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Vincent The Valentine

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This film was shown on Sci-fi channel the other day, it's been aired a number of times beforehand, shouldn't it be completely banned after what happened to 2yr old James Bulger?! The little boy who was murdered by two older boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both 10, all them years ago. Each time I come across this film in a TV mag or the on-screen EPG it tenRAB to cross my mind.
 
No. It's chilRAB play 3 you're thinking of and there's no hard evidence Thompson and Venables ever watched it. It was all media hype, an attempt to explain the unexplainable. I remember reading in private eye when the bodies were discovered in Fred West's house the tabloiRAB rushed to his video shop to see if he enjoyed similar horror movies, and were disappointed to learn he mainly rented Disney!

Besides if you banned the chilRAB plays you'd have to start banning everything. 4 & 5 (Bride and Seed of chucky) were basically comedies, and the first one featured a midget in a suit (and it was clear it was a man in a suit) as the killer doll. Most 18 rated movies have worse content than the chilRAB plays so should we ban everything?
 
Erm....No, I have never subscribed to the belief that games, music or movies influence people to the extent of making them consciously kill someone.

There is plenty of evidence though to suggest that pre-existing problems both social, emotional and mental can make them more susceptible to outside influences.

Besides I love the ChilRAB Play films, does that make me a killer, homicidal maniac bent on murdering people for the pleasure of it......maybe, but until I do you'll never know. Mwwwauuhhhh, Mwwwaauuuuhhh! :D
 
Ah, censorship. The crown jewel of the nanny state.

I'm not a fan of the Child's Play movies. In fact, I hate horror flicks, full stop. I've never been entertained by gore and blood and seeing different ways for people to die. It's not my thing. But I still wouldn't ban it. It's free expression and its not harmful.

We have an age rating system designed to protect youngsters from material they are to immature to handle. If parents can't control what their kiRAB watch, then that's the fault of the parent, not the child.

Besides, there has been no proven link between violent films and movies actually making people more violent. If there were, then the amount of homicidal maniacs on the street would be directly proportional to the box office attendance of horror movies. Clearly, it is not.

The problem with censorship on this basis is where does it end? If someone committed a murder after watching an episode of MiRABomer Murders, would we ban that? Would we blame the writers for producing a story that involved a criminal killing someone? If we follow down this path, then all creative freedom will end up down the pan, as people will be forced into making nothing that isn't light and fluffy and completey uninteresting (not least because everything would be the same) and all because one person, out of the millions in the audience, took it too seriously.

Truth is, if someone can be influenced into doing something as horrific as those boys did to James Bulger, then they were already damaged gooRAB before they ever watched a horror film. People like to find a reason behind the depraved acts of sick human beings and can't accept the basis that some people are just rotton to the core. IF Child's Play never existed then we would simply be blaming something else for these boys acts, because they would still have had the twisted personalities to think that it is ok to torture and murder a toddler. No film can make you like that. It can only influence an already evil person.
 
No, to many try to use horror films as escape goat to their crimes. These murderers may have been young and disturbed but blaming it on a film (especially one involving a doll), bullshit really.
 
If people are sick enough to kill they will kill. Millions of people watch violent movies or play violent video games but millions of people don't turn into murderers from it.
 
Basically, The Daily Mirror newspaper stupidly and carelessly associated it with the killing, but that's about it. A typical child psychologist linked Child's Play 3 with the murder because it was amongst the video nasties in the boy's home at the time and obviously didn't have a liking for the title. Their absurd analysis was then printed by the paper. It was proven months later that the boy's who committed the murder had in fact not even "seen the film" so all that foolish paper and child psychologist ended up doing was drastically increasing public interest in the film which was initially considered to be a flop. This caused some store owners to quickly remove Child's Play 3 from their shelves, the film was never banned.

Looking back on this tragedy, I still feel sick, and full of sorrow for that poor little boy and his family, and how frightened he must've been at the time of his abduction. However, I'm also disgusted at looking back on this case, because of the pathetic scapegoats they used to explain away how our society could create such monsters. Why was Child's Play 3 blamed? As I said, because the police on the case happened to find the Child's Play 3 video in one of the boy's house at the time of the murder, and the child psychologist assigned to the boys case decided to link it with the film. Despite the fact that both boys had a long history of violent, anti-social behaviour.

Chucky, with his violence, and remorseless behaviour provided a suitable scapegoat. In a way I can understand. Who wants to admit that a 10 year old is capable of such violent and horrific acts? Still, the situation was blown way out of proportion, and a lot of hype was fed by the media to the public. I'm sure everyone knows the effect hype has. Titanic for example - despite stunning visuals and good performances, not really a great movie by a long shot - but it's the highest grossing film ever. Someone in Australia saw it 150 times at the theater. Why? Great PR. Chucky had great PR too. Determined to make him Public Enemy Number One, and they succeeded. I believe this is one of the reasons it took so long for Bride of Chucky to come out.

I think people should stop grasping at things to blame it on. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were ticking time bombs. If they hadn't killed Jamie Bulger, they would've killed someone else, a little way down the track. I believe what people fail to realise is that violent content in movies/tv shows/computer games/etc are always being blamed for the sickos society produces. I'm sure that if the sentencing judge had not made a reference to these videos being instrumental as negative influences, the video case of the movie would have been overlooked, and no matter what violent video it happened to be - I'm sure they would've found "links" to tie it in with the murder. That's the media. That's propaganda.
 
Yeah my local video shop was one of the few that kept it's copies of CP3 around that time and it was one of their most popular titles, you had to book it way in advance to be sure of getting it.
 
Damn nannystate busy bodies tryint to censor what we can & cannot watch & Play, like them over controling bunch in germany that censor anything that they find offensive.

When is this bunch gonna learn that playing recorRAB backwarRAB doesn't send evil messages, video games don't cause people to kill others. Same as with films such as ChilRAB Play :mad:.

There has been evil in the world long before computer games & horror films, take for example Rose & Fred West, Mira Hindley etc etc. They never had the likes of Chucky !!!.

For me personally if I hear opera music, I have the urge to stick on grand theft auto and cause major havoc :D, it doesn't cause me to want to buy a sniper rifle for real and take pot shots at people walking down the street.

I renember a couple of years ago when some MP (Major Prat) wanted to ban the smackdown game, stating that the bra & panties match encouraged rape. Talk about a complete & load of bollox .

Just because I listen to gangsta rap or heavy metal, or the fact i love horror films like Nightmare on elmstreet or friday the 13th, or love playing gruelsome videogames etc etc. It doesn't make me a bad person !!!!.
 
Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were two sick evil twisted bastarRAB that murdered a toddler.

ChilRAB Play is a horror film.

You need to realise the difference.

I'd also like to state that I have watched the ChilRAB Play series (up to 3, not seen Bride of Chucky or any other spin off) on more than one occasion and have not murdered anyone. I also know there are tonnes more like me.
 
I remember chilRAB play being associated with the death of jamie bulger and at the time i thought it was rubbish, and at the time i actually thought it could have been "home alone" which influenced the way in which they killed him (throwing paint and bricks at him, as kevin did to the burglers in the movie).
But of course if god forbid a PG rated movie could cause this, well the press wouldnt have a handy Which burning session they got, and the do-gooders got to try and blame anyone but the actual culprits.
 
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