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Paul Cartwright

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its a film taboo to have children get killed (opposed to dying) so its very
rare to see children shown on a movie in the process of getting killed (as
opposed to seeing the aftermath) not that i want see children get killed.
its sick dammit! so anyway, anyone know of any other films (most often made
outside the U.S of course) that show children getting killed? I can only
think of 'Caligula' (1980) and that was a particularly brutal slaying.
ah..ancient rome. those were the days


Edward Andrew Howden

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Paul Cartwright wrote:

> its a film taboo to have children get killed (opposed to dying) so its very
> rare to see children shown on a movie in the process of getting killed

<SNIP>
Precinct 13 feature the murder of a little girl that sets the whole stand
off at the old station house.
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Linusxx

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Better kids than cute little animals

Damien Karras

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Linda Blair in The Exorcist. Oops, no, she was almost killed. I am the
one who died. I hate windows, and I'm not talking computers here.

Daniel Fredrick Etter

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High Risk, with Jet Li. A whole school bus full of the buggers gets blown
to hell.

Dan

On 29 Jan 1999 12:23:25 GMT, Paul Cartwright Spake Thusly:


> its a film taboo to have children get killed (opposed to dying) so its very

Editor X

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Mimic
I think Welcome To Sarajevo had some but I don't remember exactly


Greywizard

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The remake of THE BLOB. And I hear the movie BEWARE CHILDREN AT PLAY has
some kiddie deaths as well.

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Lknafc

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The Other - the scene with the baby being discovered is especially chilling.

Also The Bad Seed, although not shown on screen.

I seem to be picking out movies where kids kill kids, which is disturbing in
and of itself.

Linda Kay

Led_Gein

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On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:16:22 GMT, nim...@earthlink.net (Nimrod)
wrote:

>On 29 Jan 1999 12:23:25 GMT, "Paul Cartwright"

><cart...@vianet.net.au> wrote:
>
>>its a film taboo to have children get killed (opposed to dying) so its very
>>rare to see children shown on a movie in the process of getting killed (as
>>opposed to seeing the aftermath) not that i want see children get killed.
>>its sick dammit! so anyway, anyone know of any other films (most often made
>>outside the U.S of course) that show children getting killed? I can only
>>think of 'Caligula' (1980) and that was a particularly brutal slaying.
>>ah..ancient rome. those were the days


Out of the Blue--1980

Drunk Dennis Hopper T-Bones a schoolbus full of youngsters with his
semi-truck, killing many. The wreck is shown in slow motion with
"bodies" hanging out the windows.

Robert Lee

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That perennial favorite, Man Behind The Sun...

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Trent

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The Beastmaster has a pretty gruesome scene of a kid being thrown into
the fire.

Blob 1988 also has a scene of a kid dying. I recently posted about this
movie, which I found to be pretty disturbing.

----> Trent

Pulpfixen

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and of course lets not forget my fave dead kid pics
The Player--kid on bike dies eventually(that counts right)
Alice Sweet Alice--in which charred Brooke Sheilds is the main course
AND NOT TOO MENTION KENNY

THE POSTER CHILD FOR KID DEATH

ElTopoXXX

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Led Gein wrote:

>Out of the Blue--1980
>
>Drunk Dennis Hopper T-Bones a schoolbus full of youngsters with his
>semi-truck, killing many. The wreck is shown in slow motion with
>"bodies" hanging out the windows.

Indeed that IS an extremely disturbing sequence, and the image of Hopper's semi
plowing through the bus is unforgettable.

I would also mention the shattering scene from PET SEMATARY, in which Gage
runs out in front of a truck, and then we see the father screaming in anguish,
and pictures of him cuddling the "baby" are flashed on the screen. I had a
friend become so disturbed by the emotional power of that scene (on first
viewing) that he asked me to turn the tape off. A very underrated film.

Don

BlueRainSoda

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The one with the school bus going off the road onto a frozen lake then
the ice breaks and the bus sinks. The title has slipped my mind.
Someone id please.

Editor X

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On 29 Jan 1999 20:16:55 GMT, pulp...@aol.com (Pulpfixen) wrote:

>and of course lets not forget my fave dead kid pics
> The Player--kid on bike dies eventually(that counts right)

You mean Short Cuts right?


> Alice Sweet Alice--in which charred Brooke Sheilds is the main course
> AND NOT TOO MENTION KENNY
>
> THE POSTER CHILD FOR KID DEATH

editor x
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AARON MILENSKI

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SWEET HEREAFTER.


...someday we'll be dignified and old...

Shannon Robert Burge

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THE BEYOND (little girl gets her head blown off, rather literally)
PET SEMATARY (tot decimated by truck)
LORD OF ILLUSIONS (cult member murders hubby and kids)

SRB


Shannon Robert Burge

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On 29 Jan 1999, Daniel Fredrick Etter wrote:

> High Risk, with Jet Li. A whole school bus full of the buggers gets blown
> to hell.
>
> Dan
>

Let's not forget Cemetery Man, in which a bunch of boy scouts die twice.

SRB


Jerome Fryar

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the one that comes to my mind is "the Good Son"
with Maculey Culkin. Great seen of his mother dropping him off a cliff.


Hans Magne Holto

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Paul Cartwright skrev i meldingen <01be4b82$66e0e900$62ed1acb@home>...

>its a film taboo to have children get killed (opposed to dying) so its very
>rare to see children shown on a movie in the process of getting killed (as
>opposed to seeing the aftermath) not that i want see children get killed.
>its sick dammit! so anyway, anyone know of any other films (most often made
>outside the U.S of course) that show children getting killed? I can only
>think of 'Caligula' (1980) and that was a particularly brutal slaying.
>ah..ancient rome. those were the days
>
In the movie" fight for your life" from 1977,you have a brutal murder
of a child.A young boy get his head smashed with a rock.
And in the movie "The Children" I'l think it was some kids who
got killed.
Hans

B.Kennedy

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Wasn't there a child who got shot and killed in City Hall?

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You Die Joe

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Paul Cartwright wrote in message <01be4b82$66e0e900$62ed1acb@home>...

>its a film taboo to have children get killed (opposed to dying) so its very
>rare to see children shown on a movie in the process of getting killed (as
>opposed to seeing the aftermath) not that i want see children get killed.
>its sick dammit! so anyway, anyone know of any other films (most often made
>outside the U.S of course) that show children getting killed? I can only
>think of 'Caligula' (1980) and that was a particularly brutal slaying.
>ah..ancient rome. those were the days
>


In "The Heroic Trio" there's a scene where Wonder Woman fails to save a baby
from accidental injury which leads to death. A lot better than the hero
being invincible and infallible wherever babies and the handicapped are
concerned. Also in that same movie, Thief Catcher must wipe out a cadre of
possessed flesh-eating youngsters.

YDJ

You Die Joe

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Pulpfixen wrote in message <19990129151655...@ng146.aol.com>...

>and of course lets not forget my fave dead kid pics
> The Player--kid on bike dies eventually(that counts right)


Man, that was in SHORTCUTS!

YDJ

Trent

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It's been awhile, but I recall a kid being killed in The Untouchables.
A guy goes into a diner and leaves his briefcase under a table. He
walks out without it. A girl picks it up to give it back to him, but it
is really a bomb and blows the place up.

-----> Trent

Eric Smith

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There was a kid killed in ALLIGATOR at a pool party.

David S. Gove

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A piece of loow budget scifi trash called Circuit Breaker, starring Corbin
Bersen and Richard Greco. A kid is put into a garbage disposal. Seriously
bad, mean spirited piece of shit.

Daniel

RJGra

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The restored version of Jame's Whale's FRANKENSTEIN
THE BROOD
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP (Death happens off-screen as camera slowly zooms in
on kid's picture)

ElTopoXXX

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Just thought of another classic child death in a film:

Andy Warhol's BAD, where a distraught mother throws her newborn out of a
high-rise apartment building window. The kid hits the pavement and gory bits
of dead baby splash into a passerby's face. Ive seen a guy turn GREEN after
seeing that...

Don


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KING B MAN

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there was Blood and Lace about the sinister orphanage.
Who Could Kill a Child?.
Earthquake
Mike

Cart00nX

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One can't forget the awesome Troma movie "Beware! Children at Play."
SPOILERS AHEAD:

The last scene has a big group of parents killing the're zombifies kids.
The best scene is when a dad puts a gun into his son's mouth and blows
his brains out. A great movie.

TULL KATHERINE L

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Children of the Corn II

J. Newman

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Sounds interesting . . . is this one any good? Or, in typical Troma
fashion, at least so-cheesingly-bad-it's-good?
Worth a rental?
Thanks!
J.

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Cart00nX

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I thought it was pretty good, definatly worth a rental. It's pretty
boring up until the last half hour. I was kinda disapointed that it
wasn't very cheesy, it took itself too seriously. Still an intersting
movie.

CREEPYGOD

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I believe that there is a Spanish film titled Quien que Mata un Nino?, or
something like that, which translates into Who Would Kill a Child? in English.

-Rob

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K. Cozy

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ElTopoXXX wrote:
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> I would also mention the shattering scene from PET SEMATARY, in which Gage
> runs out in front of a truck, and then we see the father screaming in anguish,
> and pictures of him cuddling the "baby" are flashed on the screen. I had a
> friend become so disturbed by the emotional power of that scene (on first
> viewing) that he asked me to turn the tape off. A very underrated film.

My sister and I had fun in Pet Sematary by trying to pinpoint exactly when the
dad lost it completely. We decided it was that crazy little grin he gave when
he was diggin' up the kid. "Whoa! He's gone!"

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Damien Karras wrote:
>
> Linda Blair in The Exorcist. Oops, no, she was almost killed. I am the
> one who died. I hate windows, and I'm not talking computers here.

Didn't see your name at first, and I was saying, "Whah?"

But technically, you didn't die until the third movie.

Moonli...@webtv.net

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No one has mentioned Jaws! (Munch! Munch!) That Alien ripoff Mimic also
showed kids being munched on. And lets not forget Night of the Living
Dead's little girl zombie who wants to play with Mama.


FemDomSoc

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PetSemetary......the baby get run over by an 18 wheeler---yeeeeeeha!!!!
MicHeLLe
"HeLL HaTh No FuRy"

Devoe

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Lord of the flies (or something like that, you know which one I mean, the
one with the kids on the island).


Damien Karras

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Actually, K. Cozy, I died twice: once in The Exorcist, then once again
in Legion when Bill K shot me to death.

We are all spirit immortals, but it takes death to reveal this to us.
For me, the first time was enough, as languishing in Hell with the Other
and the Gemini was no honeymoon. I mean, a guy gives it all he's got,
takes on the demon that was tormenting Regan MacNeil, jumps out the
window with the demon in tow... only to slip through the cracks! "Save
Your Servant", indeed. What kind of policing is being done when the
good guy gets dragged into Hell? It took two mortals to rescue me, Bill
K and Father Morning, at the cost of Morning's life (who knows if HE
slipped through the cracks, too? I haven't seen him around up Here
yet...). And that was just the movie. Blatty's book has me already
gone to Glory, and just my body being used. I didn't need rescuing in
the book, just in the movie. I wish people would get their stories
straight, you know? At any rate, I have tracked down Father Lankester
Merrin (yes, he's up Here, too, I guess the cracks were too narrow to
admit him, some people have all the luck), and he is helping me to
understand what happened, and why, the first two times I died. One day
I hope to understand completely. Until then, I consider my faith
partially restored, which is a damn site better than what I was going
through from the period of my Mother's death (yes, she's up Here as
well) to the final moments in Regan's room. It's been an interesting
life, death, death, and afterlife. Dominus Vobiscum, K. Cozy.

TalkngHedz

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Howzabout "Assault on Precinct 13?"

"I wanted vanilla twist."

BOOM!!!!!!!

-Hedz

athol-brose

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It happens more often in Hong Kong movies, I think. For example, "Heroic
Trio" ... a couple of babies die.

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athol-brose

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In article <19990129214552...@ng-fq1.aol.com>, ElTopoXXX wrote:
>Andy Warhol's BAD, where a distraught mother throws her newborn out of a
>high-rise apartment building window. The kid hits the pavement and gory bits
>of dead baby splash into a passerby's face. Ive seen a guy turn GREEN after
>seeing that...

You mean that baby that looked suspiciously like a watermelon wrapped in a
receiving blanket?

Jessica S Raine

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In 'Young Guns', a guy gets his head blown off and it splatters
all over Kiefer Sutherland's face. (Pretty gross right there.) I think
the guy who gets killed (albeit not a kid) is Jack Palance's son. Does
that count?


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FemDomSoc

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>The kid hits the pavement and gory bits
>>of dead baby splash into a passerby's face. Ive seen a guy turn GREEN
>after
>>seeing that...

Whoa!! Now THAT I've gotta see!

GC

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In article <36bad81a...@news.earthlink.net>, Nimrod
<nim...@earthlink.net> writes
>DON'T LOOK BACK
>
>Nimrod
>
I don't remember Bob Dylan killing anyone in this.
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Mark Gould

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Dawn of the Dead (the two zombie kids in the abandoned air field)
Man Bites Dog (Brutal!)
Henry: POASK (BRUTALIST!!!!)

MG

cum grano salis ...


King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!

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In article <19990131140029...@ng26.aol.com>,
talkn...@aol.com (TalkngHedz) sez:

¢¢ Howzabout "Assault on Precinct 13?"


¢¢
¢¢ "I wanted vanilla twist."
¢¢
¢¢ BOOM!!!!!!!

...the kid who got offed was Kim Richards; to see her in TUFF TURF, the
shooter in ASSAULT had no fuckin' taste whatsoever :-) ...

...wanna add FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, ONCE
UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, M and FOXES?...

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Matt Hamby

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GC <G...@mosshead0.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<4j7rzAAH...@mosshead0.demon.co.uk>...

You didn't see the director's cut?

Matt

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In article <78sj6q$ico$1...@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>,
dfe...@indiana.edu (Daniel Fredrick Etter) wrote:
> High Risk, with Jet Li. A whole school bus full of the buggers gets blown
> to hell.

Don't forget to note that it's a comedy...

Miles

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Damian Sharp

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Paul Cartwright wrote:
>
> its a film taboo to have children get killed (opposed to dying) so its very
> rare to see children shown on a movie in the process of getting killed (as
> opposed to seeing the aftermath) not that i want see children get killed.
> its sick dammit! so anyway, anyone know of any other films (most often made
> outside the U.S of course) that show children getting killed? I can only
> think of 'Caligula' (1980) and that was a particularly brutal slaying.
> ah..ancient rome. those were the days

Surprised no one else has mentioned it but LEON features the death of a
4 year old

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BUFORD

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Man Bites Dog where a kid gets snuffed out by suffocation by pillow.
and The Untold Story where Anthony Wong chops up a family including
around 3-4 kids.

fiendis...@my-dejanews.com

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In article <slrn7ba1t3....@shell.one.net>,

cinn...@shell.one.net (athol-brose) wrote:
> It happens more often in Hong Kong movies, I think. For example, "Heroic
> Trio" ... a couple of babies die.

And:

Beyond Hypothermia- Heroine blows little girl away... off-camera. Seventh
Curse- Screaming kids crushed to death. Lotsa blood. Run and Kill- Little
girl burned to death in front of father. Ouch. The Untold Story- Family
butchered, including kids. Moon Warriors- Mainstream fare in which soldier
kills little kid. A Taste of Killing and Romance- Nasty killer kills granny,
pet, and grandaughter. Intruder- Little girl is put through so much it might
as well count as a death; choking, drowning, nearly buried alive, chased by
serial killers, etc... Expect the Unexpected- Baby found dead via washing
machine.

Just off the top of my head. Unpleasant as all this might be, I like HK
willingness to violate tradition and kill cute kids and animals.

King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!

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...in Victor Sjostrom's 1919 classic THE OUTLAW, a woman tosses her baby
off an Icelandic cliff...

plden...@ameritech.net

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No C&P

"Interview With The Vampire ." Not only is Kirsten Dunst's character left to
be destroyed by the sun, but isn't there another child death in that one?

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Chris Pierson

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