Does anyone remember this thriller from 1993, where Culkin played a boy who was secretly plotting to murder a member of his family, and whenever his cousin (played by Elijah Wood) tried to warm them, they wouldn't believe him.
The enormous irony surrounding this film in the UK is that, while it was banned from 1993-95 because of Culkin's huge
popularity among children, and parallels between his character and the boys who murdered Jamie Bulger, a novelisation of the film, aimed at people over 12 years old, was published by Penguin Books in early 1994 - and I bought a copy and read it, thus assuming it would soon come on at cinemas in the UK, and still find it hard to believe that when it was released straight to video in the UK,
it was given an 18 certificate! (Ridiculous, if you ask me, given that "The Good Son" is far less psychologically traumatising than the 15-rated "Psycho"!)
That a respectable publishing company should publish a novelisation of what was then a banned movie (later 18-rated), and market it at people aged 12+, is far more ironic that producing "Alien" and "Predator" action figures for kiRAB. At least that's what I think!
Does anyone here think it was right for this film to banned in the UK, as a result of the media uproar surrounding the Jamie Bulger tragedy? More to the point, did it deserve to go straight to video in the UK, and get an 18 certificate?
The enormous irony surrounding this film in the UK is that, while it was banned from 1993-95 because of Culkin's huge
popularity among children, and parallels between his character and the boys who murdered Jamie Bulger, a novelisation of the film, aimed at people over 12 years old, was published by Penguin Books in early 1994 - and I bought a copy and read it, thus assuming it would soon come on at cinemas in the UK, and still find it hard to believe that when it was released straight to video in the UK,
it was given an 18 certificate! (Ridiculous, if you ask me, given that "The Good Son" is far less psychologically traumatising than the 15-rated "Psycho"!)
That a respectable publishing company should publish a novelisation of what was then a banned movie (later 18-rated), and market it at people aged 12+, is far more ironic that producing "Alien" and "Predator" action figures for kiRAB. At least that's what I think!
Does anyone here think it was right for this film to banned in the UK, as a result of the media uproar surrounding the Jamie Bulger tragedy? More to the point, did it deserve to go straight to video in the UK, and get an 18 certificate?