The horror genre often takes inspiration from real-life situations and fears to create terrifying premises. The complex theme of family trauma is not exactly among the most popular horror movie themes, but has been explored within the genre in many different ways throughout the decades. Some of the scariest things about this world is the fact that there are people who abuse their own children, there are people who disguise abuse as caring and there are abused children who grow up to become abusers as well. Naturally, some amazing horror movies take such a scary fact about the world to more disturbing levels by crafting a story around it.
Although generational trauma is a real experience, movies can explore the concept in many different ways that aren’t necessarily realistic. The People Under the Stairs and The Lodge are examples of psychological horror movies about trauma and abuse within a family that remain as realistic as possible despite taking fiction to an extreme scenario that reality rarely gets to. In contrast, the supernatural horror classic The Changeling imagines the ghost of an abused and murdered child tormenting a house’s new tenant. The abuse the child suffered in life at the hands of his own father is central to the plot development and becomes the ultimate reason behind the movie’s scares, so the father is the villain even though the ghost’s doings are what makes viewers scared. Family trauma is such a deeply complex topic, filmmakers often use fiction to create metaphors and provide different perspectives on the trauma with each character in hopes of better exploring it.
When at the Robesons house, Fool gets trapped inside. The Robesons are believed to be a couple because they call themselves Mommy and Daddy, and the movie quickly reveals they have a daughter named Alice whom they constantly abuse. As Fool tries to escape the bizarre antics of the couple and Daddy’s shotgun that had already killed the two adult robbers, he gets help from Alice and from the strange boys under the stairs. Later on, Fool learns Mommy and Daddy are siblings coming from a long line of inbred relatives and all the children in the house were stolen from their birth parents. Alice manages to suffer less abuse than the others by following the rules as best as she can, but all the children are heavily abused. The boys under the stairs are forced into cannibalism to survive and have never seen the sun or anything else from outside the basement.
The horror genre often takes inspiration from real-life situations and fears to create terrifying premises. The complex theme of family trauma is not exactly among the most popular horror movie themes, but has been explored within the genre in many different ways throughout the decades. Some of the scariest things about this world is the fact that there are people who abuse their own children, there are people who disguise abuse as caring and there are abused children who grow up to become abusers as well. Naturally, some amazing horror movies take such a scary fact about the world to more disturbing levels by crafting a story around it.
Although generational trauma is a real experience, movies can explore the concept in many different ways that aren’t necessarily realistic. The People Under the Stairs and The Lodge are examples of psychological horror movies about trauma and abuse within a family that remain as realistic as possible despite taking fiction to an extreme scenario that reality rarely gets to. In contrast, the supernatural horror classic The Changeling imagines the ghost of an abused and murdered child tormenting a house’s new tenant. The abuse the child suffered in life at the hands of his own father is central to the plot development and becomes the ultimate reason behind the movie’s scares, so the father is the villain even though the ghost’s doings are what makes viewers scared. Family trauma is such a deeply complex topic, filmmakers often use fiction to create metaphors and provide different perspectives on the trauma with each character in hopes of better exploring it.
When at the Robesons house, Fool gets trapped inside. The Robesons are believed to be a couple because they call themselves Mommy and Daddy, and the movie quickly reveals they have a daughter named Alice whom they constantly abuse. As Fool tries to escape the bizarre antics of the couple and Daddy’s shotgun that had already killed the two adult robbers, he gets help from Alice and from the strange boys under the stairs. Later on, Fool learns Mommy and Daddy are siblings coming from a long line of inbred relatives and all the children in the house were stolen from their birth parents. Alice manages to suffer less abuse than the others by following the rules as best as she can, but all the children are heavily abused. The boys under the stairs are forced into cannibalism to survive and have never seen the sun or anything else from outside the basement.
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