Relative Fear

Relative Fear
VHS cover
Directed byGeorge Mihalka
Written byKurt Wimmer
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRodney Gibbons
Edited byIon Webster
Music byMarty Simon
Distributed by
Release date
  • 1994 (1994)
Running time
90-94 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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"

References

  1. ↑ Murray, Stuart (2008). Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination. Liverpool University Press. p. 127. ISBN 9781846310911.