Backstabba
08-10-2007, 12:31 PM
This could be just a personal thing that irked me, and maybe since the guy was seeing a movie based on a book based on a true story, he might've assumed. So, I might be overreacting. But this review (
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/review/1033)...bleh.
I was reading a review for "Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door", a movie based on the book which is loosely based on the Sylvia Liken murder. I say loosely because the book basically takes everything from the original crime and does it's best to make it more shocking.
Now here's the first paragraph from the review on Bloodydisgusting.com.
"Think you know pain? You don’t know *beep* Sylvia Likens knew pain. In 1958 she was locked in the basement of her foster home, and tortured for weeks and weeks, until she was dead. She was starved, denied the use of a bathroom, forced to eat her own excrements, raped, and beaten by the kids of the neighborhood. Her foster family would invite kids over from the neighborhood to drink beers, smoke cigarettes, burn and penetrate a tied up 13 year old girl in the cellar, as long as they didn’t tell anyone. It went on for around three months, until poor Sylvia Likens died. It was, as someone at the actual trial had stated, "the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana".
Not trying to say that what she suffered wasn't bad, or etc. But this guy has it all wrong. It was 1965, she was never raped, she was 13. I understand that not everyone is a walking encyclopedia (or dictionary, since I probably spelled enclyclopedia wrong) but...come on man.
Feel free to disregard this rant, I just needed to "get 'er out".
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/review/1033)...bleh.
I was reading a review for "Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door", a movie based on the book which is loosely based on the Sylvia Liken murder. I say loosely because the book basically takes everything from the original crime and does it's best to make it more shocking.
Now here's the first paragraph from the review on Bloodydisgusting.com.
"Think you know pain? You don’t know *beep* Sylvia Likens knew pain. In 1958 she was locked in the basement of her foster home, and tortured for weeks and weeks, until she was dead. She was starved, denied the use of a bathroom, forced to eat her own excrements, raped, and beaten by the kids of the neighborhood. Her foster family would invite kids over from the neighborhood to drink beers, smoke cigarettes, burn and penetrate a tied up 13 year old girl in the cellar, as long as they didn’t tell anyone. It went on for around three months, until poor Sylvia Likens died. It was, as someone at the actual trial had stated, "the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana".
Not trying to say that what she suffered wasn't bad, or etc. But this guy has it all wrong. It was 1965, she was never raped, she was 13. I understand that not everyone is a walking encyclopedia (or dictionary, since I probably spelled enclyclopedia wrong) but...come on man.
Feel free to disregard this rant, I just needed to "get 'er out".