Violent Movies Affecting Teens Behavior

Some movies that are being shown today have a very bad affect on young kids today. There are movies like Freddy Cruger, Jason, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and all the Saw movies that are portraying people with these bad thoughts. Some people, mostly being youths, watch these movies and enjoy the killer being bad. In most horror, bloody, violent murder movies, it usually begins with there being a bad guy which is the killer and they end up going on a killing spree because of usually something that happened. The point is that the kids look up to the killer because he is the main character and they see that as being cool. A very sad example of this is the movie “Basketball Diaries” with Leonardo Decaprio. There is a scene where he shoots his classmates with a trench coat because he was bullied by them. After watching a documentary I learned that the kids from Colombine had got their ideas from this and that movie got in big trouble. They looked up to him because he was seen as a bad kid, getting revenge. These murder movies today have such a big impact on the way people act because of the fact that people like to follow these characters and be like them after the movie is over. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is another bad example of the movie affecting the mind because of the fact that it is one guy killing everyone he sees in sight. This makes people get more and more into it, especially when there is a sequel.