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Movies starring kids that other kids shouldn’t see? Enter and discover what this list that Smash proposes you to see is about.
In the age of the internet and social media, children are exposed to graphic violence everywhere. We know that this has forged in many of them a character that is proof of disturbing scenes. However, there are a handful of movies starring children that may still have the ability to impress other minors, either through the graphic violence or the psychological violence that underlies their plots. These are the Best Movies Starring Kids That Other Kids Shouldn’t See.
zombie land (2009)
This is not just another movie about zombie apocalypse. It is a story of survivors amid the walking dead filled with big words, persecutions, cruel jokes and poignant deaths that make you laugh. All these are sufficient reasons for zombie land may be one of the best zombie movies ever, but one that no child should see.
The Good Son (1993)
After filming my poor little angel, Macaulay Culkin continued his career with this suspense film where the actor was shown as a bad and dangerous boy. Culkin, a full-fledged psychopathic child, gives us jewels of a lot of violence: he eliminates a dog with a nail gun, throws a human doll into traffic to cause a massive car collision, tries to drown his sister in a pond, causing end up in a coma A little gem that teaches us that children can be… very bad.
Leon: The Professional (1994)
Leon: The professional, from 1994, stars a very young Natalie Portman years before she became a star. On the tape we go to the strange relationship between a hired killer and a girl. There are really disturbing scenes like those in which Portman smokes or puts a gun to his head. Entertaining, dark, and outrageous, León: The Professional is one of the most accomplished thrillers of the ’90s.
The Exorcist (1973)
A girl possessed by the devil who levitates, spits out green vomit and sticks a crucifix in her vagina. This mix of scenes are some of the ones that made The Exorcist one of the scariest movies of all time. Its protagonist was a 12-year-old girl, which made the story even more disturbing and sad. There is no doubt that, despite being 50 years old, this film still has the ability to frighten more than one person.
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The Omens (1979)
On this tape, one of the icons of the satanist cinema of all times, there is no graphic violence, blood or similar elements. It’s the story of the birth of the Antichrist, which already makes it creepy. There is a really terrifying scene in which the babysitter of damian, the child protagonist of the tape, hangs from the top of a building. The Prophecy is a horror classic that stands the test of time as one of the most haunting movies of the 1970s.
Child´s Play (1988)
A cute and friendly toy comes to life through a supernatural ritual and begins to kill. That is more or less the well-known plot of Chucky, the devilish doll, a classic horror and slasher movie from the 80s. Andy, owner of Chucky, is the one who knows the dark secret of his doll, and that makes us feel concern and horror for the fate of the child throughout the film. An inevitable title in any list of movies starring children that other children should not see.
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Although The Pan’s Labyrinth be a film inspired by the fairy tales, clearly not a story for impressionable children. The film follows Ofelia and her mother as they arrive at the headquarters of her new stepfather, a military captain, in the Spanish countryside of 1944. Ofelia ends up finding a spooky and magical world inside an ancient labyrinth thanks to a fairy who drive there. the tape Guillermo del Toro It is full of brutal scenes in both the realistic and supernatural realms.
Who can kill a child? (1976)
This spanish horror movie features an English couple vacationing on an island before the birth of their third child. Upon arrival, they realize that the island is populated solely by murderous children who are capable of turning other minors into the same thing just by seeing them. The couple then faces the ethical dilemma whether they should start killing them to save themselves. A terrifying film with one of the most tense endings in horror movies of all time and in films starring children that other children should not see.
What other movies with children as protagonists do you know that are not suitable for other minors?
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