Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Jul 10, 2009 14:01:24 GMT -5
***WARNING! MAJOR POTENTIAL SPOILER!!!!***
Okay, I'm not really into evil child movies, but they seem to come around every ten years or so. Most of them follow the conventions of the genre pretty strictly, and it's about the only time a film is allowed to kill a child. I don't usually watch them but they don't bother me much.
However, what I heard about this movie's twist is so horrible/stupid I must have it confirmed. Here we go:
The young girl, Esther, is not really a girl at all, BUT A MIDGET FORMER PROSTITUTE posing as a preadolescent in order to get the family's house and money!
If this is true, I don't know whether to be grossed out, horrified, enraged, or all three! Midgets and people with dwarfism are short and may have various medical problems, but they are NOT children and DO NOT look like children. Even for a horror/exploitation film this is really offensive--Ed Wood would have churned this out, read it over in an alcoholic haze, and said "nah, too weird." And keep in mind this isn't some European Germanic Art Film from the twenties, or even Night of the Creeps--it's a mainstream summer "popcorn" flick!
Has anyone actually seen this? Is this true? Because if it is... GROSS.
Okay, I'm not really into evil child movies, but they seem to come around every ten years or so. Most of them follow the conventions of the genre pretty strictly, and it's about the only time a film is allowed to kill a child. I don't usually watch them but they don't bother me much.
However, what I heard about this movie's twist is so horrible/stupid I must have it confirmed. Here we go:
The young girl, Esther, is not really a girl at all, BUT A MIDGET FORMER PROSTITUTE posing as a preadolescent in order to get the family's house and money!
If this is true, I don't know whether to be grossed out, horrified, enraged, or all three! Midgets and people with dwarfism are short and may have various medical problems, but they are NOT children and DO NOT look like children. Even for a horror/exploitation film this is really offensive--Ed Wood would have churned this out, read it over in an alcoholic haze, and said "nah, too weird." And keep in mind this isn't some European Germanic Art Film from the twenties, or even Night of the Creeps--it's a mainstream summer "popcorn" flick!
Has anyone actually seen this? Is this true? Because if it is... GROSS.
