Nice to see a kid dying
You don't see that kind of stuff in scary movies. I remember seeing Sleepaway Camp when a bunch of kids around 8 - 10 years die too.
The 80' has some major balls
Agreed ;-)
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Were there kids dieing in this movie?! Hot Dog! That is nice.
shareYeah I remember the first time I watched this movie, the scene when the kid died caught me by surprise.
shareFirst saw this when I was a kid. Genuinely horrified when I saw that. I thought there was some unspoken rule where anyone under 15 lived no matter how much of a smart a$$ they were in a horror movie, man this blew my mind.
shareYup, same here.
shareMe too lol!watching horror films as a kid,whenever scared,I used to tell myself that kids don't die!
shareYeah I was thinking that they would, BUT THEY DID! Great movie!!
shareThe 80' has some major balls
The kid just fell into the water on his own in this though didn't he (as opposed to having the monster pull him into the water)? That's still pretty tame. But maybe I'm wrong about how he fell because it was late when I watched this and I was tired.
Anyway, the early 1930's definitely had more balls.
For example, in this film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021884/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_6
...a kid dies in a much more graphic & shocking way as Frankenstein picks her up and throws her into the lake. Actually I found a clip of that on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5FtI472Q6I
And other scenes show the father character carrying her corpse all around town. Whereas in this film the kid is never seen again after he falls into the water. share
He was pulled into the Blob under the water.
shareHow was that more graphic and shocking?
...they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I agree 80s horror films were overall edgier, but kids do die in Slither (2006), and arguably Krampus (2015). It's rarer but it happens. What is worse, I think, is younger audiences today have become completely incapable of accepting "bad endings" where a main character dies or sees no resolution. Everything has to be tied up in a neat bow. Check out the Krampus forums here for a laugh and count how many threads there are trying to justify all the convoluted extra-canon ways the ending could have been happy. It's denial on a massive scale.
Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre
Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois
The more recent IT films killed kids as well.
shareIts a cultural thing as well. Americans want happy endings more than Europeans.
shareYou rarely see kids die in movies, this and some Troma films are the exceptions in my mind. I'm sure there are others though.
shareMy favorite child death in a horror film is the kid getting run over by a steamroller in Maximum Overdrive.
sharePet sematary aswell
shareBest kids death in movies is the baby beeing hit and tossed screaming through the air by an 88mm shell from a tiger tank driven by nazi-zombies in dead snow 2.
shareTo my knowledge, Halloween III: Season of the Witch and RoboCop 2 have a child dying (the former possibly lots and lots of them, depending on how you interpret the ending).
shareI wouldn't say "nice"! :-) But, yeah, it definitely takes you aback when you see it, and lets you know that the movie isn't F'ing around!
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