Murder Porn

[hrodbert696]

A bit of a tangent, but my daughter is taking driver's ed now. I remember there have always been scare videos to get kids to take driving safety seriously; when I started learning, the first thing my dad told me was that when I turned the key in the ignition, it was like putting my finger on the trigger of a gun. But the videos she's saying they were shown in class seem to be another level, and not in a good way. She's coming home talking about seeing footage of brains spattered across the pavement. I seriously doubt that's going to make anyone actually drive safer (I see little enough evidence on the highway), and I worry about desensitization.

 

[JRA]

A bit of a tangent, but my daughter is taking driver's ed now. I remember there have always been scare videos to get kids to take driving safety seriously; when I started learning, the first thing my dad told me was that when I turned the key in the ignition, it was like putting my finger on the trigger of a gun. But the videos she's saying they were shown in class seem to be another level, and not in a good way. She's coming home talking about seeing footage of brains spattered across the pavement. I seriously doubt that's going to make anyone actually drive safer (I see little enough evidence on the highway), and I worry about desensitization.

i think desensitization works best (especially with humans) if the technique is used over a long enough period of time and has some 'arc' to the process, i.e., wouldn't worry about the brain splatters your daughter is seeing.

also, i saw some of those "scare videos" (via classroom film projectors) when i was taking driver's ed in ~1965. i don't recall any specific gruesome scene/footage, just that it was a classroom segment. but, like many, i've seen the real-life consequences of fatal traffic accidents, and IME/IMO = way more of a shock to the system than the videos and films.

per the OP: this was my response to the OP ~6 years ago...nothing has changed ---

i don't watch them as a fan of the genre, but sometimes my wife gets interested in them...i don't make a deal out of it with her. i can fall asleep during any program!

i wouldn't call my wife an avid fan of the genre, but when a show starts, she gets roped in, and wants to see how it all turns out. OTOH, she's a sucker for anything "hitler."

 

[The Golden Boy]

A bit of a tangent, but my daughter is taking driver's ed now. I remember there have always been scare videos to get kids to take driving safety seriously; when I started learning, the first thing my dad told me was that when I turned the key in the ignition, it was like putting my finger on the trigger of a gun. But the videos she's saying they were shown in class seem to be another level, and not in a good way. She's coming home talking about seeing footage of brains spattered across the pavement. I seriously doubt that's going to make anyone actually drive safer (I see little enough evidence on the highway), and I worry about desensitization.

also, i saw some of those "scare videos" (via classroom film projectors) when i was taking driver's ed in ~1965. i don't recall any specific gruesome scene/footage, just that it was a classroom segment. but, like many, i've seen the real-life consequences of fatal traffic accidents, and IME/IMO = way more of a shock to the system than the videos and films.

At Ft. Bragg, in order to drive on post you had to attend a mandatory safety course and they showed 1950s car accident footage. I'm fine with all kinds of horrible stuff... but this was just 'nother level kreepy. It looked real to me. Like someone filming accident footage of people before first responders got there- and these people didn't help them- just filmed them writhing in agony before the ambulance got there.

This was 1990.

 

[The Golden Boy]

Man, speaking of murder pr0n- this thread has been dead and buried and reanimated and killed and buried and reanimated over and over again...

Just the other day I was discussing the Manson murders. I really didn't have a whole lot of interest in it until several years ago I stumbled on Bobby Beausoleil's website- I actually found it when I was looking for info on Doug Lubahn (bass player for the Doors and Billy Squier) and there was this amazing story of this guy who was present in the early days of the LA rock music scene... I read so much of it before I found out who's account I was reading...

I don't think it's any coincidence that the site of the former Tate/Polanski house is now owned by Jeff Franklin- the creator of the Full House television program.

 

[BadSanta1281]

A bit of a tangent, but my daughter is taking driver's ed now. I remember there have always been scare videos to get kids to take driving safety seriously; when I started learning, the first thing my dad told me was that when I turned the key in the ignition, it was like putting my finger on the trigger of a gun. But the videos she's saying they were shown in class seem to be another level, and not in a good way. She's coming home talking about seeing footage of brains spattered across the pavement. I seriously doubt that's going to make anyone actually drive safer (I see little enough evidence on the highway), and I worry about desensitization.

We were shown a movie called Red Asphalt in drivers ed way back in the mid-70's. Gruesome stuff.

As a 20 year veteran of the towing and recovery industry I saw that kind of stuff up close and personal on a regular basis. You have to hold your mud at the scene but definitely take the ghosts home with you.

 

[5StringBlues]

early 80s we got MECHANIZED DEATH, a classic of the genre.

We were shown a movie called Red Asphalt in drivers ed way back in the mid-70's. Gruesome stuff.

As a 20 year veteran of the towing and recovery industry I saw that kind of stuff up close and personal on a regular basis. You have to hold your mud at the scene but definitely take the ghosts home with you.

 

[5StringBlues]

Hi I'm troy McClure! You may remember me from such drivers educational films as the decapitation of Larry leadfoot, and Alice's adventures through the windshield glass!

 

[friskinator]

Man, speaking of murder pr0n- this thread has been dead and buried and reanimated and killed and buried and reanimated over and over again...

Just the other day I was discussing the Manson murders. I really didn't have a whole lot of interest in it until several years ago I stumbled on Bobby Beausoleil's website- I actually found it when I was looking for info on Doug Lubahn (bass player for the Doors and Billy Squier) and there was this amazing story of this guy who was present in the early days of the LA rock music scene... I read so much of it before I found out who's account I was reading...

I don't think it's any coincidence that the site of the former Tate/Polanski house is now owned by Jeff Franklin- the creator of the Full House television program.

Nine Inch Nails recorded an album in that house and didn’t know it was that property until after the sessions started. Didn’t know the house didn’t exist anymore.

 

[Lance Bunyon]

The modern cable news is murder porn. Just saying.

 

[The Golden Boy]

Nine Inch Nails recorded an album in that house and didn’t know it was that property until after the sessions started. Didn’t know the house didn’t exist anymore.

Trent Reznor took the door when he left the house- it apparently went up for auction this year...

Sharon Tate Murder House's Front Door Hits Auction Block

 

[Old Blastard]

I covered cops, courts and murders for 45 years as a newspaper reporter. I've seen them bleeding, bent, strangled drowned and even cut into pieces and distributed downstream in luggage. I don't care to watch it on TV.

I like romantic comedies, history and light hearted fare. I have lots of dark to recall, if I want

 

[ElectroVibe]

The case of Skylar Neese.

Christina Randall is the speaker here and I think she always has great insight on various cases.

 

[Stedkey]

...I just watch the local news, but then again, I live in the Chicago area....