If H1N1 gets us, it will be the fault of cinema

They just don't make public service announcement movies like they used to. Seriously, how hardcore is this 1976 Swine Flu PSA? Did John Carpenter make this thing or what? No wonder the 1976 outbreak was no big deal--this video would scare the living crap out of Chuck Norris. Which begs...

By P. Scott Cunningham

May 15, 2009

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They just don't make public service announcement movies like they used to. Seriously, how hardcore is this 1976 Swine Flu PSA? Did John Carpenter make this thing or what?

No wonder the 1976 outbreak was no big deal--this video would scare the living crap out of Chuck Norris. Which begs the question: where's today's swine flu video made by Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, Eli Roth or Rob Zombie?

Instead we just get referred to some boring website. We deserve to die. I'm going to go kiss Joe myself.

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