Blood, violence and gore as entertainment The Texas Chainsaw massacre, Braineaters from outer space andBloodfeast are all films were the title can speak for itself. The are films wereviolence, blood and gore play an important role. It is obvious that someonehas to action, but who? Since the dawn of man people have used violence for entertainment. InRome they had the Colluseum, nowadays we have the cinema. Violent filmsare being produced all the time, no one seems to care. Even though therearen't many people who are harmed from these films, there are a lot ofchildren who do. It is a question of separating reality and fiction, and that is aproblem for many children. After the Superman films in the 1980's, therewere a series of children jumping off tall buildings, because they though theywere Superman. As you grow older, this doesn't seem to be a problem anylonger, even though there have been incidents were adults have started to killpeople after watching a violent film. An example of this is the controversialfilm Natural Born Killers. Over twenty people lost their lives because of thisfilm. In this film murder and violence are justified, and it is these films thataffect children the most. Computer violence is a quite new phenomenon. It was introduced withthe launch of Wolfenstein in 1990. In "Wolfenstein" you are trapped in amaze among an army of nazis. You'll have to kill your way out. This kind ofviolence probably has a deeper influence on children, because they do thekillings themselves. It is interactive violence. In several countries the follow-up game, Doom, was banned. The software company claimed that it didn'thave a negative affect on children, because they killed mutants, not humans.But is cutting up a mutant with a chainsaw good entertainment? There is no question about it, some children and adults suffer seriousdamage from watching films and playing computer games with extremeviolence. The government should take immediate action and stop thedistribution of these films and computer games. Parents must also try to gaincontrol over their children. That is the only way we can stop thedevelopment. . Blood, violence and gore as entertainment The Texas Chainsaw massacre, Braineaters from outer space andBloodfeast are all films were the. films wereviolence, blood and gore play an important role. It is obvious that someonehas to action, but who? Since the dawn of man people have used violence