If they wouldn't show it on the channel for 11 years, but they did in 2011, does that mean kids now have somehow evolved? lol Probably not, but perhaps they're more desensitized to horror movies. I loved horror movies as a kid and would be upset if my parents were one of those who complained. There will always be those people who ruin a good thing.
shareI've wondered that myself. What makes it okay to re-air the movie now? Why show it after trying to sweep it under the rug for so long? I hope they show it again this year, for children who haven't seen it yet. I don't think it was scary at all.
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perhaps they're more desensitized to horror movies
If they wouldn't show it on the channel for 11 years, but they did in 2011, does that mean kids now have somehow evolved?
I was 9 years old when I first watched it when it first came on and it wasn't that scary. It was an ok movie and it felt like a cheesy episode of Goosebumps and Are You Afraid Of The Dark? Speaking of Are You Afraid Of The Dark?, that show was 10 times more creepy than that movie and parents didn't complain about that? Sometimes, I just don't know about parents.
shareYeah although to be honest I'm not even sure that the parents even complained or if that was an urban legend.
It's just as likely given how there was *zero* promotion for the movie (like I read Nickelodeon Magazine at the time and they never mentioned it) that Nick was contractually obligated to show it once and they just wanted to get it out of the way. Kind of like how some producers will release movies in the bare minimum amount of theaters so no one will see it.
I just finished watching it on YouTube, and I'll admit, I can see why this might have been "banned". True it wasn't on the level of the creepypasta built around it, but it still is pretty creepy (I'd say if I had seen it when it first aired, I probably would have been freaked out). Plus there are somethings in here that might not have flown with the parents back in the day. The pretty long sequence of Andrew running around town in nothing but his underwear for one, then when Mr. Bennett is attacked by a possessed Hall, he's revived once but then passes back out. They never show what happened to him, and while he probably was fine, it's possible the injuries were bad enough to kill him. And that's another thing, people in this movie actually try to murder the protagonists. Not attack and weaken them for possession, they want to out right murder them. Take a look at the scene where Kenneth, after locking himself in the driver's seat of the hearse and is immediately attacked by the evil farmer. The way the car was attacked, he would have definitely died. At least in real life.
I think, in the case of this movie, the most likely/realistic scenario is that the movie had barely gotten any publicity to hype the potential and get kids interested in the movie and the kids who did see it were scared by it and told their parents, whom then complained to the studio. I don't believe the movie was "banned", as so much as it was quietly pulled off air due to low viewers and Nickelodeon just held onto it until the 90s throwback they do on TeenNick (no longer Snick)caught on and became very popular that they decided to bring this out of the vaults. As for the supposed events of the creepypasta surrounding the production of the movie, they aren't true and are merely meant to scare readers.
If it's been fifteen years or more, it's no longer a spoiler.
You basically got it right, except for one crucial detail: Nick rereleased this film only because it was already leaked (and very publicly so) on reddit and they wanted to capitalize on that free publicity.
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