Wal-Mart Offers Movie Containing Sex and Torture
Thanks chickadee for the email. April 26, 2006 Wal-Mart Offers Movie Containing Sex and Torture Many Wal-Mart stores are currently prominently displaying DVDs of Hostel, a grotesque and shocking movie. Last month, the store raised eyebrows when it featured the homosexual-themed Brokeback Mountain. But that movie pales in comparison to the sick and twisted sex and torture portrayed in Eli Roth's Hostel. According to a review in Focus on the Family's Plugged-In magazine, the entire movie focuses on drugs, explicit sex and graphic depictions of torture and violence. Reviewer Marcus Yoars wrote, "I'm still wondering how it didn't get slapped with an NC-17 rating, because it pretends to be a porn flick for the first 45 minutes." "Various characters offer a barrage of bestiality, necrophilia, rape, homosexuality and oral-sex comments," he wrote. On top of that, "Eli Roth spares viewers nothing when it comes to showing gratuitous, over-the-top, blood-soaked violence." Further description is too offensive to be printed in CitizenLink. Plugged-In has a section titled, "Other Negative Elements." In that Yoars writes, "Is it possible to include an entire movie in this category?" TAKE ACTION: Contact Wal-Mart and respectfully ask that it not feature such family-unfriendly films in its stores. Go to http://walmart.com and find the store nearest you to make your complaint. Or email their main headquaters. http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040278.cfm