Movies That Impacted Mass Behavior...

[Alison Jane]

They should start doing that again...

[RichardDoyle]

"Psycho" is also responsible for changing people's movie-going behavior. It was one of the first films that wouldn't let anyone come in after it started. The idea of showing up quite a while before a movie started and lining up to get in really kind of starts here.

[Alison Jane]

Actually the Omen. How many people do you know that have named their kid that in this country since then?

Were there a lot of kids named Omen before that? ;)

My son's middle name is Damian. :D

[Nolando]

And I'll 2nd that thing about Jaws - one of my regrets is that I never got to punch Peter Benchley in the face...

Oh - not widespread but a good buddy of mine when I was a kid wouldn't flush the toilet when he stayed over 'cuz he thought our place looked like the Amityville House.

[Todd Jordan]

Deliverance. Since that movie I haven't been able to rape city folk.

Actually the Omen. How many people do you know that have named their kid that in this country since then?

[Nolando]

Psycho - after my grandmother saw it she never took a shower again (thankfully, she did take baths, tho').

[Nolando]

It Happened One Night - after seeing Clark Gable sporting a wifebeater tee in that sales of that undergarment went through the roof.

[Ian Jane]

I think The Exorcist put a lot of people off of ouija boards.

[Alison Jane]

You're talking about on a societal level, right?

Right, films that influenced people in their day to day life.

[Ian Jane]

You're talking about on a societal level, right? Not like Rocky Horror and it's crowd? How about Harry Potter influencing a generation that grew up with the series to no longer consider kids into wizards and magic dorks?

I've read accounts of people being scared to go in the shower after Psycho but I don't know that this was necessarily on a huge scale.

[Alison Jane]

We were talking the other night about movies like Jaws which decreased beach populations the summer it came out and Death Wish which drastically cut the crime rate. It's interesting how movies can affect large amounts of people this way.

Any others you can think of?