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I won't go as far as to say horror movies make kids wanna put on hockey masks or razor-bladed fingernails and slash the innocent when they least expect it (sleeping, having sex, etc.) I will say that there does appear to be some form of "bah, whatever" to movies as you get older. People watching moves (myself included) are not only use to the idea of death, but are easily use to the idea of murder. It just isn't shocking anymore.
On another level to this, have you ever noticed that many horror flicks will throw in a person that the audience agrees deserves to be slaughtered. A high school bully, an abusive husband, the doctor/scientist that just wouldn't listen to reason. When the quote/unquote "bad guy" appears and dismembers these people, it is put in the movie to not scare the audience, but to appeal to their ever-growing side of "kill,kill,kill".
So no, I don't believe that any one person could blame any one movie for a series of murder. Those people are called crazy. But I do believe there is some truth in movies with any sort of violence making the general public more leniant towards the idea of experiencing bad things, either while happening to them, or enacting on to others.
Pardon me, I must go hack away at these two kids I spotted having sex in the woods. You know, no biggie.
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