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| Relative Fear | |
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| Directed by | George Mihalka |
| Written by | Kurt Wimmer |
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| Cinematography | Rodney Gibbons |
| Edited by | Ion Webster |
| Music by | Marty Simon |
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Running time | 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.
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]
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