Bad seeds and holy terrors
Subtitle: the child villains of horror film
By: Dominic Lennard
Series: SUNY series, horizons of cinema
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781438453293
Subjects: Horror films; History and criticism; Children in motion pictures; Villains in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reaching the age of anxiety: the 1950s and the horror of youth; title: Spoiled rotten: horror's bourgeois brats; title: A scary sight: the looking child; title: "The hand that rocks the cradle": the child villain's malignant mom; title: Vicious videos, missing mothers: The ring; title: Little bastards: patriarchy's errant offspring in It's alive and The omen; title: Past incarnations: The exorcist and The tyranny of childhood; title: All fun and games till someone gets hurt: hating children's culture; title: Too close for comfort: child villainy and pedophilic desire in Hard candy and Orphan; title: Afterword.