80s Movie with a mutilated child
This terrified me. When I was a child, somewhere between 1989 and 1991, I'm sitting on the couch with my mom and cousin and my mom starts panicking and telling my dad to "turn it." He was right by the TV.
My dad was either really slow at this or not taking my mom seriously because a second or two later there's an image of a child with his bottom torso gone, like it had been ripped off of him with some blood and guts.
My cousin and I scream. My mom shrieks for my dad to "turn it Mike!" and he finally does.
I've always wondered what that movie was. The only details I can remember about that scene was that the lighting was dark and the kid was laying down, maybe on a bed or something and there's a close-up of some adult space, a guy with black hair and I think black facial hair as well. He looks sullen and sad.
I've wondered what this movie was for the last nearly 40 years. Maybe somebody can finally answer it for me. I think we had HBO as well, though it could have been a VHS tape my dad left in the machine.