The creepiest thing about this movie was the length of Debbie's skirt. If it were any shorter she would've pulled a Britney.
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Me too. And director Ed Hunt only makes things worse with that conspicuous low angled shot while Debbie is up on the balcony. It's wrong!
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The skirt length may seem kinda creepy today but we have to remember that fashion was different for both boys & girls of the early 80s. I remember when i was little of wearing short shorts and thinking nothing of it. Today, guys who wear short shorts are termed gay. Fashion changes & when this movie was made in 1981 the whole pedophile scare had not come out yet. People really didn't start thinking about inappropriate skirt length and clothes for kids till 1996, when Jonbenet was killed.
shareHaving been around the the same age as the kids in Bloody Birthday in '81, I remember many girls in school wearing dresses/skirts that short.
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I love Debbie's outfit, especially how she rarely changes it. Very chic. More like a uniform of terror and far more horrifying than if she was running around in pink osh-kosh-begosh overalls.
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That reply gets an A++! Its like Tim Gunn meets John Waters. I like the outfit she wore to one of the funerals, it was a short white dress with a vertical black stripe down the center-front with a black belt, it vaguely resembled an inverted cross if memory serves me correctly.
Oh, and onto the original post here dresses were totally pervy. Then again Debbie was a bit perverted. Perhaps they were trying to present her as a Lolita. She seemed quite interested in Timmy, watched her sister make out with her boyfriend (and possibly more), watched the couple in the graveyard getting it on (presumably), wanted to play "ambulance" with Timmy etc. Debbie was a bit of a junior bimbo.