In-depth Study of Children’s Images in Works of Audiovisual Art in the Genre of Horror

In 2023, the publishing centre of the Kyiv University of Culture published an interesting and perhaps unusual mono­graph by Khrystyna Batalina entitled The Child as the Embodiment of Evil in Horror Films of the Twentieth and Twenty- First Centuries. This scholar’s study of children’s images in the world and Ukrainian works of audiovisual art in the horror genre will help to reveal the deep aspects of human psychology and cul­tural stereotypes associated with the depiction of children in horror films as the embodiment of evil and its acciden­tal carriers. While babies are mostly as­sociated with innocence and safety, they can also sometimes represent threat and fear, particularly in the context of verbal and on-screen narratives.