The Mary Sue
•
16th October 2018
7 Scream Queens Traumatized by Directors Who Made Them Famous
Ever since I watched Heather O’Rourke get sucked into the TV in Poltergeist, I’ve always wondered about child actors in horror movies. As a perpetual scaredy cat growing up, I struggled to see how the hell these kids coped on-set. Did they understand what was really going on around them? Did the grown-ups sugar-coat it to retain their innocence?
As a (sort-of) adult, I now love horror movies, but it took until I was in my 20s, working as an entertainment journalist, to realize that making a hor