Kids Dying Violent Deaths in Horror
 

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.

The sight of children dying is something that makes everyone cringe. It inspires rage, disgust and a need for vengeance. The main reason it's not used more is simply because most people just don't want to see it, real or not. Personally, I hate it when they kill kids in horror movies. That's just not something I want to see or contemplate. I'd rather watch someone be castrated than watch a kid die a horrible death.

I think a child's, assumed innocence, (The Bad Seed) is what attracts most writers/directors to the use of children in horror films. The Shinning, Pet Sematary, the new Godsend, original Exorcist. However, in most films children are portrayed as some sort of victim, even though they might perpetrate violence on someone else, it usually comes as the result of some sort of transformation, such as death or possesion.

Actually, I remember a film titled The Child ... which depicts a girl who is friends with zombies and make them do her bidding. This girl was pretty whacked, and seemed to have no motives to her violence, other than she's just a bad kid who finds a way to vent her anger through the undead.

She dies pretty horribly. She gets an axe in the head, if I remember correctly.

check this out and tell me what you think:

http://scaredyet.net/groups/kids.aspx

Re: Kids Dying Violent Deaths in Horror
 

why do you make threads out of my stupidest ideas?

Puppet master 2 when that kid is pretending to be Indiana Jones And torch comes up and he starts whipping him and picks him up and torch sets him ablaze

was it called puppet master 2 or did it have a puppet master:...

Its was just Puppet master 2

ok cuz i want to see thatmy blocbuster only has retro puppet master