I just read this in an article concerning the recent VA tech school shooting:

"Cho's writing was so disturbing, though, he was referred to the university's counseling service, said Carolyn Rude, chairwoman of the university's English department.

In screenplays Cho wrote for a class last fall, characters throw hammers and attack with chainsaws, said a student who attended Virginia Tech last fall. In another, Cho concocted a tale of students who fantasize about stalking and killing a teacher who sexually molested them.

"When we read Cho's plays, it was like something out of a nightmare," former classmate Ian MacFarlane, now an AOL employee, wrote in a blog posted on an AOL Web site. "The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't have even thought of." "

I'm not really going anywhere with this. I was just struck by thinking about the fact that you can walk into any movie rental place or theater and see stories of the same type, viciously and gruesomely carried out on the screen, and no one really seems disturbed by that. I mean, someone had to think of these stories. Someone had to write the screenplays. And lots of someones had to think it was good enough/would sell enough that they made movies out of it. And again, lots and lots of someones were entertained enough by these sick and twisted films that these movies have made millions upon millions of dollars.

I wonder if classmates ever talked about Eli Roth the same way they talked about Cho.