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New Twilight Film’s Graphic Birth Scene Is Reportedly Triggering Seizures in Moviegoers

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"Twilight: Breaking Dawn" has reportedly triggered epileptic seizures among moviegoers during a graphic scene. (Image source: Summit Entertainment)

“Twilight: Breaking Dawn” has been seeing the kind of box office revenue that can only be sparked by vampire-werewolf-fervor.

But the film is now getting attention for a reason that has nothing to do with the supernatural love triangle: Reports that a gory birth scene during the birth of a half-human, half-vampire baby has triggered seizures in moviegoers around the country.

California man Brandon Gephart reportedly ended up on the theater floor after the graphic scene when he saw the movie Friday night with his girlfriend.

Gephart told Sacramento’s CBS 13 he doesn’t remember anything until he woke up on the floor, but his girlfriend described him as “convulsing, snorting, trying to breathe.”

“He scared me big time,” Kelly Bauman said. Paramedics took Gephart to the emergency room and the theater canceled the rest of the screening.

 

According to CBS 13, at least a half-dozen other claims have popped up on Internet sites.

A similar incident was reported in a Utah theater when an unnamed man told  he went to see the movie with his wife.

“I didn’t really remember what happened after that I think I blacked out.  According to her, I was shaking and mumbling different noises,” he told Salt Lake City’s ABC 4 News.

His wife was sitting next to him and described what happened next: ”He started mumbling and he was blinking on and off with his eyes at that point.  I was kneeling in front of him slapping his face.”

They left the theater early, but in the process the man said he forgot his phone.

“When we went back the next day we actually found out it happened to another girl in the theater,” he told the station.

Medical experts said the scene, which features flashing red, white and black images, could have triggered episodes of photosensitive epilepsy among those who are genetically predisposed.

“It’s like a light switch going off, because it hits your brain all at once,” Dr. Michael Chez, a pediatric neurologist, told CBS 13.

Neither man said they’d ever experienced a seizure before. Chez said a single seizure should not cause long-term damage to most patients but that to combat risk and be on the safe side, moviegoers can wear sunglasses with blue lenses to filter out the red light.

h/t Drudge

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  • YAHSHUARULES
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 8:45pm

    This is a continuation of a descent into a deep darkness which began with the original “The Exorcist” which terrified people so much at the time with this depiction of evil and its power that people went back and saw that movie over and over to “integrate” it into their psyches (at least that is what THEY thought they were doing), it was said to be an example of the “stockholm syndrome” from the trauma people experienced. Every movie of the supernatural-cult genre after that sought to up the shock factor with more realistic depictions of violence and gore, or perversion, of every sort of evil that the human mind and heart could conceive of (”And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Gen 6v5, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jer 17v9,) – pushing the “artistic envelope”. But these images get into your mind, they stick and long after the initial exposure to such filth and depravity you are experiencing the consequences. To those that don’t think that epileptic fits can be demonic in Mark 9 a man comes to Yahshua – Jesus about the demonic spirit that causes his child to be cast into fire “And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.” Mark 9v20.

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    • newmexicopatriots
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 8:59pm

      Get over yourself! It’s called “Make Believe” I.E: Fiction! If you are so traumatized by a movie like “Twilight”, then it’s your choice not to go see it. I think they are showing Bambi at a theater in Provo. But wait, the mommy deer is killed. That might frighten you.

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    • YAHSHUARULES
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:01pm

      to continue…”He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.” Ecs 10v8. Those who are believers on this board, I pray none of you are going to such trash or allowing your children for you are breaking the hedge of protection and you will get bit by the evil embodied in it. We are told “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
      ” Rom 6v16. Look at the faces of those OWS people, dead, lifeless, souless hollow eyes, a product of a godless upbringing and society where anything and everything goes except decency. This culture is shaped in great part by so-called entertainment since we have become a amoral, relativistic, godless society and the bitter fruit of this tree is now evident. Everything we do has consequences and the ramifications. Believers spirits can not be posessed but body and soul is a different story, if you open the door by exposing yourself to this garbage you may not like what is on the other side.

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    • Charles
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:36pm

      The zombie series and all the attention to zombie this and that in general is very ironic considering the timing. The whole zombie thing is very silly. The people I see who have lost their souls is truly horrifying, and in some cases very sad.

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    • MR_ANDERSON
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:04pm

      Large walls of text are great for getting your point across.

      (So is sarcasm.)

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    • Trail_Boss
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:22pm

      I know a few people that could use an exorcism. I’m not kidding. I’ve seen a few exorcisms and I personally know what it is. But our society has taught that such things are abnormal and should be avoided. I find this really sad because people who do not confront the evil inside themselves will be cast into darkness when they leave this earth. If a person who needs a exorcism seeks help from people who are not well versed in matters of the human sprit? It can be deadly or produce hell on earth for the person infected with evil.

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    • Trail_Boss
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:36pm

      Make no mistake about it folks. Evil is like a virus. It spreads exactly like a virus. There is a very active pathogen at work in todays world. Do you want to know what is “The Beast”? It is a persons infected spirit. It can very easily become legion. Let me see if I can elaborate and make it more clear. A virus infects a persons physical body. But “The Beast” infects people’s spirit and soul. The spirit and soul is something people do not attend to very well these days. The Beast is spreading.

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    • Jubarnes87
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:54pm

      @Yashua….I for one enjoy a long post full of scripture and truth. You make very valid points, and your message wasn’t lost on me.

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    • Trail_Boss
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 12:30am

      People are messing with forces that they absolutely have no clue about what so ever. The biggest difference I see between the movie The Exorcist and the Twilight series? The Exorcist was very much directed and targeted at a very adult audience. Twilight on the contrary is targeting a very young audience and children. Most of whom are easily seduced by evil.

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    • 2malamutes
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 1:43pm

      Sorry to burst your bubble YAHSHUARULES, but ‘The Exorcist’ was written and made into a movie by a man trying to prove gods existence by showing pure evil. He is a very religious man and was trying to make a religious movie, he was very shocked by what people thought about the movie.

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    • Kookaburra
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 1:56pm

      You are so so so right YAHSHUARULES.
      Do not listen to any of these naysayers.
      This world has become so desensitized to evil that they crave it.
      This illicit abominable atrocity to the Lord is now called “entertainment.”
      Jesus said, “Woe to the man who calls good evil and evil good.”
      Better start looking up the true meanings of words, like “woe.”
      God is all about words, so much so, He called Himself the WORD MADE FLESH.
      IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE WORD. The GREAT I AM. THERE WAS NOTHING
      MORE THAN WORDS……If the world was destroyed by Flood in the very first book of the Bible,
      when humanity hardly even populated a quadrant of the earth, imagine what the great Chastisement
      will be now that we are some 70+ books away from Genesis in the Apocalypse.

      The world should shudder at the thought of it, and crash to their knees in repentance
      and conversion. Amen.

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    • YAHSHUARULES
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 7:48pm

      @2malamutes I am fully aware of what William Blatey’s motive was, I am addressing what in FACT happened. The Exorcist horrified the whole country and alot of people went to it over and over to get to the point they weren’t shocked by it. (Rather then go to their knees and seek repentence and redemption), No, people sought to master the horror by reliving it. Hollywood realized that if every movie uped the shock images, pushed the envelope or lowered the bar with each new release it would be a success. Each successive offering “pushed the envelope” and consequently the public at large became more jaded and desensitized to the trash it was feeding on. Most movies really don’t have any real plot, nothing morally or socially redeeeming – most are about the special effects and alot of that is mayhem, perversion, horror, – a door opening to pure evil and infecting the mind with images that stay long after exposed to the eyegate. Incidentallly there have been studies done and there is a correlation between people that exposed themselves to pretend violence of movies and tv and books, actually have more real violence in their lives – also those that expose themselves to this sort of fare believe the world is more violent then infact crime statistics show. Movies can be uplifting (Courageous, Fireproof, etc), sadly most are just trash like this one. The bible says we are to make a covenant with our eyes as to what we allow in. Job31v1

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    • Juniemoon
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:07pm

      Funny thing is, it was written by a Mormon who claimed a spirit was leading her to write these books. Get a clue Mormons, you’re lost.

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    • blue suede
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 10:17pm

      I have every respect for God and religion, but you may want to watch the movie before you start believing it to be evil. It isn’t evil like the HARRY POTTER movies are. You should rethink what evil is. The Harry Potter movies are seductively satanic, the devil hiding behind magic and witchcraft. There are far more anti Christian movies out there that you never mentioned and the Exorcist is not one of them. You need to do some background work on these movies and save it for the really anti God movies that are on TV and at the theater.

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    • YAHSHUARULES
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 11:03pm

      @BlueSuede what the heck is your definition of evil when of this it is said “supernatural love triangle: Reports that a gory birth scene during the birth of a half-human, half-vampire baby” I am sorry but the relativism is a big part of the problem. The Almighty divides things in terms of LIGHT and DARK there are NO SHADES OF GREY. Vampireism is especially grevious as it is a twisting and corruption and counterfeit to HOLY Communion where the Son of Almighty God said ” Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. ” John 6v 53-55. The Almighty said that blood was “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.“ Lec 17v11 The Apostle Paul said ”The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?“ 1Cor 10v16 And in Rev 1v5 ”And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood“ ”even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.” 1

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    • Stumpy
      Posted on November 27, 2011 at 12:28am

      Y’all sound like a bunch of crazy people. The Twilight movies are 1) Awful movies, 2) made for entertainment, and 3) being taken WAY too seriously. Lighten up. God doesn’t care if people go see these movies.

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    • chasbronson
      Posted on November 27, 2011 at 12:52am

      That is correct. People are destroyed due to the lack of Knowledge of God’s Word.Though they can mock the messenger all they want, they are accountable. Only” a fool says in their heart there is no God.” They play with these things they Know nothing about . They are playing with evil, vile demons,which play for keeps. It is not a game , but the very damnation of their own souls to which these demons seek to devour.This type of worship of evil is an abomination to the One and only true God. A warning to all who would be mockers. Wicked this way comes.Search the scriptures and find that Jesus is the way,the truth,and the light.No one goes to heaven ,apart from him. Even the demons believe ,[and they tremble.][because they know their fate].

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    • Trail_Boss
      Posted on November 28, 2011 at 2:21am

      Actually folks….. The movie The Exorcist made a mockery of what is a real exorcism. Pretty sneaky of the devil don’t ya think?

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    • macedonia
      Posted on December 22, 2011 at 2:58am

      you have spoken nothing but the truth. You know the devil is trying to rectuit and torment more souls. He is a liar. And people should stop loving watching scary material because something happens in the spirit for every action tht we do.

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  • texrubarts
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 8:34pm

    This is great – next time the police pull me over for speeding – I can tell them their flashing lights made me sick and I didn’t know what I was doing! LOL…. LOL…

    YepImaConservative – your comment: Whoa there skippy (CO FEMALE). Not everyone is up on the latest craze of half human-half vampire births where the hospital uses flashing lights as part of the process of inducing birth and the OB/GYN nurses are werewolves and the nursing assistants are frankenstein’s brides — is the funniest comment yet!!! LOL.. I laughed til I cried…..

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  • CloudNine
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 8:12pm

    HorseS@#t!

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:05pm

      I don’t know .. the sight of the Obamas causes me to get nauseous .. the sound of Obama speechifying makes me dizzy .. the head to the left the head to the right …. to the left to the right … oh oh.

      TEA!

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  • KangarooJack
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:16pm

    I’ve suffered through a couple of the Twilight movies for my, then teenage daughter’s sake, then I discovered the movie (can’t remember the name) that lampoon’s …Now THAT movie was worth seeing. lol

    Strobe lights/flashing lights/ even sunlight dappling between leaves while driving can trigger seizures.

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    • sweetbees
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:53pm

      This happened to my son. He is 19 and went to the midnight showing of Breaking Dawn and had seizure-like symptoms during this scene. I was awaken at around 2 AM by my other son that he was at the theater having a seizure. I got a call from the local police and he was taken to the ER. All blood tests came back normal except for his prolactin level was elevated. He had seizure‘s in 8th grade about 4 or 5 times and then he hadn’t had one since last Friday morning watching this movie. I am going to print off this article and show it to his doctor.

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    • zach123
      Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:47pm

      @SWEETBEES:
      For more information about seizures during this movie, or if you or someone you know had a seizure during this film, see

      https://sites.google.com/site/breakingdawnseizures/home
      and
      https://www.facebook.com/breakingdawnseizures

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  • notmeatglennbeckdotcom
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:54pm

    It‘s just too bad Raiders of the Lost Ark didn’t cause non-believers heads to melt like the Nazis.

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  • raybojabo
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:25pm

    Don’t drop acid before you go to the theatre, duh.

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    • jandersn
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:48pm

      But, a few extra hits of phenobarbital might help.

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  • metalurgy
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 5:12pm

    I got nauseous and vomited watching the first movie with my daughter when that girly dood took his shirt off and his skin started sparkling.

    Only difference is I will remember everything and have emotional scars for life.

    Just the memory…of it…now…hurk…hurk…hurk….

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  • Societal Misfit
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 5:04pm

    This is an issue of these people suffering from photo sensitive epilepsy, and no it is not a “PC” explanation, it is a real disorder. I have friends that suffer from it and thus they can not watch many types of movies specifically those with strobe effects and fast switching images in the scenes, they also can not frequent nightclubs due to the same issue with strobe lights and such. It is a well known disorder and yes you can suffer this disorder even if you have never suffered from it before if you have a genetic link to epilepsy or have suffered from say a traumatic head injury in the past and such. This is what happened to these people, it is not demonic possession, and yes I have done a lot of research in that area as well as many others but I also understand the workings of the human body as well. For those of you that are skeptical, watch a person go through this and you will lose your skepticism right quick I promise you. In fact do some research on it and you will understand that it is a real disorder.

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    • Battleshort
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 10:11pm

      If this is a “real” disorder and they intended to harm the moviegoers, the film company is libel.

      NOT!

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    • Societal Misfit
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:05pm

      It is a “real” disorder and no I do not think that it was the intent of the producers to cause harm to anyone.

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    • Societal Misfit
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:07pm

      It is a real disorder that said I never implied that the intent of the producers was to harm anyone.

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:54pm

    The same thing happened to me when I saw that photo of moo-shell obama’s ass with the french and italian first ladies.

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    • Secessionista
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:57pm

      In fact, I feel very dirty for even admitting I saw it. I am going to take a very long shower now.

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:46pm

    There may be something to this. I know I have the urge to vomint just watching the commercials for the movie on TV.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:43pm

    .
    How graphic can it be, after what the wife called me while birthing of our first child. A little Blood & Guts would be a nice change……..

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  • BellaMia7
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:39pm

    I‘m surprise the filmmakers didn’t consider this. It is a well-known fact about flashing lights and seizures. Japan had a problem with this and some cartoons or anime.

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  • Jezreel
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:38pm

    I guess hyping up the movie that way will ensure there will be more movie goers to fall for it and go and see it.

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:31pm

    Well, that’s one way to get out of having to sit through that drivel with your girlfriend……

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  • Police
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:28pm

    It just made me nauseous…

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  • sawbuck
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:27pm

    I saw a guy have a seizure right next to a ride at a county fair.It was a ride “at night” that had lights flashing to the music,he was the ride attendant,
    He almost got his head knocked off. There where two attendants working that ride. The guy manning the controls thought he was kidding around but quickly shut the ride down, when we started yelling at him, he’s having a seizure…! When it was all was said and done , the seizure victim said about the same thing these people said. It was a first for him and he didnt remember a thing. My point..Better to be in a movie theater having a seizure ,and find out you have this condition,than walking around a machine going around in a circle about 60 + mph or at least that’s what it looked like.
    I also believe he had an angel looking over him. I have never seen two attendants for those rides before ,at a county fair. I know people that have epilepsy, are more susceptible to this kind of problem.
    But I wonder if anyone, under the right conditions ,can have this happen. also ?

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:18pm

    Does anybody care that when i see and hear the obams i come close to having a stroke hmmmmmm………………..?

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:17pm

    This whole Twilight thing is really gay.

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  • Rayblue
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:12pm

    When the police are chasing for something you posted on the blaze,
    you can later tell Judge Judy that the flashing overheads caused you to lose your mind.
    I hear she’s very understanding.

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  • ares338
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:50pm

    Oh come on people…triggering seizures? Have you ever watched any segment of the myriad of CSI shows? Wimpy…wimpy…wimpy!

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  • lukerw
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:49pm

    Government tests new crowd control weapon.

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    • AmeriCat
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:20pm

      Fascinating….

      Yes, flashing lights are a common cause of seizures.
      Red, white, and black were apparently “visible” to viewers.
      The next question….what comprised the subliminal “in-between” images.

      Would be curious to have actual unedited film evaluated,
      image by image.

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  • docvet
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:47pm

    Not real healthy for migraine headache sufferers either.

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    • Delilahsdagger
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 9:24am

      I know that I have serious issues with the flashing strobes and lights. I suffer from migraines and all of that stuff can trigger one pretty quick.

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  • jandersn
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:45pm

    Sounds more like plain and simple demonic possession. This movie could make a good test to use on all those elected folks in Washington D.C. and elsewhere. The notion of photosensitive epilepsy is a way too PC an explanation.

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:40pm

    It’s like the film Andromeda Strain when the researcher blanks out while looking at the results of what will/won’t kill the alien organism.

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  • KingDork
    Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:25pm

    So what does this make it any different than the rest of the movies/books?

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    • COFemale
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:38pm

      Ah, did you read the story or watch the video?

      It is called flashing red lights during the birth scene that can trigger even those without any known form of epilepsy have an epileptic seizure. Books are not even part of this discussion as reading a book about red flashing light would not trigger a seizure.

      Words of unsolicited advice: think before you speak.

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    • Jomil48
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:53pm

      if you remember the child’s song “be carefull little eyes what you see” if you went to sunday school. your eyes and your ears are the gateway to your soul

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    • KingDork
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 3:59pm

      Thus my joke went over some heads…

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    • YepImaConservative
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:12pm

      Whoa there skippy (CO FEMALE). Not everyone is up on the latest craze of half human-half vampire births where the hospital uses flashing lights as part of the process of inducing birth and the OB/GYN nurses are werewolves and the nursing assistants are frankenstein’s brides, and where Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi, Abbott and Costello are in the waiting room and…

      Laugh before you cry…

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