May 2017
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/us/bella-bond-murder-trial/index.html
There were a couple of threads about this kind of thing on the IMDB board. I hope the person who started those threads comes here now... I can't remember who it was. At least one of the threads was about the Bill Paxton movie Frailty, and whether it could drive a crazy person to think their friends, neighbors, etc were demons. I thought the person who started the thread was making a fair point, although freedom of expression is important and shouldn't be fucked with.
Anyway, the person (or possibly people?) in this story might not have been driven insane by horror movies, but horror movies probably didn't help much. I think it's debatable. In this case, it sounds like both the guy and the woman in the couple were both pretty crazy... it sounds like either one could have killed the little girl. Jesus.
There were a couple of threads about this kind of thing on the IMDB board. I hope the person who started those threads comes here now... I can't remember who it was. At least one of the threads was about the Bill Paxton movie Frailty, and whether it could drive a crazy person to think their friends, neighbors, etc were demons. I thought the person who started the thread was making a fair point, although freedom of expression is important and shouldn't be fucked with.
Anyway, the person (or possibly people?) in this story might not have been driven insane by horror movies, but horror movies probably didn't help much. I think it's debatable. In this case, it sounds like both the guy and the woman in the couple were both pretty crazy... it sounds like either one could have killed the little girl. Jesus.
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The only case I can think of where someone perhaps went crazy because of a horror movie is Richard Delmer Boyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Delmer_Boyer . He got inspired Halloween II and the scene with the Elrods (the old couple).