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1 Lidane  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 8:17:50am

"Justice For All" -- except for the women who are kidnapped and forced to carry a child against their will.

Real uplifting message there. =P

2 theheat  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 8:34:21am
a producer of conservative-themed films, is premiering a psychological thriller this weekend with a pro-life twist

I've watched a lot of shit horror movies, and some even by choice. I've watched entire piles of DVDs of nothing but cheesy B sci-fi and horror. It's my favorite genre.

I wouldn't watch this fundie torture porn orgasm - not even Clockwork Orange style with my eyes pinned open. Not for free movie passes, not if it's in the bargain bin for $1. I won't watch this shit.

3 elizajane  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 9:10:17am

I watched the trailer and am unable to see how this is supposed to be a "pro-life" film. It's horrible. It reminds me a lot of those stories of abducted girls whose kidnappers keep them in basements, or sheds, for years on end, forcing them to have sex and bear children. Is that actually the what the "pro-life" movement wants as its public face? They want to be known as the kidnappers and jailers, literally, of young women? I assume that at the end of the film all of these women are grateful to have been imprisoned and forced to bear children. It's a syndrome. Let Elizabeth Smart tell you about it.

Surely there has been some mistake and this is meant to be a pro-choice movie. It certainly could be screened as one.

4 Lidane  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 9:13:29am

re: #3 elizajane

I watched the trailer and am unable to see how this is supposed to be a "pro-life" film.

That's because you're not a raving nutjob. For those people, it's perfectly normal and acceptable to kidnap a pregnant woman and force her to have a child she doesn't want.

For the rest of us, we look at that and see a crime. They see it as a baby being saved.

5 Interesting Times  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 9:17:49am

re: #3 elizajane

Surely there has been some mistake and this is meant to be a pro-choice movie. It certainly could be screened as one.

My thoughts exactly. I guess the wackopath who made it read The Handmaid's Tale and considered it to be inspirational and instructional o_O

6 Spocomptonite  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 9:20:35am

Just the description seems like it would actually promote pro-choice instead of anti-abortion by virtue of sheer repulsion. Who wants to side with the villain in a horror movie? Who wants to not be on the side of suffering pregnant women?

The only way I can interpret this as being "pro-life" is if this wasn't supposed to be a horror film and the kidnapper fundie is actually somehow the good guy, not the bad.

In which case that scares me even more than it being an actual horror movie.

7 watching you tiny alien kittens are  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 9:46:20am

I foretell a massive wankfest at the Operation Rescue offices in the very near future...this is so exactly their ultimate fantasy I don't see how any of them could avoid being aroused by it. ;)

8 Stanghazi  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 10:04:00am

Damn. That's all I got.

9 tnguitarist  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 10:06:19am

The irony is, I could see this having the opposite effect that they intend.

10 andres  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 10:21:35am

Dear God.

These people make The Monster of Austria seem like a good old chap.

11 Lidane  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 10:27:53am

re: #6 Spocomptonite

Just the description seems like it would actually promote pro-choice instead of anti-abortion by virtue of sheer repulsion. Who wants to side with the villain in a horror movie? Who wants to not be on the side of suffering pregnant women?

But don't you see? The pregnant woman who wants the abortion IS the villain in the horror movie. The people who kidnap her and force her to give birth are the heroes. They're stopping an evil monster from killing, don'tcha know.

12 aagcobb  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 10:42:44am

That female doctor is clearly insane. I can't believe this is really a pro-life movie ----its advertising just how totalitarian anti-abortion fanatics are.

13 dragonfire1981  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 11:09:30am

This reminds me of Hell House, a haunted house type thing some churches do at Halloween. They use horror movie type scenarios to drive a point home on abortion, extramarital sex, pornography and the like. There's a documentary out on one of them that's truly fascinating.

14 Michael Orion Powell  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 12:52:52pm
An anti-choice Republican in New Jersey is showcasing a horror movie wherein pregnant women who intend to have abortions are kidnapped and forced to give birth.

As someone with a developmental disability, I am very, very weary of coming out for abortion rights because of some of the dark possibilities.

But this is creepy as shit.

15 Randall Gross  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 3:05:31pm

My fear is some nutball will watch this and think it's a good idea and act upon that.

16 Dancing along the light of day  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 3:25:03pm

Absolutely revolting.

17 The Questionable Timing of a Flea  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 4:03:33pm

TPM has a supplemental summary.

Given who's back and advertising it, it would seem this film isn't some kind of subversive prod at the anti-abortion crowd. This quote from the release is making me feel really uncomfortable:

"The film, which appears to cut right down the middle, examining the topic from both sides, offers a powerful, anti-abortion climactic twist."

I have this sick feeling that by the end of the film the three kidnapped, incarcerated women are going to be grateful to their captor for forcing them to bear children.

18 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 4:37:49pm

Is it just me or does Kenneth Del Vecchio and his torture porn sound like the plot elements of an episode of Criminal Minds to others as well? Because with his self-rightousness and total lack of empathy, he'd make a great 'unsub'.

19 Charles Johnson  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 6:22:15pm

This is a very important story, and I'm bumping it back to the top of the featured list.

20 YukonCornelius  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 7:33:58pm

Disgusting.

21 tnguitarist  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 7:37:14pm

re: #19 Charles
Amen.

22 Querent  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 7:44:10pm

Time for another "What the Fucking Fuck?!"

Is it just these crap Chinese-made fuses, or have these loons really passed the TerrrrrraDerp threshhold?

23 renata39.5  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 8:22:50pm

I gritted my teeth and watched the trailer.

What. On. Earth.

In whose mind does a movie that uses kidnapping women, for any reason, seem like the means to conveying a message? I was utterly shaken by the trailer, and not in a good way. And if I were anybody official in the Catholic Church, I'd be making some very direct statements distancing myself and the Church from that film. That is a very demented film. The only people who kidnap women and hold them against their will are villains. Period. End of story.

Also, the last line in the trailer, "You were told you would be held here until you gave birth, and that hasn't changed" (or something to that effect) was vary dark, esp. considering the just previous dialogue where one woman discusses something "going wrong" with the pregnancy. So if she causes a miscarriage, they'll what? Hold her forever? Impregnate her again?

Yuck. Yuckyuckyuckyuckyuck.

24 freetoken  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 11:21:24pm

That's.Just.Weird.

Anyway, this is from his campaign site:

First item:

OUR CREATOR: I believe in God, and am proud to say it.


Yup, that's certainly a requirement for public office, no?

Next:

THE CONSTITUTION: I understand the constitution and I will use all legal efforts to have it enforced.

LESS GOVERNMENT: Thomas Paine said it correctly: "That government is best which governs least." I will not tolerate big government intrusions into our lives, nor a "nanny state" mentality.


Oh?

PRO-LIFE: I believe that life begins at conception. Period. The greatest evil that we face, in the entire world, is abortion: mass murders of human lives every day.

Well, that's pretty clear.

And so on and so on...

25 freetoken  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 11:27:19pm

Looking at his previous work, including O.B.A.M. Nude, I can only surmise that he doesn't really want to be a legislator but is using the political campaign to get name recognition. He really wants to be a film maker and this is his 15 minutes of fame.

26 dell*nix  Sun, Jun 5, 2011 11:58:43pm

re: #18 Dark_Falcon

There was a somewhat similar episode where the unsub kidnapped women, got them pregnant and then killed them after they gave birth.

And I thought Mao was a sick prick.

27 [deleted]  Mon, Jun 6, 2011 6:30:26am
28 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 6, 2011 7:33:56am

re: #17 The Ghost of a Flea

TPM has a supplemental summary.

Given who's back and advertising it, it would seem this film isn't some kind of subversive prod at the anti-abortion crowd. This quote from the release is making me feel really uncomfortable:

"The film, which appears to cut right down the middle, examining the topic from both sides, offers a powerful, anti-abortion climactic twist."

I have this sick feeling that by the end of the film the three kidnapped, incarcerated women are going to be grateful to their captor for forcing them to bear children.

This makes Philip Garrido into a hero.
/spit

29 dragonfire1981  Mon, Jun 6, 2011 10:40:12am

I wonder what the right wing reaction would be to a pro choice version of this film in which the women were say, forced to have abortions at gunpoint. I can already imagine the death threats aimed at the director.


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