Harvey Stevens in "The Omen",
Miko Hughes in
Pet Cemetary, Children of the Corn;Village of the Damned,
Kyra Schon in "
Night of the living dead", Massive sculpture by Ron Mueck.
I have always had a slight distaste for children. Even as a child I felt distant from many of them. Growing up I funneled this awkwardness through my prism of good humour and sarcasm. Because if there is anything Sex and the city taught me, is that if you keep people laughing they're less likely to judge your detraction from the social norm. Horror films rarely frighten me, but when a child is involved it always leaves me a bit irked. Any depiction of a child in a demonic sense is both ironic and literal to me. Children which are meant to be "god's gift" represented as demonic creatures. I think the film makers perhaps are funneling their own angst towards being a parent, or the experience they've had with little ones. For anyone will tell you children are frightening. They get away with ritual slaughter if they bat their eyelashes a certain way. It's all in good fun though. The effect produces an interesting thought. Seeing the innocent as a demonic force, or the culprit.