MOVIE WARNING: CHILD’S PLAY – DARK AND EVIL – WARN OTHERS

By: American Decency Staff

 

I haven’t written about a movie since “Fifty Shades of Grey”; a SHADY piece of work.

But, I’m not writing about that movie which Movieguide describes as follows:  FIFTY SHADES OF GREY is a weird, perverted, anti-Christian, and ultimately stupid piece of abhorrent nonsense that, sadly, is being hyped by too many crass, mindless, foolish, and utterly materialistic people in the mass media.

Why do I bring this into play when it isn’t my main focus?  Because it is important to discern the difference between the holy and the profane.  It is vital that we know the difference and not place such wickedness before our eyes. 

Below I write about another PROFANE work. I’m writing about Child’s Play 2 – the lowest of the low at the moment.  

Here is in part what Movie Guide says about it.  This is an evil film bound to give nightmares to any child who sees it and many adults, too. It took the reviewer two hours to regain composure from the film’s emotional bombardment of graphic, explicit gore, violence, murder, and the accompanying sound effects.

The message that comes through CHILD’S PLAY 2 is anti-child. As Chucky admits tellingly: “I hate kids.”  …  Several dozen obscenities and some profanities; graphic, explicit gore, violence and murder.

Movie Guide gave Child’s Play its lowest rating: a -4 which it states stands for ABHORRENT:  Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems.

Plugged in states this under its section Crude or Profane
https://www.pluggedin.com/movie-reviews/childs-play-2019

Nearly 20 f-words join more than 15 s-words. We also hear plenty of uses of “a–,” “b–ch,” “d–n,” “h—,” “d–k” and “p-ss.” A kid’s phone screen depicts a crude gesture. God’s name is misused about 15 times, including six with “d–n.” Jesus’ name is abused once.

And another review this time by  Parent’s Guide summarizes this way: 

Sex & Nudity
A man is having an affair with the main character's mother.

Violence & Gore
A machine with a rope connected to hang a woman begins to rise and picks her off her feet. The rope gets cut at the last second. We see her writhing in pain and panic.  A character gets seriously injured by a drone. We see later that he lives.

Frightening & Intense Scenes
A cat is violently strangled by the evil doll. It is saved in time but is left frightened. However, the same cat is killed offscreen (supposedly by the killer doll) and its remains is later found in a pool of its own blood.

A man gets murdered at a presentation of a new toy doll and is seen in his perspective dizzy whilst everyone else doesn't know what’s happening as he is wearing a costume, he then takes off his mask and blood gushes out of his neck onto a child's face.

The Child’s Play series of movies has a long and sordid history.  In 1993 two-year-old James Bulger, after wandering away from his mother for only a second, was taken from a shopping mall in Liverpool, England  by two 10 year old boys. Sparing you the gruesome details, the 10-year-olds horrifically tortured and killed the toddler.  Many reported at the time that the boys acted out scenes from an earlier “Child’s Play” movie.  The presiding judge at the sentencing stated that it was known that the boys had watched hundreds of horror movies and specifically mentioned “Child’s Play”.

What we allow into our hearts and minds does impact.  Two devotions from this morning drive home that point:

From Voices From the Past – Richard Baxter:  “Avoid tempting and deceiving objects, which entice your hearts away from obedience.  … It is dangerous to be under the influence of strong and importunate temptations, lest their stream should bear you down. …”

Spurgeon’s Morning by Morningfrom today:  If an angel should lay his hand upon us when we are doing evil, he need not use any other rebuke than the question, "What thou? What dost thou here?  Much forgiven, much delivered, much instructed, much blessed, shall we dare to put forth our hand unto evil?  God forbid!

Sadly, there are so many who have just simply seen too many things.  They have lost their sensitivity to God’s still small voice such as “What thou?” 

God’s word:  I will place no wicked thing before my eyes.  Psalm 101:3a

God help us!

Action points:

1.  If you live in a smaller community, prayerfully go and speak to the local manager/owner.  (It will be extremely difficult to impact theater chains, but many smaller communities have independently-owned theaters.)  Be courteous but not defensive as there is nothing to be defensive about in regard to speaking against this degraded movie.

Think of appropriate questions to ask the theater manager/owner.  Just one example follows:  This movie is widely known to be evil.  Isn’t it hard to feel good about bringing programming like this into our community where lives (young or old) will be degraded and negatively impacted?

2. Warn others of the disgusting, despicable nature of this injurious movie.  I urge you to warn others and speak out where you can.   Some of you may even know a theater manager or owner.  Please use your influence.   

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