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wednes ([personal profile] wednes) wrote2004-11-21 02:15 am

Why Can't I Make a Movie Like That?

Here's a list of people who have murdered someone because of the movie Scream:

1999 Thirty-four violent films, including Scream , found in the rooms of two male college students at Hadlow, Kent, who stabbed a friend to death, dismembered his body and burnt it.

1999 Two schoolboys who brutally stabbed a friend and left him for dead after watching Scream convicted of attempted murder at Hull.

2000 Man shot dead in Liverpool after two men, one wearing a Scream -type mask, burst into his house.

France

2000 A youth aged 15, who said he was obsessed by Scream , wore the mask while stabbing his sleeping parents to death.

2002 Schoolgirl aged 14 tortured and left for dead by two friends who had watched Scream , near Mulhouse in Eastern France.

2002 A youth aged 17, arrested for the murder of a 15-year-old stabbed at Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, western France, admitted he was obsessed by Scream .

United States

1997 Three male teenagers who had repeatedly watched Scream murdered two girls in Salem, Mass.

1999 With the help of two cousins, a teenager stabbed his mother to death, after watching Scream , in Lynwood, California.

2000 A woman and two men, wearing Scream masks, robbed a store in Lowell, Mass, and shot a man dead.

2002 Man accused of shooting two men dead in a bar in Pennsylvania wore a Scream mask.

Belgium

2001 A lorry driver put on a Scream costume before killing a 15-year-old girl with two enormous kitchen knives, in the town of Gerpinnes.

In better news, Dead Zone has been picked up for another season. That's lucky for them, because I would have to seriously start stalking those Pillar guys if they didn't explain just what in hell has been going on with Frank Whaley's character. I'm just saying...now I'm off to write.

[identity profile] haroeris-astrum.livejournal.com 2004-11-20 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
The list of people who feel asleep during the film is much greater :)

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2004-11-20 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess someone thinks they're quite the Clever Trousers!

[identity profile] haroeris-astrum.livejournal.com 2004-11-20 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It's just what I heard :)

[identity profile] anarchys-savior.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
What's the number of people that saw the movie and didn't kill someone? I think it might be just a tad bit bigger. Besides, those people probably already had homocidal tendancies. Yeah, I'm probably preaching to the choir right now.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Well yes, I noticed after someone pointed out to me that I had chosen my words either poorly, or ironically. Of course, they were not killed because of Scream, we all know this. Nonetheless, there are people who think those movies cause violence, they honeslty hold the films more responsible than the perpetrators of said violence.

Therefore, my commentary was designed to elicit precisely your response in people, either with humor or exasperation.

BTW, have you read any of my novella? I know you're a busy one, but you might appreciate some of the logic therein.

[identity profile] sudrin.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
OOh! More Dead Zone? I just hope we get some more "Sarah". I miss that love triangle

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess audience response to Sarah sleeping with Johnny were very negative.

I love Dead Zone. In fact, the reason I never bought the Smallville DVD's is because i could only afford one box set and got Dead Zone instead. I have both seasons of that, and looking forward to buying 3, even though the writing was not as good as season 2.

[identity profile] sudrin.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
But... Negative? how can that be? That's part of the point of who he is?! Now its just going to be resolved?! Boooo!

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Johnny has a girlfriend now, that chick from 24.

[identity profile] sudrin.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, and she's about as interesting as a penny. Zzzzz

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah...but most of those skinny gals are!

;-)

[identity profile] anarchys-savior.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
...I will read it eventually. Do you have the entire thing somewhere? I have three days off from school and work, and would love to read it then! Sorry I haven't been reading it so far..:( I want to though. If you could just post it all up at once, that would help a lot.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2004-11-21 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a little long for that, each chapter is about 10 pages in MS WORD but not nealry so long as a post.

They are labled by chapter in my regular journal.

[identity profile] anarchys-savior.livejournal.com 2004-11-22 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'm so dumb. I thought I was going to have to scroll through my friends page to find each post you made...uh...yeah. Or I could just go to your personal journal. lol

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2004-11-22 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Silly!