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15 Horror Kids So Creepy You'll Avoid Parenthood Like The Plague
Samara in The Ring (2002)
She can literally pop out of the TV. She wears her hair in a style deliberately designed to make a person shudder. And if you watch her grainy, weird tape, you die. Enough said. (Photo: Paramount)
Charlene 'Charlie' McGee in Firestarter (1984)
Starring a young Drew Barrymore as the girl that, oh, you know, starts fires with the powers of her mind, this movie documents just that: A small child setting various people and things aflame, including (at one point) her own mother. (Photo: Universal)
Lucius in Lucius - Son of the Devil (Shiver Games, 2012)
The devil has a son, see, and the son goes on a quest to take over the world for his father. His first chore: Killing his entire family. Oh, and he's only six. (Photo: Shiver Games)
The Alien Horde Children in Village of the Damned (1995)
Directed by John Carpenter, the film revolves around ten California women in who become mysteriously pregnant. They then give birth to children who are really alien life forces bent on a reign of terror. (Photo: Universal)
Alice Liddell in Alice: Madness Returns (Electronic Arts, 2011)
Take the classic Alice In Wonderland story, but reimagine it as Lewis Carroll on a bad trip, and you get Alice: Madness Returns. This Alice is a former psychiatric patient who must go down the rabbit hole of Wonderland to heal her trauma and learn about her past. However, when she gets there, it's clear that Wonderland has been taken by an evil force, and Alice...well, let's just say she's not the Alice imagined by Disney. (Photo: Electronic Arts)
Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973)
In this horror film classic, Regan sets the bar for possessed children across moviedom. Her body taken by the devil, Regan scares the flaming Hades out of her family and the priests who come to wrest her soul back from darkness. (Photo: Warner Bros.)
Alma Wade in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Ok, Alma's creepy in all of the F.E.A.R. games, but in this one, she's the main antagonist. A powerful psychic, she's bent on revenge against the corporation that experimented on her. The thirst for vengeance is understandable, but man, she takes it reaaaalllly far. (Photo: Sierra Entertainment)
Issac Chroner in The Children of the Corn (1984)
The leader and preacher of a religious cult of children who don't believe in letting anyone over age 18 live, Issac is a kid not to mess with. He's the human rep for an evil god called "He Who Walks Behind Rows," and who orders all the children in his town to murder the adults. Which they then do. (Photo: Image Entertainment)
Danny and the Grady Twins in The Shining (1980)
In Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece based on the story by Stephen King, the twins are the ghosts of murdered little girls. and Danny is the kid who can hold long-distance conversations without the need for copper wires or wifi. He goes around croaking "Redrum," and then re-creating their deaths. Nope: Nothing unsettling about that at all. (Photo by: Warner Bros.)
The Little Sisters in Bioshock Series (2K Games, 2007)
They're mentally conditioned and genetically altered little girls who reclaim ADAM from dead bodies. Also, they resemble little zombies and they wield enormous syringes, so they end up looking like they're conducting the most twisted game of "doctor" any little kid has ever played. (Photo: 2K Games)
Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense (1999)
First, he sees the dead. Second, he plays in churches. Third, he talks like an adult (and dresses like one too--what child wears those 1950s kind of glasses? This was before hipsters, remember.) Children don't get much more uncanny than Haley Joel Osment's Cole in M. Night Shyamalan's unexpected hit. Luckily, he's on our side. (Photo: Hollywood Pictures)
Alessa Gillespie: The Silent Hill Series (Konami, 1999-2012)
A major catalyst behind the Silent Hill events, Alessa has had a terrible childhood--which probably accounts for her vindictiveness. Couple that with the incongruous schoolgirl outfit she wears in Origins, and this is one unsettling kid. (Photo: Konami Digital Entertainment)
Joshua Cairn in Joshua (2007)
There's sibling rivalry ... and then there's Joshua's psychopathic tantrum. Jealous of the attention his sister receives after she's born, he decides to terrorize his family to get revenge. (Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Damien Thorn in The Omen (1976)
Take a fatal childbirth, throw in a shady adoption by the American ambassador to Great Britain, and you get Damien. Oh, and he just happens to be the Antichrist. (Photo: 20th Century Fox)
The Bughuul Kids in Sinister (2011)
Possessed by an evil Babylonian god named (you guessed it) Bughuul, the children embark on killing sprees, murdering their families. They also make the massacres into snuff films. And one of them paints a lovely mural on the walls of her house with her dead family members' blood. Lovely, kids, just lovely. (Photo: Lionsgate)
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She can literally pop out of the TV. She wears her hair in a style deliberately designed to make a person shudder. And if you watch her grainy, weird tape, you die. Enough said. (Photo: Paramount)
Charlene 'Charlie' McGee in Firestarter (1984)
Starring a young Drew Barrymore as the girl that, oh, you know, starts fires with the powers of her mind, this movie documents just that: A small child setting various people and things aflame, including (at one point) her own mother. (Photo: Universal)
Lucius in Lucius - Son of the Devil (Shiver Games, 2012)
The devil has a son, see, and the son goes on a quest to take over the world for his father. His first chore: Killing his entire family. Oh, and he's only six. (Photo: Shiver Games)
The Alien Horde Children in Village of the Damned (1995)
Directed by John Carpenter, the film revolves around ten California women in who become mysteriously pregnant. They then give birth to children who are really alien life forces bent on a reign of terror. (Photo: Universal)
Alice Liddell in Alice: Madness Returns (Electronic Arts, 2011)
Take the classic Alice In Wonderland story, but reimagine it as Lewis Carroll on a bad trip, and you get Alice: Madness Returns. This Alice is a former psychiatric patient who must go down the rabbit hole of Wonderland to heal her trauma and learn about her past. However, when she gets there, it's clear that Wonderland has been taken by an evil force, and Alice...well, let's just say she's not the Alice imagined by Disney. (Photo: Electronic Arts)
Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973)
In this horror film classic, Regan sets the bar for possessed children across moviedom. Her body taken by the devil, Regan scares the flaming Hades out of her family and the priests who come to wrest her soul back from darkness. (Photo: Warner Bros.)
Alma Wade in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Ok, Alma's creepy in all of the F.E.A.R. games, but in this one, she's the main antagonist. A powerful psychic, she's bent on revenge against the corporation that experimented on her. The thirst for vengeance is understandable, but man, she takes it reaaaalllly far. (Photo: Sierra Entertainment)
Issac Chroner in The Children of the Corn (1984)
The leader and preacher of a religious cult of children who don't believe in letting anyone over age 18 live, Issac is a kid not to mess with. He's the human rep for an evil god called "He Who Walks Behind Rows," and who orders all the children in his town to murder the adults. Which they then do. (Photo: Image Entertainment)
Danny and the Grady Twins in The Shining (1980)
In Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece based on the story by Stephen King, the twins are the ghosts of murdered little girls. and Danny is the kid who can hold long-distance conversations without the need for copper wires or wifi. He goes around croaking "Redrum," and then re-creating their deaths. Nope: Nothing unsettling about that at all. (Photo by: Warner Bros.)
The Little Sisters in Bioshock Series (2K Games, 2007)
They're mentally conditioned and genetically altered little girls who reclaim ADAM from dead bodies. Also, they resemble little zombies and they wield enormous syringes, so they end up looking like they're conducting the most twisted game of "doctor" any little kid has ever played. (Photo: 2K Games)
Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense (1999)
First, he sees the dead. Second, he plays in churches. Third, he talks like an adult (and dresses like one too--what child wears those 1950s kind of glasses? This was before hipsters, remember.) Children don't get much more uncanny than Haley Joel Osment's Cole in M. Night Shyamalan's unexpected hit. Luckily, he's on our side. (Photo: Hollywood Pictures)
Alessa Gillespie: The Silent Hill Series (Konami, 1999-2012)
A major catalyst behind the Silent Hill events, Alessa has had a terrible childhood--which probably accounts for her vindictiveness. Couple that with the incongruous schoolgirl outfit she wears in Origins, and this is one unsettling kid. (Photo: Konami Digital Entertainment)
Joshua Cairn in Joshua (2007)
There's sibling rivalry ... and then there's Joshua's psychopathic tantrum. Jealous of the attention his sister receives after she's born, he decides to terrorize his family to get revenge. (Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Damien Thorn in The Omen (1976)
Take a fatal childbirth, throw in a shady adoption by the American ambassador to Great Britain, and you get Damien. Oh, and he just happens to be the Antichrist. (Photo: 20th Century Fox)
The Bughuul Kids in Sinister (2011)
Possessed by an evil Babylonian god named (you guessed it) Bughuul, the children embark on killing sprees, murdering their families. They also make the massacres into snuff films. And one of them paints a lovely mural on the walls of her house with her dead family members' blood. Lovely, kids, just lovely. (Photo: Lionsgate)
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