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I remember seeing this movie where the Blob kills a child and thinking how unusual that was. Is it possible that indeed on-screen deaths of children was very rare prior to this time and may have resulted in a more restrictive rating?
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No, it wasn't the first film:
There is quite a long article about the "Death of a child" trope. Let me bring just a few examples:
- Cross of iron (1977) R shows the death of child-soldiers
- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) R was quite famous for its brutality: In one of the scenes, the gang leader kills a little girl who was trying to buy ice creams from a truck
- Jaws (1975) PG: shark attacks and kills a boy on a raft
- Come drink with me (1966) (not rated in the US, from PG to 16+ in other countries): a boy-monk is killed via poisoned needle shot to his eye
- Once upon a time in the West (1968) PG-13: a boy is killed with his whole family
- Don't look now (1960) R: starts with a child drowning in a pond
- Canyon passage (1946) TV-PG: both mother and child killed on-screen by Indians
- Frankenstein (1931) TV-PG: the Monster throws a girl into a lake where she drowns.
- Country Doctor (1909) has a child dying of a mysterious illness
So while indeed it happens quite rarely it did happen before 1980.
The rating is a bit hard to find for older movies, and it is hard to say that a child's death has caused an increased rating. In the case of really old ones like Frankenstein or Canyon Passage, the answer would be "no", as they are close to the PG rating. Don't look now is famous for a very realistic sex scene which caused quite a scandal, the death of the girl probably had little to do with it. Assault... and Cross... are generally brutal and graphic, hence the rating, while Come drink... is a wuxia movie, so while it is brutal with many deaths, it did not get overly high restriction in most countries.
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When was the remake of The Blob?
The Blob is a 1988 American science fiction horror film co-written and directed by Chuck Russell. A remake of the 1958 film of the same name, it stars Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Paul McCrane, Art LaFleur, Robert Axelrod, Joe Seneca, Del Close and Candy Clark.What happened to The Blob remake?
In 2009 it was rumored that legendary horror director Rob Zombie was working on a remake of The Blob, but the project was unfortunately never made.What was The Blob made of 1988?
The Blob itself was made primarily out of silk Back in the 80s before CGI took off, movie special effects used more practical methods.Who died in The Blob?
List of deaths in The Blob- Old Man - Melted by Blob.
- Nurse Kate - Eaten by Blob.
- Dr. Hallen - Eaten by Blob.
- Mechanic - Eaten by Blob.
- Projectionist - Eaten by Blob.
- Movie Patron - Eaten by Blob.
- Movie Patron - Eaten by Blob.
- Movie Patron - Eaten by Blob.
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Answer 2
I add a number of films I have seen where one or more children die.
The Village of the Damned (1995)
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
Robocop 2 (1990)
Pet Cemetary (1989)
Children of the Corn (1984)
The Final conflict (1981)
Zulu Dawn (1979)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
What the Peeper Saw (1972)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
Soldier Blue (1970)
Sudden Terror/Eyewitness (1970)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
Tower of London (1962) https://moviechat.org/tt0056606/Tower-of-London/58c724625ec57f0478ed7087/The-Child-Princes-Possible-Spoilers?reply=5df2aa640f49722942728325&animate=false[1]
The Innocents (1961)
The Village of the damned (1960)
The Giant Gehemoth (1959) https://moviechat.org/tt0052611/The-Giant-Behemoth/58c706b84e1cf308b937c223/A-Grim-Aspect-of-this-Film?reply=5df2aa2d0f49722942728320&animate=false[2]
The Oregon Trail (1959): https://moviechat.org/tt0053145/The-Oregon-Trail/58c723465ec57f0478ec8e10/Unusually-violent-for-its-time[3]
The Bad Seed (1956)
The Yellow Tomahawk (1954)
Westward the Women (1951)
Tomahawk (1951)
Rocky Mountain (1950)
Tower of London (1939)
The Charg eo fthe Light Brigade (1936)
End of the Trail: (1932)
Frankenstein (1931)
It is quite possible there is at least one film where a child is seen dying onscreen for each of the more than 120 years that movies have been made.
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