Devil-child films
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A devil-child film is a type of horror film where the antagonist or anti-hero is a malicious child or child-like demon or child transformed by an evil force or something similar. For example, The Exorcist is about a young girl possessed by a demon named Pazuzu.
Many such movies were made in the years 1961-1981, which was precisely when Generation X was being born, but the notion of sinister innocence has intrigued people through the ages.
A Brief Chronology of Evil-Child Movies:
- 1956 The Bad Seed
- 1960 Village of the Damned
- 1961 The Innocents
- 1964 Children of the Damned
- 1968 Rosemary's Baby
- 1972 The Other
- 1973 The Exorcist
- 1974 It's Alive!
- 1976 Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (TV)
- 1976 The Omen
- 1976 Carrie
- 1977 Audrey Rose (film)
- 1978 It Lives Again [1]
- 1978 Damien: Omen II
- 1978 Halloween
- 1979 The Godsend [2]
- 1980 The Children
- 1980 The Awakening
- 1983 Sleepaway Camp
- 1984 Children of the Corn
- 1989 Pet Sematary
- 1992 Mikey [3]
- 1993 The Good Son
- 1995 John Carpenter's Village of the Damned
- 2002 The Ring
- 2004 Godsend
- 2004 The Grudge
- 2005 The Exorcism of Emily Rose
- 2006 The Omen (2006 film) Fox remake of the 1976 film.
