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PANIC AT THE KINDERGARTEN

By: ELENA

“Thirty seconds after you’re born you have a past and sixty seconds after that you begin to lie to yourself about it.”
Juliana Kelly The Brood (1979) Dir. by David Cronenberg.

This list features dark natured, strange, evil, disturbed, possesed, spooky, monsterous and violent children that have starred films along history in the movies. The discussion about how evil flourishes in children is opened. Is it on nature or nurture? Can the supernatural or metaphysical satanic forces be blamed for it?

Children are curious, immoral, untrained and lack empathy so in their early stages they can have destructive nature, be selfish, aggressive, sadistic, manipulative… This list was originally inspired by David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979). This film doesn’t only use evil children as a claim but it actually goes to the source of the evil nature of infants by suggesting they are born out of their mother’s rage. But many other seeds can blossom evil in children as suggested on the following movies.

The list has just started and is on-growing. It’s meant to feature not only the most disturbed children starring horror films but any children with dark nature and strange behaviour. Any contributions will be more than welcome.

Children of the rage:

 

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ExperimentoFilm

9Apr12

Many strange little boys in Raul Ruiz films! Melvil Poupaud in CITY OF PIRATES and Nils Hugon in COMEDY OF INNOCENCE are both notable.

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ibwff

27May11

Oh, and "Alice Sweet Alice"! One of two sisters is murdered before her communion and everyone blames the living sister --who may be a psychopath, especially when the bodies start stacking up.

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ibwff

27May11

BELOVED (http://mubi.com/films/5340)! Sethe successfully murders one out of three of her children to keep them from being sold into slavery. The dead one comes back.

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Bridget

14Mar11

You could also add Case 39 (http://mubi.com/films/34314), a film about a demonic ten-year-old girl.

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