There was a low budget movie about murderous feral children in the woods around a small town. It ends with the children's parents killing them all. It was a cartoonish horror movie and I was surprised the child actors were able to keep from smiling as they were killed in horrible ways.
But, at Cannes, a large audience was in a theater to see another Troma Team film. They showed the preview to the feral children movie and the entire audience walked out in disgust. The filmmakers had become so warped making their crappy horror movies that they had no idea they had gone too far.
During the making of the feral children movie, the filmmakers tried to shield the child actors from the violence and gore effects, but the kids loved that stuff and wanted to see it.
Didn't Henry Thomas from E.T. say that he went into acting because he wanted to be in Star Wars movies? I saw an early interview with poor Corey Haim who said his dream was to play Rambo's son who would help his Dad kill people.
I listened to the commentary on the DVD for Swoon, a New Gay Cinema film about Leopold and Loeb. The director tried to treat the kid playing murder victim Bobby Frank very gently, but the kid wanted them to be more violent and called for more fake blood while his mother stood back smoking a cigarette.
Anyway, I bring it up because Nolan Gould killing a man in a Civil War movie was deeply disturbing to any right-minded adult but was probably one of his happiest moments as an actor. For a brief instant, he was an action star.
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