When I analysed the opening for the film The Woman In Black, I came to the conclusion that I liked the idea of children/children's themes within horror products. And that, if possible, using what would typically be a children's theme but changing it into a horror genre, would be something which I'd ideally like to do for my main product. Therefore, to help me prepare for this idea and see if it's even a possible, or good idea to start with, I have decided to write out some of the pro's and con's of this idea below in order to help me conclude whether or not that running this theme within my main task is something which I'd like to do.
Killing children within films is something that is a very taboo topic within society, some audiences find that this is too far, disturbing, and that it is very risky as it may face a deep, psychological impact on the child actor in years to come. On the other hand, some audiences- typically audiences that tend to consume horror products more than any other- find that involving children in horror films make the product even better than it would have been originally; children are like flowers; representative of purity, goodness and innocence, therefore, to put them at risk like the director has done within this film, is likely to completely petrify an audience (especially parents, due to Bulmer and Katz idea of personal relationships). Evidently, this should help the producers of the film make profit, as they are conforming to their genre; anybody that watches this film, or any other horror films for that matter, is evidently watching the film in order to be thrown out of their comfort zone and shown media content that aims to cause them fright and disarm.
This post is more of an introduction to the idea of the use of children in horror films, and I plan to possibly do some research into horror films which star child actors, and how successful each film was, in some of my upcoming posts.
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