Stephen King, one of the greatest writers of all time, writes constantly about his childhood experience with horror media. This gives us an incredible impression on King. Some of his horror novels are related to the horror stories that he had heard and seen as a child. Things that are strange, dark, and terrifying are found very attractive to many children. Moreover, children are meant to be curious and their hearts are full of wonder. But the question is why. Why does children want to experience something that parents have denied them? Why dark stories are forbidden to children?
(I love creepy pictures btw)
Scholars and psychologist believes that horror fiction offers a form of release to all of the audience, not just for children. It is an outlet in which we have to face our anxieties. In children's media and stories have a lot of themes/common anxieties such as child abuse, parental abandonment, cannibalism, loss of identity, adults as villains, getting lost, and abduction.
The number one top main source of childhood nightmare is Disney films. In Snow White and The Seven Dwarves, it shows a scene where in the woods were very scary that Snow White was frightened and that she ran away. In Fantasia, Chernabog and his demons was jeopardize a small German town while it sleeps. And lastly in Pinocchio, the whole scene of Jackass transformation was creepy.
Disney films or any other children's media can provide kids a bit of film/animation history, but as we move up to Disney villains, it will introduce an idea of the corporatization of children's media.
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