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‘Paranormal Activity’ Sh*tstorm in Italy!
Some pretty hilarious news this evening as the AFP is reporting that low-budget US horror movie Paranormal Activity, a box office hit in Italy, kicked up a storm among politicians and associations on Monday because it is terrifying teenagers and children across the country. I know you’re probably sick to death of hearing about this movie, but damned if this isn’t worth a read.
“Italy’s emergency response service reported dozens of calls, especially from southern Naples, where “several panic attacks lasting more than half an hour took place on Saturday,” an employee told the ANSA news agency.
“The most serious case is that of a 14-year-old girl who was brought to the hospital in a state of paralysis,” he said.
“For the past two weeks a trailer has been shown obsessively on TV and is terrifying thousands of children. The movie is called ‘Paranormal Activity’,” Italian Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa said last Thursday.
“It’s a terrible thing. I took notice because my seven-year-old son told me ‘Daddy, I’m scared’,” ANSA reported him saying during a visit to Istanbul.
Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of the Italian fascist dictator and head of a parliamentary committee on children, said “Paranormal Activity” had “highly distressing content” and was causing “panic attacks and psychological problems among youths.”
“I don’t think we can ban ‘Paranormal Activity’ now, but surely we need to study how to warn parents of the risks their children are incurring,” Mussolini said.
The movie, which cost just 15,000 dollars (11,000 euros) to make, opened in Italian cinemas at the weekend, grossing more than 3.65 million euros, more per cinema than Hollywood blockbuster “Avatar” — the costliest movie of all time.
In the flick, Katie and Micah, haunted by paranormal phenomena, decide to tape their ordeal, in the style of 1999 hit “The Blair Witch Project”.
Codacons, a consumer advocacy group, said in a statement it was “considering legal action to protect underage viewers of ‘Paranormal Activity’.”
The Italian parents’ association noted that admission to the movie is restricted in the United States, Britain, Germany and The Netherlands and asked for an age limit of 18 in Italy.”
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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