Harry Potter and the Chamber of HORROR
05-23-03 | 05:31 AM
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of HORROR
http://www.empireonline.co.uk/news/news.asp?4757
Talk about screwed up... but then again.. it sorta makes you laugh..
Chamber Of Horrors
21/05/2003
There'll be slapped wrists all round at Warner Home Video today, as the company which is responsible for the Harry Potter DVDs - tries to work out how a 5 year old ended up watching The Exorcist rather than the Chamber of Secrets.
Five-year old Jessica Daley was sat in front of the TV by her father John who'd just bought his daughter the DVD of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Little did he know that due to a labelling mix-up, the DVD inside was actually a copy of The Exorcist regularly voted the scariest film of all time.
According to The Sun, Jessica managed to watch five minutes of satanic possession before she told her father, 'It's scaring me.' As the idle chap was sat in the bath, he sent Jessica's 11-year-old sister in to sit with her before she came to him saying that the film definitely wasn't Harry Potter.
'There must have been a mix-up either that or someone there was having a laugh. But I dont think it was funny.' Warner Bros told the paper that, ' We are very concerned to hear about this. We will investigate immediately.'
21/05/2003
There'll be slapped wrists all round at Warner Home Video today, as the company which is responsible for the Harry Potter DVDs - tries to work out how a 5 year old ended up watching The Exorcist rather than the Chamber of Secrets.
Five-year old Jessica Daley was sat in front of the TV by her father John who'd just bought his daughter the DVD of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Little did he know that due to a labelling mix-up, the DVD inside was actually a copy of The Exorcist regularly voted the scariest film of all time.
According to The Sun, Jessica managed to watch five minutes of satanic possession before she told her father, 'It's scaring me.' As the idle chap was sat in the bath, he sent Jessica's 11-year-old sister in to sit with her before she came to him saying that the film definitely wasn't Harry Potter.
'There must have been a mix-up either that or someone there was having a laugh. But I dont think it was funny.' Warner Bros told the paper that, ' We are very concerned to hear about this. We will investigate immediately.'
Talk about screwed up... but then again.. it sorta makes you laugh..
05-23-03 | 07:12 AM
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Giant spiders is one thing.. watching a demon filled girl screaming "lick me" and running down stairs LIKE a spider is another thing..
05-23-03 | 07:27 AM
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Hehe. This is highly amusing. Not sure about 'The Exorcist' being the scariest Horror movie of all time. I personally found it quiet boring apart from the odd bout of blasphemy and crucifix abuse.
05-23-03 | 08:04 AM
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Originally posted by tdirgins
Anyone who has seen the Exorcist knows it doesn't get really scary until well into the movie. This sounds fishy.
Funny mix-up, though.
Anyone who has seen the Exorcist knows it doesn't get really scary until well into the movie. This sounds fishy.
Funny mix-up, though.
05-23-03 | 08:19 AM
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That's right guys, laugh at the 5 year old girl who watched an R-rated horror movie. Real compassionate of you. You know not everyone has the iron constitutions you all apparently have. I saw a cheesy horror movie when I was that age and it scared the **** out of me. My sister was scarred for life by it.
05-23-03 | 08:45 AM
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Although this stuff happens once in awhile, I am very dubious of this claim and it sounds like a precursor to a lawsuit. There would be nothing scary in the Exorcist in the first five minutes (well, the opening scene in the desert is a bit creepy) but nothing scarier than Harry Potter.
05-23-03 | 09:55 AM
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Originally posted by C Roberts
That's right guys, laugh at the 5 year old girl who watched an R-rated horror movie. Real compassionate of you. You know not everyone has the iron constitutions you all apparently have. I saw a cheesy horror movie when I was that age and it scared the **** out of me. My sister was scarred for life by it.
That's right guys, laugh at the 5 year old girl who watched an R-rated horror movie. Real compassionate of you. You know not everyone has the iron constitutions you all apparently have. I saw a cheesy horror movie when I was that age and it scared the **** out of me. My sister was scarred for life by it.
05-23-03 | 10:37 AM
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There's NOTHING in the first 5 minutes of THE EXORCIST (heck, the first 15 minutes) that is even remotely "scary" - and few things in the entire movie that are as scary as those spiders in CHAMBER OF SECRETS!
Forget about a 5-year old watching THE EXORCIST by mistake - the father should be chastized for intending to let his daughter watch CHAMBER OF SECRETS by herself...she's far too young for some of the intense scenes in that film!
Forget about a 5-year old watching THE EXORCIST by mistake - the father should be chastized for intending to let his daughter watch CHAMBER OF SECRETS by herself...she's far too young for some of the intense scenes in that film!
05-23-03 | 11:01 AM
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Nevermind the part about it being the wrong movie, letting a 5 year old watch a PG movie by herself? That alone leaves me to question their parental skills. Chamber of Secrets is a bit too intense for young children.
05-23-03 | 11:22 AM
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Originally posted by Spooky
There's NOTHING in the first 5 minutes of THE EXORCIST (heck, the first 15 minutes) that is even remotely "scary"
There's NOTHING in the first 5 minutes of THE EXORCIST (heck, the first 15 minutes) that is even remotely "scary"
Not the first five minutes of the movie, she got far enough to get 5 minutes of the possession scenes
05-23-03 | 11:49 AM
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Ha ha ha.
What a loser. He didn't even stay long enough to use the DVD menu to start the movie? Sounds kinda fishy. And since when does a "father" sit a 5 year old down unsupervised to watch a scary (for a 5 year old) movie and then take a bath?
Bogus story anybody? Or perhaps a setup.
I think that the "father" put the disc into the player, saw the menu, saw that the movie was NOT Potter, and started the movie and left. His entire goal is to get a big payday (legal settlement) over the disc. If he had just taken it out of the player and back to the store, he would have only gotten an exchange - NO money!
CON MAN ALERT.
His local government should bring him up on charges of child endangerment. Muhaaaaaaaa
What a loser. He didn't even stay long enough to use the DVD menu to start the movie? Sounds kinda fishy. And since when does a "father" sit a 5 year old down unsupervised to watch a scary (for a 5 year old) movie and then take a bath?
Bogus story anybody? Or perhaps a setup.
I think that the "father" put the disc into the player, saw the menu, saw that the movie was NOT Potter, and started the movie and left. His entire goal is to get a big payday (legal settlement) over the disc. If he had just taken it out of the player and back to the store, he would have only gotten an exchange - NO money!
CON MAN ALERT.
His local government should bring him up on charges of child endangerment. Muhaaaaaaaa
05-23-03 | 12:21 PM
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Originally posted by C Roberts
That's right guys, laugh at the 5 year old girl who watched an R-rated horror movie. Real compassionate of you. You know not everyone has the iron constitutions you all apparently have. I saw a cheesy horror movie when I was that age and it scared the **** out of me. My sister was scarred for life by it.
That's right guys, laugh at the 5 year old girl who watched an R-rated horror movie. Real compassionate of you. You know not everyone has the iron constitutions you all apparently have. I saw a cheesy horror movie when I was that age and it scared the **** out of me. My sister was scarred for life by it.
05-23-03 | 12:43 PM
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Ha ha ha.
What a loser. He didn't even stay long enough to use the DVD menu to start the movie? Sounds kinda fishy. And since when does a "father" sit a 5 year old down unsupervised to watch a scary (for a 5 year old) movie and then take a bath?
Bogus story anybody? Or perhaps a setup.
I think that the "father" put the disc into the player, saw the menu, saw that the movie was NOT Potter, and started the movie and left. His entire goal is to get a big payday (legal settlement) over the disc. If he had just taken it out of the player and back to the store, he would have only gotten an exchange - NO money!
CON MAN ALERT.
His local government should bring him up on charges of child endangerment. Muhaaaaaaaa
Ha ha ha.
What a loser. He didn't even stay long enough to use the DVD menu to start the movie? Sounds kinda fishy. And since when does a "father" sit a 5 year old down unsupervised to watch a scary (for a 5 year old) movie and then take a bath?
Bogus story anybody? Or perhaps a setup.
I think that the "father" put the disc into the player, saw the menu, saw that the movie was NOT Potter, and started the movie and left. His entire goal is to get a big payday (legal settlement) over the disc. If he had just taken it out of the player and back to the store, he would have only gotten an exchange - NO money!
CON MAN ALERT.
His local government should bring him up on charges of child endangerment. Muhaaaaaaaa
05-23-03 | 04:07 PM
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Originally posted by C Roberts
That's right guys, laugh at the 5 year old girl who watched an R-rated horror movie. Real compassionate of you. You know not everyone has the iron constitutions you all apparently have. I saw a cheesy horror movie when I was that age and it scared the **** out of me. My sister was scarred for life by it.
That's right guys, laugh at the 5 year old girl who watched an R-rated horror movie. Real compassionate of you. You know not everyone has the iron constitutions you all apparently have. I saw a cheesy horror movie when I was that age and it scared the **** out of me. My sister was scarred for life by it.
