Sam and scary movies

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I charge Disney for marketing A Christmas Carol during the Halloween season. Sam (8) has gotten interested in scary movies, but he's gotten them all conflicting up in his head, which is easy enough, I guess, since he hasn't seen any of them.

It all began with a commercial for Universal Studios' Halloween Loathing Nights, which featured a 20-something guy walking into a deserted, decrepit theater lobby. He's menaced by the doll from Saw, then Chucky from Descendant's Play, then finally a guy in a pig mask, also from Saw. The pig-mask guy has a blade that shoots out from his sleeve and the commercial ends with the pig-mask guy (presumably) slashing the throat of the 20-something guy.

This commercial aired for weeks during children's tube blocks, so Sam and Kit (6) got to see it plenty of times. To a 20-something, or even to a teenager, the ad was witty and delightful, but for a pre-teen it was flatly shocking and abhorrently violent. Kit finally...

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