Child's Play

Violent videos lure the young

The film Alien Prey features a bloodstained vampire who feasts on a dead woman's entrails through a hole in her stomach. Make Them Die Slowly proudly proclaims 24 SCENES OF BARBARIC TORTURE, including a scene in which a man slices a woman in half. Flesh Feast reveals "body maggots" that consume live human beings, pulling the skin off their faces before working their way down.

Every day, all across the country, children under the age of 17 walk into their neighborhood video stores and rent movies that they would not be able to see in a theater. Sometimes the youthful customers...

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