A child crawls out of the forest, looking for help that will never come.  Instead he is skewered and beaten to death.  Because he didn’t have the conch.  Yep, that’s how Lord of the Flies worked.  Ok, so maybe not, but this was still a rather gruesome thing to read even as a high schooler.  The Hunger Games had a similar plight in word form as barbaric images depicting children/teens murdering others for survival/sport engrossed masses of readers.  But how exactly does this translate to screen? [Read more...]