76: Creepy Kids (Part 1)

James and Chelsea do their first ever two-parter, and it's about CREEPY KIDS. Why do kids creep us out so much? How have scary kids in horror changed over time? What does this all say about adults? ALL THIS AND MORE!

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SOURCES

Evil Children in Film and Literature - Karen J Renner (essays within journal by Steffan Hantke, William Wandless, A. Robin Hoffman)

The Monster Show – David J Skal

The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema – Jessica Balanzategui (http://www.oapen.org/search?identifie...)

My Baby Ate The Dingo: The Visual Construction of the Monstrous Infant in Horror Film. Steffan Hantke, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, volume 22, issue 2 (2011), pp. 96-112

Spoil the Child: Unsettling Ethics and the Representation of Evil. William Wandless, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, volume 22, issue 2 (2011), pp. 134-54

How to See the Horror: The Hostile Fetus in Rosemary’s Baby and Alien. A. Robin Hoffman, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, volume 22, issue 3 (2011), pp. 239-61

Archival 1950s footage by David Hoffman

The New York Times

CBS News

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