Bad Seeds, Devil Children & Orphans: Cinema’s Creepiest Kids

By Kyle Rupprecht
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/acting/article/creepy_kids_horror_movies_orphan_the_bad_seed_the_exorcist_20090709/
Children are supposed to be innocent, guileless and, well, childlike. But what happens when they are not? When they are, instead, threatening, malicious and evil. For years, moviemakers have explored and exploited the creepy underside of childhood, by returning again and again to the "evil child" sub-genre.