Obviously, all our scary movies are very popular this month. Flicks featuring ghosts, ghouls, slashers and assorted monsters are flying off the shelves. But those aren’t the movies that scare me. I’m not going to be kept up at night worrying about being haunted by spirits or attacked by a mask-wearing psycho.
No, the only two things that really scare me in movies are clowns (also in real life, because clowns are just plain terrifying) and creepy little kids. Since there are a lot more movies with creepy children, let’s talk about those.
I love children, so there’s no reason kids should scare me in movies. But you put a little girl in an old timey dress and have her talk in a distant voice in a horror movie, and you’ve freaked me out. It doesn’t make much sense, but there it is.
Here are some of the creepy little kid movies I’m talking about:
The Ring
Offending Creepy Kid: Samara Morgan
The Others
Offending Creepy Kid: Anne
Poltergeist
Offending Creepy Kid: Carol Anne Freeling
The Shining
Offending Creepy Kid: Ghost twins (twins are also kind of creepy in general, even the non-ghost kind)
The Sixth Sense
Offending Creepy Kid: Cole Sear
The Exorcist
Offending Creepy Kid: Regan MacNeil
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Offending Creepy Kid: Girls singing the Freddy song
The Grudge
Offending Creepy Kid: That evil boy spirit thing
The Omen
Offending Creepy Kid: Damien
Children of the Corn
Offending Creepy Kid: All of them
Village of the Damned
Offending Creepy Kid: Demon children
The Good Son
Offending Creepy Kid: Henry Evans
Full House
Offending Creepy Kid: The Olsen twins
So what scares you? Tell us by taking our Halloween Poll.
