I forgot to say, but I saw it last week, I LOVED IT! If you get a chance watch it, Will Smith does a wonderful job! It's not too much like the old one, "The Omega Man" - but it's a really good movie!
Have any of you ever heard of the Sylvia Likens murder? The child was killed by the woman her parents paid to care for her during the summer while they were away with a carnival. The woman somehow talked her own children and neighborhood children into abusing and finally killing this child. Sylvia went through a summer of hell, and though I just finished reading 2 books about it, I never did get a real understanding of what the hell her twisted motive for doing that was. "The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum is based on this murder. If you read it, get a box of tissues, it's horrible. This happened in the mid 60's. I sometimes think things happening today are shocking and horrible, that it can't possibly be as bad for violence as it's getting now, but reading this one, I guess our world has always had whacko's doing wicked things.
Posted by juel at January 12, 2008 07:01 PM