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Since when do children die in movies??

posted 17 years ago by kimfawkes
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I mean come on... that was just sick... i was so mad when i watched that... sad excuse for a movie and they had to throw that part in.. i couldnt believe it... and her death had to be gory too... poor kid... stupid people who don't know anything about snakes in the first place.. i mean come on at LEAST Snakes on a plan was pretty accurate as to the breeds of snakes and how people die from snake bites.. this was fu ckin sad. Snakes dont bite you in the chest and rip out hunks of flesh... or sliver through your arm into your heart.. haha. oh boy.

[–] robowasabi 17 years ago

just to fill you in... (and i know how to make a scary movie.) they made the kid die to make it scarier. people feel more sympathy for children than they do adults. if they made a kid die a gory death (like you said.) then the audience will be very scared because children are young, and have their whole lives ahead of them.

[–] JMcClane02 17 years ago

law and order svu has been killing kids for years. hostage killed kids, slaughter of the innocents killed kids gruesomely, the patriot killed kids, it's been going on for a while now...don't start getting all bent out of shape now.

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[–] p_samantha 17 years ago

And not only that, Pet Semetary killed a child, and it was wonderfully eerie. Also, this is a stupid run off movie. It's one of those movies you go into knowing it's gonna be bad. Not only that, but these snakes are "magic" snakes. Like JMcClane02 said, don't go nuts about it, it's a movie.

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[–] ace_erath 17 years ago

don't forget gladiator.
that kid got kneed in the face by a fking HORSE!!

[–] SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain 17 years ago

Mimic killed off kids.

As did possibly the most famous killer creature feature Jaws.

[–] suga_high59 17 years ago

FINALLY a kid *beep* dies in a movie.
it always bugged me that as long as you were under 20, you were safe from everything.

[–] Woodyanders 16 years ago

I thought the scene with the little girl being eaten by the giant snake was great.

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[–] armagan86 16 years ago

Assault on Precinct 13 definitely has the best child death scene.

I thought the little girl's untimely end made this film (beaten only by the ludicrous ending). If a vulnerable child can die a grizzly death what hope is there for the rest of the characters? It makes things a little more exciting and unpredictable, as well as being hilariously gory and ridiculous. There is never the freedom to this in mainstream cinema.

[–] nickwarrenauthor 16 years ago

Also what about 28 DAYS LATER when the infected kid got smashed in the head with a shovel?

And THE SWARM when all those bratty All American schoolkids got stung to death by killer bees!

Sounds like the nanny state has got to someone(adopts spazzy pedantic cynical social worker voice . . . OH WHY DO WE HAVE TO SEE KIDS DIE IN MOVIES WHEN THERE IS ENOUGH CHILD DEATHS IN REAL LIFE TO WORRY ABOUT BLAH BLAH BLAH etc) . . . get a life, this is just cinema. Who the hell cares anyway.

[–] Mightydein 16 years ago

It's not like the kid is hurt in anyway for real. The kid most likely had fun acting out there death scene.

I would have loved to act out my own death scene as a kid.

[–] Dutch90 15 years ago

That's actually one of the few "good" things about the film. In 99 out of 100 Hollywood flicks, kids don't die, which really ruins the tension because if you've seen enough films it becomes predictable. Thus, any film that ignores this cliché, no matter how craptastic it is, is welcome in my book.

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[–] UncleHarry113 15 years ago

but honestly that was the stupidest thing ever

she just watched her mother and father get eaten by snakes so what does she do

SHE GOES BACK TO BED!!

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[–] UncleHarry113 15 years ago

and how ridiculously huge is that snake....

like when u see it first there little tiny snakes then thats supposed to be one she brought on and its freaken HUUUGE!

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[–] swagger311 14 years ago

Also of the note is "Feast". The kid goes out pretty horribly in that movie as well.

[–] Jutlander 14 years ago

The movie "M" from 1931 was about a child murderer, so this is hardly new.

A significantly worse movie in which a child is killed is "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale".

[–] MaximumMadness 14 years ago

Feast... A little boy is devoured and torn apart by a creature (although it's kind-of played for laughs)

Feast II: Sloppy Seconds... A baby is snatched up and eaten by a creature, and we see a pool of blood and chunks of flesh left over.

Rambo... Children are slaughtered, although it's based on true events, so I don't know if it counts.

Plus all of the previously mentioned movies.

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