Final Destination poster banned

[crackers]

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/final-destination-5-poster-banned-for-making-children-cry.html

I can't pass judgement on the actual film or any of the FD franchise as I have not seen any of them, but have people really not got anything better to do.

[Mr. DS]

we are quickly becomming a very soft world...enough senstivity

[A.J. Bauer]

When I was little, I never liked looking for movies at Blockbuster. I always ended up running into really disturbing DVD art.

[Kaseykockroach]

Ditto, actually.

[El Misfito]

So how is having a skull with metal rods going into it bad? looks like an album cover IMO

[Mofo Rising]

Which children? I'm betting it's only the ones with pain-in-the-ass parents.

That image is frankly an embarrassment compared to the hay day of '80s/'90s VHS covers (and posters!) that used to festoon video stores. I still have vivid memories of movies I imagined were the most horrifying of horrifying due to those VHS covers. I've seen most of them now, and they are generally not very good or horrifying.

[RCMerchant]

Glad these wussies weren't around for stuff like THIS....



...they'd have had coniption fits.

Reminds me of the days when Morality Nazis ran EC comics out of buisiness.



Heck...my parents let me read stuff like this...and I came out OK! 

[ulthar]

You guys are all assuming that it is the picture that is deemed "disturbing."  That picture is pretty cartoonish, and my experience with children, though admittedly limited, suggests to me that the picture is not what's causing the anguish here.

But this poster has something those older, decidedly more graphic ones, do not:  the text "Death has never been closer."

That's actually a pretty frightening line (for those children that can read it...the article I read did not say how old these children were).  I submit this might be the true source of the problem.

Death as an abstract is pretty scary for children, and VERY scary for parents that want parenting to be easy.  After all, the parents might now have answer some real-world questions like:

"What happens when we die?"
"Will I die?"
"Will I die soon?"
"Will YOU die?"

etc.

[Jack]

What probably happened:  thirteen perennially indignant douchebags complained about it, the same way they'd complained about everything else they'd encountered in the world in the past ten years.  Three of them lied and said their kid were upset by it.  Even though they don't have any kids and/or the kids thought it was awesome.

[Mofo Rising]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCfWJn8EzNo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCfWJn8EzNo</a>

[crackers]

You guys are all assuming that it is the picture that is deemed "disturbing."  That picture is pretty cartoonish, and my experience with children, though admittedly limited, suggests to me that the picture is not what's causing the anguish here.

But this poster has something those older, decidedly more graphic ones, do not:  the text "Death has never been closer."

That's actually a pretty frightening line (for those children that can read it...the article I read did not say how old these children were).  I submit this might be the true source of the problem.

Death as an abstract is pretty scary for children, and VERY scary for parents that want parenting to be easy.  After all, the parents might now have answer some real-world questions like:

"What happens when we die?"
"Will I die?"
"Will I die soon?"
"Will YOU die?"

etc.

In the article I posted above it states "According to The Guardian, the ASA received 13 complaints that the imagery was too distressing to be seen by children"

[El Misfito]

According to The Guardian, the ASA received 13 complaints that the imagery was too distressing to be seen by children, with three of the complaints stating that their children had become "visibly upset" on seeing the poster.

Who are these people trying to kid? There's Video Game Poster's more horrific than this! idiots.

[SynapticBoomstick]

Aaaahahahahahahahahahaaaaa! HA-HA-hahahahahahaaaa! *snicker* Geeeyyahahahahaha!!!!

Oh wow, some parents shouldn't leave the house.

[66Crush]

It's a horror film, what do you expect the poster to look like?

[Archivist]

That's a very cool poster, actually!  If I was a kid I might even stick that to my bedroom wall.  As a kid we were friends with the local video store owner, and we got all sorts of posters which I put up, including The Terminator, Dune, The Ninja Mission etc.  I still have them, all rolled up and stored somewhere.  If I was a kid that poster would definitely be in my collection.

I agree with others here that some cover art from the 70's and 80's was scary.  Much worse than the skull with rebar going through it, that looks more like a heavy metal album cover.  I used to read horror movie boxes with a kind of fascinated revulsion, where the box art, promo images and blurb made each movie  sound utterly gruesome.  Imagination was often more effective than the movie.