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This morning, I went to my local cinema palace to see the stinkfest that is The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (and if that opinion offends ye, feel free to avoid my Eclipse: A hater’s guide post). The one part of the experience I did enjoy was watching the trailer for Paranormal Activity 2, which scared me as rigid as the adventures of Whiney, Glittery, and Would-you-like-to-see-my-abs?-y would later bore me stupid. In fact, I remember thinking at the time that the clip might be a tad too frightening for younger Twilight fans.
Apparently I was right. Variety is reporting that the theater operator Cinemark has pulled the trailer for PA2 from several cinemas in Texas following complaints that it is too scary. (Although, while I assume the complaints were genuine, I can’t help but be reminded of the publicity stunts of ’50s horror director William Castle who insured viewers of his film Macabre against “death by fright.”) Have you seen the Paranormal Activity 2 trailer? Do you think it is unsuitable for young Eclipse viewers?

Author:	Darkroland [ Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:43 pm ]
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EW wrote: This morning, I went to my local cinema palace to see the stinkfest that is The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (and if that opinion offends ye, feel free to avoid my Eclipse: A hater’s guide post). The one part of the experience I did enjoy was watching the trailer for Paranormal Activity 2, which scared me as rigid as the adventures of Whiney, Glittery, and Would-you-like-to-see-my-abs?-y would later bore me stupid. In fact, I remember thinking at the time that the clip might be a tad too frightening for younger Twilight fans. Apparently I was right. Variety is reporting that the theater operator Cinemark has pulled the trailer for PA2 from several cinemas in Texas following complaints that it is too scary. (Although, while I assume the complaints were genuine, I can’t help but be reminded of the publicity stunts of ’50s horror director William Castle who insured viewers of his film Macabre against “death by fright.”) Have you seen the Paranormal Activity 2 trailer? Do you think it is unsuitable for young Eclipse viewers? http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/07/01/paranormal-activity-2-eclipse-trailer/?hpt=C2 My favorite part is the comments: I am a TWI-MOM, I took my 12 year old daughter and her friends to see Eclipse today, and they played this trailer. I don’t appreciate them playing a rated R scary trailer like this for a movie such as Twilight whose target audience is girls ages 8-17. Ah, taking the 8 yr old to see the PG-13. Good times. Trailer is here - http://www.paranormalmovie.com/ Really, not that scary. It's probably much more detrimental to be teaching 8 year olds that if a boy doesn't like them, they should jump off a cliff, because their lives are completely worthless.

Author:	Rorinthas [ Thu Jul 01, 2010 5:14 pm ]
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Who cares?

Author:	Caleria [ Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:27 pm ]
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THAT trailer was too scary for the twi-tards??? OMG

Author:	FarSky [ Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:31 pm ]
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Exactly.

Author:	darksiege [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:19 am ]
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bunch of frikking pooooooosays! Heh, my daughter is bugging me to see Paranormal Activity 1 still, and the new George Romero "Dead" offering.

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Author:	Müs [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:03 pm ]
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darksiege wrote: bunch of frikking pooooooosays! Heh, my daughter is bugging me to see Paranormal Activity 1 still, and the new George Romero "Dead" offering. Yeah, but your daughter also has a severed chinaman's head on the mantel.

Author:	darksiege [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 3:32 pm ]
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it is fake... okay, to explain to others.. My friend Kyle likes the incredibly dark and macabre. And he asked Stampy what she wanted for her birthday almost 6 years ago. She (without thinking) said a severed chinaman's head. ... ... So he said okay. so for her birthday comes a large plexiglass display box. Inside of it is splattered with blood, hair, rocks and dirt. As well as a few insects. (obviously all fake) and right on the top front is a name plate. The 'deceased' was name Sum Ting Wong. Savanna has hated that since. It has creeped her out, but it was what she asked for.

Author:	Müs [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 3:56 pm ]
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She secretly loves it.

Author:	LadyKate [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:27 pm ]
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Hahahaha that is so cool

Author:	Numbuk [ Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:20 pm ]
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Awesome story. I love a sense of humor that makes extremely weird/disturbing/outrageous requests to get a laugh, especially when said with a straight face (I do this all the time). But I love it even more when someone knows how to combat this humor by straight-facedly calling their bluff.

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