Children in horror

[alkytrio666]

Originally Posted by stubbornforgey

oh and Alky :D

we will get our forum topics back eventually !!

You bet your ass.

...one step at a time, my friend. One step at a time...

[AsylumSeeker]

Originally Posted by stubbornforgey

I mentioned 'train spotters'..the scene in that one.'very disturbing' to say the least..especially since the child in that was merely a toddler.

I've got to agree wholeheartedly on this one. That may be the single most disturbing scene ever in a movie for me. It was one of the only times I actually had to stop a movie and walk away because I just didn't want to see anymore. I came back and finished it, but while alot of that movie has left my brain, I can still see that scene like a photo in my mind.

[stubbornforgey]

Originally Posted by AsylumSeeker

I've got to agree wholeheartedly on this one. That may be the single most disturbing scene ever in a movie for me. It was one of the only times I actually had to stop a movie and walk away because I just didn't want to see anymore. I came back and finished it, but while alot of that movie has left my brain, I can still see that scene like a photo in my mind.

honestly..i bawled my eyes out.
and its not even a horror movie :(

[stenchofdeath]

Yeah, children in horror movies can be quite effective. I guess because we see well some of them as being sweet and innocent. However we seem to get really grabbed when we see the look of hatred or posession in a childs eyes in these movies. Check out "Zombies"- a posse of udead children run through the woods at night, slaughtering people and animals. Some others Village Of The Dammed, The Omen, and The Wicker man (originals and the re-makes) and lets not forget The Exorcist. I often wonder what the psychological effects must be for these child actors, being confronted with such serious subject matter. One can only imagine that there is a over zealous mother driving their child to be the next big thing in horror after the commercials. You would think that the child has demonstrated maturity beyond their years to even be considered for such parts

[bleeding_angelgirl]

can you say children of the corn and villiage of the damn those were some creepy kids

[bloodrayne]

Here's something that just came up at home:

Alex (12 years-old) has been in a college film...He plays a kid who's bouncing a basketball down the sidewalk, not paying attention to anything but the ball because it's on a downhill grade and he's trying to keep it from bouncing away...A car backs out of a driveway without seeing him and he gets killed...A person with the powers of time manipulation changes things so that when Alex bounces the ball past the driveway, the car is not there until a few minutes later, so Alex lives...So, in one scene you see him get killed by the car, in another scene you see him continue to bounce the ball past the driveway...


All that he did for his role was bounce a ball to the driveway and stop....Then he started from the same position and bounced the ball until he was past the driveway


Now, for the new thing:

Jordan (7 years-old...Dustin's son) was SUPPOSED to be in a movie...His part was supposed to be filmed this Sunday...We were informed that it couldn't be done, so now we're just going to wait and do it (independently) this summer


He was supposed to play a kid who grew up to be a mortician

In his scenes he was playing with a headless doll in his room when his mother comes in, yanks away the doll, and yells at him

In a later scene, he's holding the doll and he's very sad, he says "look what they've done to you"


What is happening is the kid HAS become a mortician as an adult, and everything that happens to the doll is really happening to a corpse, the mortician is having flashbacks of his childhood (which is what Jordan's part is about)...So, you see the mortician talking to a headless corpse, that he loves like a kid's doll, and when the mother burns the doll (so the kid can't get it back again) the corpse is actually burning


As far as Jordan's involvement goes, he was only supposed to be playing with a doll, yelling "NO" when the actress (mother) takes it away, and then holding the doll and saying the one sad line...Not very traumatic, huh?


BUT...The heads of the department read the script after the stupid 'corpse actress' (20 years-old) complained because she felt that laying there while someone touched her hair was just too "creepy" and she would be uncomfortable and probably have nightmares:rolleyes:...This girl's major is acting...How is she EVER going to be an actress with that attitude?

Anyway...It was decided that it was too morbid for a 7 year-old to participate in...So, the director (one of my closest friends) asked if it could be changed to a 12 year-old (Alex), they said 'no way'

It's all just bullshit...Jordan is pretty disappointed...He loves horror movies, and the chance to be in one made him happy

[AmericanManiac]

I know this subject touch far to sensitive to some, my buddy a hardcore horror fan. He read my script about a kid being a vicitim. He hated it said it touched to close to home for him, because his son was the kids age. I just finished watching Wicked little things one of the horrorfest films. It was about ghost/zombie kids, they were pretty freaky although they did remind me of the kids from village of the damn because of the black eyes, and how cruel they were. I like the feeling of a kid being the one causing all of the problems, makes it more freakier. We look at them as an innoccent character and the next thing we know the kid is butchering an adult, it's effin great I love it!

@bloodrayne I think they should of went and shot the film with Dustin's seven year old. I mean the kid had his hopes up, and you guys were giving him the permission to do it. I don't think it is to morbid for a kid that age, it's a movie!

[Kane_Hodder]

The Village of the Damned film by Carpenter was very eerie. The child in the Ju On films also creeps me out. The children can be good performers and can create genuine creepiness in the film, as long as they are handled and directed properly.

[PR3SSUR3]

Heh heh, one of the things we miss about Lucio Fulci is his reckless abandon when it came to butchering kids - witness the opening prologue of Voices From Beyond for example.

And it doesn't bother the Orientals much either - The Untold Story massacre and fiery death/knocking-off-the-charred-corpse's-head scene in Run & Kill are especially memorable.

Why is that? Because as has been said here, inflicting grief upon kids is shocking in any context.

So long as it isn't anything sexual, and enough care is taken to not expose young actors to disturbing imagery on the set, this should remain one of horror's more attention-grabbing calling cards.

If anyone has the Eric Stanze movie I Spit on Your Corpse, I Piss on Your Grave it is interesting to see how they got around the bit where the young boy discovers the sexually mutilated corpse. The actor, one of the crew's sons, was never actually shown any graphic special effects through clever editing manipulation.

[Despare]

I think the most effective child murder I've seen recently is still the original Assault on Precinct 13. It's not just tacked on to elicit emotion but rather a true part of the story.