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Jun 6, 2018 · But enough tongue clucking: we present this week’s gallery of the 24 creepiest kids from horror movie history. The Bad Seed (1956, 65%) A little angel that could contort into incinerating...
- Charlie, “Hereditary”
- Rhoda, “The Bad Seed”
- Adrian, “Rosemary’s Baby”
- Isaac, “Children of The Corn”
- Mercy and Jonas, “The Witch”
- Esther, “Orphan”
- The Grady Twins, “The Shining”
- Samara, “The Ring”
- Regan, “The Exorcist”
- Damien, “The Omen”
While young Charlie is ultimately a victim in Ari Aster’s instant-classic debut feature, “Hereditary,” she sure does make an eerie impression. Actress Milly Shapiro, in her first film role, imbues the troubled teen trope with a sense of otherworldly dread, rendering the character’s thousand-yard stares and periodic tongue-clicking genuinely creepy ...
Simultaneously ahead of its time and deeply of its time, 1956’s “The Bad Seed” hasn’t aged nearly as well as its villain. Arguably the prototype for every evil child since, Rhoda is an 8-year-old serial killer who hides her rage with a facade of pigtailed precociousness. Although the censors didn’t allow much violence apart from the drowning of ano...
We never see the Rosemary’s titular baby, which makes the hold the devil’s spawn has on both its traumatized mother and riveted viewers all the more impressive. The credit belongs to Mia Farrow, who manages to ground the horror classic’s heightened stakes (cultists in her apartment building grooming her unborn child to use in satanic rituals) in re...
This Stephen King adaptation was poorly received by critics at the time of release, however, its snot-nosed baddie endures. In a small rural town populated only by children, Isaac, a 12-year-old preacher, is the unofficial mayor, leading the miniature citizens in ritualistic slayings of adults. Isaac, played by John Franklin, is scarily charismatic...
In spite of all their little games and giggles, these kids are an unsettling element of an already incredibly unsettling movie. Over the course of Robert Eggers’s terrifying folkloric feature debut, it’s revealed that Mercy and Jonas have not only conspired to ruin their older sister Thomasin’s (Anya Taylor-Joy) life but that they’re tight with the...
You know you’ve got a creepy kid on your hands when adoption groups are concerned she’ll undo hundreds of years worth of goodwill toward orphans. Although it stirred up a little controversy, this film about a couple adopting a 9-year-old Russian orphan only to find that she’s really, in fact, a 33-year-old woman anda murderer was a modest box offic...
Despite possessing the least screen time on this list, the Grady twins have almost all of their kiddie contemporaries beat in terms of iconic status. Of the many spirits roaming the Overlook Hotel, these primly dressed little girls have the most memorable line, “Come play with us Danny, forever and ever, and ever,” as poor psychic Danny Torrance se...
Now that’s a face only a mother could love. Even if you’ve never seen this American remake (adapted from the 1998 Japanese film “Ringu”) you know that Samara is pure nightmare fuel. With her long stringy hair, terrifying grimace and fondness of creepy old wells, actress Daveigh Chase and director Gore Verbinski managed to make the character the stu...
“The Exorcist” is widely considered to be the scariest movie of all time. I’m not sure if that’s true, but the film is still a triumph nonetheless. Although Linda Blair, who was only 14 at the time of filming, certainly deserves her props, the unsung heroes behind this character are voice actor Mercedes McCambridge and makeup artist Dick Smith. Wha...
Although not as flashy in style as the bronze and silver medalists, Damien, the kid from the landmark ’70s film “The Omen,” is evil incarnate. Unlike Regan, who only commits atrocities while under the possession of a demon, Damien is quite literally the son of Satan. Damien acts in mysterious ways, with much of the terror coming from the way in whi...
The twins from Goodnight Mommy are tiny identical terrors. Unlike many horror movie kids who have a supernatural aspect to their creepiness, Elias in Goodnight Mommy is just a regular boy hanging ...
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- The Exorcist. At age 12, poor old Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) is just young enough to qualify for this list – and by far creepy enough to land at No. 1.
- The Ring. In The Ring, the obvious creepy kid would be Samara, the raven-haired ghoul who climbs out of TVs to murder folks whose only crime is having watched a video.
- Let the Right One In/Let Me In. Let the Right One In is the 2008 Swedish film about a 12-year-old boy named Oskar, who is bullied. But he meets up with a strange, somewhat androgynous child named Eli, around the same age, who urges him to fight back – and turns out to a be a vampire.
- The Omen (1976) The original The Omen is a horror classic for many reasons, with many memorable scenes. It’s altogether spooky, and one of the main reasons for that is that it all centers around this innocent looking boy whose mere presence often inspires unspeakable horrors.
Oct 24, 2023 · In most films, kids are precocious and harmless, which makes the juxtaposition of a horror movie kid truly jarring. Here are the scariest children in horror movie history.
Oct 19, 2022 · By Ashley Amber. Published Oct 19, 2022. You're going to want to steer clear of these creepy horror movie kids. The Grady Girls are some of the most memorable characters from The Shining and...
Feb 26, 2019 · The Bad Seed (1956) On the other end of the spectrum, creepiness doesn't always exist in the form of demons or ghosts—sometimes, it wears pigtails. Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) is obedient, polite, well-groomed, articulate and wise beyond her years.
