"Next to dogs, kids are the most precious cinematic commodities. Push one or both through a meat grinder on screen, and you'll lose half the audience instantaneously. The other half are probably snickering. These are the sickos. These are the folks reading this article (they're certainly the weirdos who wrote the article).
Horror has always explored/shattered taboos. It's the genre where filmmakers and viewers bash against society's rules, suggesting a conflicting perspective on cultural truth. Kids are darling little angels. They represent tomorrow's possibility, our hopeful offering to the future. Killing one of these buggers on screen is an F-U to the present. The world around us is spiraling into despair, and we must express our roaring rage. To hell with the future; into the fire it goes. John Carpenter, please scream for us."
