Evil Children

by krakanova | created - 11 Aug 2011 | updated - 5 months ago | Public

Has been a thread through films since The Bad Seed (1956). Almost one every year. Would appreciate knowing about any more

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1. Goodnight Mommy (2014)

R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

81 Metascore

Twin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don't recognize.

Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest, Hans Escher

Votes: 59,800 | Gross: $1.17M

2. Goodnight Mommy (2022)

R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

45 Metascore

Twin brothers arrive at their mother's house and begin to suspect that something isn't right.

Director: Matt Sobel | Stars: Naomi Watts, Cameron Crovetti, Nicholas Crovetti, Peter Hermann

Votes: 14,890

3. Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)

Unrated | 102 min | Drama, Horror

Two bored Catholic schoolgirls spending summer in the countryside decide to become Satanists, and begin committing a series of morbid and increasingly dangerous crimes.

Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wagener, Bernard Dhéran, Gérard Darrieu

Votes: 2,734

Don't Deliver Us from Evil

4. Bad Ronald (1974 TV Movie)

Unrated | 74 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, then he falls for one of the new residents.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman

Votes: 2,413

5. Little Otik (2000)

TV-14 | 132 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

74 Metascore

A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový

Votes: 6,877 | Gross: $0.12M

Little Otik

6. Heavenly Creatures (1994)

R | 99 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

86 Metascore

Two teenage girls share a unique bond; their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent

Votes: 67,422 | Gross: $3.05M

7. The Omen (1976)

R | 111 min | Horror, Mystery

62 Metascore

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens, David Warner

Votes: 132,658 | Gross: $4.27M

8. Damien: Omen II (1978)

R | 107 min | Horror

45 Metascore

Damien the Antichrist, now about to turn thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.

Directors: Don Taylor, Mike Hodges | Stars: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth

Votes: 35,910 | Gross: $3.88M

9. It's Alive (1974)

PG | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

72 Metascore

The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever it is scared. And it is easily scared.

Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan, Guy Stockwell

Votes: 8,979

10. The Strangers (2008)

R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

47 Metascore

A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.

Director: Bryan Bertino | Stars: Scott Speedman, Liv Tyler, Gemma Ward, Alex Fisher

Votes: 143,692 | Gross: $52.60M

11. It Lives Again (1978)

R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An epidemic of monster babies sweeps across America.

Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd, John P. Ryan, John Marley

Votes: 2,649

12. The Children (1980)

R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.

Director: Max Kalmanowicz | Stars: Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers, Gale Garnett, Shannon Bolin

Votes: 2,751

13. The Children (2008)

R | 84 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.

Director: Tom Shankland | Stars: Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield, Rachel Shelley

Votes: 19,034

14. Tamami: The Baby's Curse (2008)

100 min | Horror

As a teenager, Yoko discovers that she is not really an orphan when her wealthy but very strange family welcomes her home to a mansion that many claim is haunted.

Director: Yûdai Yamaguchi | Stars: Nako Mizusawa, Goro Noguchi, Takumi Saitô, Itsuji Itao

Votes: 282

Tamami: The Baby's Curse

15. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)

R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.

Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador | Stars: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo, Miguel Narros

Votes: 8,033

Who Can Kill a Child?

16. Come Out and Play (I) (2012)

R | 87 min | Horror

44 Metascore

A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present - an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality.

Director: Makinov | Stars: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vinessa Shaw, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Gerardo Taracena

Votes: 3,410

17. Peopletoys (1974)

R | 88 min | Horror

After five deranged children are involved in a bus wreck they start killing people at the lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.

Directors: Sean MacGregor, David Sheldon | Stars: Sorrell Booke, Gene Evans, Taylor Lacher, Joan McCall

Votes: 1,897

Devil Times Five

18. The Brood (1979)

R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

63 Metascore

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman

Votes: 34,330

19. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

PG | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

53 Metascore

A thirteen-year-old girl, who lives with her absentee father, befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbor.

Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman

Votes: 18,094

20. The Other (1972)

PG | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

65 Metascore

A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky

Votes: 6,984 | Gross: $0.48M

21. Grace (III) (2009)

R | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

52 Metascore

After losing her unborn child, Madeline Matheson insists on carrying the baby to term. Following the delivery, the child miraculously returns to life with an appetite for human blood. Madeline is faced with a mother's ultimate decision.

Director: Paul Solet | Stars: Jordan Ladd, Samantha Ferris, Gabrielle Rose, Stephen Park

Votes: 8,230 | Gross: $0.01M

22. Orphan (2009)

R | 123 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

42 Metascore

A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder

Votes: 252,525 | Gross: $41.60M

23. Village of the Damned (1960)

Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

77 Metascore

In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.

Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn

Votes: 19,142

24. Home Movie (II) (2008)

R | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

In the remote woods of Upstate New York, David and Clare Poe are attempting to live an idyllic life. However, their twin children's bizarre behavior might just tear the family apart.

Director: Christopher Denham | Stars: Lucian Maisel, Cady McClain, Adrian Pasdar, Amber Joy Williams

Votes: 4,841

25. Eskalofrío (2008)

Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Thriller

Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy, isolated village in the mountains of ... See full summary »

Director: Isidro Ortiz | Stars: Junio Valverde, Francesc Orella, Mar Sodupe, Jimmy Barnatán

Votes: 3,483

Shiver

26. Village of the Damned (1995)

R | 98 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

41 Metascore

A small town's women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Paré

Votes: 34,255 | Gross: $9.42M

27. Mikey (1992)

R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

A seemingly sweet and innocent little boy causes murder and mayhem in his new neighborhood and falls for the teenage girl next door.

Director: Dennis Dimster | Stars: Brian Bonsall, Josie Bissett, Ashley Laurence, Mimi Craven

Votes: 3,283

28. The Final (I) (2010)

R | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

An awkward student with a deadly vendetta leads a group of outcasts who plot to avenge the years of humiliation they faced by the popular students at Hohn High School.

Director: Joey Stewart | Stars: Marc Donato, Jascha Washington, Whitney Hoy, Justin Arnold

Votes: 12,000

29. The White Ribbon (2009)

R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

84 Metascore

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 77,677 | Gross: $2.22M

The White Ribbon

30. The Boys Next Door (1985)

R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

66 Metascore

Roy and Bo leave their small California town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to Los Angeles. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen, Patti D'Arbanville, Christopher McDonald

Votes: 3,618

31. Case 39 (2009)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

25 Metascore

A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected.

Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Ian McShane, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley Cooper

Votes: 93,359 | Gross: $13.25M

32. Little Criminals (1996 TV Movie)

91 min | Crime, Drama

Des is an eleven year old kid who has had a really bad deal in life. Crime and mischief are the main staples of his life and he and his friends cruise around the city and do things like ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Surjik | Stars: Brendan Fletcher, Myles Ferguson, Adam Harrison, Jordan Clarke

Votes: 798

33. Children of the Damned (1964)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

42 Metascore

Six impossibly intelligent children from all over the world with dangerous psychic powers hide in a church in England after the military tries to experiment on them. Besieged, they warn the military to back off before carnage ensues.

Director: Anton Leader | Stars: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke

Votes: 5,023 | Gross: $1.00M

Children of the Damned

34. Whisper (I) (2007)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.

Director: Stewart Hendler | Stars: Jennifer Shirley, Blake Woodruff, Michael Rooker, Josh Holloway

Votes: 10,064

35. El rey de la montaña (2007)

R | 90 min | Thriller

Two strangers run from unknown assailants that stalk them through the woods.

Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, María Valverde, Thomas Riordan, Andrés Juste

Votes: 3,419

36. Closer to God (2014)

81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

54 Metascore

A genetic scientist successfully clones the first human being, a baby girl named Elizabeth, but his work is soon threatened by a dark secret, a secret that threatens to destroy everything and everyone precious to him.

Director: Billy Senese | Stars: Jeremy Childs, Shelean Newman, Shannon Hoppe, David Alford

Votes: 1,104

37. Joshua (2007)

R | 106 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

69 Metascore

The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua (Kogan), an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.

Director: George Ratliff | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Jacob Kogan, Celia Weston

Votes: 13,517 | Gross: $0.48M

38. The Good Son (1993)

R | 87 min | Drama, Thriller

45 Metascore

A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle and becomes friends with his cousin, a boy of the same age who shows increasing signs of violent and psychopathic behavior.

Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood, Wendy Crewson, David Morse

Votes: 45,771 | Gross: $44.59M

39. The New Daughter (2009)

PG-13 | 108 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A single father moves his two children to rural South Carolina, only to watch his daughter exhibit increasingly strange behavior.

Director: Luiso Berdejo | Stars: Kevin Costner, Ivana Baquero, Samantha Mathis, Gattlin Griffith

Votes: 16,133

40. The Daisy Chain (2008)

R | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.

Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh, Mhairi Anderson, David Bradley

Votes: 1,608

41. Child's Play (1988)

R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller

58 Metascore

A struggling single mother unknowingly gifts her son a doll imbued with a serial killer's consciousness.

Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif

Votes: 116,802 | Gross: $33.24M

42. Child's Play 2 (1990)

R | 84 min | Horror, Thriller

37 Metascore

While Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.

Director: John Lafia | Stars: Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise

Votes: 57,688 | Gross: $28.50M

43. Child's Play 3 (1991)

R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller

27 Metascore

Chucky returns for revenge against Andy, the young boy who defeated him, and now a teenager living in a military academy.

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, Jeremy Sylvers, Travis Fine

Votes: 46,202 | Gross: $14.96M

44. Bride of Chucky (1998)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

48 Metascore

Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.

Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile

Votes: 64,270 | Gross: $32.40M

45. Seed of Chucky (2004)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

46 Metascore

Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their innocent gender-confused child, Glen/Glenda, and hit Hollywood, where a movie depicting the killer dolls' murder spree is underway.

Director: Don Mancini | Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, John Waters, Billy Boyd

Votes: 49,898 | Gross: $17.08M

46. Curse of Chucky (2013)

R | 97 min | Horror, Thriller

58 Metascore

After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to recent bloodshed and chaos.

Director: Don Mancini | Stars: Chantal Quesnelle, Fiona Dourif, Jordan Gavaris, Danielle Bisutti

Votes: 43,608 | Gross: $3.80M

47. Cult of Chucky (2017)

R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller

69 Metascore

Chucky returns to terrorize his human victim, Nica. Meanwhile, the killer doll has some scores to settle with his old enemies, with the help of his former wife.

Director: Don Mancini | Stars: Allison Dawn Doiron, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Fiona Dourif

Votes: 29,782

48. F (2010)

R | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A group of teachers must defend themselves from a gang of murderous youths when their school comes under siege after hours.

Director: Johannes Roberts | Stars: David Schofield, Eliza Bennett, Ruth Gemmell, Finlay Robertson

Votes: 4,205

49. Wake Wood (2009)

R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.

Director: David Keating | Stars: Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall, Ella Connolly

Votes: 8,825

50. The Bad Seed (1956)

Approved | 129 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

51 Metascore

Rhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Gage Clarke, Jesse White

Votes: 15,779

51. The Bad Seed (2018 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A father is forced to question everything he thought he knew about his daughter when he believes that she might have played a role in the tragic death of one of her classmates.

Director: Rob Lowe | Stars: Rob Lowe, Mckenna Grace, Sarah Dugdale, Marci T. House

Votes: 3,683

7/10 Awesome made for television remake! Good job Rob Lowe

52. Them (2006)

R | 77 min | Horror, Thriller

60 Metascore

Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.

Directors: David Moreau, Xavier Palud | Stars: Olivia Bonamy, Michaël Cohen, Adriana Mocca, Maria Roman

Votes: 32,086

53. Elephant (2003)

R | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

70 Metascore

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Elias McConnell, Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson

Votes: 97,282 | Gross: $1.23M

54. Zero Day (2002)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama

69 Metascore

Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school.

Director: Ben Coccio | Stars: Cal Robertson, Andre Keuck, Serataren Adragna, Melissa Banks

Votes: 4,788 | Gross: $0.01M

55. Finders Keepers (2014 TV Movie)

R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A divorced mother of one is thrown into turmoil when her young daughter becomes obsessed with an evil doll left behind by the previous occupants of their new home.

Director: Alexander Yellen | Stars: Jaime Pressly, Patrick Muldoon, Tobin Bell, Marina Sirtis

Votes: 3,543

2/10 Bad

56. Party 85 (2015)

5 min | Short, Horror, Thriller

It is the summer of 1985, and a suburban house party is in full flow. Upstairs and unable to sleep, a young boy and his baby sister decide to do something about the noise.

Director: Dan Auty | Stars: Annemarie Cancienne, Chris Huebner, Michael McVey

8/10 short

57. Cooties (2014)

R | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

49 Metascore

A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.

Directors: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion | Stars: Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, Jack McBrayer

Votes: 28,584 | Gross: $0.06M

58. The Boy (I) (2015)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

45 Metascore

An intimate portrait of a 9-year-old sociopath's growing fascination with death.

Director: Craig William Macneill | Stars: David Morse, Jared Breeze, Rainn Wilson, Bill Sage

Votes: 5,746

59. The Children's Hour (1961)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance

49 Metascore

A rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins

Votes: 18,410

60. Poison for the Fairies (1986)

90 min | Fantasy, Horror

A 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.

Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada | Stars: Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa María Gutiérrez, Leonor Llausás, Carmen Stein

Votes: 2,564

61. The Exorcist (1973)

R | 122 min | Horror

83 Metascore

When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 455,169 | Gross: $232.91M

62. The Other Side of the Door (2016)

R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller

41 Metascore

After her young son is killed in a tragic accident, a woman learns of a ritual which will bring him back to say goodbye, but when she disobeys a sacred warning, she upsets the balance between life and death.

Director: Johannes Roberts | Stars: Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sisto, Sofia Rosinsky, Logan Creran

Votes: 19,248 | Gross: $2.99M

63. Pet Sematary (2019)

R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

57 Metascore

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discover a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home.

Directors: Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer | Stars: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jeté Laurence

Votes: 98,577 | Gross: $54.72M

64. Pet Sematary (1989)

R | 103 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

38 Metascore

After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.

Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Brad Greenquist

Votes: 115,081 | Gross: $57.47M

65. Robert (2015)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

In this chilling story based on real life events a family experience terrifying supernatural occurrences when their son acquires a vintage doll called Robert.

Director: Andrew Jones | Stars: Suzie Frances Garton, Lee Bane, Flynn Allen, Judith Haley

Votes: 2,890

2/10 awful wife and husband drama. avoid

66. Before I Wake (2016)

PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

68 Metascore

A couple adopt an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Jacob Tremblay, Annabeth Gish

Votes: 51,775

67. My Guardian Angel (2016)

Not Rated | 100 min | Thriller

Twin sisters Hannah and Angel, have always been very close to each other, but after Angel's death, Hannah is about to experience a completely new type of bonding with her beloved sister.

Director: Mumtaz Yildirimlar | Stars: Maria Figgins, Petra Bryant, Adrian Annis, Tova Leigh

Votes: 674

68. The Boy (2016)

PG-13 | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

42 Metascore

An American nanny is shocked that her new English family's boy is actually a life-sized doll. After she violates a list of strict rules, disturbing events make her believe that the doll is really alive.

Director: William Brent Bell | Stars: Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, James Russell, Jim Norton

Votes: 101,879 | Gross: $35.82M

69. The Space Children (1958)

Approved | 69 min | Sci-Fi

An alien intelligence aborts the launching of a rocket with the help of a bunch of children.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Michel Ray, Adam Williams, Peggy Webber, Johnny Washbrook

Votes: 1,413

70. Ominous (2015 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror

Michael and Rachel are devastated when their six-year-old son dies in a tragic accident. When a stranger offers to bring the boy back to life, they take the offer. However, the child who returns is not the child they once knew.

Director: Peter Sullivan | Stars: Barry Watson, Esmé Bianco, Gavin Lewis, Mark Lindsay Chapman

Votes: 606

2/10 The garbage Omen

71. A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A man and his son vacation to the quiet vampire populated town of Salem's Lot.

Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Samuel Fuller, Ricky Addison Reed, Andrew Duggan

Votes: 4,568

72. Offspring (2009)

R | 79 min | Horror

Against the backdrop of grisly murders and child abductions, a clan of cannibalistic savages which plague the North-east Coast since 1858, is after an unsuspecting family and their innocent baby girl. Do they have what it takes to survive?

Director: Andrew van den Houten | Stars: Jessica Butler, Kelly Carey, Holter Graham, T.J. Graye

Votes: 3,095

73. Children of the Corn (1984)

R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

45 Metascore

A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.

Director: Fritz Kiersch | Stars: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin

Votes: 57,355 | Gross: $14.57M

74. Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992)

R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

18 Metascore

A journalist and his son travel to Nebraska to investigate the mysterious town of Gatlin where, unbeknownst to them, a murderous cult of children are still waiting in the corn fields.

Director: David Price | Stars: Terence Knox, Paul Scherrer, Ryan Bollman, Christie Clark

Votes: 9,527 | Gross: $6.98M

75. Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)

R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

Two brothers connected to the murderous children's cult of Gatlin, Nebraska are taken to Chicago by an adoptive couple.

Director: James D.R. Hickox | Stars: Daniel Cerny, Ron Melendez, Jim Metzler, Nancy Lee Grahn

Votes: 8,373

76. Children of the Corn: The Gathering (1996 Video)

R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller

A nurse returns to her hometown in Nebraska, only to find that the town's children have fallen under a mysterious mass illness connected to its sinister past.

Director: Greg Spence | Stars: Naomi Watts, Jamie Renée Smith, Karen Black, Mark Salling

Votes: 5,374

77. Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999 Video)

R | 82 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

As a teenage girl comes to Gatlin to find her biological mother, the town's infamous cult plots a comeback as their leader, Isaac, awakens from a coma.

Director: Kari Skogland | Stars: Natalie Ramsey, Gary Bullock, Alix Koromzay, Stacy Keach

Votes: 4,903

78. Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001 Video)

R | 82 min | Horror, Thriller

When a girl named Jamie repeatedly tries to contact her grandmother to no avail, she investigates by going to her apartment in Omaha Nebraska....only to find that it's been condemned and ... See full summary »

Director: Guy Magar | Stars: Claudette Mink, Kyle Cassie, Michael Ironside, Troy Yorke

Votes: 3,221

79. Children of the Corn (2009 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

While traveling, an unhappy married couple encounter a cult of murderous children who worship an entity called He Who Walks Behind the Rows.

Director: Donald P. Borchers | Stars: Robert Gerdisch, Jordan Schmidt, David Anders, Kandyse McClure

Votes: 6,445

80. Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011)

R | 80 min | Horror, Thriller

A young couple try to free an imprisoned child with catastrophic results.

Director: Joel Soisson | Stars: J.J. Banicki, Diane Peterson, Kai Caster, Kelen Coleman

Votes: 3,774

81. Children of the Corn: Runaway (2018 Video)

Not Rated | 82 min | Horror

The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an ... See full summary »

Director: John Gulager | Stars: Marci Miller, Jake Ryan Scott, Sara Moore, Mary Kathryn Bryant

Votes: 1,385

82. Prevenge (2016)

TV-MA | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

71 Metascore

Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way.

Director: Alice Lowe | Stars: Alice Lowe, Dan Renton Skinner, Jo Hartley, Tom Davis

Votes: 8,617

83. Super Dark Times (2017)

Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

75 Metascore

Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.

Director: Kevin Phillips | Stars: Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Amy Hargreaves

Votes: 25,635 | Gross: $0.03M

84. Little Evil (2017)

TV-MA | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Gary, who has just married Samantha, the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.

Director: Eli Craig | Stars: Evangeline Lilly, Owen Atlas, Adam Scott, Marcus Terrell Smith

Votes: 23,264

85. Sharon's Baby (1975)

R | 95 min | Horror

A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the Devil.

Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Ralph Bates, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 1,430

This is bad. Joan Collins is easy to look at, but the evil is not shown. She gets clawed, the nanny is pushed into the river, the ex-boyfriend is slapped. Slapped by the baby; off camera. Then a cut to the baby. Who's just there. All the violence is off camera. Would be bad for a television movie.

Story: A midget cursed her with his midget demon seed, because she rejected his physical sexual advances.. Yea

86. Better Watch Out (II) (2016)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

67 Metascore

On a quiet suburban street, a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from intruders, only to discover it's far from a normal home invasion.

Director: Chris Peckover | Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Ed Oxenbould, Aleks Mikic

Votes: 46,269 | Gross: $0.02M

87. Tales of Halloween (2015)

R | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

64 Metascore

Ten stories are woven together by their shared theme of Halloween night in an American suburb, where ghouls, imps, aliens and axe murderers appear for one night only to terrorize unsuspecting residents.

Directors: Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Adam Gierasch, Andrew Kasch, Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee, Mike Mendez, Dave Parker, Ryan Schifrin, John Skipp, Paul Solet | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Hunter Smit, Cameron Easton, Caroline Williams

Votes: 14,329

88. Brightburn (2019)

R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

44 Metascore

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

Director: David Yarovesky | Stars: Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Abraham Clinkscales

Votes: 107,879 | Gross: $17.30M

89. Blood Child (2017)

Not Rated | 93 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

Bill and Ashely DiAngelo seem to have it all, an overseas posting to Singapore, life in paradise and a new baby on the way. But tragedy strikes when she loses the baby and sinks into a deep depression.

Director: Jennifer Phillips | Stars: Alyx Melone, Cynthia Lee MacQuarrie, Biden Hall, Lisa Kovack

Votes: 2,483

90. The Child (1977)

R | 82 min | Horror

A newly hired housekeeper arrives to her employer's house in the countryside. She slowly discovers that the only child in the house, an eleven-year-old girl, hides a deadly secret.

Director: Robert Voskanian | Stars: Laurel Barnett, Rosalie Cole, Frank Janson, Richard Hanners

Votes: 1,440

91. Bloody Birthday (1981)

R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller

49 Metascore

Three children are born at the height of an eclipse of the sun. Ten years later, they begin to murder the people around them - even their family members.

Director: Ed Hunt | Stars: Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown, Joe Penny

Votes: 5,673

92. Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

67 Metascore

In 1961, a divorced Catholic couple's life is turned upside-down when one of their two adolescent daughters is suspected of her younger sister's brutal murder during her First Holy Communion and a series of subsequent stabbings.

Director: Alfred Sole | Stars: Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard, Niles McMaster

Votes: 12,960

93. The Pit (1981)

R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery

A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.

Director: Lew Lehman | Stars: Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Laura Hollingsworth

Votes: 3,523

94. Citadel (I) (2012)

R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

60 Metascore

An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed an act of violence against his family years earlier.

Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson

Votes: 7,336

95. Wicked Little Things (2006)

R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.

Director: J.S. Cardone | Stars: Lori Heuring, Scout Taylor-Compton, Chloë Grace Moretz, Geoffrey Lewis

Votes: 8,655

96. The Paperboy (1994)

R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller

A homicidal twelve-year-old paperboy becomes obsessed with a woman and her daughter next-door, and he'll do anything to make his fantasy of the "perfect family" come alive.

Director: Douglas Jackson | Stars: Alexandra Paul, Marc Marut, Brigid Tierney, William Katt

Votes: 1,462

97. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

R | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

68 Metascore

Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.

Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell

Votes: 167,818 | Gross: $1.74M

98. The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)

R | 97 min | Horror

In early 18th century England, the children of a village slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.

Director: Piers Haggard | Stars: Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michele Dotrice

Votes: 7,530

99. Beware: Children at Play (1989)

R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller

A mentally-disturbed teenager kidnaps and brainwashes children into cannibalistic psychopaths - but not when the adults intervene.

Director: Mik Cribben | Stars: Michael Robertson, Rich Hamilton, Robin Lilly, Lori Romero

Votes: 1,451

100. The Golem (2018)

95 min | Drama, Horror

63 Metascore

During an outbreak of a deadly plague in Lithuania, a mystical woman must save her tight-knit Jewish community from a gang of ruffians led by a local landowner, but the entity she conjures to protect them is a far greater evil.

Directors: Doron Paz, Yoav Paz | Stars: Hani Furstenberg, Ishai Golan, Kirill Cernyakov, Brynie Furstenberg

Votes: 5,882



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