For our purposes, the devil will stand for all manner of evil. That aside, Case 39 is “the devil is after your daughter” variety of the CLWG (creepy little white girl) lore. Ferland is now a creepy little white teenager as seen in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The merits of Case 39 are somewhat called into question by the repeated delays. It spoke to a very human fear that you cannot trust what you see and that the devil is, indeed, in a Sunday hat. The Bad Seed presented the idea that even what appears to be perfect could in fact be the harbinger of darkness and ill-will. Yet, a feeling of misalignment existed beneath that image, a sense of harsher realities that did not mesh with the status quo. America in the fifties presented itself as clean-cut, sanitized, and well-mannered. “Creepy little white girls” (or boy as the case may be) represent a different subconscious fear - the fear that all is not as it appears. 3) Said virgin is subsequently murdered (or sought again) in the sequel after she has likely made the mistake of giving it up.2) Virgin girl prevails in the end to defeat the beast-like male sexuality.1) Relentless, often silent, and odd male stalker uses phallic weaponry to punish sexualized youth.They are at times highly moralizing tales, as with the slasher films of the seventies and eighties, all of which followed a now-familiar pattern: Horror movies often speak to deeper cultural issues or subconscious fears. In fact, little Patty McCormack's portrayal of Rhoda Penmark created so much of a stir that it earned her an Academy Award nomination. This film may feel just a tad dated now, but at the time it offered a startling vision of what might lay beneath the appearance of innocence. The tendency began with the September 1956 release of the film about the child that is now the most iconic “creepy little white girl” of all, The Bad Seed. I decided to investigate this supposed trend, and while it is not always in the Fall, there does seem to be a predilection for releases of “creepy little white girl” movies. In addition, one dark and stormy evening this week, another dear friend moanfully lamented that, “ it seems like every year around fall some movie comes out with a creepy little girl.” Of course, upcoming films like The Last Exorcism, Case 39 and Let Me In only further this assertion.Įureka! Or, “ Huh…that’s weird," as the case may be. Last week, one of my best friends decided to “lovingly” refer to me as the “creepy little white girl” from the George Lopez show (more on how I pick my friends later).
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