We had Ernest Scared Stupid and Spiderman (the new movie) that the kids would watch, and the night terrors began. My oldest son only had one, and insisted there was a little green boy and girl sitting on his bed that night that he watched spiderman. Then the nightly night terrors started with my 2 year old. I removed all the demonic movies and cast the demons out of the house, and they were gone that night, after months of it going on nightly. He would wake up at midnight every night and sit up screaming and not recognize me, or anything else, this would go on from anywhere between 10 min and an hour. He saw green spiders and snakes when it would happen. I know this was demonic activity from the movies and from people that would come over that were dealing with demons in their lives.
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Night terrors are extremely common with children at that age, with or without any apparent trigger or experiential connection. Read a book by an actual doctor about child development, please.
"I know this was demonic activity from the movies" -- good grief, woman, do you think that sounds even remotely sane?
I think this could well be the beginning of a whole new award, inspired by one of the movies mentioned here: The Scared Stupid Award.
~David D.G.
"I removed all the demonic movies and cast the demons out of the house, and they were gone that night, after months of it going on nightly."
You waited months to cast out the demons? What kind of parent are you?
The only movie kept is MindieRose, Scared AND Stupid. Oh, wait, it's not a movie; it's real. Know wut I mean, Vern?
Spiderman 3 is rated in the U.K as a 12 A rating , which is roughly the equivalent of a PG-13 rating...
For someone to show a 2 year old, a PG-13 rated movie, & expect said child not to experience night terrors, as a result, is seriously lacking in parental skills...
No wonder the kid's hallucinating about the Hobgoblin...
Demons? Maybe they were scared by green things in their nightmares because, oh, I don't know, the villain in Spiderman is the FUCKING GREEN GOBLIN?
C'mon, MindieRose! You HAD to realize that showing Spiderman to a toddler was a bad idea. The film's villain, the Green Goblin, is a living embodiment of a man's darkest, most vile instincts, set free to destroy the lives of others for no other reason than its own sick amusement - and also shows the doomed struggle of the man beneath the monster, trapped within his own body and forced to watch as he harms others. It's basically what you imagine demonic possession to be like.
And to top it all off, the villain gets nailed to a wall with a jagged piece of metal and dies slowly and painfully, the agony finally jarring loose the sad remains of Norman Osborne, who weeps and begs forgiveness for the horrors committed by his darker half! His last words are a desperate plea for Spider-Man to keep his son from discovering the truth, so that he won't have to suffer the pain of realizing that his father was a murderer.
Watching that movie must have been like a guided tour of Hell for your poor children, and shame on you for not vetting the movie beforehand.
"I removed all the demonic movies and cast the demons out of the house, and they were gone that night, after months of it going on nightly"
Did that include "The Passion of the Christ"? Because it's basically 'Torture Porn' a la the "Saw", "Hostel" & "Human Centipede" films, and they're infinitely worse than "Ernest Scared Stupid" and "Spider-Man" Enjoy your paradox, MingieRose.
...and despite the 'demons' of Lack of Originality possessing Hollywood of late, I shall go and see "RoboCop" in 2014 . [/'Fantasy Technology' completionist]
So your child had nightmares, as all children do. You responded by essentially telling him that there really was a monster under his bed plotting to eat him up?
You know something, you're really bad at this "parenting" thing.
"Then the nightly night terrors started..."
As compared to what, the "daily" night terrors? Or the "nightly" day terrors?
@Geek
It's about the Green Goblin, a Gargoyle inspired character like the demons in Ernest scared stupid. My kids saw the Earnest one when young, it's quite old they're over 30 now. My kids also saw Hellraiser and Evil Dead before ten I think. You tell them it's fake, it works.
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