Word: slashers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move marks the end of one stage of a major investigation conducted to find the "slasher" who cut out the pages of hundreds of books--valued at over $200,000--in Widener and Pusey Libraries in recent years...
...Dowler and other library and policeofficials said the slasher could be anyone,including one of the 400-plus people employed atthe library...
Boys are constantly being subjected to so-called adventure films, which are really nonstop violence films with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator and Jean-Claude Van Damme doing blood sport, and slasher films in which people are dismembered, burned alive, skinned. By the time American kids are 18 years old they have watched 26,000 murders on television alone. Heavy-metal and rap lyrics often encourage rape and bigotry. It is contrary to common sense and research to think you can create such a culture and not have any effects...
Many European countries have much more serious restrictions on what movies children can see than we do in the U.S. We have these theoretical restrictions like the R rating. But the R rating is a joke. I went to see slasher films, and the movie theaters were filled with young kids. Some parents bring their children to see slasher films. When I went to see A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 4, there was a little girl sitting in front of me whom I estimated to be three years old. We need to educate those people to begin to understand...
Americans seem to be particularly fascinated by death. How else can you explain the popularity of Faces of Death--a movie consisting entirely of real deaths? Faces of Death II? Faces of Death III? Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street and their slasher sequels...