Move on you whiney Millenial. Every thing has to be PC and nice and whatever today because you're weak minded. It's a movie and it's not the only movie that has portrayed the mentally ill as this. Movies have portrayed every walk of life as violent or crazy, etc for the sake of a movie line. It's a MOOOOVVIIEEE! A movie makes you upset. Get out into the real world for once.
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I can see how someone would find this insulting to the mentally ill, but the fact is, it really made the film.
The truth is, some mentally ill people are in fact homocidal maniacs. Which made the film completely plausible. And the film plays on people's natural fear/discomfort of mental illness, which is difficult to understand.
Is it therefore exploitative? Perhaps. But I'm not sure it's going to make things any worse for the mentally ill.
Disclaimer: I suffered from severe depression as a teen, and spent months in an adolescent psych unit as a result. I was terrified before going in, because I assumed it was going to be like every horror film depiction of a psych ward.
It wasn't at all. It was more like a college dorm than anything else. With hot girls and everything.
There was a couple anorexics who were visibly different, but that was about it. Everyone else seemed pretty normal.
So as someone who has dealt with emotional/mental disorders, and even spent time in a psych ward, I wasn't at all offended by the film. I think people with any familiarity with mental illness will know this is a caricature of a very small minority of mentally ill people.
Don't watch something like Halloween then.
shareand I suppose ghost horror movies are "demonizing" ghosts?
Demonizing humans you mean? Mentally ill or not we are all human and capable of crime.
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