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09. May 2009 at 17:32
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Amusement
2009

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typical horror film ... three young women attacked by psycho killer ...

young cousins of one of the women...

Brennan Bailey as Danny

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Preston Bailey as Max

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Eyad Kurd-Misto as the killer in childhood flashbacks

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Re: Amusement
Reply #1 - 11. May 2009 at 21:15
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"typical horror film ... three young women attacked by psycho killer ..."

gee, you mean that's been done before?

Brennan Bailey reminds me of Keegan Macintosh in that first pic.
  
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Reply #2 - 14. May 2009 at 08:09
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The psyco is probably one of the kids, traumatised because a stranger smiled at him in the street.
  
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Reply #3 - 15. May 2009 at 02:12
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cal-Q-L8 wrote on 14. May 2009 at 08:09:
The psyco is probably one of the kids, traumatised because a stranger smiled at him in the street.


The sad thing is that nowadays your tongue in cheek comment is all too true. In today's culture of fear children are being indoctrinated to fear all "strangers" as evil and dangerous. I'm so glad I grew up in the 50s and 60s when a boy could leave home in the morning, not knowing what he was going to do all day, get on his bike, join his friends and go exploring all over town, having all kinds of mini adventures and meeting all kinds of people. Then the kids would all go back home when the sun was going down and the Mom would say "Did you have fun today, honey?"  Smiley
  
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Reply #4 - 15. May 2009 at 06:44
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Same here K, that's exactly what I used to do, I remember that when I was 5 years old I walked half a mile to school each day by myself. On weekends I'd be out of the house as soon as breakfast was over and as long as I was home by the time it got dark there were never any questions.
  
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Reply #5 - 15. May 2009 at 09:56
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Yup. Same here. That's the way it was with all the kids I grew up with in every neighborhood I lived in. I was rarely ever in the house. I was always out playing or going places like any other kid I knew and nobody was wiping our little butts, holding our hands everywhere we went, being kept in school or government supervised afterschool programs until their parents get home. I never heard of anything bad happening to any kid that I know of. Today's kids live in a very paranoid and over protective society. They're every move is monitored and supervised 24/7 and they are allowed no privacy. At least here in America. They are literally being smothered to death. I can't see how a kid can have any kind of a life or childhood living under the conditions that kids today are being forced to live under. How is a kid going to learn how to look after himself, manage his own life, or develop any social skills to prepare him for life as a adult. Sound to me like being in prison.
  
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Reply #6 - 15. May 2009 at 22:05
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Agree, agree, agree, K, Cal and phenom. I had only one potentially dangerous experience as a kid when a very well-groomed, well-dressed man grabbed my arm and tried to carry me off, on the pretext of scolding me for some bit of mischief. I pulled free and ran like hell - an option still available to any kid with a brain in his head.
  
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Reply #7 - 16. May 2009 at 02:02
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YoungArthur wrote on 15. May 2009 at 22:05:
Agree, agree, agree, K, Cal and phenom. I had only one potentially dangerous experience as a kid when a very well-groomed, well-dressed man grabbed my arm and tried to carry me off, on the pretext of scolding me for some bit of mischief. I pulled free and ran like hell - an option still available to any kid with a brain in his head.



Of course things like that can happen but those type of incidents are extremely rare, even nowadays. The media focuses on them, dwells on them and over dramatizes them to get ratings/sell papers, etc., which in turn instills overwhelming fear and paranoia in kids and their parents and so creates a constant state of fear. At least this is how it goes in America.

Yes, bad things do happen but as I said, extremely rarely and as you said Y.A. if a kid is savvy and has been taught to be street smart he or she can usually manage to avoid people like that.
When I was a boy we kids  knew when something didn't seem right. In fact we would go around and tell all the other kids in the neighborhood to avoid so-and-so because he was "weird". It was no big deal to us. We simply avoided that guy and didn't hide at home or live in fear.
  
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Reply #8 - 16. May 2009 at 02:38
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Yup. You're right on-point K.
  
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Reply #9 - 16. May 2009 at 13:55
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This just in

"Criminologists say the story about the man in the white van sntaching children off the street is an urban myth"

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"In recent years, many media reports about men in vans attempting to snatch children off the streets has played on a parent's greatest fear."
  
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Reply #10 - 16. May 2009 at 18:07
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One of the better takes on this topic was offered up by South Park in season 6.

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If you haven't seen it, it's worth a look.
  
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Reply #11 - 17. May 2009 at 00:37
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There's a big white van parked in front of my house right now. I'm going out and they better not try anything funny.
  
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Reply #12 - 17. May 2009 at 01:46
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YoungArthur wrote on 17. May 2009 at 00:37:
There's a big white van parked in front of my house right now. I'm going out and they better not try anything funny.


Don't worry. Once they snatch you and look at you, they'll throw you back.  Smiley  Roll Eyes  Grin

Oh, that was cruel. Anything for a laugh, eh?  Wink Smiley
  
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Re: Amusement
Reply #13 - 28. May 2009 at 07:02
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Smiley

In Britain, that white van is probably patrolling the streets scanning people's houses to see if they have a TV licence. In Australia it is probably scanning houses to see if we are visiting banned websites, in the USA it is probably scanning for anyone who looks Middle Eastern, and in Canada I guess it's scanning for American CEO fugitives.    Smiley
  
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Reply #14 - 05. Jul 2009 at 20:27
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I echo the words of `K`, `cal` and others who describe their childhoods in the 50s and 60s as being much more free than they are today. As a 6 year old, I walked two miles from school back home on roads that had no pavements. I would ride for miles on my little red tricycle and be gone for hours and when I came back my mum wasn`t in a state of panic. She knew I would be home and that was it.
`Stranger Danger` has now reached ridiculous levels especially in the USA and Britain. In fact, it is sometimes alluded to in boy films! If anyone saw `Lenny The Wonder Dog`, which starred the stunning Sammy Kahn, will have noticed the scene where the stupid cop is acting `funny` before an audience of kids, that behind him projected on a screen, are reminders for the kids to tell their parents just about everything they do and everywhere they go!
The whole thing has got out of proportion so that the kids can`t get out of the house and the men who would willingly be their mentors are too scared to go anywhere near them.
I`ve never heard of the film `Amusement` or any of the boy actors mentioned. I also can`t see what they look like because I am unable to bring up the pics of them. Can anyone really have a name like Eyad Kurd-Misto?
  
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