I brought this up in the thread about the new Don't be Afraid of the Dark movie, but it seems more and more common, from the trailers anyway because I don't see the movies that come out, in a lot of horro/suspense movies the main character is a child who knows something is wrong and nobody believes them. And this is nothing new, look at Invaders from Mars almost 60 years ago; but I think it's getting tired, I don't know the ratio of movies where it's a kid nobody believes vs. an adult nobody believes, but I think it's more challenging and a bit more terrifying when it's a grown, logical, rational adult that everybody is suddenly questioning.
We were all kids and had that fear of nobody, not even our parents believing us about something, but a part of that is, I think, as kids, at least it seems, that you have to be of a certain age before people will believe you. The next step is what happens when you are that age and still people think you're making stuff up? There was a movie in the 40s or 50s called The Window about a 12 year old boy who witnessed a murder and nobody believed him, I never saw the whole thing but it reminded me a bit of Rear Window, even though Jeffries never actually SAW the murder, the problem was still there, nobody believed him, they had a rational explanation for everything he saw.
What's everybody else's take on this?
We were all kids and had that fear of nobody, not even our parents believing us about something, but a part of that is, I think, as kids, at least it seems, that you have to be of a certain age before people will believe you. The next step is what happens when you are that age and still people think you're making stuff up? There was a movie in the 40s or 50s called The Window about a 12 year old boy who witnessed a murder and nobody believed him, I never saw the whole thing but it reminded me a bit of Rear Window, even though Jeffries never actually SAW the murder, the problem was still there, nobody believed him, they had a rational explanation for everything he saw.
What's everybody else's take on this?
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