Offensive enough for ya?
Because it’s way easier (and cheaper) to point the finger at banners/posters, horror websites and Rated R films as to the violence in this
society than actually dealing with the REAL problems; there’s been lots of
press now of late as to horror publicity, Rated R films and teenagers that
should or should not be exposed to them in any way shape or form.
Personally this all bores me to tears but somebody must think this is
interesting since they keep on harping about it like little girls who pooped
their pants…twice! Anyways; the New York Times
recently posted an article about all this and dragged us and fellow
genre sites Bloody Disgusting and Fangoria into it. Even our
very own JoBlo (aka Berge Garabedian) chimed in there! See an excerpt
from the article below or/and
read the whole thing here.
Spit your bullets about all this below!
“Yet things become murkier when studios — which
often attempt to block the underage from visiting their official sites for
R-rated fare — deal with Bloody-disgusting.com, Arrow in the Head (joblo.com/arrow),
Fangoria.com, or any of another dozen such Web sites. (Bloody-disgusting,
for example, includes chat forums that address such questions as: “Can
anyone suggest a good torture-esk movie?”) Hollywood companies commonly buy
advertising on such sites. Perhaps more effectively, they also open the
doors for set visits, early viewings, promotional contests and anything that
will attract fans. The operators of several such sites said they had no way
of knowing how many of their visitors were under 17, but believed the
numbers were substantial.”
“The horror site skews a little more toward the younger ones,” said Berge
Garabedian, founder of the Joblo.com film site and its associated Arrow in
the Head horror section, which this week carried a banner ad for an unrated
DVD of “Sublime,” about gruesome murder in a hospital, from Warner Home
Video. Mr. Garabedian said he tried to block visitors under 15 from
discussion boards in order to eliminate “a lot of MySpace craziness,” but
thought a considerable share of his Arrow in the Head visitors to be in the
13-to-18-year-old age range. (A Warner representative said the studio
believed fewer than 4 percent of the visitors to Joblo.com were teenagers,
based on information provided by the agency that places it ads, but had no
figures for the smaller Arrow in the Head site.)”
Arrow note on this: How about you focus
on the actual violence that takes place in schools, in neighborhoods and in
local pet shops instead? You know; put the energy where it matters! Funny
how times change yet stay the same. Peeps harp on the "easy" and "obvious"
targets and ignore the core of it all cause it would take way too
much work and che-ching to actually address it. YAWN!
Maybe horror films should be marketed like this from
now on…
…then peeps would hopefully be forced to focus on the real issues…
HEY TEACHER! LEAVE US HORROR FANS
ALONE!
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