Episode 9. Child’s Play: Children in Horror Films

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 22 October 2013

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Alex and Andrea regress back to childhood to discuss children in scary situations. From the good, the bad and the adorable, they tackle notions of class, purity and what happens to the kids who get picked last for Stick Ball. REQUIRED READING The Bad Seed. Dir. Mervyn Leroy. 2004. [DVD] [Blu-ray] The Omen. Dirs. J.M. […]

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0:00.0	The Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror Podcasting from the
0:26.8	Hard Halls of Academia. I'm Alex West with Andrea Subisadei and we're here and it's October and it's Halloween.
0:36.0	This is the month for horror fans.
0:38.0	So we decided we were going to try to do something extra special for this sacredist of months.
0:46.2	And what we came up with was that Halloween is kind of like the gateway drug for horror.
0:52.2	When you're a kid, you're just kind of slowly getting
0:54.3	introduced all these horror ideas and it's fun and acceptable to dress up and you
0:59.4	get exposed to horror movies for the first time usually. so this is where a lot of our earliest
1:05.0	horror memories kind of stem from so we thought we'd take a look today at
1:09.6	children in horror movies. The Blue Man, Yes, the Blue Man.
1:16.0	Make sacrifice unto him, bring him the blood of the outander.
1:21.0	Praise God!
1:22.0	Praise the Lord. Praise God! Praise the Lord!
1:24.0	Praise God!
1:25.0	Praise the Lord!
1:27.0	In many ways, Halloween is a holiday for children and adult horror fans,
1:32.0	and it's kind of an opportunity for the children who are going to become
1:35.0	horror fans to discover horror. As a personal anecdote my sister is fond of telling me that
1:41.8	she first realized that I was a little bit different
1:45.5	because she caught me listening to this tape. We used to have this audio
1:49.4	cassette of spooky Halloween sounds that we used to play in a ghetto
1:54.0	blaster out front when kids were trick-or-treating just to add some kind of
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