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When did we start showing kids dying in movies?
- Thread starter jwk94
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The best movie you'll never want to watch again. It still haunts me.
Also, Who Could Kill A Child, Beware: Children At Play, Murder-Set-Pieces, and Don't Torture A Duckling.
Jaws has maybe the only bloody child killing to get a PG.
I'm sure I saw a movie recently that had adults killing children en mass, but I can't remember the name.
Freddy Got Fingered is a comedy that features a child getting chopped up by an airplane propellor, complete with his father being covered in kid-giblets.
I'm sure I saw a movie recently that had adults killing children en mass, but I can't remember the name.
Freddy Got Fingered is a comedy that features a child getting chopped up by an airplane propellor, complete with his father being covered in kid-giblets.
Ah yeah, that "The bad guy can't get away with it" clause. I remember that, lol
You mean Return of the Sith
AVP 2 actually.... and we don't talk about that one. :(
Killing a child in a ludicrous King fashion is awesome, AVP 2 was basically a snuff movie pretending to be about aliens.
AVP 1 has no children in it, which is kind of a recurring thing with W. S. Anderson films. No kids allowed, I guess.
Though since you mention it, ALIENS (1986) actually has implied children deaths in the DC version, even if story wise that should be 'just as' obvious in the theatrical cut since Newt literally has a line about her brother, but only the DC actually shows kids other than Newt directly.
Oh fuck! I completely forgot about that one! Beautiful comic relief scene.
Yep, straight up murdered by God (struck by lightning). The Good Son was a sorta remake of the Bad Seed.
The kids getting shot is from Postal and the Steven Seagal shots are from Kill Switch I think
I dont know which movie its cut from.
And then she dies because the Hays Code said evil must always be punished.
Fun fact, that kid was the voice of Littlefoot in The Land Before Time and Nemo in Little Nemo.
Now every time I see this films I imagine what his character from Robocop 2 would do in those situations.
Halloween 2018 shows
Michael strangle a child and snap his neck. He also approaches a crying baby in a crib later in the movie, but doesn't harm them.
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huh, I think I remember it because it happens in the first ten minutes.
Kids dying in films has been a thing for decades. It runs the gamut from the sad and tragic to the shlocky and over the top. From the kid getting run over by a steamroller in Maximum Overdrive to Ash getting creamed in the first Pokemon movie.
The best movies make it meaningful, Doctor Sleep's scene is upsetting, terrifying and not shlocky or gory. A movie like The Blob remake has a more shlocky/gory version, but it still has some impact because it cements the notion that no-one is safe from it and it doesn't fuck around. Pet Semetary (the original movie) has a little toddler die in what would be a gruesome way, but it's fundamental to the story. We see him killed again after being essentially put down by his father, and even though he was an evil little shit when he came back, it was still a heart-wrenching scene.
The best movies make it meaningful, Doctor Sleep's scene is upsetting, terrifying and not shlocky or gory. A movie like The Blob remake has a more shlocky/gory version, but it still has some impact because it cements the notion that no-one is safe from it and it doesn't fuck around. Pet Semetary (the original movie) has a little toddler die in what would be a gruesome way, but it's fundamental to the story. We see him killed again after being essentially put down by his father, and even though he was an evil little shit when he came back, it was still a heart-wrenching scene.
I mean, it's rare but it's been happening for a while now. Even in some anime too.
I'm assuming this is a Yoshiyuki Tomino anime?
This year there has been three Stephen King movies in cinemas and all 3 have featured brutal child deaths.
Yeah. I haven't seen it but it's from Space Runaway Ideon.
This your first introduction to horror? Sometimes kids die in horror flicks. Sometimes kids do the killing, which can be just as disturbing.
I wanna say the first time for me was a chucky movie but I could be wrong.
This episode was a goddamn masterpiece. Whew. They will never top it.
This episode was a goddamn masterpiece. Whew. They will never top it.
"How much for a kid on a bicycle?"
"He's still moving no full points"
"Full points, I'll show you full points"
And then Bozo proceeds to drive over the head, infamous scene.
I don't remember it cutting away, Myers
snapped that kid's neck after starting to choke him.
Think it was both.
Though the kids MIGHT have got away in The Relic. Or only the remains were found.
The way the monster ate people fucked me up so hard. So e great scenes in that one.
It is. Its why I laugh when people mention how amazing The Last of Us was for getting you to care about whatchamacallit. Harming kids is the cheesiest shortcut to emotional resonance in existence. It's one step above killing the girlfriend to motivate the hero.
I'm guessing Mimic too. The It movies have mad violence against children as well.
That scene described in the OP sounds fucked
I watched this movie Tigers Are Not Afraid A few weeks back. There's some child deaths in there that really messed me up :(
I watched this movie Tigers Are Not Afraid A few weeks back. There's some child deaths in there that really messed me up :(
