Are little girls suppose to be scary?

[SuperCyrix]

Alot of horror movies like to use little girls to creep people out. I don't know why.

The Ring
Ghost Ship
That movie with Nicole Kidman can't remember the name
Blair Witch 2

Why do producers do this?

 

[WinkOsmosis]

IMO, it's because little girls are the least powerful in our society... so of course, it's subconsciously more disturbing when they gain horrific power.

 

[spanky]

u forgot the exorcist

 

[Dragnov]

Whats scarier to you?

Freakish looking little girls? or Freakish looking little boys?

Little girls = cute, petite, happy
Little boys = already scary monsters.

 

[gopunk]

you saw blair witch 2?

 

[SuperCyrix]

Yeah, Exorcist and that movie with the family moving into a house
built under a Indian Burial ground. Remember the famous line "They're here"

I was watching The Ring when

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I was really expecting a scare, but at the end of the movie when I see a pathetic little 50lb girl step out of the
television and a grown man who probably weight 180+ lbs running, the movie lost credibility. I was thinking why didn't he
just beat her to death(make her even deader?) with his fist. But no, they had to cut away and my feeble mind couldn't picture
a way for the supposedly scary little girl to kill a man. I just can't understand why horror films like to hype little girls. I mean, what can be less scary?

 

[spanky]

i did not like the ring at all. i did not find it all too scarey. only scarey part was the first time they showed the girl who was scared to death. yeah her face was pretty messed up... but that is about all that was scarey in the whole movie. and i just felt like they tried too hard to throw us off with a "twist" at the end. and the part where the guy got killed.... if he was scared to death... why was his body found chillin' on a chair? i would figure his body would be found in some corner (like that first girl). well... that was a waste of $18 (tix for me and a friend)

 

[Jugernot]

You talking about Kidman in "The Others?"

 

[0roo0roo]

becuz we know boys are rotten little pusses

the fall is farther for little girls to be scary. sugar and spice and everything nice.. ieeeeeeee!!!

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: SuperCyrix
Yeah, Exorcist and that movie with the family moving into a house
built under a Indian Burial ground. Remember the famous line "They're here"

I was watching The Ring when

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I was really expecting a scare, but at the end of the movie when I see a pathetic little 50lb girl step out of the
television and a grown man who probably weight 180+ lbs running, the movie lost credibility. I was thinking why didn't he
just beat her to death(make her even deader?) with his fist. But no, they had to cut away and my feeble mind couldn't picture
a way for the supposedly scary little girl to kill a man. I just can't understand why horror films like to hype little girls. I mean, what can be less scary?

Hello! That was a spirit, not an actual little girl... Do you think that you, being the 250lb man that you are, can fight off a 50lb GHOST who CAME OUT OF A TV??? That is where the movie lost credibility?? Come on.

 

[AreaCode707]

Little girls aren't as scary as big girls. The Giggly Grinch

 

[0roo0roo]

Hello! That was a spirit, not an actual little girl... Do you think that you, being the 250lb man that you are, can fight off a 50lb GHOST who CAME OUT OF A TV??? That is where the movie lost credibility?? Come on.

oh come on, everyone knows little girls come out of tv's to kill all the time. its easy to fight their girly tactics of course then again i'm guessing many atoters could be owned by a 50lb girl

 

[Kadarin]

Why do they do that? Because it's damn creepy, that's why... Remember the twin girls from The Shining (original version)? When I first saw that movie as a kid, that was one of the creepier parts...

 

[MrDingleDangle]

wasnt poltergeist around a little girl too? i remember that being one of the scariest movies ive ever seen

anyone who says the ring is unbelievable can go to hell..dont go to a horror movie unless u are able to suspend reality...we have enough horror in the real world...we dont need to go to the theater to see horror that is possible, we can just turn on CNN for that....no movie is reality...get this through your head

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
wasnt poltergeist around a little girl too? i remember that being one of the scariest movies ive ever seen

anyone who says the ring is unbelievable can go to hell..dont go to a horror movie unless u are able to suspend reality...we have enough horror in the real world...we dont need to go to the theater to see horror that is possible, we can just turn on CNN for that....no movie is reality...get this through your head

He probably turned off CNN anyway cause he thought 9/11 was too unrealistic.

 

[acidvoodoo]

 

[SuperCyrix]

I still don't get it. So you guys are saying it's the two extremes that makes it scary? That you take the
most innocent looking thing and turn it into a monster makes it scary? Why is that scary? Somebody make the connection for me.


Ok, suppose it is a 50 lb ghost. Why wouldn't a 300lb ghost with flesh tearing claws be more scary? The whole movie was building up to that one point. And when I saw it, I was thinking huh? That little thing right there was causing all the trouble? And then they don't show how it did it.

 

[hdeck]

that little computer-simulated girl in Resident Evil was pretty scary too! *yikes*

 

I didn't really think about it, but you're right for the most part, it seems. There are a lot of horrour movies that I watched that had no kids in them at all, though. I used to looooove horrour movies when I was a kid. That's all I wanted to see . . . I just liked the thrill of being freightened. :Q Uhmm . . . I'm guessing that they often use kids because their audience consists of mostly kids. Perhaps kids can relate with their main characters being kids. It is also easier to get freightened that way.

Sadly, I don't enjoy horrour movies anymore.

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: HotChic
Little girls aren't as scary as big girls. The Giggly Grinch

Women are the root of all evil. Yet when they are little girls they are sugar and spice and every thing nice.

That's why fathers say "my sweet little girl and "my damn wife." sometimes in the same sentence.

I'm not sure when the change occures BUT I am guessing it at about 14 Years old

 

[0roo0roo]

think about it, its the perfect cover for evil if u had to assinate someone, would be great to be able to shape shift into a little girl. no one would suspect

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: SuperCyrix
I still don't get it. So you guys are saying it's the two extremes that makes it scary? That you take the
most innocent looking thing and turn it into a monster makes it scary? Why is that scary? Somebody make the connection for me.


Ok, suppose it is a 50 lb ghost. Why wouldn't a 300lb ghost with flesh tearing claws be more scary? The whole movie was building up to that one point. And when I saw it, I was thinking huh? That little thing right there was causing all the trouble? And then they don't show how it did it.

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I would have to say that a little girl's apparition murdering you with her mere thoughts is more scary than some stupid monster. Sure, if you're the one experiencing it, it's no different, but a 300lb ghost with claws is NOT haunting, it's just scary in a Scoobie Doo way.
Like I said before, it's an incongruity between the perception and the reality. The perception being a dead little girl, and the reality being a dead little girl that can kill you.
Also, claws are corporeal, a video tape and a phone call from beyond the grave are ethereal, and very disturbing.
ALSO, it's a child. Children are supposed to be innocent, yet this girl said that she liked to hurt people, and continued to do so after death.

Anyway, I can't believe anyone is actualy hung up on the fact that it's a 50lb girl and not a monster... It's a ghost for Christ's sake. Actually it has no weight, and her small size only makes it more frightening.

 

[Darien]

Replying to Thread: Are little girls suppose to be scary?

IMO...

The juxtaposition/contratss.

We generally see little girls as sweet, innocent and harmless. Almost symbolic of purity. There are countless works on having young females being represented as this.

In movies like The Ring, it is completely the opposite -- in the movie we see the girl as a character wielding great power and can be simplistically said as being the evil. Rather than seeing the light of day and running around outside in a garden, she was thrown into a metaphorical hell (the well. oh wow I made a rhyme.) that was surrounded by beauty.

Ultimately, the physical form was sealed up for a long time. While you can see a light in a shape of a ring in the movie, it is possible to interpret it as hope for revenge/escape. In other words, it is purgatory -- no hope in escaping, and your only comfort is that nothing more horrible will happen to you.

When the girl climbs out of the well, it's almost as if she's climbing out of hell.

 

[Darien]

Grrr...

I was going to go on with my post above, but then I started to read what people said...looks like Jellomancer beat me to it.

 

[Yeeny]

Are little girls suppose to be scary?

Try raising one, then you will know how scary they really can be.

:Q