Horror movies or bad parenting?

[Romjon13]

Anyone who love scary movies will tell you, just because they can't take their eyes off the screen. I shit you not...when was the last time you were watching a scary movie and you dozed off? If you say yes, you have not been watching the right scary movies because they are all intended to scare the craps out of you or else make you leave the movie theather because its content is too violent, too graphic, too honest, too gross, too original, too intense for you. Well, you can tell, I am a horror movie enthusiast. I started watching horror movies at an early age...I remember that Friday night when it all started...I think I was 9, I was supposed to go watch cartoons but as I was screening the channels to see what was better than those boring animated series that I was forced to watch religiously, because everything else was forbidden for my very innocent eyes to view, if only my parents knew, anyway to come back to the subject, I flinched when I paused on channel 5, I thought I was going to turn the tv off because it was too intense for me to see, but what happened next was very strange to me...I could not bring myself to turn off the tv or to change the channel. I was so glued at that scene where Jason from "Friday the 13" was running after an innocent young woman... I was so attentive to the scene, waiting impatiently to see what was going to happen next. I was so amazed at myself to see how courageous I was to finish the whole movie by myself without screaming, or should I say too fearful that I might wake up my mom. All I can tell you is since then, I have addicted...I have been hooked, this is an addiction that I don't think I can ever bring myself to quit. Our parents did not want us to watch these types of movies at an early age, they feared that we might become violent and insane, but what they didn't know at the time is we all love what is forbidden to us. Also, that movies do not create serial killers, parents do...the way your parent treats you as you were growing up, their good values, and good genes are all that matters.

There goes my question, how many of you thinks that horror movies do create serial killers, or how many of you thinks otherwise?

"Horror movies do not create serial killers, their parents did."

[the_real_linda]

"movies dont create psychos, movies make pyschos more creative"


well ive always been allowed to watch horrors and im not a serial or a mass murderer so i gotta agree

[tcardenas]

i really dont understand this debate. how can watching something make someone a serial killer? makes no sense to me. it also doesnt make sense that people think violent video games make kids violent.. i agree that bad parenting is the issue.

[the_real_linda]

yeah and something in the brain....people who blame games and tv/films lack responsibility for their own actions.....its sheer lazyness.

[Romjon13]

Originally Posted by the_real_linda

yeah and something in the brain....people who blame games and tv/films lack responsibility for their own actions.....its sheer lazyness.

You're totally right...who else thinks the same way The real Linda and Tcardenas do or just let us have it...if you feel otherwise, trust me I can take it.

I don't think that horror movies create serial killers, lol. I do believe that you can be influenced by movies. As long as you can see, hear, and feel you can be influenced by anything, otherwise, why do we grit our teeth or have our bungholes clamp shut hard at that pivotal gory part in (insert movie)?

We like to be scared, that's why we watch them. Cheap beer and drugs make serial killers.:cool:

[Romjon13]

I liked your ideas on horror movies, yes they're there to scare the craps out of us but some inspire us to be good if we had good in us or to be evil if our upbringings dictated that type of behavior. Horror movies can be whatever you want it to be, just like sex..., if you want the sex to be good you create the mood for it, and if you want to buy cheap sex well, the performance will be cheap as well. That is just another way of looking at it.

[Posher778]

"movies dont create psychos, movies make pyschos more creative"

Scream 2

[the_real_linda]

Originally Posted by the_real_linda

"movies dont create psychos, movies make pyschos more creative"


well ive always been allowed to watch horrors and im not a serial or a mass murderer so i gotta agree

yeah i said that already


i agree that we are influenced by everyting around us but theres something wrong in the brain of killers that cant be done by a film

[XtRaVa]

I wrote an academic essay on the subject of video game violence, and its effect on young children for University.

I came to the conclusion, that generally speaking, the evil or violent behaviour that could lead to pre-meditated murder already lies in the persons psyche. Nurture can play a role, but mostly its nature that causes it.

Scientific studies have shown that many mass murderers have had similar brain cat scan results, which in some cases was down to their genes, and other times was even due to brain damage caused by knocks to the head which could have happened when they were very young.

Theres also been lots of tests where random people were shown neutral images and had their brain activity, pulse rates and other things measured whilst viewing them. Then they would show violent images and take note of the changes. They would then often do the same test on people that played violent video-games more than any other genre (and also people that liked violent/horror films) and saw that their response to the violent images were less significant to the random subjects, showing dissensitisation.

Anything can cause dissensitisation though, we see violence every day in films and games, but more importantly on the news and in real life, so to blame violent movies or games for people murdering others is quite stupid, but to blame the parents can also be as equally wrong.

Generally speaking in my opinion, and from investigations, it seems to be nature rather than nurture/real life experiences, hobbies and interests that creates psychopathic killers.