Movies where kids are.....

[Janice]

I watched a movie tonight, The Killing Gene, and they killed a little boy. It's not too often when kids are killed in movies. A movie that comes to mind is, An Eye For An Eye, where Sallys Field plays a mother who hears her daughter being brutally raped and murdered by Kiefer Sutherland. Who can forget Sally Field running on the bridge screaming into her cellphone.

I was shocked when the girl died in, Bridge To Terabithia. I never saw that one coming. Not including teen slasher movies, can you think of movies that cross this line, with teens or children?

[Schmoopie]

I remember that Sally Field movie. I think it's awful when they have kids killed in movies. I would hope that the kids who play the victims would understand that it's just acting, but I wonder if any have ever been affected by that.

Andrea

[Brian Damage]

The movie Grindhouse has a scene where a little boy gets killed. I won't ruin the movie, but it is a stunning scene.

[Adamantium]

The movie 99 Kids Killed on a Wall had 99 kids killed in it. It was painful to watch and yet, I couldn't turn away. The theme song went something like "99 Kids Killed on a Wall, 99 Kids killed. If one of those kids should happen to live... 98 Kids Killed on a Wall."

I'm joking. No such movie exists. And if it did, I certainly wouldn't watch it, lol.

[LuLu Rogers]

Pet Semetary- granted it's a horror movie, but I wasn't expecting this little baby to be killed.

Pay It Forward- I THINK I remember the little boy dying when he was stabbed, can't remember for sure.

[Stuck In The '70's]

The greatest Clint Eastwood movie of them all...Dirty Harry. The killer Scorpio buries a teenage girl underground and demands ransom from the city of SF for her release claiming she only has so much air to survive. By the time they find her, she's dead. Of course Harry tortured the guy in order to find her in the first place. lol

[HuntingtonM15]

The Mist

[Janice]

I hate watching kids or animals getting killed. Yes Lauren, Pay It Forward, he did die. That was shocking.

[HuntingtonM15]

I hate watching kids or animals getting killed. Yes Lauren, Pay It Forward, he did die. That was shocking.

I thought it was a decent movie until the end. I didn't like how they tried to turn this meaningful movie into a sudden tearjerker at the end. The movie lost something for me when that happened.

[PlayOn]

i love Pay it Forward.
anyways, in The 6th Sense, the mother poisoned her daughters soup

[Sara Micelli]

I was shocked when the girl died in, Bridge To Terabithia.

Well there would've been an outrage if the girl had lived. Since it's based on a famous book.

[Janice]

Well there would've been an outrage if the girl had lived. Since it's based on a famous book.
Actually, I recall at the time the movie was released that many were outraged that the advertising was misleading. Parents took their kids thinking they were seeing a Narnia type movie and were hit with that. Most hadn't read the book.

[LuLu Rogers]

I just thought of another one, Seabiscuit. I love this movie, being a horse lover, but it's sad when Jeff Bridges character's son is killed.

[Janice]

I just thought of another one, Seabiscuit. I love this movie, being a horse lover, but it's sad when Jeff Bridges character's son is killed.
I love that movie, but I forget how his son was killed. How did it happen?

[LuLu Rogers]

I love that movie, but I forget how his son was killed. How did it happen?

The boy(Frankie Howard) decides he wants to go fishing, so he packs up his stuff and gets in the truck. He drives up the little country one-way road by their house and a bigger truck comes down the hill and hits him head on, very sad. He was only 14. Sad thing is, it really happened. :(

[Schmoopie]

In the book "The Lovely Bones" the main character gets killed (brutally), and she ends up coming out of her body and watching it. Dakota Fanning is supposed to be the lead character in the movie that's coming out soon. I ended up hating the book by the end, but at first it was really intriguing. I want to see the movie just to see how they are going to do it. That is the last book I would think of to do a movie of. If you read the book, you'll see what I mean.
Oh, and the murder that takes place is at the beginning of the book, so it's not giving anything away. I think the main character is like 13 or something.

Andrea

[Brian Damage]

My Girl---Macauly Culkin's character dies when stung by bees.

Lord of the Flies---A kid is killed when a group of kids throw a rock on his head.

[LuLu Rogers]

My Girl---Macauly Culkin's character dies when stung by bees.


How could I forget My Girl?! Very sad :(

[Sara Micelli]

Actually, I recall at the time the movie was released that many were outraged that the advertising was misleading. Parents took their kids thinking they were seeing a Narnia type movie and were hit with that. Most hadn't read the book.

Oh I know. I meant that fans of the book would've been outraged. It's a children's book, but it's been on the banned book list before.

[Janice]

Oh I know. I meant that fans of the book would've been outraged. It's a children's book, but it's been on the banned book list before.
I had never read or heard of the book before I saw the movie, so that literally jolted me out of my seat, lol. My husband too. The movie took such a sudden detour and turned dark in an instant. I researched it after, and found that it was a very popular book written in the 70s. The author, whose name escapes me now, based it on her son's friend, who was struck and killed by lightening.

I loved the movie, just didn't expect it, I guess. Usually, there are telltale signs. It was so sad. The girl, who played his little sister, was a living doll.

[Janice]

In the move, Fried Green Tomatoes, did the kid get killed by the train because his sneaker was caught in the tracks? It was years ago, and I rented it and shut it off because I couldn't watch it.

[LuLu Rogers]

In the move, Fried Green Tomatoes, did the kid get killed by the train because his sneaker was caught in the tracks? It was years ago, and I rented it and shut it off because I couldn't watch it.


The guy in the beginning did, but the little boy later on just lost his leg.

[qwerty]

The author, whose name escapes me now, based it on her son's friend, who was struck and killed by lightening.

Katherine Paterson wrote Bridge to Terabithia. It won the Newbery Medal which is given out for children's books. That book may have been required reading when I was growing up - I forget though - I do know it was quite popular.

The Outsiders had a couple of teens killed - Johnny, Dallas, Bob...maybe more. SE Hinton wrote several books which became movies my guess is several teens died in those but I'm not sure. This book was required reading in high school for me in the 1980's. Might be too controversial these days to be a requirement in schools.

Neil died in Dead Poet's Society. Loved that movie. Sad though.

My guess is lots of teens may have died in movies.

[Purffin]

I hate watching kids or animals getting killed. Yes Lauren, Pay It Forward, he did die. That was shocking.

I agree, i can't stand to see animals or children hurt in movies its just not right.

[MusicJunkie]

The all time sickest child death in a movie is Halloween III: Season Of The Witch. Any horror fan knows the scene I'm talking about.... with the mask and the maggots. It's depraved on so many levels and I turned the movie off after the scene. In it, a little boy is a "test subject" for what the evil scientist had planned on Halloween, and he put his Silver Shamrock mask on and watched tv and suddenly his head begins to melt and maggots and snakes start pouring out of his skull. It is effing disgusting and even moreso because it happened to a kid in a movie who couldn't have been older than 10 years old, not an adult.

another one I can remember, but I didn't really watch the movie but remember my mom was watching it on HBO and I saw bits and pieces was the movie Dominick And Eugene with Ray Liotta and Jamie Lee Curtis. This boy neighbor who befriended Liotta's mentally challenged brother was beaten to death by his father (or stepfather, I don't remember). I just remember thinking it was really shocking to kill a kid like that in a movie.

[MrRetro_08]

A kid gets killed in "Enemy At The Gates". Wasn't nice to see.

[phoebe7165]

I agree, i can't stand to see animals or children hurt in movies its just not right.

Yeah, even though it's says at the end of the movie that the ASPCA was on the set to monitor the animal activity and no animals were harmed in the filming, it still bothers me to watch.

There's a scene in Gone With the Wind that always disturbs me. Scarlett is trying get back to Tara from Atlanta, they're almost there, their horse is exhausted to where it's foaming at the mouth. She can see Tara but the horse can't go any further and she keeps hitting it with her whip until it collapses. I just can't watch that scene anymore.


Anyhoo, in keeping with the thread, are you talking about kids being killed or just simply dying, because in Audrey Rose, Ivy dies at the end.

Speaking of GWTW, Bonnie Butler falls off her horse and breaks her neck.

In Monster's Ball, Halle Berry's character's son dies. I forget what he died from.

[MusicJunkie]

I found the Halloween III clip I was talking about above. This is very disturbing but sometimes you have to see to believe.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=znjuOyUk-D4

[HuntingtonM15]

I can't believe I didn't think of Funny Games. What a horribly depressing movie.

[phoebe7165]

I found the Halloween III clip I was talking about above. This is very disturbing but sometimes you have to see to believe.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=znjuOyUk-D4

I thought that was the scene you were talking about. I wasn't sure. I haven't seen that whole movie but I know that scene. Maybe I'll actually watch that whole movie when they show it in a few weeks.

[browneyes106]

There are a lot of movies were teens get killed. I remember the daughter in Mystic River had a horrible death.