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You’ll be hard pressed to find a young girl more unsettling at the movies than Milly Shapiro as the forlorn Charlie, who may be channeling her dead grandmother…or worse. But enough tongue...
- The Bad Seed
- Village of The Damned
- Kill, Baby…Kill!
- Spider Baby
- Rosemary’s Baby
- The Other
- The Exorcist
- It’S Alive
- Alice, Sweet Alice
- Who Can Kill A Child?
In this horror classic that set the bar for Evil Little Girls in cinema, 11-year-old Patty McCormack stars as eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark, a prim schoolgirl with blonde pigtails who seems to be the picture of normality…that is, until the day a boy who beat her in a penmanship contest winds up drowned in a lake. After one horrific event after the n...
After a mysterious and inexplicable mass impregnation one night in a remote British village called Midwich, nine months later a dozen precocious children are born on the same day. As they age, the children—whose hair is snow-blonde and whose eyes have an odd tendency to suddenly start glowing—exhibit troubling characteristics such as telepathy and ...
In this early offering by Italian horror maestro Mario Bava, the villagers of a mountain town in Eastern Europe during the early 1900s are haunted by the ghost of a young girl who starts murdering townsfolk. It turns out that the girl was the seven-year-old daughter of a baroness and had been killed about a dozen years prior. Kill, Baby…Kill! was o...
A dark and moody black-and-white film about three orphaned siblings who live in a crumbling mansion and are all afflicted with “Merrye Syndrome,” a genetically transmitted disease that starts in early puberty and causes its victims to revert into childlike behavior. The film’s title is based on one of the three siblings, Virginia, who is infatuated...
In the first of several Satan-themed blockbusters featuring evil little children (the other notable entries are The Exorcist and The Omen, both covered below), Mia Farrow stars as Rosemary Woodhouse, a young Roman Catholic Manhattanite who moves along with her husband into a Gothic apartment building in spite of warnings that the building houses a ...
In the first of several evil-child horror films to feature a kid with Capgras syndrome—a delusion that one’s self has split off into an identical impostor—we see “identical twins” Holland and Niles Perry enjoying life on the family farm in the summer of 1935, only months after their father died in the farmhouse cellar. For most of the film it seems...
In one of the most famous horror films of all time, 12-year-old Linda Blair stars as Regan MacNeil, daughter of a single mom who begins playing with her Ouija boardand starts conversing with someone she calls “Captain Howdy.” Over the ensuing weeks and a series of medical tests that reveal nothing, it becomes obvious that Regan is demon-possessed a...
After taking contraceptives, Lenore Davis is horrified to learn that she has become pregnant with her second child. She is further horrified when the child, who is born with fangs and claws, kills the doctor and nurse who delivered him and escapes through a skylight, only to kill more people. Her husband Frank loses his own life in a fatal struggle...
In her first film appearance, Brooke Shields stars as a 9-year-old girl named Karen in New Jersey who is murdered at her first Holy Communion. Her 12-year-old sister, Alice, becomes the prime suspect in this as well as in a subsequent string of stabbings.
Released originally in Spanish as ¿Quién puede matar a un niño? and also in English as Island of the Damned, this Spanish horror film features an English couple who take an island vacation before the birth of their third child—only to realize that the island is solely populated by emotionless, murderous children. The couple then face the ethical di...
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- The Children Of The Corn (1984) – 35% Chances are that if somebody thinks about the "spooky kids" genre, they think of Children of the Corn. A doctor and his girlfriend find themselves trapped in a remote, Nebraska town run by a cult-like group of children that believe that everyone over the age of 18-years-old must die.
- Brightburn (2019) – 56% A humanoid alien crash lands on Earth as an infant, and is adopted by a loving, childless couple. Little Clark grows up as a Kansas farm boy with a wholesome family and lots of love, and eventually become America's super hero.
- The Bad Seed (1956) - 63% Despite the doting adoration of her father, a mother begins to suspect that her sweet-faced, happy girl may be more than just spoiled.
- The Children (2008) - 76% A family trip turns sinister in this British horror film, directed by Tom Shankland and starring Rachel Shelley (The L Word).
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- Regan MacNeil — 'The Exorcist' (1973) The Exorcist tells the terrifying tale of a young girl who becomes possessed by a demon and is forced to undergo an exorcism.
- Gage Creed — 'Pet Sematary' (1989) Pet Sematary may sound like it centers around the pets, but the film follows a family and their grief over the death of their young son, Gage (Miko Hughes).
- Jamie Lloyd — 'Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers' (1988) Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris) is said to be the orphaned daughter of Laurie Strode when Michael Myers came back home in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.
- Georgie Denbrough — 'It' (2017) Georgie's (Jackson Robert Scott) life came to a tragic end when he was Pennywise's first victim in It. After a creepy confrontation with the killer clown, Georgie reaches for his paper boat just for Pennywise to chomp off his arm before pulling the child down the drain, never to be seen again.
- Gage Creed - Pet Sematary (1989) While the 2019 remake of Pet Sematary doesn't stay true to Stephen King's source material, it's considered far scarier than the original film.
- Dalton - Insidious (2010) In the first Insidious film, Dalton is the focal point of the plot and yet barely in the movie. Towards the beginning, he falls into a coma, leading his parents to figure out what happened to him and uncovering another paranormal world.
- Kyra - The Sixth Sense (1999) The premise behind the movie The Sixth Sense is chilling enough, especially when it's a child having these experiences. However, the startling appearance of Kyra's sickly-looking ghost is another terror altogether.
- Karen Cooper - Night Of The Living Dead (1968) Night Of The Living Dead is an influential zombie movie, with many movies coming after it reflecting its themes and scare tactics.
Feb 26, 2019 · With her yellow eyes, rotting skin, and the most unnerving grimace you've ever seen, Regan MacNeil is easily the creepiest kid in cinema history. Check out our list of horror movies, starring 10 of the scariest kids in movie history. From possessions to angry spirits, these children haunt us.
Sep 3, 2023 · 10 Hyun-seo, 'The Host' (2006) Image via Showbox Entertainment. In 2006's South Korean creature-feature The Host, Hyun-seo ( Ko A-sung) proves herself a capable tween with brave survivor...
