Horror shocks and scandalizes what is considered normal. A harmless fetish does more harm to the body and mind in Videodrome. The genre also uses irony to demonize vices and curtail them. Jason Voorhees is a vengeful and moral villain, killing his killers in Friday the 13th. Horror, at its core, is a fear experiment on emotional awareness. Fear can be a catalyst for good or bad actions. A child will obey or misbehave out of fear. When children are possessed, their inner lives are on full display and sometimes revealed in disturbing ways.
10 Better Watch Out (2016) - Luke
Better Watch Out is the psychological horror version of Kevin McCallister. Luke is a 12-year-old who is in the care of his babysitter, Ashley. He attempts to seduce Ashley, knowing she will be moving away after the holidays. To seal the deal, Luke stages a break-in with his friend Garrett. When the home invasion persuasion doesn't go as planned, Luke goes rogue and manipulates the situation like the sociopathic pervert he is.
9 The Children (2008) - The Children
The Children follows a virus that has infected a population of children. The sick kids first vomit black vile before slowly growing despondent. They inflict violent acts on their parents and gather in the woods for an unknown reason. As the children overpower the adults, the virus may have spread to teenagers. A mystery outbreak that turns kids into mindless, killing hellions is terrifying.
8 Let the Right One In (2008) - Eli
Let the Right One In is a Swedish romantic horror film based on the novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Oskar is a 12-year-old who is being bullied at school. He meets Eli, an unusually pale girl who becomes his next-door neighbor.
Her caretaker attempts to harvest blood for Eli to consume, but ends up harming himself and offering his life and blood instead. Eli befriends Oskar and reveals that she is a vampire. The two form a blood oath and protect each other, with Eli killing Oskar's bullies.
7 The Grudge (2004) - Kayako Saeki
The Grudge is a remake of the Japanese horror film Ju-On: The Grudge. Takeo has murdered his wife, Kayako Saeki and son, Toshio. Kayako was in love with a college professor, but Takeo believed she was having an affair.
Kayako returns as a ghost and hangs her husband with her hair. The jealous rage turns into a curse known as the Grudge, haunting the place and the people who encounter Kayako.
6 The Good Son (1993) - Henry Evans
The Good Son is a psychological thriller starring Macaulay Culkin of Home Alone fame. Instead of having a Christmas spirit, he plays cousin Henry Evans with an evil spirit. He causes a car pileup on a highway by throwing a dummy into traffic. Henry goes ice skating with his other cousin, Connie, only to force her onto thin ice, fall through, and put her into a coma. The domestic violence and psychosis from Henry makes him anything but good.
5 The Ring (2002) - Samara Morgan
The Ring is a remake of the Japanese supernatural horror film Ring. A cursed videotape kills viewers seven days after being watched. Journalist Rachel Keller searches for a way to escape death. Her investigation leads to a family affair involving a girl named Samara with psychic photographic powers.
She torments her parents and family's horses before being isolated in their barn. Her mother throws her down a well, where she survives for seven days. Rachel learns the curse's loophole: to save herself, she must pass on the curse.
4 The Omen (1976) - Damien Thorn
The Omen is a supernatural horror film about Robert and Kathy Thorn, whose child dies at birth. Robert is persuaded by the hospital chaplain to adopt the child of a mother who died giving birth. He doesn't tell Kathy that the baby is not theirs. They name the boy Damien.
Strange events take place in the presence of Damien, including the boy's nanny hanging herself in public on his fifth birthday. Damien violently evades entering a church where a cleric tells Robert that Damien is the son of Satan.
3 Children of the Corn (1984) - Isaac Chroner
Children of the Corn is a supernatural slasher film based on the 1977 Stephen King short story of the same title. Evil hangs over a rural town that possesses its children to kill its adults. The murderous cult of children is led by Isaac Chroner, who congregates in the cornfields.
They worship the entity known as He Who Walks Behind the Rows and perform ritualistic murders of adults for a successful harvest. Isaac is a relentless, raspy-voiced brat who doesn't know when to quit, just like his false god.
2 The Shining (1980) - Danny Torrence
The Shining is a supernatural horror film based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. The Torrance family takes up residence at the Overlook Hotel during the winter. The father, Jack Torrance, agrees to be the hotel caretaker while he writes and recovers from alcoholism.
The son Danny Torrance is overcome by premonitions, which the mother Wendy sees as trauma from the time a drunken Jack dislocated Danny's shoulder. The innocent Danny realizes he has the shining, a telepathic power, giving him visions foreshadowing evil to come.
1 The Exorcist (1973) - Regan
The Exorcist is a supernatural horror film based on the self-titled novel by William Peter Blatty. Regan MacNeil is a teenage girl suffering from demonic possession. At first, Regan claims her imaginary friend is the cause of the noises in her home's attic. Her use of an Ouija board says otherwise when she disrupts her mother Chris' house party by urinating on the carpet.
Fully possessed, Regan kills her first victim by turning his head 180 degrees around and throwing him out a window. Her metaphysical and psychological stranglehold is hard-won by the priests performing her exorcism. Regan is perhaps the most possessed child of all since she has no memory of the possession.
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