Julia Kissina lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again: "I can see something you can't see." Particularly children are being metamorphosed, also by Hollywood directors working in the horror film genre, from their proverbial childlike innocence into small monsters. The genre is built upon suspense in which initially only slightly altered, irrational patterns of behaviour prepare the way for the protagonists' sudden decline, where the… more