Horror flicks and horrific parents

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Yet, the most depressing and horrifying thing about these sorts of films is, alas, not the explicit gore. It is the fact that at nearly every screening of a gruesome horror film I attend (from Massachusetts to Texas), I see parents in the audience with young children. That strikes me as a serious form of child abuse and a more convincing sign of the impending apocalypse than anything depicted on the screen.

— Thomas Hibbs, and NRO contributor, is author of Show About Nothing.

http://www.nationalreview.com/hibbs/hibbs200601130818.asp

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