tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192864462685926988.post4645107575446496312..comments2019-12-22T04:23:45.038-05:00Comments on League of Tana Tea Drinkers: Evil Kids in the Horror Genre: Why Do They Scare Us So Much?jmcozzolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816003842587967599noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192864462685926988.post-67627521442249252962008-09-10T19:11:00.000-04:002008-09-10T19:11:00.000-04:00Brings us back to the age-old question of Nature v...Brings us back to the age-old question of Nature versus Nurture, doesn't it? As chickens obviously come before eggs, so does Nature come before Nurture. But let us not dismiss the view of seers worldwide, and that is that we are not our own--we have been enslaved by something other than which wishes us to believe that we are at fault for our own wickedness, when the truth seems to be that we are Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09891617112920710966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192864462685926988.post-45690542863263693042008-07-13T09:11:00.000-04:002008-07-13T09:11:00.000-04:00Greatly enjoyed reading the thoughts of all partic...Greatly enjoyed reading the thoughts of all participants. For me, the most chilling spectre of childhood evil has to be little Melissa Graps from Mario Bava's Kill, baby...Kill! The errie score, Bava's wonderful lighting and those ghostly laughs and whispers all combine to make this child devil one of horror's most potent images.Steve Langtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00759586159893673244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192864462685926988.post-79444316089053133362008-07-10T16:28:00.000-04:002008-07-10T16:28:00.000-04:00One set of Scary Kids that always got to me was th...One set of Scary Kids that always got to me was the blond-haired space children in Village of the Damned. <BR/><BR/>They were scary because, unlike most kids who only THINK they know everything, these kids actually were smarter than you. Not supernatural in a spiritual sense, but born of alien influence, they could kill with a look, and often did.<BR/><BR/>The danger of Bill Mumy's Anthony from "Frederickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11868719487717506764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192864462685926988.post-5665858718847494982008-06-24T14:12:00.000-04:002008-06-24T14:12:00.000-04:00I think there's an older literary tradition to evi...I think there's an older literary tradition to evil kids - the sweet corrupted children of Henry James' "Turn of the Screw", LeFanu's charming young vampire Carmilla, the vengeful murdered child-ghosts of MR James' "Lost Hearts", Bram Stoker's extremely nasty pair in <A HREF="http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/bram-stoker/the-dualitists/" REL="nofollow">The Dualitists</A>, and all the folklore Tim Tylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08439716424119922516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192864462685926988.post-73096998643868338432008-06-13T09:08:00.000-04:002008-06-13T09:08:00.000-04:00I apologize in advance for being off-topic here, b...I apologize in advance for being off-topic here, but I heard about your website through Horror's Not Dead and was wondering if one of your many member sites could answer a question for me.<BR/><BR/>A while back, there was a horror website called Losman's Lair of Horror. Basically, it was a collection of horror movie lists, each with a short capsule review. I referred to Losman's lists quite J. Skel LaTourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09649267298318023298noreply@blogger.com