So last week we had a Friday date night and decided to go and see Spiderman 3 (this was Mat’s choice .  We settled down and started watching and yes it was a good film.  That was until suddenly up pops on screen a face from my worst nightmares.
The idea in this film is spiderman finds this alien symbiont and it merges with him to create this black suit.  However the suit feeds off him and turns him into, as my mom would say, a nasty piece of work.  So off comes the suit and the symbiont finds it’s way onto someone who has a serious revenge problem with spiderman.

So picture this, spidey is walking down a dark alley and it’s clear that someone is following him.  You automatically assume that it is going to be this guy in dark spiderman suit.  Well when he turns round (cue shock music) it isn’t.  It is the single most upsetting face I have ever seen.  Black with pointy, elongated silver eyes, and an extended mouth full of pointy teeth.  Well Mat for one jumps 6 inch off his seat and I, well I just plain started crying.  Real tears and full blown sobs.  Now don’t get me wrong, I am a tough cookie and nothing scares me (apart from perhaps ‘The Ring’), the reason I was all upset was that this image is one that plagues my nightmares.  Dark figures with white eyes and big mouths of pointy teeth.  The only other film that got this reaction was ‘Donnie Darko’ and that isn’t even scary.

It appalled me to see the film classification rating of this film.  It was 12A.  This means that I could have taken my 3 year old to see it provided she was with me.  There were children as young as five in there and all of them came out pale faced. 

As we all know our nightmares are often more frightening than real life and I am stunned to learn that classification takes into account blood scenes, gun scenes, sexual content but not scenes of horror.

Now browsing the internet to provide a picture of what I am waffling on with also reveals that the makers of the film did their utmost to keep images of this character ‘Venom’ out of the media until the film was released.  No wonder.  If parents had any inclining of the content of this film the attendance would have gone through the floor.

I had a hard time finding this picture, I warn you that it isn’t fluffy bunnies.  This is taken from early cgi efforts and isn’t finished.  I can honestly say that even this wouldn’t come close to what is actually in the film.  I ask you, would you like your young child to be faced with this:  Venom