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Shameka Clark

LEH 300

 

            In the article “Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep: A Brief History of Child Murder in Cinema”, Chris Eggertser the author discusses serial movies. In each movies he discusses there is a common thread between them. That thread is child murder in cinema. Eggertser presents an argument for why the films have success or lack’s success. What I believe Eggertser is trying to say in his article is films such as “M” and “The Believers” is much more than a scary film such as “A Nightmare on Elm Street” because they used the child murders as a viewpoint to show a broader view of the society. In the film “M” this was done by showing the different parts of the society such as the children, weeping mother, police, beggars, criminals, the poor, and the streets (community)where the story took place. Where as a film like “A Nightmare on Elm Street” is about killing, blood and guts. Films such as “The Lovely Bones” and “The Believers” are similar to “M” because it a base on a real concept of life and is about showing how the murders of the child/ren affected the people in the society. Films such as “A Nightmare on Elm Street” is the opposite, it uses the child murder as a base for the story, but don’t follow up on it. But instead use that base as a means to kill in a scary way with lots of blood involve.