When did we start showing kids dying in movies?

jwk94 · Nov 10, 2019

I was recently watching a movie at the theatre and this kid got abducted and tied down. Ok, the camera will cut away and we'll hear his screams, I thought. Nope. They went to town on this little boy who was anywhere between 10-12 years old.Dude was getting stabbed, and screaming his bloodied lil face off. I was so shocked and kinda disgusted? Like, I wasn't disgusted because someone was dying, but rather because I'm not used to seeing a kid die like that in a movie. When did this start happening?

My bad. I forgot I could spoiler the movie title. It was

Doctor Sleep

Curler · Nov 10, 2019

Never saw The Good Son back from the early 90s?

SteveWinwood · Nov 10, 2019

macbeth in the 1600s?

Zvonimir Boban · Nov 10, 2019

Robocop 2.

Deleted member 1086 · Nov 10, 2019

the heck movie were you watching

2PiR · Nov 10, 2019

at least metion the name of the movie you talking about

jwk94 · Nov 10, 2019

Curler said:
Never saw The Good Son back from the early 90s?

I've never heard of that movie lol. Was it good?

SteveWinwood said:
macbeth in the 1600s?

Man, I haven't even read the play.

Dark Knight · Nov 10, 2019

...... what movie?! You're gonna make this thread and not say what movie??

Carnby · Nov 10, 2019

I love horror movies too but I draw the line at seeing kids get hurt, unless it's pivotal to the story, like Pet Cemetery or Hereditary.

Burrman · Nov 10, 2019

The good son
My girl

Speevy · Nov 10, 2019

The Netflix movie The King has a kid carrying another kid's head into an army's camp.

RecRoulette · Nov 10, 2019

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? Although that wasn't technically death.

carlsojo · Nov 10, 2019

It's Doctor Sleep

jwk94 · Nov 10, 2019

Dishwalla said:
the heck movie were you watching

pong123 said:
at least metion the name of the movie you talking about

done and done

PanSexual_Peacock · Nov 10, 2019

Dishwalla said:
the heck movie were you watching

Doctor Sleep

Zelenogorsk · Nov 10, 2019

OP was at an advanced screening of Frozen 2

DrEvil · Nov 10, 2019

Carnby said:
I love horror movies too but I draw the line at seeing kids get hurt, unless it's pivotal to the story, like Pet Cemetery or Hereditary.

It was a very important part of the story in the film OP mentioned.

Curler · Nov 10, 2019

jwk94 said:
I've never heard of that movie lol. Was it good?

Macaulay Culkin plays a sociopathic child.

Carnby · Nov 10, 2019

DrEvil said:
It was a very important part of the story.

Then I guess this is fine then. :(

devenger · Nov 10, 2019

The Bad Seed, 1956.

TheJollyCorner · Nov 10, 2019

I remember seeing The Blob (remake) when it came out, so I was around 8 or 9, and seeing the kid die fucked me up. Same with the animation segment with the Venus fly traps in Creepshow 2.

ItRhymesWithDoom · Nov 10, 2019

When Stephen King was allowed to make a movie, and it became the glory that is MAXIMUM Overdrive. (1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLuzc2efYDs

edit: huh. Guess I only just now noticed King has a thing for killing kids.

carlsojo · Nov 10, 2019

IT part one was pretty bad too. Showing Georgie get his arm bitten off and then crawl away screaming. Haunted me.

DrEvil · Nov 10, 2019

Carnby said:
Then I guess this is fine then. :(

It should also be noted that while yes they did show this kid's death, it was not graphic, it's not like we were seeing intestines getting pulled out of him or any of that, it was a very uh.. 'tastefully' blocked scene.

TAJ · Nov 10, 2019

The 1988 version of the Blob has a nasty kid kill.

Also, I'd run over a Little Leaguer with a steamroller for an uncut version of Maximum Overdrive.

Officer Big Mac · Nov 10, 2019

I think you mean younglings.

Speevy · Nov 10, 2019

I think Game of Thrones probably killed one kid in every season.

shinken · Nov 10, 2019

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RestEerie · Nov 10, 2019

ItRhymesWithDoom said:
When Stephen King was allowed to make a movie, and it became the glory that is MAXIMUM Overdrive. (1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLuzc2efYDs

Five out of Five stars.

One star for each AC/DC memebers.

Deleted member 15428 · Nov 10, 2019

Have you seen Grave of the Fireflies?

SteveWinwood · Nov 10, 2019

jwk94 said:
Man, I haven't even read the play.

I was making sure it was Macbeth (it is) and according to Wikipedia:

"The brutal scene has often been cut in modern performance."

So I dunno, we got soft at some point.

Sunster · Nov 10, 2019

IT was the first I can remember where a kid is mutilated and dies on screen

PinaColada · Nov 10, 2019

Deleted member 52407 · Nov 10, 2019

The Mimic (or was it The Relic?)

Violence Jack · Nov 10, 2019

Frankenstein 1931

bangai-o · Nov 10, 2019

stevenseagalshootingkids.gif

Mammoth Jones · Nov 10, 2019

TAJ · Nov 10, 2019

km_wonder said:
The Mimic (or was it The Relic?)

It's just Mimic, no 'The'.

Hollywood Duo · Nov 10, 2019

Speevy said:
The Netflix movie The King has a kid carrying another kid's head into an army's camp.

Oh shit, I've been meaning to watch that

Deleted member 36054 · Nov 10, 2019

Lord of the Flies???

Kard8p3 · Nov 10, 2019

ItRhymesWithDoom said:
When Stephen King was allowed to make a movie, and it became the glory that is MAXIMUM Overdrive. (1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLuzc2efYDs

edit: huh. Guess I only just now noticed King has a thing for killing kids.

God, I can't even begin to fathom how much Coke King has done lmao.

krae_man · Nov 10, 2019

Curler said:
Never saw The Good Son back from the early 90s?

If I let you go, do you think you can fly?

I only ever saw the trailer

ItRhymesWithDoom · Nov 10, 2019

km_wonder said:
The Mimic (or was it The Relic?)

SUBWAY! It's the best way to go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYu1SK9XyP8

It's a Del Toro movie, which I discovered recently, and it's Mimic, yes. And then Mira Scorvino ran into Weinstein.... sigh.

It's a wonderful little film though. Have been fond it since the day it released.

RedHoodedOwl · Nov 10, 2019

The Blob remake had a scene of a kid being dissolved by the titular monster.

julian · Nov 10, 2019

Burrman said:
The good son
My girl

I see a pattern here...

Speevy · Nov 10, 2019

From reading this thread, my impression is that most on-screen child deaths are done to shock the viewer. Though this is not always the case, in the vast majority of cases the child/baby character is disposable.

Jarrod38 · Nov 10, 2019

Faenix1 · Nov 10, 2019

I must be fucked. I dont mind seeing adults, kids, whatever being hurt or killed. Animals, such as dogs, kind of annoy me though. Lol

Curler · Nov 10, 2019

Also forgot about what I heard about on Mother!

Carnby · Nov 10, 2019

DrEvil said:
It should also be noted that while yes they did show this kid's death, it was not graphic, it's not like we were seeing intestines getting pulled out of him or any of that, it was a very uh.. 'tastefully' blocked scene.

So was the movie good? Do you recommend it?

When did we start showing kids dying in movies?

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