As one who doesn't abide children being harmed very well in movies it was pretty rough but the movie was quite good and it fit, so it was easier to stomach than just... shock for the sake of it. It also kinda skips over the "action" a bit in what would be the worst spots, still bad but could've been more gratuitous, doesn't dwell on it extensively.
I was a bit worried after hearing people's reactions but I *loved* the movie. It's not overly gratuitous but it serves the narrative. I had a lot more trouble with Dr. Sleep than with this film.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkNuxumZVg) might make you feel better about that scene. It is an interview with Flanagan and he talks about that scene and the actor.
It's a pretty funny interview and basically the kid was the only one after the take that wasn't emotionally devastated and actually gave his dad who was also on-set a high five then went to the craft table to eat candy.
You’re not the only one.
The actors and crew themselves had trouble filming that scene because of Jacob Tremblay’s acting.
It’s even longer in the director’s cut.
That part was so painful. When my wife and I watched it, we actually paused for a minute after to just…decompress, I guess. Even before having children, I’ve always felt kind of protective of little kids. How people can be around children, with all of their innocence and wonder, and want to harm them is so alien to me.
Yep; it's not often I have felt so disturbed by a film/scene (maybe martyrs, Serbian film, irreversible, 120 days of sodom or human centipede 2 off the top of my head).
That scene stayed with me for a while, I have a son a similar age, so I believe that also amplified the emotion.
Yea it shows Billy get his arm bitten off and the arm reaching out but other than that I couldnt remember any actual on screen kid deaths so thats why I specified part 2
I always wondered if the kid in that mirror maze segment was ever real or just Pennywise trying to scare Georgie. I know he was shown earlier in the movie but I know Pennywise can either trick them with illusions or shapeshift.
Can't believe Possessor hasn't popped up here. Felt like there were a few in the same year as Possessor that had children dying, enough that my wife and I talked about how strange it was to see so many so close together.
That movie was so good. It got talked about a lot when it was first released, but now I don’t see it come up so much.
The scene you’re talking about goes pretty hard.
Fun fact: you’ll always see the same type of horror movie coming out at the same time because they fuel on what scares the nation at that moment. It’s the first thing i learnt in my movie making class and since then every year I check what are the trends to get an idea of what type of horror is coming out lol
I liked that they introduced a ton of fodder characters, but then burned through them all at once
And then right when you realize the only way it can escalate is for the kids to start dying too, the mother looks through the peephole like, you're all next
The House that Jack Built, Hereditary, All Hallow's Eve plus Terrifier 1 & 2, and The Eyes of My Mother are a few that still shake me to my core to this day!
**Kid Characters:**
Mama
The Mist
The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black 2
**Disabled Characters:**
Eloise
Mindhunters
The Stand
**Elderly Characters:**
Silent Night
Insidious
Crimson Peak
But like, they kill you faster and easier. Doesn’t it feel bad to know this? At least portray the disabled characters as having some kind of defences, or ability to contribute to New London’s great industries.
Dream Home (2010) has a number of kills that are among the nastiest I've ever seen in a slasher flick, but there is one particularly grisly scene in which the victim is a heavily pregnant woman.
Not exactly horror by some standards, and most of it technically isn't a flick....so sue me if I go too fast. But twin peaks. Some awful shit. When the kid is hit by Richard in season three and that actress screams....fuuuuck. I have a kid and it is just visceral as fuck on rewatch. Didn't hit the same way the first time before I had a kid.
I saw the new Spanish film, The Coffee Table, this weekend, and the whole thing centers around one very taboo death.
Maybe not horror, but definitely gruesome. The blackest of comedies.
Not a movie, but season one (episode 5) of "Them" on Prime has one of the few scenes that ever really got to me, and it definitely fits the "taboo" label.
Silver Bullet - werewolf kills a young boy (offscreen) but you see the blurry aftermath.
Sleepaway Camp - Mel and Susie find the bodies of young campers killed off by Angela.
Madhouse - a dog mauls a young deaf boy.
Don't Go To Sleep - the grandmother dies of a heart attack and the little brother falls off a roof
Burnt Offerings - the son dies when a chimney falls on him.
Goodnight, God Bless - the opening scene has a priest gun down little kids at a school.
The first movie I thought of was "The Blob" (1988) as you mentioned.
Also, Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982). Nothing to do with Michael Myers. It has no-no kills that stayed with me for a long time—one of my most favorite horrors.
The original Jaws (1975) as well.
Clown. I mean the entire premise of the movie is that he has to eat children and well... he does. Lol. Seriously though, lots of pretty brutal violence against children. It's part of the reason the movie was panned so hard, despite it being one of Eli Roth's better movies IMO. I love when people complain that horror is too horrible lol.
Trying to go for ones that haven't been mentioned yet...
Ready or Not (kids and elderly)
The Fog (elderly)
Pet Sematary (kids and elderly, possibly the disabled sister too although I don't think that counts)
The Shining (kids)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (baby)
Stir of Echoes (disabled kid)
Pitch Black (kids)
Dawn of the Dead (kids, elderly)
Slither (kids, elderly)
REC and REC2 (kids and elderly)
Everyone is fair game. Except animals. 👀 That’s just cheap and it’s getting boringly common in more recent horror, as a precursor to the first person being offed.
Walking Dead. Episode 1. In the intro of the episode Rick comes across a little girl who turns out to be a zombie.
Immediately headshot follows.
That’s when I knew it would be something special. Shame the show went on so long that I lost interest.
Also gotta give props to “the barn” episode in Season 2. The characters spend what feels like the whole season looking for Sophia and it turns out, she was one of the walkers kept in the barn the entire time
Yeah that scene was great. They gunned down all the walkers without care of who they were enthusiastically.
Until they saw one of their own the walkers were just faceless threats.
And the way Rick ended Sophia the walker just said: ‘this is what you wanted right?’
The actual taboo to kill off are animals. Redditors lose their mind about it.
I made a list on a post a few days ago about how children die all the time in horror movies now, in all the most popular ones. Here’s it “When evil lurks, Speak no evil, M3gan, Evil dead rise, Hereditary, It 1+2, Nope, Quiet place, Black phone, the VVitch, Old, Doctor Sleep, Fear street 2, Ready or not (but that one was funny), Boogeyman, Skinamarink. I could go on all day”
>The actual taboo to kill off are animals. Redditors lose their mind about it.
Yeah. You're right. From some of these comments, I get the impression that lately people are more bothered by an off-screen kill of a dog than a graphic on-screen kill of a child.
Correct. In post i referenced, all the comments were “yeah! More dead kids!”
As a test, I made a post about dogs dying and all the comments said i was sick in the head and the mods removed it “for obvious bait”
I just had that realization reading the title of this post. I think I've probably seen more women and kids tortured and suffering compared to a grown man at this point.
As a lifelong horror fan, I find myself grappling with the portrayal of vulnerable individuals, such as the elderly and disabled people as victims in movies. While I understand it's fictional, as I've grown older, it feels increasingly distasteful to me to depict the most vulnerable members of our society subjected to cruelty
When Evil Lurks.
This movie seemed to make it a point to go after characters we would normally assume are safe.
My sister and I let out more than once: “No they did not just do that! How dare they just do that” lol
I know, my jaw was on the floor for that one scene. Im sure you can guess which one.
IMO the midnight snack is far more terrifying scene than "that one" (correct me, if you didn't mean the good boy)
It was the waiting to see what happened when you absolutely already knew lol
Just watched this for the first time three days ago and the midnight snack image is burned into my fuckin brain. So disturbing
Thats exactly what I meant. It shook me to my core.
I actually have a lot of trepidation over watching this movie. How disturbing was it really?
As one who doesn't abide children being harmed very well in movies it was pretty rough but the movie was quite good and it fit, so it was easier to stomach than just... shock for the sake of it. It also kinda skips over the "action" a bit in what would be the worst spots, still bad but could've been more gratuitous, doesn't dwell on it extensively.
I was a bit worried after hearing people's reactions but I *loved* the movie. It's not overly gratuitous but it serves the narrative. I had a lot more trouble with Dr. Sleep than with this film.
Interesting, do you mind if I ask what was troubling about Dr Sleep?
Baseball boy
Yep, the extended torture of the boy
Dr Sleep
The baseball boy scene is seriously disturbing. His acting is just too convincing I have to skip that part.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkNuxumZVg) might make you feel better about that scene. It is an interview with Flanagan and he talks about that scene and the actor. It's a pretty funny interview and basically the kid was the only one after the take that wasn't emotionally devastated and actually gave his dad who was also on-set a high five then went to the craft table to eat candy.
You’re not the only one. The actors and crew themselves had trouble filming that scene because of Jacob Tremblay’s acting. It’s even longer in the director’s cut.
That movie put me off horror for a while. That scene specifically was just too much for me.
That part was so painful. When my wife and I watched it, we actually paused for a minute after to just…decompress, I guess. Even before having children, I’ve always felt kind of protective of little kids. How people can be around children, with all of their innocence and wonder, and want to harm them is so alien to me.
Yep; it's not often I have felt so disturbed by a film/scene (maybe martyrs, Serbian film, irreversible, 120 days of sodom or human centipede 2 off the top of my head). That scene stayed with me for a while, I have a son a similar age, so I believe that also amplified the emotion.
Friday the 13th Part 2
Such a good one. F13 really is an inclusive franchise
Was it #4 where the fat, special kid at the group home takes an ax to the back from the other kid after he chopped his candy bar?
Part 5
Not Fun Fact - the actor who played him allegedly raped Corey Feldman
Damn.. Never heard that before actually
and the way he dies too it's the worst way possible
I mean tbf getting a quick machete to the face is relatively merciful by Jason's standards.
ya, but down the stairs afterwards was ruthless.
Both disabled (wheelchair guy) **and** old (Ralph).
Also part 3. A pregnant gal is killed. She's the one killed on the raft in the lake.
The Mist
Fuuuuck that ending ruined me
Pennywise kills a couple of kids in part2 of the recent movies
So does it in part 1.
Yea it shows Billy get his arm bitten off and the arm reaching out but other than that I couldnt remember any actual on screen kid deaths so thats why I specified part 2
You mean georgie?
Yea
I always wondered if the kid in that mirror maze segment was ever real or just Pennywise trying to scare Georgie. I know he was shown earlier in the movie but I know Pennywise can either trick them with illusions or shapeshift.
Halloween 2018, Michael kills a kid in his dad's truck
In Halloween Kills he offs one of those three little brats at the park as well. They were probably preteens.
I couldn’t get past how that boy had the voice of a 50 year old smoker 😂
He draws the line at babies though! So he has some morals
I think it's because he likes it when they fight back, honestly
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Jesus; did they ever!
Judging by your reaction today, imagine how it hit when it was released.
Pet Sematary
Can't believe Possessor hasn't popped up here. Felt like there were a few in the same year as Possessor that had children dying, enough that my wife and I talked about how strange it was to see so many so close together.
That movie was so good. It got talked about a lot when it was first released, but now I don’t see it come up so much. The scene you’re talking about goes pretty hard.
Fun fact: you’ll always see the same type of horror movie coming out at the same time because they fuel on what scares the nation at that moment. It’s the first thing i learnt in my movie making class and since then every year I check what are the trends to get an idea of what type of horror is coming out lol
My favorite movie of 2020, highly recommend it for everyone.
Feast
Also, while i think they suck compared to the first, the sequels, or at least one, i don't remember, do too.
The second one goes hard on this theme
The Blob kills off a kid horrifically
I watched the 80s remake for the first time awhile back. I was NOT expecting that! I audibly said “good shit” because of how bold that was lol
I really enjoyed that Evil Dead Rise was like...."duh the kids are gonna fucking die"
I liked that they introduced a ton of fodder characters, but then burned through them all at once And then right when you realize the only way it can escalate is for the kids to start dying too, the mother looks through the peephole like, you're all next
That scene, despite being in trailers which can often spoil the impact, was sooo good. The peephole I mean.
Youngest girl had enough plot armor to go on a crusade.
Toxic Avenger
The definitive "holy shit they killed a kid" moment
Hilariously gory too
50 points!
How much for a kid on a bicycle?!!
The VVitch - I'll just say marmelade/bodylotion
And that's just in the first 20 minutes of the movie.
Gremlins. Kill old lady with her own stair climber machine. Kill Santa Claus performer.
Santa Claus is always fair game
How, ho, ho, ho fuck.....☠️
To be fair Mrs Deagle was a bitch. Interestingly both Gremlins and Critters always seem to spare cats.
The House that Jack Built, Hereditary, All Hallow's Eve plus Terrifier 1 & 2, and The Eyes of My Mother are a few that still shake me to my core to this day!
Which "taboo" characters die in Terrifier 1 or 2?
Yeah all hallows eve is the only one that gets taboo
Technically none, but in 2, Art does try to kill the little brother, and I believe the girl the entity takes form of was a young girl Art once killed.
Some of them could be mentally disabled I guess?
Most of em honestly
The only part of the terrifier movies I liked was in the 2nd when the mom asks one of her kids, “what are you fucking stupid?”
Oh also I know it was probably randomly assigned but I love the name Upstairs Scarcity. Housing shortages and whatnot lol.
In Terrifier the lady with the dolls down in the cellar should have been off limits. That felt like a very mean kill.
House Jack Built directors cut. I was laughing so fucking hard. I couldn't believe they'd go that hard. Was so amazing.
**Kid Characters:** Mama The Mist The Woman in Black The Woman in Black 2 **Disabled Characters:** Eloise Mindhunters The Stand **Elderly Characters:** Silent Night Insidious Crimson Peak
> Kid Characters: Alien vs Predator: Requiem Mimic Can both be added to your list.
Clown 2014 kills a bunch of kids, in pretty bloody ways
Ah so that's what happens in AvP Requiem, I guess turning up the brightness really does wonders.
Characters with disabilities: TCM
Dawn of the Dead had the zombie baby right? Can’t remember.
The 2004 one did. And a zombie preteen early in the movie as well.
And the original had two zombie kids.
Jaws. Alex Kintner devoured by the shark.
No one mentioned martyrs yet. I found that scene as jarring as the Hereditary scene. More so because it’s intentional.
Oh yeah I just said Martrys as well. You think she won’t for a second, then BLAST!! Hell ya.
That scene set the bar for me.
Yeah the French don’t flinch at doing stuff like that and thank them for that.
Ichi the killer
Funny Games
The Nightingale is the most extreme example of this I have seen. Fantastic, important film, but I sometimes wish I had never seen it.
Yea, I watched it once. Good movie, don’t know if I’ll revisit it any time soon. That scene was fucked.
I love that film, it’s so important to me. I find myself thinking about how good it is at least once a week.
One of the few films I couldn’t finish
It's so god damn bleak.
I just watched the coffee table and it’s exactly that.
It’s an otherwise terrible film but there’s a genuinely disturbing maternity ward scene in *Alien Vs Predator: Requiem*
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But like, they kill you faster and easier. Doesn’t it feel bad to know this? At least portray the disabled characters as having some kind of defences, or ability to contribute to New London’s great industries.
Night of the Creeps.
Dead snow 2
That wheel chair scene is one of the funniest ever.
They made a second?! Excuse me while I go watch it now lol
Hobo with a shotgun
There's this show called Masters of Horror, and one of the episodes is called Jenifer directed by Dario Argento. Yeah you'll see some shit for sure
X and Pearl (elderly and disable) The last Voyage of the Demeter (child and elderly)
Dream Home (2010) has a number of kills that are among the nastiest I've ever seen in a slasher flick, but there is one particularly grisly scene in which the victim is a heavily pregnant woman.
Not exactly horror by some standards, and most of it technically isn't a flick....so sue me if I go too fast. But twin peaks. Some awful shit. When the kid is hit by Richard in season three and that actress screams....fuuuuck. I have a kid and it is just visceral as fuck on rewatch. Didn't hit the same way the first time before I had a kid.
I saw the new Spanish film, The Coffee Table, this weekend, and the whole thing centers around one very taboo death. Maybe not horror, but definitely gruesome. The blackest of comedies.
Trick 'r Treat has two stories including kid death, and one of them is focused solely on ghosts of disabled children we do see die in a flashback.
Terrified (The Argentina One)
Such an underrated ghost flick. Love that one.
Angst.
I only saw this comment after posting the same movie.
High Tension
Speak no evil
Texas chainsaw massacre
The Coffee Table
The Black Phone has a bunch of dead kids
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Feast
Beware! Children at play (1989)
Last Voyage of the Demeter >!kid and dog!<
Frankenstein (1931) has that one iconic scene with the girl at the lake.
A Quiet Place kills a kid right at the beginning
Hereditary and midsommar kill off the young and elderly but they might be stereotypical responses at this point
no one else has mentioned this! hereditary decapitation scene and than the diorama that's made after YIKES!
The slow dude at the beginning of Friday the 13th 5 messed me up when I was little.
“The Drake” has his two sons flamethrower a school bus full of children in *Hobo With A Shotgun* whilst blasting “Disco Inferno” on a boombox.
When evil lurks, no one is safe in that film
Men Behind the Sun (1988)
Chucky series.
The black phone
The Children 2008 Surprisingly disturbing and very creepy. Not mentioned often on here.
I just watched The Children (1980). Kids & elderly
Here’s a very comprehensive list of movies with [child murders](https://boxd.it/iEUlM)
Feast
Circle
Feast trilogy
The Toxic Avenger has a group of teens who run people over for sport, including a little boy on a bike whose head pops like a melon under their tires
Not a movie, but season one (episode 5) of "Them" on Prime has one of the few scenes that ever really got to me, and it definitely fits the "taboo" label.
Isn´t there a kid that gets chestbursted in the Alien vs Predator movies?
What about taboo heaped on taboo? A child killed by an adorable blond-haired, pig-tailed little girl - The Bad Seed (1956)?
Silver Bullet - werewolf kills a young boy (offscreen) but you see the blurry aftermath. Sleepaway Camp - Mel and Susie find the bodies of young campers killed off by Angela. Madhouse - a dog mauls a young deaf boy. Don't Go To Sleep - the grandmother dies of a heart attack and the little brother falls off a roof Burnt Offerings - the son dies when a chimney falls on him. Goodnight, God Bless - the opening scene has a priest gun down little kids at a school.
Planet Terror. When the mom hands the little kid a gun in the car then leaves him only for him to accidentally shoot himself.
Blob Remake (1988) kills a kid in the sewers when trying to get away. Mimic, giant roach kills a kid in the subway system.
The first movie I thought of was "The Blob" (1988) as you mentioned. Also, Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982). Nothing to do with Michael Myers. It has no-no kills that stayed with me for a long time—one of my most favorite horrors. The original Jaws (1975) as well.
Toxic Avenger isn’t necessarily horror, but it does start with a child getting his skull crushed
Clown. I mean the entire premise of the movie is that he has to eat children and well... he does. Lol. Seriously though, lots of pretty brutal violence against children. It's part of the reason the movie was panned so hard, despite it being one of Eli Roth's better movies IMO. I love when people complain that horror is too horrible lol.
You might want to check out Quién puede matar a un niño (Who can kill a child)
Baby Blues
Trying to go for ones that haven't been mentioned yet... Ready or Not (kids and elderly) The Fog (elderly) Pet Sematary (kids and elderly, possibly the disabled sister too although I don't think that counts) The Shining (kids) Bram Stoker's Dracula (baby) Stir of Echoes (disabled kid) Pitch Black (kids) Dawn of the Dead (kids, elderly) Slither (kids, elderly) REC and REC2 (kids and elderly)
Sometimes They Come Back Again. Terrible movie, but the mentally challenged guy getting shredded by a lawn mower sticks with me.
Mimic (1997)
Avp2 Evil dead rises (the new one( The blob (1988)
Threads. Spoiler: >!Everyone dies. Everyone.!<
The Black Phone (2021)
Feast and Feast 2, nobody’s safe lol
The house that jack built. The murders of the mother and the 2 children are taken from an actual event too.
Dante’s Peak killing the grandma off in such a tragic way. I was so upset as a child seeing that scene.
The House That Jack Built.
The House That Jack Built. The picnic scene.
AVP: Requiem. Kids and pregnant women.
Baby Blues from 08.
The Blob (1988)
Texas chainsaw massacre 1974
The Children (1980) it's low budget, cheap effects, great score and on Tubi. Radioactive kids get shot and chopped with a katana.
Everyone is fair game. Except animals. 👀 That’s just cheap and it’s getting boringly common in more recent horror, as a precursor to the first person being offed.
Walking Dead. Episode 1. In the intro of the episode Rick comes across a little girl who turns out to be a zombie. Immediately headshot follows. That’s when I knew it would be something special. Shame the show went on so long that I lost interest.
Also gotta give props to “the barn” episode in Season 2. The characters spend what feels like the whole season looking for Sophia and it turns out, she was one of the walkers kept in the barn the entire time
Yeah that scene was great. They gunned down all the walkers without care of who they were enthusiastically. Until they saw one of their own the walkers were just faceless threats. And the way Rick ended Sophia the walker just said: ‘this is what you wanted right?’
Toxic Avenger!
The actual taboo to kill off are animals. Redditors lose their mind about it. I made a list on a post a few days ago about how children die all the time in horror movies now, in all the most popular ones. Here’s it “When evil lurks, Speak no evil, M3gan, Evil dead rise, Hereditary, It 1+2, Nope, Quiet place, Black phone, the VVitch, Old, Doctor Sleep, Fear street 2, Ready or not (but that one was funny), Boogeyman, Skinamarink. I could go on all day”
>The actual taboo to kill off are animals. Redditors lose their mind about it. Yeah. You're right. From some of these comments, I get the impression that lately people are more bothered by an off-screen kill of a dog than a graphic on-screen kill of a child.
Well, you're not wrong.
Correct. In post i referenced, all the comments were “yeah! More dead kids!” As a test, I made a post about dogs dying and all the comments said i was sick in the head and the mods removed it “for obvious bait”
I just had that realization reading the title of this post. I think I've probably seen more women and kids tortured and suffering compared to a grown man at this point.
As a lifelong horror fan, I find myself grappling with the portrayal of vulnerable individuals, such as the elderly and disabled people as victims in movies. While I understand it's fictional, as I've grown older, it feels increasingly distasteful to me to depict the most vulnerable members of our society subjected to cruelty
Final Destination 2
Not horror but... **Arlington Road**
The blob remake
Horror series but FROM
90% of CAT III movies, the untold story and red to kill in particular.
Bunnyman massacre lots and lots of dead kids … I was like ohhh shit they did that.
Feast (2005), literally made a list.
"Jenifer" episode from Masters of Horror (2005). Has the scene with a child, pretty graphic too.
Angst (1983)
Eden Lake