OLIVER ROBINS has the distinction of appearing in what may be the single most Kindertraumiest scene of all time. In POLTERGEIST when a certain clown puppet attacked Oliver's character Robbie Freeling, Kindertrauma history was made. In fact, Robbie's late night slumber difficulties spoke to an entire generation of tykes who looked to the screen and nodded knowingly. Sometimes Robbie's fears were unfounded, like in the case of his sudden squeamishness toward his own Chewbacca t-shirt; other times they were more than warranted, like the time a tree came to life and yanked him out of his bedroom window. OLIVER ROBINS also happened to star in what is unequivocally one of the greatest television horror movies of all time DON'T GO TO SLEEP along with RUTH GORDON and megastar and HOGAN FAMILY dissident VALERIE HARPER. He meets a bad end, but perhaps not as bad as the sister he aided killing in a prank gone wrong that begins with tennis shoe laces being tied together and ends in an exploding car and a burned alive sibling. Add POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE, and a highly regarded episode of the eighties version of THE TWILIGHT ZONE entitled "MONSTERS" into the mix, and you have a kid whose OFFICIAL TRAUMATOT status (unlike his parent's choice of orthodontists) can never be questioned!!!
 
Oh Chris Higgins, you certainly are one of the more self-indulgent of THE FRIDAY THE 13TH final girls, aren't you? In the third installment of the franchise you get a lot of sympathy mileage not only from your long-suffering boyfriend, but also from anybody within earshot when you recall a vague incident that occurred two years prior to the events in the film. As you tell it during a double-exposure flashback, after your boyfriend dropped you off on the night in question, you got into a fight with your folks and then ran off into the woods seeking solitude. Resting under a tree, you were confronted by a disfigured man ("Almost inhuman" are your words) who you grappled with and the next thing you knew you woke up at home in bed. Then comes the part that we here at Kindertrauma have trouble with; you claim to have blacked out the sordid details of that encounter. Chris, really? You're going to use the old catchall excuse "the blackout?" Unfortunately for you Chris, Kindertrauma's scandal happy investigators were able to unearth 10 minutes of extra montage footage that was edited from the film at the last minute by Paramount. If we may be so bold Chris, it seems your problems have less to do with Mr. Voorhees and more to do with one JACK DANIELS.
