It doesn't seem to happen terribly often in these films. It's too "shocking" for a kid to die in these movies. :lookingup:
But what are some examples you can think of?
And describe the scene if you can.
How about:
ALLIGATOR (1980)
During a Halloween party, a costumed kid is forced to "walk the plank" by his pirate-garbed buddies. The titular gator is in the pool and plank walker gets et!
Alligator Eats A Kid In The Pool! From the 1980 Horror Classic "Alligator". (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XtAkQJWXHU#)
Not that I have a weirdo kink for this kind of thing, but it just doesn't happen much in these films.
What examples can you come up with?
Romero's the CRAZIES-2 little kids get murdered by their father.
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POW.
That almost made me cry when I first saw it.
RAWHEAD REX.
JAWS - Kid on raft
PET SEMATARY - Kid hit by a truck
THE GOOD SON - Kid falls to his death
DON'T LOOK NOW - Kid drowns
THE OTHER - Kid gets impaled on a pitchfork; baby is drowned in a barrel
Baby eaten by giant rats!
DEADLY EYES (1982)
Giant Rats Attack Baby - Deadly Eyes (1982) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TatL-_b850#ws)
THE BLOB (1988) remake has the heroine, her younger brother, and his pal Eddie (DOUG EMERSON) in the sewer attacked by the Blob. About 12, Eddie is engulfed and pulled under the water...
Trick 'r Treat (2007)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
The Other (1972)
From Prophecy, the one with the mutant bears:
Prophecy 1979 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zLb9UtQhy8#ws)
A mutant bear attacks a family camping in the woods and inspires Jason.
Kid gets his leg ripped off and presumably bleeds to death in GRIZZLY (1976).
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Grizzly Death Scenes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCr5YecD580#noexternalembed)
One of the great misconceptions in movies is that kids don't get killed in horror films, as here are about 20 films that disproves that misconception.
And while teens (still little Kids to me, being as old as I am) die more often than infants and pre-teens, the latter also die.
Descent
Frankenstein (1931)
The Innocents (1961)
It's Alive
and its sequels
Primeval
Sleepy Hollow
If girls are more vulnerable to sexual violence than boys, then boys are more vulnerable to physical violence and death than girls, in such films as . . . where about 74% of the children killed are boys and about 26% are girls.
Vampire Circus
Twenty Eight Days Later
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Omen II
My Boyfriend's Back
Lair of the White Worm
Hocus Pocus
Fright Night
actually, both the original and the remake
Cry of the Banshee
Cemetery Man
Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter
Brotherhood of the Wolf
And I will expand on my reply sometime later, when I finish with the two topics I am working on now.
Not an horror film but Trainspotting has a memorable child death which leads to a drug-induced nightmare sequence...
God Bless America -- dream sequence in which a baby is shotgunned into a shower of blood.
Bloodletting -- baby in a playpen becomes buckshot splatter
Those are two of the more off-beat ones I know.
VIGILANTE- A little kid trying to hide in the bathtub gets blown out the window by a hoodlum.
THE CHILDREN- Little boy gets burned by one of the titular killers.
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Cemetery Man
OMG the boy scouts. I LOL'ed so much during that part.
Baby in a carriage gets hit by car in Truth Or Dare:A Critical Madness.
The evil kids in Who Can Kill A Child.
Two zombie kids in Dawn Of The Dead.
A kid gets eaten by one of the monsters in Feast
one kid is killed off screen by the Ro-Man in Robot Monster
A seven year old boy is killed and partially eaten at the beginning of WER.
A little kid gets a chestburster in Alien vs Predator: Requiem. Off screen of course.
And Rayne finds the body of one in Bloodrayne
Two kids at the beginning of the first Mimic
Quote from: BoyScoutKevin on September 23, 2014, 03:49:37 PM
Frankenstein (1931)
Good one, probably the earliest example. Even though nothing was shown, that death was quite controversial at the time and was cut out of prints shown in some states.
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The son of Oliver Reed and Karen Black's character is crushed by a crumbling chimney at the end.
M (1931) deserves to be mentioned in this thread. Also Never Take Candy From a Stranger...
Not a horror movie but a baby is impaled in Uwe Boll's Darfur. I actually screamed when that happened. :buggedout: :buggedout: