DISQUS

tylerdurden1681 · 1 month ago

The thing that really pisses me off is how children are kept alive so writers can use the adult characters to put them in harms way and often get killed while trying to protect or save the child from the danger.
For instance when little Tommy forgets his iPod outside, he leaves the safety of the group to wander outside where the killer or monster is to fetch it. Now the adults who obvisouly are not smart enough to notice this eventually figure it out and run outside in time to get slaughtered while trying to save the kid from the dumb thing he did.
That has been overused for years.

chille · 1 month ago

Well AVP: R killed a kid in the first ten minutes but I'd rather forget that movie all together. A great movie that features some kid killing was Drag Me To Hell. Not only did a kid get killed in the first five minutes, but he was also damned to burn in hell for all eternity.

RobertFure · 1 month ago

Yeah, that is a good example. All the kid did was steal something - that was returned - and whammo. Hellfire.

Aleric · 1 month ago

AVP came to mind when I was reading the article. Not only did they kill kids but babies and that to me showed that the Aliens didn't care about humans, we were incubators, pure and simple and it made the movie more believeable in my opinion.

rpaine · 1 month ago

Jaws killed a kid.

Matt Cohen · 1 month ago

You sir, need to see Battle Royale.

RobertFure · 1 month ago

I saw it. And read the manga. They're supposed to be 14 or so, but looked older, so it lessened the impact. Although the one still photo of last years winner was like, an 8 year old girl, so that is awesome. But yes, Japan is much more liberal about tearing kids in half.

BrutalDecap · 1 month ago

I almost died when I read this, I have been saying this forever!!!!! Everyone thinks I'm just a masochistic kid hating bitch. When I am finally able to do my own movies, kids are dying everywhere.

venture82 · 1 month ago

For those who stream their Netflix content, "Beware: Children at Play" is available to watch instantly. Definitely in my queue, now.

nadanuff · 1 month ago

Kids died in these movies:

Mimic
Feast
Feast 2 (sick--saw the clip, didn't even watch the movie)
Final Destination 2
The Blob (80's version)
Jeepers Creepers 2
Alien 3 (off camera, but still)

I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones I thought of. I'm not impressed with killing kids (guess I've got too much heart) but I agree that heartLESS killing monsters (Freddy, Jason, etc.) and animals/creatures should not differentiate when it comes to their kills. The fact that kids are spared just shows that directors are rejecting pure realism to avoid controvery. Seriously, that clip from Feast 2 is burned into my brain.

Max_R · 1 month ago

If I remember correctly there's a kid-kill in Pitch Black, no? I haven't seen it in years but if my memory serves me correctly the entire reason I saw the movie for the first time was because I heard it was bad ass AND because I heard a kid got killed in it

sgtzim · 1 month ago

Schindler's List & RoboCop 2 come to mind....

But I agree, 100%. A prime example of movies ignoring reality is Jurassic Park: The Lost World and the defeat of the Velociraptors by the gymnastic stylings of a small girl. That's right, one of the most fearsome predators in history is bested by a kid doing an uneven bars routine. If she'd slipped and then been torn limb from limb, I'd create a Spielberg shrine at home and sacrifice goats in his name every day for the rest of my life.

jeff · 1 month ago

Let's no forget about High Tension and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Both of them killed kids but both were off-screen.

sgtzim · 1 month ago

I believe in Revenge of the Sith, they killed Younglings, not kids, so......yeah....totally not the same.

nickdenife · 1 month ago

You have to see Robert Kurtzman's THE RAGE. Two kids get killed in that one, one offscreen, one onscreen by none other than Reggie Bannister.

Reebee7 · 1 month ago

IT depends on the R Rated film. I don't think being able to walk into an R rated film guarantees my ability to watch kids get gunned down. And I really just don't, in most movies, unless it is a movie that goes for intense realism. But Jurassic Park, for instance? I'm there for fun, don't show me something so traumatic. But every now and then, if it's prudent, it works. And it hurts, but that's the point. Gone, Baby, Gone did this really effectively. Casey Affleck stumbles on the body, we see a flash of bloody underwear, and we know what happened. He then throws up, just like we would, and shoots the killer in the head in his blind rage. That scene was powerful. But I rarely want to see, or think it necesarry to see, scenes like that.

justadude · 1 month ago

I'm with Reebee7 on this. I understand the 'realism' of killing kids; but sometimes the point of a movie is to escape reality. Who really wants to see some cute kid gunned down for no reason (aside from you). If it is impactful for the film, go for it, but otherwise be tactful. I took my girl to see 'Revenge of the sith'. It's a fun movie. She was completely fine watching Jedi get mowed down by the betrayl, but the minute you show Anakin with the Younglings, she was bawling and racking with tears. The movie is no longer fun. Say what you want about the sensitivity of my girl but point is, natrual human instict does not enjoy watching innocents being killed. Perhaps this is why you don't see it more often.

Timothy McMahon · 1 month ago

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John · 1 month ago

John Carpenter's Assault On Precinct 13 had a pretty chilling child death scene.