but you do not often approach those authors or directors as if they were depicting actual reality, real life there on the page or up on the screen, breathing and bleeding and genuine. Through the course of the story each role is clearly expressed and there are no doubts that these people act based on their own choices and what, to them, is rational thought and reason. Children are supposed to be the epitome of innocence and everything that's good in the world so when they do something horrific and psychotic that is something that I just can't comprehend. Perhaps it’s because this dude is an immigrant and looked down upon (it was the 70s), although I’m still not so sure. More than a terrifying horror story, Let’s Go Play at the Adams’ is a compelling psychological exercise of brooding insights and deadly implications.

Yeah, I know she’s not that type of person, but an extreme situation would surely bring with it an extreme reaction. not context that excuses those things, but context that allows an understanding of why they occurred. At its heart, ‘Let’s Go Play At the Adams’’ is exactly what horror is designed to do – make us think and look within ourselves.It is interesting right from the start and after the first short chapter, soon gets into the action, and then never lets up until the end. It begins with the what-if premise of Barbara being saved at the last minute, and the kids' activities exposed as a result, and explores the resulting media frenzy and criminal trials, as well as Barbara's physical and emotional recovery from her ordeal. But these children are effluent and clever, and they soon become bored with the games they play with each other that can only go so far. Its plot focuses on a group of rural Maryland children who drug, incapacitate, and eventually torture the college student babysitter hired by their parents while they are away in Europe for two weeks. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

This became a key part of my reading life last May (2018) after my wife got one for me as an early Father’s Day gift.As I mentioned before, there isn’t a huge amount of “on screen” torture and violence, but when it is there, it’s grotesque and nightmarish. There seems to be no redeeming human quality in them, no chance that one could have a spark of realization of what they are doing to a fellow human being and save their victim. While the rape is a physical assault, the use of it in this story is more for the psychological damage it inflicts on Barbara and the beginning of the transformation of John. but I have read much worse as I'm an addictive true crime/horror reader and this just seamed a little "calm" for me, I was told by a friend to read this before reading "THE GIRL NEXT DOOR" as she said if you can't handle reading"LET'S GO PLAY AT THE ADAMS" then you most definitely won't be able to handle reading this book! It’s a book that has a profound effect on people, one that keeps horror fans looking for it almost as much as it makes them breathe a sigh of relief that it remained (until recently released as part of the Paperbacks From Hell collection of reprints) incredibly scarce.