Talk about clutching at straws for news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3537938.stm

Poor students compelling to watch scary movies, I bet they couldn't even sleep at night ... having too many nightmares

I usually laugh at so called 'scary' and 'horror' films

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I´ve yet to see a "scary" film that gave me nightmares or stopped me from sleeping at night - on an odd occasion I might feel "startled" for a moment during the viewing but it has no lasting effect on me.

The Friday 13th films were more of an exercise in gore than an attempt to "scare". It´s the same with the films of Jason - an exercise in just how much gore it´s possible to squeeze into 90 -110 mins of film. The film that for my wife & I that was so distasteful that we had to switch off the TV - much to the disgust of our 3 kids - was "Killing in Texas" (as we saw it in Spain, in Spanish, many years ago I don´t know the original title in English I´ve translated the title in Spanish which was "Matanza en Texas"). I doubt whether we saw even half of the film but I just had to get up & turn the TV off - it was really sickening!!!

As for "Scary Movie" that was a laugh - it couldn´t scare anybody! It was another of those films along the lines of Freddy & Jason. We wouldn´t let our kids see them when they were young & had their first showings on TV - we didn´t watch them either! I know some parents send their kids to bed when they don´t want them to see a film on TV & then they sit back with their popcorn or a bag of crisps (or a pizza!) & a beer or fizzy drink & watch it themselves!

Of course it´s very likely that nowadays the kids have their own TV in their rooms so that tactic no longer works! If they haven´t got a TV they´ve probably got a computer with an Internet connexion! They can then see all kind of "scary" films or full of gore - the more the merrier! Even if they can´t see a film or trailers they still have their games even more full of gore - if that is possible!

Sorry if anybody thinks I´m ranting on! Gore = entertainment seems to be the password in the film & game industry of today!

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Face it dude, people wanna see stuff explode, preferably their boss or a loud neighbor, guess its better and much more health concsious to take it out on a bunch of pixels.