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Relative Fear (1994)

Relative Fear poster
Directed by
George Mihalka
Genre
independent film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 34m
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A couple has a son who is autistic. The child seems to start killing people around him.

unsettlingdarktenseslow-burndisturbingpsychologicalcreepybleak

What happens

Relative Fear (also known as The Child and Le silence d'Adam) is a 1994 Canadian independent psychological horror film that references the 1956 film The Bad Seed. An autistic child is seemingly born to kill and does so. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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