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Owners dislike tourists flocking to former Connecticut funeral parlor: SOUTHINGTON, Conn. - A Hollywood horror film that depicts the alleged haunting of a former funeral parlor in central Connecticut is turning into a nightmare for the home's current owners and their neighbors. The movie, "A Haunting in Connecticut," doesn't open until Friday, but curious fans are already making a beeline for the Southington home that inspired the movie. "It's just been really, really stressful," said Susan Trotta-Smith, who bought the home 10 years ago with her husband. "It's been a total change from a very quiet house in a very...

Staff at a UK cinema have had to call emergency services three times in one night because of a spate of people passing out during horror film Saw III.One woman was taken to hospital and two other adults had to be treated by medics after they fainted in Stevenage. And in a separate case, a man collapsed at a cinema in Peterborough "due to the film's content". "If you know you're squeamish, don't go," warned a spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service. "This is obviously a blood-thirsty film. Some of the scenes are fairly horrific," Matthew Ware told...

A German court has banned the screening of a film based on the case of self-confessed cannibal Armin Meiwes. The state court in Kassel upheld a complaint from Meiwes, 44, against the film Rohtenburg, which was due for release in Germany on 9 March. The court ruled that Meiwes' rights as an individual outweighed artistic freedom and that he should not become the object of a horror film. Meiwes, jailed for eight-and-a-half years in 2004, is facing a retrial. He admitted that in March 2001 he killed a 43-year-old man and partially ate him. He was jailed for manslaughter. Meiwes...