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16	* Kendra, of ''Film/ThirteenThirteenThirteen'', is first shown playing with a bug. Then crushing it. And eating it.
17	* Wednesday and Pugsley from ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' films especially the former who provides the trope's main page image. Pugsley's not so bad, but Wednesday is played to the brilliant creepy hilt by Creator/ChristinaRicci (just look at [[http://www.enjoy-your-style.com/images/smile-4.png that smile...]]) Ironically it's the opposite in the comics and cartoons: Wednesday is quite sweet and normal-looking (and gets upset when she [[CursedWithAwesome makes the dean's list]]) while Pugsley is a near carbon-copy of his Uncle Fester.
18	* David from ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'' is a RobotKid who sometimes behaves in an unsettling manner. Before he's imprinted on Monica, this means he speaks in a CreepyMonotone and [[StepfordSmiler smiles just a little too often]]; after he's imprinted, this means he's capable of smashing a duplicate robot's head off in a fit of possessive rage.
19	* Newt from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' has her moments. ''"They mostly come at night... mostly."''
20	* The ghost of [[ImaginaryFriend Jodie Defeo]] from ''Film/TheAmityvilleHorror2005''. Possibly subverted due to there being the small implication that she's not actually evil and is forced to do "bad things" by the much more powerful spirit of Reverend Jeremiah Ketcham.
21	* ''Film/{{Andersonville}}'': The young Confederate guards enjoy luring Union soldiers into crossing the "deadline" supposedly for trading, then shooting them.
22	* ''Film/{{Antebellum}}'': Elizabeth's daughter, who treats the slaves like life-size dolls, is creepy enough in the segments set during the Civil War. When she shows up in Veronica's hotel in the modern day -- still dressed in period clothes -- the effect is multiplied. There is even a shot of her framed in the hotel corridor outside Veronica's room in a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheShining''.
23	* In ''Film/TheAnnunciation'', Lucifer is played by a twelve-year-old girl playing a role written for a grown man. The effect is very jarring.
24	* ''Film/{{Apocalypto}}'': The girl [[WaifProphet dying of disease]] who predicts the destruction of the Mayans and the death of the main villain.
25	* At the end of ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', as Doc Brown talks to Jennifer, his younger son, Verne, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq5-6PkVGCg issues a come hither gesture and points to his]] [[UnusualEuphemism personal flux capacitor]]. However, given his expression during that scene, it seems the young actor was really trying to signal a crew member about a PottyEmergency.
26	* Besides Literature and Theater, ''Film/TheBadSeed1956'' needs mentioning in Film since the 'perfect little girl' was so monstrous that [[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode the Hays Office]] apparently felt the need to [[spoiler:add a new ending, killing her off with a [[BoltOfDivineRetribution divine lightning strike]]. And after that, at the end credits where the actors take their bows, the mother takes the girl across her knee and comically spanks her to relieve any further audience anxiety.]]
27	** [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Horror icon]] Creator/RobertEnglund [[http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/freddy-krueger-actor-robert-englund-reveals-his-10-biggest-fears/story-e6frfmvr-1226975212779 has declared]] an accidental screening of ''The Bad Seed'' made him "afraid of girls with blonde braids. Even when I was in my early adolescence and I would see UsefulNotes/WorldWarII movies, there was always [[GirlishPigtails some little German girl with braids in it]] and I always associated it with evil."
28	** Let's not forget the '80s remake ''Film/TheBadSeed1985'' where, with no Hays Code, Rachel Penmark gets away with everything.
29	* ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''. ''[[NothingIsScarier And we don't even get to see them]]''.
30	* Curtis and Debbie from ''Film/BloodyBirthday''; two out of the three child serial killers in the film, they are the smartest in school and can manipulate anyone, except for Joyce who sees through their tricks and psychotic tendencies. Another creepy thing about Curtis is he's very perverted and murders a couple having sex in a van.
31	* [[TheHeartless The mental-trauma-made-flesh]] kids from ''Film/TheBrood''.
32	* Little Michael in the SoBadItsGood Italian zombie flick ''Film/BurialGroundTheNightsOfTerror'' is rather creepy, even before he becomes a zombie. This is mostly because he's played by a twenty-something little person in a bad wig.
33	* Tommy, Kayleigh's little brother from ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'', is very creepy as a child, staring at Evan while twisting the head off a doll. When he is a little older, he is a full-blown psychopath who's overly protective of Kayleigh and hates Evan. When he sees them kiss, he loses it and attacks a man at the theater, brutally assaulting him with a pole. Later on, he steals Evan's dog and burns him alive. When they attempt to save the dog, he beats the shit out of Evan, Kayleigh and their friend Lenny with a 2x4. Later, Evan goes back in time to prevent this event from happening. It ends when Lenny stabs Tommy with a shard of metal after being traumatized by accidentally causing the death of a woman and her baby. Tommy had dared him to plant the dynamite in the mailbox and told him that if he didn't, he would kill his mother.
34	** It's implied that Tommy's dad sexually abused him as well as his sister. And in his defense, he apparently has a huge capacity for good as well as evil -- one of his alternative futures is devoutly religious and helping the homeless, and in the novelization he's valedictorian and signs up in the Army.
35	* Lillith from ''Film/Case39'' whose own parents tried to kill her because they believed she was a demon who feeds from feelings. [[spoiler: They're right.]]
36	* The British 2008 horror movie named ''Film/TheChildren'', where children turn against their parents for mysterious reasons and start killing them.
37	* The Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn, who usually are led by even creepier child DarkMessiah.
38	* The 1972 film ''Film/{{Childs Play\|1972}}'' had a little blonde murderess.
39	* The Strangers from ''Film/DarkCity1998'' had one among their ranks, and he really stands out as the only one of the Strangers to even seem evil. They're mostly just desperate to save themselves by any means necessary, and another Stranger requires an injection of a serial killer's memories before he starts acting like a real villain. But Mr. Sleep is clearly evil from when we first meet him: he's flashing an evil grin everywhere when he's not just outright gnashing his teeth like a [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Cenobite]], and he even viciously bites a guy's hand attempting to make him fall to his death.
40	* ''Film/DeadBirds'': The Hollister children, who have been possessed and bear a horrible visage as a result.
41	* EVERY SINGLE KID in ''Film/DeadFriend'' (aka The Ghost).
42	** The slow chant "Hide well...Your hair might show. Hide well...Your hair might show" was especially creepy.
43	* ''Film/TheDevilsBackbone'' had quite a scary little UndeadChild.
44	* ''Film/TheGuards'', a 1965 Norwegian feature film has the fourteen-year-old Bene, who fills the role to a T. She is in a mental institution, filled with other children smaller than her (and somewhat creepy as well), and she is constantly playing Chopin on a piano without hammers, making an eerie tune with what is left of the melody. Furthermore, she is very cunning, and [[OracularUrchin psychic as well]], and is also deadpan and emotionless most of the time. Bonus points for creepiness when she almost kills one of her wards with a sleeping bag -- seemingly going from DissonantSerenity to HomicidalManiac in seconds.
45	** This movie was, by the way, part of a trilogy exploring children with psychological problems. The third movie, made in 1966, stars the same child actress, and the use of her eyes doesn`t make her ''less'' creepy in the SpiritualSuccessor.
46	* John Preston's son in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' has to go in here somewhere. A kid with no emotions? Run.
47	** In the film's setting, even children are required to take the Librium drug. So all "good" children are creepy. [[spoiler: If they're not "good", they still have to act emotionless to avoid getting the authorities' attention.]]
48	* The Baby from ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'', although less of the sinister emotionlessness, and more of the BodyHorror.
49	* Linda Blair's performance in ''Film/TheExorcist'' is enough to actually make you believe DemonicPossession is real. There's a reason this movie is almost ''always'' listed among the top 10 scariest movies of all time, and she's that reason.
50	* ''Film/ExorcistTheBeginning'' had Joseph, who seems to attract bad luck everywhere he presents. [[spoiler:Subverted since the one actually [[DemonicPossession possessed]] is Sarah, the doctor.]]
51	* The Barebone children from ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' would've been right at home in a horror film. Modesty's first scene has her singing a hopscotch song about killing witches and wizards, and then there's Credence and his clearly off-kilter manner. [[spoiler:And then he's revealed to be an Obscurial, someone whose repressed magical abilities cause him to turn into a shadow of destruction.]]
52	* ''Film/GingerSnaps2Unleashed'' is a werewolf-as-body-horror film. However the unassuming star has to be the young pale girl called Ghost. [[spoiler: Who calmly helps out the protagonists with disturbing skill, making among other things "Poly", an exploding polyester scarecrow, as well as subtly lying and scheming. She burned her grandmother alive and left her helpless in hospital, and convinced people it was a smoking accident. She also convinced the primary protagonist that the male nurse raped her, causing him to be left to a messy death; and finally, killed the sane responsible woman who comes in and tries to protect everybody from the slathering werewolves) to fulfill her ultimate goal: To be like her comic book heroine and have a pair of werewolves [[KidWithTheLeash under her leash.]] Something which she seems well on the way to accomplishing. A masterpiece of low budget but skillfully acted creepiness.]]
53	* The title child in ''Film/TheGoodSon''. He kills his 3-year-old brother, shoots a dog with a nailgun, and tries to kill his same-aged cousin, 8-year-old sister, and his ''own mother'' as well. The kid is played by [[Film/HomeAlone Macaulay Culkin]].
54	* Particularly striking example in ''The Great New Wonderful'' (2005), where a troubled child is Really, Really Creepy.
55	** At one point his parents defend him, despite deep down knowing it to be a galling lie: "I mean, deep down he's a good kid." "He's actually a great kid." Speaking as the stern but fair voice of reason, Mr. Peersall (Creator/StephenColbert), replies "No, he's actually a selfish, incorrigible monster with a heart made out of shit and splinters."
56	* The twin girls from the 80's comedy ''Film/TheGreatOutdoors''. The theme tune for the ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' even plays when you first see them.
57	* Young Michael Myers from Rob Zombie's retelling of ''[[Film/{{Halloween 2007}} Halloween]]'' is a very creepy child with an androgynous appearance who has a horrible family life, kills animals to take out his frustration, and after his mom isn't there to take him trick or treating he murders four people in his rampage. Later, at an asylum, it is shown he can't be trusted alone as he murders a nurse for saying that his baby sister is too cute to have come from such a family.
58	** [[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} The original]] subverts this; despite him obviously being evil (he kills his sister at age 6 for no explainable reason other than she had sex, there wasn't even any indication of bullying) his face is quite angelic, if not adorable.
59	** Also, Jamie from ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers''. An adorable, baby-faced little girl[[spoiler:...who murders her adoptive mother at the end of the film]].
60	*** It is revealed in [[Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers the next film]] that Jamie's [[spoiler:adoptive mother is indeed alive and well and that Jamie stabbed her due to being possessed by a developing psychic link with her murderous uncle]].
61	* The three children from the Korean film ''Film/HanselAndGretel2007''.
62	* The 2009 movie ''Film/TheHole'' (not to be confused with the Creator/ThoraBirch movie of the same title) had an interesting take on this. The creepy little ghost girl had the face of a young woman about 17-years-old -- the age she would be now if she hadn't died as a child. It definitely contributed to the UncannyValley effect.
63	* ''Film/{{Horrorvision}}'': While Dez and Dazzy are walking to Toni's apartment, they pass by a kid with sunken eyes squatting in the hallway. The kid is seen holding a motherboard.
64	* The children from ''Film/TheInnocents'', the movie starring Deborah Kerr. No matter what the final explanation is, those kids are creepy.
65	* Claudia from ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', especially the scene with the [[spoiler:dead prostitute in her pile of dolls]].
66	* The children of [[TownWithADarkSecret Hobb's End]] in ''Film/InTheMouthOfMadness.'' They were the first to be infected by Sutter Cane's [[RewritingReality books]], and have gone correspondingly AxeCrazy whilst mutating horribly.
67	* The baby from ''Film/ItsAlive'' and the countless bad sequels does not fit the trope, as it lacks the superficial subtlety of the Creepy Child.
68	* The eponymous star of ''Film/{{Joshua}}'', a 9-year-old genius, was rather disturbing to begin with, and only got creepier after the birth of his sister brought out the murderous, manipulative sociopath in him. [[spoiler: It's a massively disturbing EvilPlan to be with his uncle, the only person who seems to really understand him.]]
69	* Toshio the ghost toddler boy in ''Film/{{Juon}}''.
70	* ''Film/JuRei'' has one, since no ''Film/{{Juon}}'' ripoff is complete without a pasty white ghost boy.
71	* Silas, a Catholic school boy from the Adam Sandler movie ''Film/JustGoWithIt'', who constantly refers to Sandler's character as a "fornicator" and threatens to kill him. Sandler's character {{lampshades}} his creepiness several times, calling him Damien, Chucky, and Child of the Corn.
72	* B.B from ''Film/KillBill''. Fits, since she is [[spoiler:the daughter of The Bride and Bill, taken out of her mom's womb when she was in a coma and then raised by her BigBad dad.]] In a subversion, [[spoiler:B.B's not ''as'' creepy as she could've been: she's mostly a CheerfulChild, but one with rather... off-kilter thoughts. (e.g., she meets her mom via mock-pointing at her as if she had a gun and saying "Freeze, Mommy!", later happily tells her about a certain dead pet fish named Emilio...)]].
73	* In ''Film/{{Legion}}'', a young boy is attacked by possessed people, and is saved by the main cast. Within seconds, they find out that the boy himself is possessed, suddenly sporting a [[MindControlEyes blank stare]] and a [[EvilSoundsDeep digitally lowered voice.]]
74	-->'''Boy:''' Fooled you.
75	* ''Film/LetMeIn'' has two examples.
76	** Abby, a vampire who is stuck mentally and physically at age 12.
77	** The main character, Owen, looks the part physically. He is extremely pale and slender with raven black hair Personality wise, it's more complicated. While he does show some disturbing traits, especially at the start of the film, like spying on his neighbors and acting out his fantasies of killing his classmates, it's revealed throughout the film these are responses to abuses inflicted on him. He lives an extremely isolated and neglected life, and he's constantly subjected to beatings and humiliations at school, so these seem more like coping mechanisms. When he goes out on dates with his girlfriend, he's shown to be an extremely kind, innocent boy.
78	* Rynn, the main character in ''Film/TheLittleGirlWhoLivesDownTheLane'', is something of a creepy child, but the adults are creepier.
79	* Thelma, the main character of ''Film/LittleSweetheart'', because she's a sociopath and a psychopath, and it shows in her interactions with people (and the fact that she watches B horror movies almost non-stop unless she's busy ruining someone's life or getting something she wants).
80	* Laura in ''Film/{{Logan}}'' acts more like a predatory animal than a person at the outset and still has a sense of wrongness about her even after HumanityEnsues. Her intense, aggressive gaze is a defining behavioral trait; whenever she enters an unfamiliar area, she scans her surroundings for other living beings and sizes them up while most likely coming up with plans to kill them should they pose a threat, not to mention analyzing and cataloging paths of egress, chokepoints, escape routes, ambush spots, and other geographical features of significance. In addition to this, she reacts to perceived threats violently and with no warning, is completely nonverbal [[spoiler:until well into the movie]], and is disturbingly immature and emotionally underdeveloped and displays behaviors that you'd expect from a child almost a quarter of her age.
81	* C.K. from the comedy film ''Film/Madhouse1990'' is a destructive child who wants to do nothing more than kill things and blow stuff up. He states that his initials stand for either "Cat Killer" or "Confirmed Kills", and he is responsible for at least two of Scruffy the cat's deaths. Mark {{Lampshades}} his potentially dangerous actions and calls him a "psychotic little shit" at one point.
82	* The title character in ''Film/{{May}}'' was one of these as a kid. Forced to wear an eyepatch due to a lazy eye, she was mercilessly teased by classmates who called her a pirate, and became a LonelyDollGirl as a result. As an adult, she became a Creepy [[{{Manchild}} Womanchild]].
83	* In ''Film/MenInBlack'', the rigorous selection process for potential [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]] recruits involves an exercise where recruits take aim at cardboard aliens in a shooting gallery. While many of the recruits, the "best of the best of the best" of America's military academies, unload their weapons into the mockup aliens, Will Smith's character James "Agent J" Edwards fires a single shot into the forehead of a cardboard cutout of a little girl. In the aftermath, Zed dryly asks J "why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die".
84	-->'''James:''' Well, first I was gonna pop this guy hanging from the street light. But then I realized, you know, he's just workin' out. How would I feel if somebody come runnin' in the gym bustin' me in my ass while I'm on a treadmill? Then I saw this snarling beast guy, then I noticed he had a tissue in his hand and I realized, he's not ''snarling'', he's ''sneezing''. Y'know, ain't no real threat there. Then I saw little Tiffany, and I'm thinkin', you know, "eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night, with quantum physics books?" She about to start some shit Zed! She's about eight-years-old; those books are ''way'' too advanced for her. If you ask me, I'd say she's up to something. And to be honest, I'd appreciate it if you eased up off my back about it. ''[{{beat}}]'' ...Or do I owe her an apology?
85	** This is one of the factors that leads to James's induction into TheMenInBlack as Agent J. It's made even more explicit in the novelisation of the film, where Zed and K explain that, while fearsome-looking, the apparently vicious looking aliens are the intergalactic equivalent of small fluffy kittens, and that Tiffany was indeed the correct target.
86	* The title character in ''Film/{{Mikey}}'' seems to be a perfectly normal happy-go-lucky child, but he has a dark past: he murders his first adoptive family -- including a five-year-old girl -- because he feels they didn't love him, he covers up this first series of murders by blaming it on an intruder and pulls a convincing story, then begins the second set of murders by first killing his friend's older sister's cat and blaming it on her boyfriend whom he also later murders because he has a crush on her.
87	* Lionel from ''Film/NoKidding'' is quiet and likes ghosts, which puts David and Catherine on edge around him:
88	-->'''David''': "Feels a bit strange"? He ''is'' a bit strange.
89	* The unnamed little boy in ''Film/NoroiTheCurse''. He follows his psychotic "mother" around, doesn't say a single word or make a single expression throughout the whole movie, and in the end it's heavily suggested that [[spoiler: he's being possessed by Kagutaba]].
90	* Damien Thorn from ''Film/TheOmen'' is TheAntichrist.
91	* Esther Coleman, the title character of ''Film/{{Orphan}}''.
92	** And Max to a lesser degree.
93	** [[spoiler:TheReveal shows that this trope is ''subverted''. Esther is actually a 33-year-old woman with a child's body... who is completely AxCrazy.]]
94	* In ''Film/ThePaperboy'', Johnny [=McFarley=] is one of these. We find out he hated his mother, and killed her. He feels bad about it, so he kills an old lady and lures her daughter to her house so she can be his new mother. He becomes very obsessed with her and her daughter Cammie, going as far as spying on them and placing a walkie-talkie inside their wall so he can listen to her conversations.
95	* In ''Film/TheProfessional'', creepy doesn't even begin to describe Mathilda Lando. Not only does she smoke cigarettes in her first scene but she casually curses a lot, plays RussianRoulette and has a sexual interest in Leon. Though that being said, she is still an innocent child that comes from an abusive family that never loved her aside from her younger brother and they were all brutally murdered by AxCrazy DEA agent Norman Stansfield.
96	* In ''Film/{{Poltergeist\|1982}}'', the daughter (Carol Anne Freeling) of the... ''abnormally-afflicted'' family has a few scenes where she just creeps the shit out of you. The main example from the movie is thus:
97	-->'''Carol Anne:''' Theeeey're heeeere.
98	* ''Film/ThePurge'': The youngest Sandin child comes over as this, especially when asking why his parents don't go out and kill people.
99	* In ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'', the underground base's AI's {{Hologram}}, [[Literature/AliceInWonderland The Red Queen]], is a little girl, as is the voice.
100	-->''(Background noise cuts out)''
101	-->Hologram: You're ''all'' going to die down here.
102	-->''(Hologram shuts off)''
103	* ''Film/{{REC}}'' features three of them:
104	** The little girl-turned-zombie
105	** Jennifer
106	** The boys in the attic from the first and second film.
107	* Adam from ''Film/RelativeFear'' is a mute four-year-old with a mostly blank face, except when he creepily narrows his eyes at people who have offended him. He loves watching the true crime channel National Murder Network, which broadcasts graphic details and gory reenactments of recent murders, despite his mother's attempts to ban it. His NightmareFuelColoringBook is filled with surprisingly good drawings of people being murdered.
108	* Practically every recent horror film has at least one of these; the American remake of ''Film/TheRing'' may have kicked off the trend, though Creepy Children in horror go back much further.
109	** [[Film/TheRing Samara Morgan herself]] since, unlike her [[Film/{{Ringu}} Japanese counterpart]], she never grew past the age of 8. And ''she never sleeps''.
110	* ''Film/{{Sinister}}'' lives by its creepy children
111	* ''Film/{{Screamers}}''. The "Can I come with you?" boy who turns out to be a KillerRobot, after this fact is revealed.
112	* The Grady daughters from ''Film/TheShining'' are also a famous example of this trope.
113	** Danny "Doc" Torrance in his trance state also qualifies for this trope.
114	-->'''Danny''' : Redrum... redrum... redrum... redrum...
115	* Alessa in the 2006 ''Film/SilentHill'' movie is ''very'' creepy. Given [[BreakTheCutie what Alessa had been through]] [[MoralEventHorizon thanks to Christabella]], it's no surprise that she's a little... strange, to put it mildly. Just [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081108171319/silent/images/2/21/Alessaburning.gif look at her!]] She's burnnniiingggg.
116	* Cole, early in ''Film/TheSixthSense'', is one of the most well-known examples of this trope.
117	* Abigail from ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice''. She's a young Morganian that [[HistoricalInJoke was the only real witch at Salem]]. She's every bit as evil as Horvath, and managed to escape prosecution in Salem.
118	* ''Film/StarTrek2009'' shows us Spock as a kid. We're used to green blood, utter lack of emotions, and an almost monotone voice...on an adult. Been there, seen that, buried the RedShirt. But you've got to admit that on a kid, it's still way creepy.
119	* The Lonely Twin in ''Film/{{Shrooms}}'': a tiny SackheadSlasher.
120	* ''Film/TrickRTreat'' has this in the form of Sam the trick 'r treater. It turns out that [[spoiler: he cannot be killed, and isn't even remotely human. It's also strongly implied that [[PhysicalGod he's actually]] Samhain, a Celtic god of death.]]
121	** A lesser example would be [[spoiler: Billy Wilkins, who is quite aware that his father is a SerialKiller and enjoys carving jack-o'-lanterns out of the heads of the dead.]]
122	** Then there's Rhonda, an autistic girl who [[spoiler:leaves her fellow trick-or-treaters to die at the hands of the school bus ghosts. Though, in all fairness to Rhonda, [[AssholeVictim they were asking for it]].]]
123	* Mark Collins in ''Film/{{Twisted\|1986}}''.
124	* Played with in [[Creator/FrancisFordCoppola Francis Ford Coppola's]] ''Twixt''. V. (Creator/ElleFanning) is a young girl Hall Baltimore (Creator/ValKilmer) meets in a [[AllJustADream dream]], and initially ''does'' try to scare him, commenting that children think she's a vampire due to her overbite. As the film goes on, we learn that she was just a normal girl who was murdered along with twelve other children by a corrupt priest; her story, in turn, inspires Hall to write his next bestseller, a book about vampires. That being said, V.'s final scene involves her [[BloodSplatteredInnocents covered in blood]], walking towards Hall with a SlasherSmile and vampire fangs, before pouncing on him and biting his neck. [[spoiler: That last part turns out to be part of Hall's story; a major theme in the film is the blurring of reality and fiction.]]
125	* ''Film/UnderTheShadow'': Mehdi, the child of one of [[TheProtagonist Shideh]]'s neighbours, is described as creepy by another neighbour. When we see Mehdi later in the movie, he doesn't say much and just... stares at her.
126	* Kevin Griswold from ''Film/{{Vacation}}'' is a creepy foul mouthed, borderline psychotic little boy who bullies his older brother James, constantly insulting him and attempting to murder him by suffocating him with plastic bags, and he constantly gets his father Rusty in trouble by accusing people of being rapists or child molesters, he gets a little better after James finally stands up to him.
127	* The half-alien psychic kids from ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960''. Which had a sequel, ''Film/ChildrenOfTheDamned'' (that is [[FilkSong the inspiration]] for the homonymous Music/IronMaiden song featured on the [[Quotes/CreepyChild quotes page]]) and [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995 remake]].
128	* David Sandborn in the 2007 horror movie ''Whisper''.
129	* In ''Film/WhoCanKillAChild'', there is an island full of them, the creepiest of whom is a young mop haired boy who blankly stares off into the sunset while fishing with human remains. The most horrible thing the children do is hang an old man like a pinata and swipe at him with a scythe until they chop his head off. It's later explained that the children turned into psychopaths because of something in the air. We also see that they can manipulate other kids just by staring into their eyes.
130	* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Jason Stryker, the son of Col. William Stryker, is a mutant with illusionist and mind probing powers who has been lobotomized by his father so that he follows his every word. When he tries to fool Charles Xavier into using Cerebro for him and Stryker, he creates a scenario in which he is represented as a young, slightly creepy girl who asks Xavier to look for all the mutants. The only thing letting on that they are one and the same is that they both share the same [[MadEye asymmetrical eyes]].
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