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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to be worried and angry about ads for horror movies everywhere

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paperdress · 25/10/2013 12:02

A few streets away there is a phone box; its v close to a nursery and a primary school.
Its currently covered with an ad for some godawful horror film and has big red letters simulating 'scrawled in blood' which spell "YOU'RE NEXT".
A few months ago it had another ad for another horror film which was a big zombie/skull face, the size of the phone box.
What the fuck is going on?
My 2 ds are too little to read but i actually worry more about the sadistic and extreme nature of horror films than internet porn, when they get older.
I push them past these ads in their pram and of course they clock it so what the fuck can their little minds be thinking?! Aibu to worry about the prevelance of such frightening images (and about the whole nature of horror films in general 'these days')
Will take it on chin if mums of older kids tell me not to sweat this...

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IHeartKingThistle · 25/10/2013 12:11

I feel the same OP. I am sure we will be told to get a grip.

hiddenhome · 25/10/2013 12:13

It's not acceptable for ads like this to be around esp. near schools.

efeslight · 25/10/2013 12:14

I agree, some of these adverts look horrible...I actually like to watch a horror film, though not too gruesome, once in a while, but we don't need to see it on the street during the day

Littleredsquirrel · 25/10/2013 12:15

I had a mini fit (to myself) at the grand theft auto poster right outside the school gates showing amongst other things a savage, snarling dog. Really shouldn't be allowed.

Helpyourself · 25/10/2013 12:15

I also feel the same. I used to steel myself and look at a picture from the end of 'Psycho'. When I was about 10. It's scary, but no worse than anything you can see on daytime TV advert or a billboard nowadays.
So young people are obviously becoming desensitised. Whether that's significant or not, I don't know- but I share your concern, OP.

DuckToWater · 25/10/2013 12:16

YANBU, I hate them too. They make me uneasy as an adult, and there aren't many scary films I can actually watch. When I was 7 or so there were pictures of Freddy Krueger in a few places and it terrified me. The worst thing was that some kids in my class had actually been allowed to watch those type of films.

Also I don't like overtly sexualised images at bus stops etc where women may be standing alone.

Fine to advertise 18+ or 15+ films on television after 9pm, but not anywhere where the adverts can be viewed by anyone.

DuckToWater · 25/10/2013 12:18

There was one of a film which came out recently - an evil looking grinning man which looked very threatening, near a bus stop. A group of people complained about it to the council and it was taken down.

Fakebook · 25/10/2013 12:21

What do you think will happen to our children if they see a horror movie advertisement? If that's the only thing they're being exposed to, then there's not much chance of them becoming serial killers going on the rampage. There's a lot of other shit a child has to be exposed to before they begin to normalise something like a horror film and that happens in the home. Keep your children safe and talk to them about these things and they'll be fine.

Littleredsquirrel · 25/10/2013 12:24

Its scary and unnecessary Fakebook. Its not that anything is going to happen to turn them into serial killers, its that they are little and things give them nightmares and there would be no need if the advertising was more responsible.

Fakebook · 25/10/2013 12:27

They don't give every child nightmares. My dd is almost 6 and she's not phased by "scary" looking things. She never has been. It depends on the child really. I don't think the adverts are that gory tbh. There's scarier masks and costumes displayed in shop windows at the moment.

NoComet · 25/10/2013 12:29

I hate them too.
Probably annoy me far more than the DDs, although DD1 wouldn't have liked them as a toddler. She was very twitchy about any TV trailer showing people upset or arguing.

I just think they should be kept to places and times of TV and web sites where older teens and students, go/watch and not liberally scattered everywhere.

TicTacZebra · 25/10/2013 12:30

YANBU. I'm really surprised they are allowed to show these images in such public places. I love all horror films but it really annoys me when I see an advert on the tv during the day. Okay, they don't show much, but enough for a child to be scared.

CoffeeTea103 · 25/10/2013 12:31

Yabu, it's not going to scar them for life. No point in getting so angry, it's unlikely to change every year.

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paperdress · 25/10/2013 12:31

Turning them into serial killers not quite my worry (!)
Just the casual normalisation of sadistic, threatening images and the suspicion that its seen as fussypants if i feel fucked off when i envisage the enevitable future conversations with my sons who are trying to get their heads around this stuff they are exposed to

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paperdress · 25/10/2013 12:43

...but i did say i'd take it on the chin if iabu. maybe i worry too much for them, i dunno...

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WMittens · 25/10/2013 12:43

I'm no psychologist, but I would guess a lot of their cues come from your reaction to the advert. If you're blasé about, they'll not register it as important or threatening.

TigerTrumpet · 25/10/2013 12:45

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ChunkyPickle · 25/10/2013 12:54

I agree - there's some pretty nasty halloween stuff in the shop windows around here too - DS was a bit worried by it, but I've taught him it's just 'silly halloween stuff' and that's calmed him down.

He watches youtube, and the number of times he'll click on a Thomas the tank engine video or something, and an advert for an 18+ game or film will come on..

quoteunquote · 25/10/2013 13:04

Speak to local council, point out that it makes an uncomfortable environment for various residents. Ask them not to accept nasty advertisements.

then get busy, there is a reason why we don't have any around here, as quite a few of us take great delight in improving them,

with a little bit of creativity you can make great improvements.

www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/masterfully-vandalized-billboards

www.urlesque.com/2010/04/13/27-weird-creative-vandalized-ads/

MurderOfBanshees · 25/10/2013 13:28

"showing amongst other things a savage, snarling dog"

A picture of a dog? Really?

Littleredsquirrel · 25/10/2013 13:33

Really

Pictures of men in gasmasks holding machine guns and close ups of snarling dogs have a place other than next to the gate of an infant school.

AdmiralData · 25/10/2013 13:35

It's a 'savage, snarling dog Murder not Clifford. Some kids will be upset by this, I know my nieces and nephews would be.

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paperdress · 25/10/2013 14:12

Quoteunqote - you are right, thanks

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mrsjay · 25/10/2013 14:38

I saw an advert on a busstop last year I dont know which film it was but it really freaked me out yanbu i dont understand bustops having adverts like this I am a bit of a wuss though but some of the pictures and words are really creepy

Callani · 25/10/2013 14:43

I used to get 2 buses to secondary school and I still remember how scared I'd make myself (with my overactive imagination) standing next to an advert for Scream on a dark night, hoping the next bus will hurry up.

I really hated it, and would jump a mile whenever someone walked by - wasn't pleasant.

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