{"id":103,"date":"2005-03-03T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T21:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/03\/03\/beware-of-the-boogeyman\/"},"modified":"2005-03-03T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T21:22:35","slug":"beware-of-the-boogeyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/03\/beware-of-the-boogeyman\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of the Boogeyman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4677'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/entertainment\/story\/sm_1298366.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/booogey.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"231\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a><\/em>True<br \/>\n          confession &#8211; the Dowbrigade has not watched a scarry movie all the<br \/>\n          way through<br \/>\n          since Vincent Price&#8217;s &quot;Premature Burial&quot;. The last scary movie we TRIED<br \/>\n        to watch was that one where you watch the video and then die seven days<br \/>\n        later. Even though we turned it off midflick, we still jump every time<br \/>\n        the phone rings just after a video finishes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Now, in what could be the<br \/>\n        start of a smart marketing trend, a British web<br \/>\n        site<br \/>\n        has<br \/>\n        posted<br \/>\n        the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/entertainment\/story\/sm_1298366.html\">first<br \/>\n          five minutes<\/a> of Sony Pictures new thriller hit &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/movies\/boogeyman\/\">Boogeyman<\/a>&quot;<br \/>\n          on their web site.&nbsp;We<br \/>\n          have been trying to work up the nerve to watch it all afternoon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Of course, two-minute movie trailers have existed for years, and<br \/>\n          are all over the net. However, these are usually unrealistic compilations<br \/>\n          of eye candy, one-liners and money shots, and give no idea what the<br \/>\n          movie is actually going to be like. The first five minutes would be<br \/>\n          a much more representative sampling.&nbsp;It could potentially help<br \/>\n          us avoid dropping mucho dinero on duds and bombs at the local Megaplex,<br \/>\n          which is probably why it will never catch on.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Meanwhile, we are almost ready to take a peek at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/entertainment\/story\/sm_1298366.html\">first<br \/>\n            five minutes of &quot;Boogeyman&quot;<\/a>. Or maybe we&#8217;ll wait until<br \/>\n          we stop having these claustrophobic nightmares of waking up inside<br \/>\n          a sealed crypt.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/entertainment\/story\/sm_1298366.html\">Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True confession &#8211; the Dowbrigade has not watched a scarry movie all the way through since Vincent Price&#8217;s &quot;Premature Burial&quot;. The last scary movie we TRIED to watch was that one where you watch the video and then die seven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/03\/beware-of-the-boogeyman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}