Beyond the Creepy Child: The Katie Harwood Project
She’s a character in a horror story — Not a character of horror
The fictional character Katie Harwood is an often misunderstood and overlooked child figure in horror cinema. Although Katie fits horror structurally in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship, she resists horror ideologically.
This website serves as an investigative resource examining the distinctiveness of a layered character whose historical authenticity and preserved innocence provide meaning within a horror narrative without relying upon the usual corruption of childhood as a source of horror.
The Beyond the Creepy Child Project is intended as an accessible resource for curious viewers, film enthusiasts, students and scholars alike—Katie is a relatively small character, with unusually large interpretive possibilities.
This website is best viewed with a larger screen such as with a PC or tablet.