76: Creepy Kids (Part 1)

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

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🗓️ 12 October 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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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! This episode is sponsored by Dave! Check it out at http://dave.com ---- 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 ---- Pre-order your DEAD MEAT EDITION of the 80s horror documentary In Search of Darkness here: https://80shorrordoc.com/pages/deadme... SCAREACON! Oct. 18th-19th http://scareacon.com/admission/ Dead Meat Podcast ► http://deadmeatpod.libsyn.com/website This video (including the awesome new intro) was edited entirely by Chelsea - I provided nothing but that sweet Dead Meat voice. Dead Meat on Social Media: Twitter ► https://twitter.com/deadmeatjames Instagram ► http://instagram.com/deadmeatjames Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/deadmeatjames Discord ► https://discord.gg/GHazvA5 Steam Official Group ► http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Dead... Chelsea Rebecca on Social Media: Twitter ► https://twitter.com/carebecc Instagram ► http://instagram.com/carebecc James A. Janisse on Social Media: Twitter ► https://twitter.com/jamesajanisse Instagram ► http://instagram.com/jamesajanisse Practical Folks (James and Chelsea's other channel): https://www.youtube.com/practicalfolks MUSIC!! ~~Logo~~ "U Make Me Feel" by MK2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do you think? I think we're dead meat. Real dead meat.
0:07.0	You dead meat!
0:12.0	Go ahead and laugh you guys. If I have a final request, it's dead meat.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Dead Meat Podcast, the extension of the YouTube channel Dead Meat. I'm James.
0:21.0	I'm Chelsea and we're engaged. Should we like to get scared together?
0:25.0	Today we're going to talk about something that scares everybody. Little kids.
0:33.0	Yeah. Or more broadly I guess children. Not just little kids I guess.
0:38.0	Oh they can be twins. Yeah sure.
0:41.0	Or adolescents. Yeah it turns out kids and horror is a very broad topic.
0:46.0	It's a very big topic and just like in real life everyone's got opinions about kids
0:51.0	and how to raise kids. Everyone has opinions about them in horror. It turns out.
0:57.0	Yeah but nobody ever yells at filmmakers if they don't feel like having kids in their movie.
1:02.0	That's true. Yeah lots of stuff out there about kids in horror.
1:09.0	This has been a much requested topic. Lots of emails about this one.
1:13.0	And this was a big undertaking. I didn't think it was going to be this much.
1:20.0	I've lost my fiance to the work that she's been putting in to this episode over the past couple of weeks.
1:28.0	I've been working on it for a few weeks.
1:30.0	You've been hunched over that desk just reading books upon books upon books just typing away like this is a stack.
1:38.0	Because of thing, okay the thing about trying to learn about childhood in general and like the idea of what kids even are, what that means to people throughout history and other cultures.
1:53.0	It's just everything affects everything. This is one of those topics where once you get into it it's so intertwined with historical events.
2:03.0	And it's just you set off a domino effect trying to learn about this stuff.
2:08.0	I see on page eight or around there we get into Japan's economy stagnating in the 90s.
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