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Originally Posted by Mictlantechutli
Kill the kid.
I fail to see how kids are somehow more special than grown-ups. If you answer "innocence" then you probably don't know shit about children. There have been child murderers since the dawn of man.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_k...2/index_1.html
If anything they are less important to society, because they don't know anything. I'll admit that a director needs to be careful not to terrorize a child actor on the set, but as a character in a film - anything goes.
Anything less is self-censorship. |
Smell flowers much?
This is actually the best thread we've had in weeks, so I thank you, Stubbs, for that.
I tend to agree with Rayne...what's so damn scary about most child-based horror movies is a loss of innocence.
In
The Exorcist, Ragen had barely seen the outside of her mother's house, and now she's forcefully masterbating with a cross, and sticking her mom's head in the bloody remains.
In
Children of the Corn, an entire town's children lop off their parents, the ones who have raised them, loved them, taught them...and they turn around and slaughter them.
We can even trace this sickly theme back to early films such as
M (1931). The most horrifying scenes are the one in which we see Lorre slowly seduce a small girl with things like candy, or a balloon. They don't know any better, so, innocently, they go along with the friendly man. We all know what happens after that.
Another great example is
Night of the Hunter.
Do I think children should be eliminated from horror movies? Absolutely not.
Do I think children in horror movies add a kind of horrifyingly disturbing element? Absolutely.