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Jayme asked in Entertainment & MusicMovies · 3 years ago

the last time you saw a child, horrifically maimed, in a Hollywood movie?

Im trying to figure out if there are rules against showing a child, in a movie, being gruesomely injured (fake blood, special effects, etc,.), because ive seen a LOT of movies in my time, and i cant recall ever seeing such a thing.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    3 years ago

    There are no rules against it, it's just that most filmmakers consider it in poor taste to show a child graphically murdered. But I think it really depends on the tone in which its presented. Sometimes it's for pure shock (such as a girl getting her face blown off in the Lucio Fulci flick The Beyond). Sometimes it's dark humor (like in the movie Bloodletting, where in the middle of a murder spree, a killer is startled by and inadvertently shotguns a baby in its crib). And sometimes it's just a tasteless and gratuitous attempt to anger or provoke the viewer (such as the infant rape in A Serbian Film).

    As for the last time I saw a child graphically maimed in a movie, I think it was the season 5 episode of The Walking Dead when they're trying to sneak through a horde that's flooded Alexandria, when one kid panics and the walkers attack. I only saw the episode once but I seem to recall at least one of the kids get graphically bit.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    IT

    Hereditary (new movie)

  • 3 years ago

    Not maimed, but see the ice cream truck scene in the original "Assault on Precinct 13" (way back when in 1976).

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    That movie out now has a horrific child injury. Not to mention the Exorcist. It's not forbidden.

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  • Adam D
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    mother!

    Though I didn't watch it until after some of the other films mentioned (Logan, It).

  • 3 years ago

    In the 2017 film "Logan", the young girl Laura got shot through the chest with a harpoon. She was actually survived because she had a healing factor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xypetVQB8fs (4:10 mark)

    In the 2017 film "IT", a young boy Georgie had his armed ripped off and he was shown crying and crawling away to escape the monster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWVC71nzyA (3:24 mark)

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    No such restriction exists.

  • 3 years ago

    The tv series Walking Dead has had some children who are walkers. In one episode, a child is shot (off camera, but it's clear what happened).

    I can't think of any movies off hand.

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