their actions. SUGGESTIVE DIALOGUE FROM AN ADULT IN A CHILDREN'S FILM (SOMETIMES TO CHILD CHARACTERS): MAURICE: Man's best friend, his right hand. SNICK: You're scared of me, aren't you Arnold? I like that. Oooh, I love that. deep heavy breathing MAURICE: Dead kids have limited potential, and I don't think Boy would like damaged goods. SNICK: We almost had him Maurice. And you let him get away. Boy sometimes gets lonely. He wanted to play with him. MAURICE: Why doesn't Boy just play with himself? SNICK: You bring a kid in here, and tell him our secrets! If you can't get him, I will! MAURICE: Where there's a bed there's a way. MAURICE: Got em, got em, need em! cups dick and balls MAURICE: You gotta get up there, cuz you're gonna get married pretty soon. to an 11-year old boy BOY: I'll let them all go, if you'll stay... and be my paaaal. BOMBSHELL Read this fucking exchange between Snick and a small child (recently turned monster): SNICK: Boy gets what he wants. He asks you for a favour, you should take it as a compliment. ARNOLD: I tried Snick! I tried! SNICK: Well, you didn't try hard enough! ARNOLD: My knees, they hurt! SNICK: Oh your knees hurt? Well that's not the only thing that's gonna hurt.