No question. This should not even be a debatable issue. How sick are we to think that movies have no impact on the hearts and minds of rudderless people (youth especially, since they are the main fans of these movies)! No. Society would rather listen to idiots devoid of common sense who say that movies do not aid and abet perverse behavior. Haughty psychiatrists, who ignore reality, shift to other factors and ignore the obvious. They are so sophisticated, don’t you know.
Take, for example, Rob Zombie, director of the last sicko Halloween slasher movie. His exemplars are Alice Cooper, Ozzie Osbourne, and Charles Manson, and, you name it, other satanists. Of course, he denies, as does Cooper and Osbourne, being a satanist. Yet their productions are totally sacrilegious, filthy, and sadistic. But they are not satanists. (Its for “entertainment value, nothing more,” says Zombie.) That is a lie. They are satanists; by their fruits, their obsession with Satan, and their hatred of goodness, they are in direct league with the demons. Satan is a “liar” Jesus said, and a “murderer” (John 8:44). Zombie, apparently, has no problem lying if it will earn him money; after all, even Catholic youngsters will pay $10 to revel in his vomit. Then, again, how can you trust a satanist to tell the truth? Are we so blind as to believe that a director who broadcasts cruelty, blood lust, hatred, and perversity of the worst sort, is even capable of telling the truth when it comes to money?
About eight years ago, I was astonished when a friend of mine’s daughter rented a video of Texas Chain Saw Massacre to show it to a visiting Russian girl whom she was “trying” to convert to the Catholic Faith. The girl was on some kind of student exchange program and had not been raised in any religion. After speaking to her of the beauty of the Catholic religion, the Catholic girl squanders all the good she had done by watching a satanic movie with the Russian on her last night of a weekend visit. Big deal, I was told. So what! It’s just a movie!
The following account of a teenager who murdered his mother and sister after watching Rob Zombie movies is just one example of the connection between cold-blooded murder and slasher movies.
NBC News: A 17-year-old wrote in a confession released Thursday that the horror movie remake of “Halloween” gave him the idea to kill his mother and sister. . . . While watching it, I was amazed at how at ease the boy was during the murders and how little remorse he had,” Evans wrote. “Afterward, I was thinking to myself it would be the same for me when I kill someone.” More on this here.
