Very disturbing scene....

The child is obviously in very real distress. It's inexcusable to a) film that distress and b) put it in a movie for no other reason than to shock.

Most young people (by which I mean under-30s) are still trying to test their own emotional limits. As the years go by, and life's little lessons accumulate, a maturing individual will have experienced - or those dear to her/him will have experienced - enough horror and fear in real life to engender a change in tastes; a horror fan will indeed, hopefully, remain a horror fan for life, but s/he will begin to become very discriminating about the subject matter and above all the way it's treated.
Extreme horror, as dear old Ebert once said, is fine, but M-S-P isn't extreme horror. Nor is it an exercise in deliberate bad taste. It's simply an attempt to shock made by a 'fim-maker' who is clueless about the necessity for atmosphere, mood, identification with/sympathy for well-written characters, and the need for intelligent dialog.

Repeat: well-written characters and intelligent dialog.

This movie was the prerequisite for a bizzare satanic occult ritual in my town where the defendants claimed to be possessed by demonic forces,bizzare *beep*

I haven't seen the movie in years, so maybe I'm forgetting something or I missed the point. But why were random 9/11 scenes thrown in anyway?

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