Kids at R-rated horror movies....

Well, teenagers at least.
This is part venomous rant, and part serious point. lol

I came SOO close to beating the ever living you-know-what out of a whole theater full of teenagers.
No offense to the good teens here...I know that not all teens are obnoxious little snots. But man these kids were!!

My boyfriend and I went to see Hostel this evening. We've waited a long time for this freakin' movie. We are horror fans, and Eli Roth makes some good stuff. Now, this is a hard-R movie. Lots of gore, violence, nudity and foul language, on top of the vicious adult psychological overtones.... It was an excellent horror movie, but it's NOT something that I'd like for anyone under the age of 18 to see. I went to see Interview with the Vampire when I was 16, that had an R rating, I didn't get ID'd, but that movie was NOT on the level of Hostel. Frankly, I'm surprized they were able to squeeze an R rating out of Hostel. Anyways, it is NOT a kids' movie.
I would say that at least 60% of the people in that theater were high school kids.
Not only should they not have been there unaccompanied since it's an R movie, they were FREAKIN OBNOXIOUS!! Talking, up and down and in and out the whole time, on the cell phones, over-reacting, all kinds of obnoxious crap. I came SOO close to walking out.... It was so bad I had a hard time enjoying the movie!! We missed about half the build-up because of a few snot-nosed kids!

Oh, and did I mention the FAMILY, that came in with their pre-teen kids??? Now I'm all about horror movies, but come on...some things just are NOT appropriate for children to see. It's one thing for a kid to see Freddy Kruger or Jason Vorhees, but this was on a totally different level.

Yeah...another thing. The theater had 4 people working. One selling tickets, one manning the concessions, one taking tickets and one manager. On a FRIDAY NIGHT!! This isn't a large theater, but still...on a Friday night, you need to have more than 4 people working.


Anyway, back to my original point.
The kids in the theater really ticked me off. NO manners, NO respect for other movie-goers. They're little snots, but I can't help but blame the parents.
Those kids shouldn't have been at that movie to begin with.

Oh, and I really liked the movie. If anyone here is into horror, I highly recommend that you go see it.
It was disturbing, but that's the mark of a good horror film, ain't it?

Because it's fantasy. It's not real, it's props, it's fake blood, it's great make-up, it's a wax head being beaten in and wax fingers being cut off. IT'S NOT REAL. It's a MOVIE. It's FICTION. I understand that actions such as that are not acceptible in the real world, and the writer, director, producer, or actors in movies like that would not condone the stuff that's in the movies.
I also understand that the film maker was playing on Americans' xenophobia, and playing around current events. Interesting that SO many horror movies lately have featured torture, when Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and the secret CIA prisons are out there in the real world. Good horror makes us come face-to-face with and confront what we fear the most and what we least wish to confront.
Look at the great horror movies of the past. Night of the Living Dead had strong overtones of the civil rights climate of the early 60's...a black hero who gets killed by the white police at the end, and one culture is literally eating another alive. Dawn of the Dead had the blatant criticism of consumerism. The Texas Chainsaw Masacre was perpetrated by out of work slaughter house workers, who'd been put out of work by automation.
I don't get off on blood and guts, but I like a good movie with a good plot and an interesting point that makes you think. And this one met those criteria.
It's disturbing, we NEED to be disturbed sometimes, and we need to know WHY we were disturbed by what disturbs us.