Relative Fear Explained

Relative Fear
Director:George Mihalka
Music:Marty Simon
Cinematography:Rodney Gibbons
Editing:Ion Webster
Runtime:90-94 minutes
Country:Canada
Language:English

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.

Cast

Reception

In the book Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination, Stuart Murray describes the film as "the worst kind of example of the prosthetic narrative, where the idea of disability simply becomes part of a genetic method". He states that there is "little recognizably autistic in anything Adam does"[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Murray, Stuart. Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination. Liverpool University Press. 2008. 127. 9781846310911.