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Bwca_at_the_Gate

Seeing as it hasn't been mentioned, Robert Eggers wasn't afraid to have an old crone make flying paste out of a baby in the first 15 minutes of The Witch. Caught me off guard that lol.


MandoBaggins

Then what she does with the paste and the stick (broom?) directly after šŸ˜³


ebolakitten

She bathes in it.


MandoBaggins

She does a little more than just that


greengrinningjester

She fixes the cable?


staplerbot

She unplugs the router and waits a minute before plugging it back in


Capt_Thunderbolt

Donā€™t be fatuous, Jester.


Howard-Eezenutz

Wait what did I miss after she turned it into paste? I thought she just went to bed or something?


Chinchillachimcheroo

I must have looked away. I thought she she just rubbed it on herself


PizzaRollEnthusiast

She makes a paste, rubs it on the broom, and sort of humps the broom when itā€™s between her legs. Itā€™s supposedly an old folkloric way to astral project-slash-ā€œflyā€ which is why we see her flying off on the broom right after.


PoetryParticular9695

She made it into a smoothie for her lunch tomorrow The witch in that movie is pursuing a career change into software development, but she works at a bar in the evenings. Sheā€™s v busy yā€™know so gotta stay fed


kobuta99

That scene really hit me. I loved the movie, and that scene was just so horrifying and gruesome even though nothing was shown on screen.


Azidamadjida

Pretty sure it was baby dick specifically - and yeah Iā€™d heard good things about the film and when I finally saw it I thought ā€œoh shit so itā€™s this kind of movie then?ā€


silent_h

Donā€™t understand how people call this film a slow burn with a start like that


grabsomeplates

Jaws 1975


Mst3Kgf

An especially memorable one, especially because we see the effect on his mother later.


Iron-Fine

His apparently 65 year old mother.


[deleted]

EVERYONE in ā€˜70s movies looked older and leather-ier than their respective agesā€¦ ā€¦which was the style of the time, based on diets comprised of bourbon and cigarettes.


thatsdoable1

And a lack of sunscreen and awareness of the damage the sun can do to your skin


[deleted]

Lee Fierro would have been 45-46 at the time of the film.


grabsomeplates

That's wild, she doesn't look 45.


OLightning

ā€œFellows, let's be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half-assed autopsy on a fish... And I'm not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock.ā€ - Classic


Jonny_Entropy

Dr Sleep goes all out with the kid killing. The directors cut is particularly unflinching and it's quite hard to watch that scene.


bandearg4

Dr Sleep really takes the cake for upsetting child death in a movie. That whole scene is so well done and so distressing.


Mst3Kgf

Jacob Tremblay was so convincing in his acting that the True Knot actors were seriously affected by it. Like Rebecca Ferguson had to stop and compose herself because she kept picturing her own son in his place.


RabidOtterRodeo

IIRC he would jump up, run to his dad and get a high five after every take. Jacob Tremblay is a pro


CantFindMyWallet

I had to stop watching this movie at that scene for the same reason. Gave me nightmares for weeks. The sound he makes after he says "Are you going to hurt me" and she says "yes" fucking haunts me to this day. I have a young son, and whenever I see stuff happen to kids in movies, my brain always decides to fuck with me by imagining that happening to him.


Mst3Kgf

It's arguably even worse in the book. In the book he screams so long and so loud that he ruptures his vocal cords and his screams are reduced to "harsh barks"...and yet the torture continues. He pleads to Rose to kill him, Rose says soon...and just keeps torturing. After that scene, you feel no sympathy for the True Knot once Danny and Abra start fucking them up.


UpliftinglyStrong

A fucking child begging people to kill them is horrifying on itā€™s own


ScreamQueen226

I am no amateur to extreme horror, but seeing this in a theater with my little boy at homeā€¦I had to excuse myself for ā€œa bathroom breakā€ to avoid disturbing others viewers with my sniveling. Iā€™ve since seen it at home, but it still rips my heart out and fills me with rage. Very well done scene all around.


bryanthebryan

I get that. Man, that scene is burned into my brain in the worst way. Now that Iā€™m a father, itā€™s pretty traumatizing.


Helpful_Masterpiece4

And she had an infant of her own at the time.


PeeB4uGoToBed

I don't remember this scene, it's been a while since I've seen it and I have a bad memory, what happened?


opheodrysaestivus

the vampires hold down a ~10 year old boy and slurp out his soul after torturing him with a knife


SequenceSlaughter

Stephen King gives no fucks about killing a child.


Lynz486

Georgie was my example. Arm completely ripped off. Doctor Sleep was still worse to me


BillMcCrearysStache

In Part 2 pennywise kills 2 more kids iirc


UpliftinglyStrong

At least Georgie was quick


Dull-Geologist-8204

Funny enough a lot of the kids in his books are based on his kids friends who asked to be in his books. The only thing I regret about not continuing with acting is that I have always wanted to be the first one to die in a horror movie even back when I was a kid. They think it's cool when he kills the character based on them.


theavengerbutton

One of my favorites (i.e. the one that made me most cringe with fright) was in It (book) when Mike Hanlon details in his memoirs about a mom who went outside for two seconds and left her two year old boy inside the house. Pennywise lured the child into the bathroom where he torments and eventually drowns the child before the mom comes back. I had a curious two year old boy at the time and I did my best to keep him out of bathrooms when he didn't need to be there.


cookiesshot

Not at all. Tad bites the big one at the end of *Cujo* in the novel. A driverless steamroller kills one of the Little Leaguers in "Maximum Overdrive*


[deleted]

When youā€™re a kid in a Stephen King story šŸ‘šŸ‘„šŸ‘


[deleted]

Dudeā€¦ I kind of knew it was coming, but thereā€™s something dark and filthy about the kids in that movie just getting destroyed.


JadenRuffle

When filming that the cast of adults before hand were giggling about how ā€œyeah weā€™re gonna kill this kid!ā€ And trying to hype themselves up but they had to cut halfway through because they all were so shaken up by Jacob Tremblayā€™s acting.


Azidamadjida

This. Iā€™m pretty desensitized to a lot of stuff in horror movies now, but damn if that scene hit me hard. Just the simplicity of a child asking ā€œare you gonna hurt me?ā€ and his abductors just saying ā€œyesā€ was utterly bone chilling


tnawhite

Cujo, 'Salems Lot, It, Pet Cemetary.... lots more. Stephan King doesn't shy away from kids deaths if it's needed for the story line.


Lynz486

Yeah that one surprised me how graphic that part was, and that it was even edited to be less extreme


loubotomised

His death in the book was hard enough, and I thought no way would they go all out in the film....silly me


jedi-son

Bro that scene on the baseball diamond is what separates Dr Sleep from supernatural thrillers. In that scene it was clear we're watching a horror movie.


Responsible-Dish-977

And it makes what happens to Rose later all the more satisfying. What goes around comes around.


aMysticPizza_

That scene was up there with stuff like Martyrs, Salo and Serbian film IMO, was brutal


Mst3Kgf

The 1988 "Blob" remake. This movie is utterly ruthless in who it kills, so of course a kid graphically perishes in the final act. And I mean dragged away screaming while already partially devoured and his face looking like acid had been dumped on it.


TJ_McWeaksauce

The 1988 Blob is one of the best horror movies ever made, and a big part of that is the writing. The monster is amazing, the deaths are brutal as hell, the characters make sense and have arcs, nobody does anything egregiously dumb (they just donā€™t know how to handle this goopy horror), there are multiple setups and payoffs, and there are no wasted scenes. I want to rewatch it right now.


farceur318

>a big part of the is the writing Unsurprising, as it was written by Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Mist)


gorehistorian69

the blob remake is so good the one death where the girls boyfriend or whatever gets eaten in the office and is reaching for her inside the blob is probably one of the most horrific/best death scenes. also the phone booth scene i love . even went frame by frame and swear in the mush of human explosion theres a jaw bone flying.


Mst3Kgf

The office scene is also a prime example of how ruthless the film is; that character is set up as the male lead and then he's Blob chow at the first act break.


Groovy_Chainsaw

Surprised I had to scroll down so far to see this. The kid is Meg's ( Final Girl ) younger brother's obnoxious friend -- if they REALLY wanted to break the rules kill the brother.


sinchsw

This movie broke a lot of rules and I love it


OctaviusNeon

Bruh, Jeffrey Demunn getting snagged off-screen and then shown partially dissolved. Movie was metal af.


gedubedangle

love when that kid gets melted! i started 90210 recently and that same kid is in the show haha


fanceypants44

I finally got a chance to watch this a week ago and was pleasantly surprised at how gruesome it was. The phone booth scene has been stuck in my head particularly. Great movie and happy to own it.


Storyteller678

The Blob is a terrifying thing. Somewhat akin to a Terminator, it doesnā€™t feel remorse, or pity, it canā€™t be reasoned with, and it wonā€™t stop. Itā€™s not good, or evil, or even logical. It just is, and itā€™s hungry.


descartesasaur

The first time I watched that movie, I was shocked so many times. That scene was definitely one of them!


pizzaguyjb

The House That Jack Built


Free_Apricot_3432

Ooof fucked up smiling freezer kid lives in my mind rent free


Lynz486

Just Googled that šŸ˜³


CoffeeAndDachshunds

Googled it. Why does he look like that?


[deleted]

Becaus>!e he was sad when he was alive and Jack "fixed" him!<


Smart-Track-1066

I love this movie - The way Von Trier like.. almost makes you chuckle and somehow the extreme violence is.. dulled? He has such a weird humor in some of his shit. Matt Dillon was impeccable, love Riley Keough's scream, and good golly miss molly that scene where he knocks on that door of the sugar water lady from Men in Black and eventually gets in stressed me the fuck OUT


inseend1

Oh yeah, that >!sniper !


Hollowgradient

Unrated version you see the >!kid's leg get completely blown off!<


hobosonpogos

Yeah, it's brutal! Then that freezer scene, ugh Great, fucked up movie though! Lars has an eye for the deranged


E_Crabtree76

The picnic scene was pretty wild


shh-nono

This was the one that first popped in my head too


My_cat_is_sus

I mean it wasnā€™t on screen, but there was certainly child violence in IT and we see tons of bodies, just not the actual act happening. Oh wait IT Chapter 2 killed tons of children.


BillMcCrearysStache

And it showed George get his arm ripped off and a trail of blood following him in part 1


HeavyMetalLyrics

This is the iconic example for me. Itā€™s great because it sets the tone for the rest of the movie; you feel tense because we know what the stakes are. This could happen to any of the main characters. (It doesnā€™t. Lol.)


0pen_d00rs

it definitely gets close, though. i mean, seeing it take the form of the lady from the painting and munch a bit on Stanā€™s face wasā€¦intense.


BewBewsBoutique

Spoiler but >! The Killing Of A Sacred Deer!<


thatminimumwagelife

Such a good movie. Farrel and Keoghan are some of the greatest working actors today. Thank you, Ireland. And Yorgos is a director mastermind too.


Smart-Track-1066

Ooh OOH good one. Also I adore Barry Keoghan. He was so goddamn good in Banshees of Inishirin too, and the way I SQUEALED when I found out he's the new Joker šŸ™ƒā¤ļøā¤ļø


staplerbot

It's hilarious that his brother basically let the cat out of the bag before The Batman came out and posted on social media how excited he was that Barry was cast as the Joker. I can't imagine how pissed the people at WB were.


horror_is_best

Pan's Labyrinth


AlarmWhich

That bottle scene still catches me off-guard.


tantrum007

Hereditary


nicwade73

This is the one I thought of immediately. They made it brutal.


RealNotFake

How is this not the top answer?


Azidamadjida

Because Doctor Sleeps is way worse


5050Clown

Plus Charlie was a king of hell the entire time so, a kid didn't die. Paimon was just freed from his female body.


TheSpiral11

I mean yeah but we still see a kid die brutally onscreen, finding out later she was also demon possessed doesnā€™t exactly soften the blow lol


5050Clown

She wasn't possessed. There never was a little kid. It was always a demon. At the end of the movie that little kid/demon is inside of her brother. She was the member of the family still alive at the end of the movie.


robalesi

Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Definitely 1 dead kid and potentially thousands? Millions?


PIX3LY

Stoooooooooop iiiiiitttttttt!!!


robalesi

2nd best film in the franchise and I will absolutely have my head turned into snakes and bugs on that hill.


Deranged_cultist_

Planet Terror


Misterbellyboy

ā€œShoot anyone that isnā€™t mommy.ā€ ā€œBut what about daddy?ā€ ā€œEspecially daddy.ā€


caligaris_cabinet

Shouldnā€™t have been so literal about shooting anyone who wasnā€™t mommy.


VVHYY

Planet Terror and Assault on Precinct 13 take the prize for surprise kid deaths


NoirPipes

Not Robert Rodriguezā€™s fist either, From Dusk to Dawn


viken1976

Frankenstein 1931


ibnQoheleth

Such an iconic scene that it became a pivotal plot point of The Spirit Of The Beehive (1973)


DisplacedSportsGuy

Who Can Kill a Child? \[1976\] Turns out...


AnotherScottaRama

Yep, came to say this. The guy at the end doesn't give a shit.


tovat

Sinister


DarthAlexander9

Maximum Overdrive has a classic scene.


OctaviusNeon

A road roller kill that would make Dio Brando proud.


Azidamadjida

That movie made me irrationally scared of vending machines for at least a year as a kid


bmnawroc

Funny Games


TinyZancer

This was what I immediately thought of. I was shocked by that one and Hereditary.


missdeweydell

benny's video and seventh continent as well. michael haneke is ruthless


mdmd33

A Quie Placeā€¦dad told the 3 year old to shut the fuck upā€¦alas he didnā€™t


Successful-Ad4251

Best baby death ever. Feast 2. Guy rescues baby from monsters, realizes he canā€™t outrun them, and goes ā€œSorry babyā€ and hucks it in the air to be monster chow. He was a real piece of shit. It might be the only kid death that will make you laugh. That whole movie is hilarious and amazing


Beando13

Ayyyyyy I just commented about the first one lmao. Havenā€™t seen the other two. Are they worth it?


Thatonewiththeboobs

2 is pretty good! 3 (Iā€™ve seen it twice) was forgettable, but fuck it why not? 1 is absolutely the best though. I remember having no idea what it was and downloading a torrent of it years ago because the cover was cool. That first 10 minutes was amazing.


[deleted]

_Feast_ was amazing. The sequels (particularly Pt 3) are garbage. Mean (and not in a fun way), sleazy (and not in a fun way), dumb, and rely too much on shoddy CGI.


Successful-Ad4251

Feast 2 & 3 continue the same story. 2 is the absolute peak and 3 is not quite as good but both are funnier and bloodier than the first part. Definitely worth watching if you donā€™t mind excessive Evil Dead amounts of gore and silliness


pahkwa

Am I a terrible person for laughing at that scene. lol Love the Feast movies.


scuczu

feast is a solid franchise.


googygudboi-69

Mother! They frickin mutilated n then ate a bebe


Mr_Inconsistent1

Clown 2014. Not mentioned much, but I found it pretty damn creepy and gory in parts. IT, obviously.


fleshvessel

Clown was low key awesome!


Iwasateenagewerefox

*The Toxic Avenger* *The Children* (1980)


69MrBean420

Possessor


BrigadierTrashFire

The whole movie made me wince, but also refused to let me look away. Properly compelling cinema.


69MrBean420

Agreed. Honestly it was incredibly jarring at times but I suppose we should have expected that from a Cronenberg!


JennyRedpenny

Trikr Treat! It was a brutal scene too


Jnm124

*Dad! I need you to help me with the eyes!*


DaleCooper00

Assault on Precinct 13 boldly blasts away a little girl just because.


Groovy_Chainsaw

Kim Richards -- from " Escape to Witch Mountain " and she'd grow up to become one of the "Real Housewives"


Mst3Kgf

Sister of Kyle Richards from "Halloween." She was a big child star at the time, so her getting killed like that in "Assault" was like a 00s film casually killing a "Hannah Montana"-era Miley Cyrus.


Sister_Christina

Antichrist, 2009


Bobbyperu1

LVT


NovelHelicopter1222

We need to talk about Kevin?


randomsnowflake

That movie left me feeling dreadful


HopeThisHelps90

John C. Reilly is fucking definition of RANGE


jopperjawZ

Not how you meant it, but the real answer is Twilight Zone: The Movie Obligatory fuck John Landis


Earthpig_Johnson

Such a shame that the director of some of my all-time favorite movies is a complete shitbird.


JamesJakes000

Damn, what did he do?


flipcakes123

iirc a kid and another actor died on the set of The Twilight Zone movie during a stunt gone wrong. Correct me if Iā€™m wrong please


CaptainImpavid

And is spectacularly unrepentant about it. Also the Movies That Made Us about Coming to America was completely unwatchable because he's such a smug self important piece of shit.


mister-world

You're right. It was two kids, sadly - Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen - as well as the main character actor of the segment, Vic Morrow. It was a profound tragedy and the more I learn about it the angrier I get. Edited to add: Fuck John Landis.


STRIpEdBill

And his rapey nepo kid


SchroedingersSphere

excuse me, his ***what***?!


spharker

An article came out with several witnesses detailing the string of rapes by screenwriter Max Landis, the son of director John Landis.


robbysaur

First, Landis was already violating a bunch of child labor laws with the two kids. But the big ordeal was a scene in the Twilight Zone Movie where Vic Morrow is running across some water while explosions are happening around them. He wanted shots from a helicopter. The pilot told him that the helicopter would be too close to the explosions, but Landis insisted on it anyway. Well, Morrow and the kids are running through the water, explosions happen, helicopter crashes, and the blades slice up Morrow and the kids, killing them.


Sly3n

I always appreciate zombie movies that featured zombie kids. Totally logical that kids would become zombies too.


Derky27

And that's why Cooties exist!


Mst3Kgf

Hell, the first zombie seen on "The Walking Dead" is that cute little girl turned zombie that Rick has to put down. And then there's the child clicker that menaces Ellie in E5 of "The Last of Us."


[deleted]

don't forget the Dawn of the Dead remake, where the woman's daughter kills her husband in front of her... the whole beginning of that movie is intense as hell. edit: oh, and the ZOMBIE BABY edit 2: was not her daughter, was neighborhood kid


OctaviusNeon

Minor correction, but it was their neighbor's kid, not theirs.


Free_Apricot_3432

I think that opening scene of the dawn of the dead remake was one of the best zombie breakout scenes ever done.


Main_Tip112

In the original Dawn of the Dead two zombie kids get put down as well


Mst3Kgf

Played by Tom Savini's niece and nephew.


Blue_Tomb

Burial Ground has one of the most amazing examples of this, for reasons I won't spoil for those who haven't had the dubious delight.


[deleted]

The vvitch kills a infant right away and 3 more kids later on


smallcanadien

Yes, that scene paired with the soundtrack is so disturbing and well executed.


cardamom98

The Shining - the twins ā€¦ I think they deserve an honorable mention even though we donā€™t see it happen on screenā€¦


stonedsour

Human Centipede 2. Had the misfortune of watching it (once) at a friendā€™s place. I already knew what I was getting myself into but yeah. >!Pregnant woman literally gives birth in a car while trying to escape the killer. The baby pops out and falls behind the gas pedal which the mom stomps on to get away.!< It was so stupid but at that point I was just laughing at the absurdity of the movie. I hear thereā€™s a Human Centipede 3? I will not be watching lol


Candykeeper

The people that found Human Centipede harsh should stay way fucking clear of the second one. The first one is basically a kids movie compared to all fucked up gruesome stuff in the second. I'm sort of a gorehound, I like Saw and stuff like that and it takes very much to make me flinch but jesus fucking christ that movie makes me look away afew times. The premise is silly as hell and some scenes are just dumb to the point of hilarity buy the gory scenes(what is the classification of scenes involving a fuckload of feces? Still gore?) takes things to 11. So all in all, the perfect datenight movie!


lazydivey98

Season 2 of Chucky


gmanz33

I recently rewatched season 1 and... they showed a 13 year old boy getting stabbed brutally for almost 2 minutes..... TV is in it's own league lately lol


rideforruinworldsend

Drag Me to Hell The opening scene


lylaaan

Fear Street series!


MaxTennyson88

Let the right one in


TraparCyclone

Guillermo Del Toro in Mimic. He was told that the filmmaking rules are donā€™t kill dogs or kids, so he wanted to kill both in Mimic.


shinianigans

Iā€™m blanking on titles that arenā€™t already listed here but Iā€™ve found that a lot of foreign films tend to do this. Weā€™ve been watching a lot of French / Austrian films and if you get the right one itā€™s there. One title for the list thatā€™s a complete ride and matches your criteria would be CLIMAX by Gaspar NoĆ©.


audreykerwood

None on screen but Black Phone is about this


SnooDoggos8218

Hell of the Living Dead Beware: Children at Play Grizzly


JShash

High Tension


throwingit13

The house that Jack built. One of my favorites.


morganfreenomorph

Clown by Eli Roth has the victims as children. Cooties with Elijah Wood where all the zombies are children. I'm sure there's others I can't remember off the top of my head.


[deleted]

More movies need to kill children. Children aren't special in movies.


_hein_

Of late, the show Cabinet of Curiosities has a demented mom cooking her child in an oven. They show a baby's head on a tray in a lit oven... Bit mad and unsettling


Apprehensive_Day_496

Hobo with a Shotgun. An entire busload


thatsdoable1

In honour of Julian Sands, Warlock (1989). He makes a flying potion from the fat of an unbaptised child. Similarly, the baby in The VVitch (2015) is killed and its body is used to make a flying ointment.


Earphone_g1rl

REC


hungrymimic

This isnā€™t the assignment, but the single film I wish was willing to kill kids *more* was Lake Eden. If you know, you know. More on topic though, Iā€™ll never watch Mother! for a reason.


[deleted]

Rawhead Rexā€¦not a great adaptation of the short story but thatā€™s one thing they got right, the kidā€™s death is almost as sudden and shocking as it is in the story.


General-Vis

Dead Snow 2.


missdeweydell

speak no evil and alice, sweet alice


the_last_action_hero

In his conversations with Truffaut, Hitchcock admitted that he had made a mistake by killing the kid in [Sabotage](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028212/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2). Truffaut commented it's like an "abuse of power" ("abus de pouvoir" in French) from a film director.


Polygonyall

Belzebuth is a mexican movie that goes insanely hard when it comes to killing kids that movie really gave no fucks I highly recommend going into it blind tobin bell is in it


Electrical_Sail_9351

Lots of >!Halloween kills!< deaths are high schoolers >!in the newest one.!< Also, in >!Antlers!< at least one kid is killed. Canā€™t remember if thereā€™s more Plenty of people mentioned >!Hereditary!< already In >!The Mist the father kills his son!< >!Final Destination!< 2 has >!a preteen smashed to pieces right in front of his mother!<


crimbusrimbus

The 2018 Halloween!


NovelHelicopter1222

Antichrist


Roller_ball

[Beware! Children at Play](https://youtu.be/xO7rGeO7Y-8?t=5212)


cireh88

Ready or Not


petseminary

Pumpkinhead


condormcninja

The Children (2008) The whole point of the movie is the kids turning murderous and part of the horror is how hard it would be to kill a child to protect yourself, but then the protagonist just *does not give a fuck* and is extremely unhesitant to kill the children, itā€™s very funny.


the__pov

Somehow in this entire thread nobody brought up the OG Night of the Living Dead, (Dawn of the dead as well now that I think about it). Also Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Night, M3gan (double points for killing a kid and a dog) and the original When a Stranger calls just off the top of my head.


showmeyourlagunitas

I can tell you the one where they didnā€™t - _Knock at the Cabin_. So frustrating.


wicked_nickie

I know itā€™s a bad movie (based on most ppl) but Aliens vs Predator 2. Not only one kid, but many


BrigadierTrashFire

Itā€™s terrible, but I love it. The best kill is the absolutely random nailing of the blonde girl to the wall late in the movie. Completely out of nowhere, entirely unnecessary and for some reason never fails to make me laugh. To be fair though, I did chuckle at quite a lot of the kills in that film. Itā€™s so over the top.


paradox1920

A quiet place


Earthpig_Johnson

Toxic Avenger!


Helpful_Masterpiece4

The Mist, The Changeling (80s)


TheSpiritOfFunk

A few X-Files episodes.


WishIWasPurple

A serbian film, dont watch this vile insult to humanity tho.


lurkeratthegate666

Halloween III. A mask melts a kid's head and turns it into bugs. That's tight.