Kids Dying Violent Deaths in Horror

[darthvonpokemon]

hmmm the thread was about 'dead kids in movies' and somehow he has to bring up his look again, even though he's already posted the same topic in General. What does his preference in wardrobe have to with this topic here ? Nothing. He wants to look different ? Fine. Most people here do and have taken as much shit if not more than he has. Sounds to me more like he a personal insecurity problem then. What that has to do with dead kids in movies, I have no idea. Don't give in, but also don't whine about it, especially on an unrelated thread. He made it quite clear he doesn't like the negative attention he gets, but continues to do it anyways. My solution was simple: either deal with it or quit, but don't blather on about it like it's some crusade the rest of the world has against him personally (on an unrelated post mind you).
As for English being his second language, he sure picked up 'fuck you' quickly enough to post to me. That ranks right up there with 'your mama' as the sign of a lost argument. If he didn't agree with me, I'm sure there are many other ways of expressing it rather than the ever convenient 'fuck you'. Again, 'fuck you' is probably the most universal, NON-INDIVIDUAL way of being able to disagree without any thought involved. I'm sure we'd all love to see George W. break out with a 'fuck you' in a national debate against Kerry on tv just for that reason, but it's unlikely LOL
As for outwitting the 'likes of me any day', Ege, I'll look forward to you trying. This overall is a weak topic at best and not worthy of some serious debating. Maybe a topic of the pros and cons of midgets in cinema would be better suited for that :D
CK
PS Back to the original subject at hand, I hope you enjoyed my '60 Second' condensed film opening if you watched it.

[Egekrusher]

Meh. Shit happens.

Nice host, BTW. 300kbps+ is a very nice download speed.

Ok, here's what I thought of the trailer: Good idea. Horrible acting on the part of the woman though. The father seems to be an ok actor and the kids... well, kids are kids. They don't have to act.

The audio was too loud, it's garbled. Need to master it a bit more, though it may just be from the compression. What bitrate was the sound done at? What codec? Is it .mp3 audio? You may want to consider sacrificing a little filesize for better audio quality. It really takes away from the trailer. An extra MB or so isn't going to make much of a difference. I like the overall effect though.

Good job. :)

[darthvonpokemon]

Thanks. The mom is still going to reshoot some scenes for me. I'm pretty decent at editing, but some things are impossible to work around LOL. She's actually in it because she has a near identical twin sister, who also appears in the film (important plot point).Worst part was the little boy has the one line of dialogue that the entire film revolves around. The original boy decided 12 hours before shooting that he didn't want to do it and it turned out his replacement has ADD (kind of like 'Rain Man' with a real bad attitude LOL). He repeated the line all day long until I was actually filming. I've learned way too much the hard way from this film and it's still not done yet. On the plus side, scream queen Kimberly Lynn Cole appears in it. She still thinks the storyline is brilliant even if the actual film is bogged down by my non-actor friends LOL. This winter's filming of my 'Resurrection Mary' will actually have real actors this tiime. I want to make horror movies, not horrible movies LOL
CK

[KRUGERKID13]

check out from dusk till dawn the little asian kid gets mutilated

[massacre man]

Originally posted by MONSTER DAD
That bothered me heavily and continued to bother me for a couple of months afterwards. All I kept picturing was the little coffin. There is nothing natural about a coffin that small.

yeah i had to go to a babies funeral while the family was on vacation he rolled off the balcony of the hotel he was only about 2 months old

[Vodstok]

Or losing your kid because your ex wasnt paying attention, like Eric Clapton.... That situation was fucking horrible

[moonsorrow]

allright, my last words on this topic...i was making a comparrison, it was on topic. out.

[TheHitchiker]

Children... So small.. So Innocent... So easy for killers to get....

[dodge50]

Originally posted by Stingy Jack
One thing you don't see a lot of in horror films is children meeting a violent end. I can think of the scene in Halloween 3, and some friends of mine saw the new Exorcist movie last night and said there is a scene that depicts a kid getting torn apart by jackals ... or hyenas. Don't remember. Why do you think this type of scene is rarely touched in horror films, and can you think of any other scenes besides the two I mentioned? (Night of the Living Dead doesn't count. The child doesn't die violently there ... and we don't actually see Ben kill her re-animated corpse).

Personally, I think directors shy away from this type of thing because showing the violent death of a child for sensationalistic purposes may cause them quite a bit of grief. And such scenes do seem to be more disturbing to me ... although, I realize the kid probably got a nice paycheck in the end. I, for one, wouldn't raise a stink if they showed more of this in films. After all, it's getting harder and harder for films to actually horrify nowadays, and such scenes would definitely contribute to this neglected emotion.

Two that spring to mind are Mimic, where two kids looking for an insect pupa in the subway get eaten alive, and 28 Days Later, where that kid infected with the rage virus get his head smacked in with a baseball bat.

[urgeok]

was this shit worth dredging up again ?