Reaching the age of anxiety: the 1950s and the horror of youth -- Spoiled rotten: horror's bourgeois brats -- A scary sight: the looking child -- "The hand that rocks the cradle": the child villain's malignant mom -- Vicious videos, missing mothers: The ring -- Little bastards: patriarchy's errant offspring in It's alive and The omen -- Past incarnations: The exorcist and The tyranny of childhood -- All fun and games till someone gets hurt: hating children's culture -- Too close for comfort: child villainy and pedophilic desire in Hard candy and Orphan.
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