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I'd been a bit scared of Reddit, although I've had an account there for a while. But I thought "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" and decided to see if I could make a serious post about Sandra Peabody's abuse on the
Last House on the Left set be noticed by anyone at all. I was expecting one of three things: either that it would get basically ignored and pick up about two upvotes and one comment, or that it would be downvoted to hell by diehard fans of
Last House, or that it would get deleted because I'd accidentally broken some minor rule and the mod on duty was feeling grumpy.
In fact, as you see above and to my
enormous surprise, the post resonated. After 18 hours it's just hit 250,000 views – though that's not a terribly helpful metric, as someone who just scrolls past it on their feed counts there. 774 upvotes, which is probably low for a 250k-view post but isn't bad at all considering how many people dislike "liking" a post that is about abuse. 341 shares. 200+ comments, most thoughtful. And the one that
really surprised me: 96.9% upvote ratio. I was absolutely expecting considerably more pushback from the "It was the 1970s; you're indulging in presentism" crowd.
I've left linking the post until now because I need to warn folks that it includes uncensored extracts from the actors' commentary track and that they contain disturbing comments, including stories of threats being treated as amusing anecdotes. The post is all text (the image at the end is a scan of magazine text). So, if you do want to see the #1 post on r/horror today then here:
Last House on the Left (1972) - the actors' Blu-ray commentary track is pretty disturbing ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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