Evil child movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant evil child movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense, serious, terrifying and psychological films and TV shows about / with evil child, killer child, bad kids, murder, danger, demonic possession, death, deadly, creepy kid and youth plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as evil child: Whisper (2007), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Case 39 (2009), Mikey (1992), Godsend (2004), Grace (2009), Daddy's Girl (1996), The Daisy Chain (2008), The Bad Seed (2018), The Bad Seed (1985).

List of evil child movies

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 5.7
 10K
Whisper (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Convicted felon Max Truemont (played by Josh Holloway) is hired to execute a kidnapping of the son of one of the richest women in the state. Along with his fiancée Roxanne (played by Sarah Wayne Callies), Max joins two other strangers who were also ...
Style: scary, serious, bleak, suspenseful, christmas horror ...
Plot: evil child, kidnapping, winter, hostage, mind control, snow, murder, isolation, crime gone awry, confined, danger, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, new england, usa
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style: disturbing, psychological, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, teen drama, adult
Plot: psychopath, evil child, school shooting, high school, depression, mental illness, sociopath, teenager, antisocial behavior, childhood, mother son relationship, boy ...
Time: year 2011, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: america, united kingdom, connecticut, usa, new york
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 6.2
 93K
Case 39 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, evil child, demon, social worker, supernatural horror, twists and turns, child abuse, creepy child, uncover truth, mental institution, mysterious character, murder ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
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 5.6
 3K
Mikey (1992)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mikey just needs a good stable home. He's bounced from foster home to foster home his whole life. He finally lands himself with a new loving family, but their perfect little child is not what he appears to be. His previous caretakers all died ...
Style: slasher, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, evil child, killer child, serial killer, boy, orphan, children, obsession, electrocution, juvenile delinquency, jealousy, swimming pool ...
Time: 90s
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 4.8
 26K
Godsend (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but bizarre things start to happen years after his rebirth.
Style: suspense, psychological, scary, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot: cloning, experiment gone awry, doctor, genetic engineering, school, adaptation, parents and children, death in the family, life is a bitch, family problems, dealing with death, coming of age ...
Time: year 2004, future
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 5.2
 8K
Grace (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the wake of a horrific car accident that kills her husband, Michael, expectant mother Madeline Matheson discovers that her daughter, Grace, has died in the womb. Ignoring her doctor's warnings that the fetus must be removed from her body, a ...
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: pregnancy, breast feeding, evil child, curse, danger, babies and infants, curses spells and rituals, body horror, supernatural, confined, murder, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.8
 778
Daddy's Girl (1996)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
Style: scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot: killer child, evil child, murder, psychopath, father, family relations, danger, childhood trauma, school, obsession, girl, youth ...
Time: 90s
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The Daisy Chain (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: evil child, supernatural, orphan, couples, family in danger, adoption, starting over, mentally challenged, danger, couple relations, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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 5.9
 4K
The Bad Seed (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, scary, bleak ...
Plot: evil child, killer child, child murders a child, murder, father daughter relationship, girl, widower, mentally unstable, bad guy, femme fatale, moral dilemma, violence ...
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 5.5
 530
The Bad Seed (1985)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she ...
Plot: evil child, creepy child, tiny, youth, female villain, psycho, dilemma, violence, moral dilemma, bad kids, widow, suicide ...
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Come Out and Play (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present - an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, brutal ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: evil child, killer child, pregnancy, child, couples, murder, island, survival, danger, isolation, redneck, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
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 4.3
 2K
The Calling (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, satanic ...
Plot: evil child, supernatural, murder, danger, mentally unstable, apocalypse, antichrist, pregnancy, family relations, wedding, religious, mother son relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: london
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 6.5
 243K
Silent Hill (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric ...
Style: scary, dark, surreal, gothic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, monster, demon, survival, supernatural horror, macabre, insanity, torture, ghost town, ghost, good versus evil, missing child ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, america, usa
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 5.9
 19K
The Children (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents
Style: scary, slasher, christmas horror, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: killer child, christmas, evil child, creepy child, snow, epidemic, winter, family in danger, creepy kid, deadly virus, violence spree, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 6.1
 107K
Brightburn (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
Style: disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, scary, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: evil, evil child, creepy child, alien, baby, child, evil wins, macabre, little boy, killer child, super villain, supernatural ability ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 2000s, year 2016, year 2006 ...
Place: kansas
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 5.3
 60K
Sinister 2 (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Style: scary, suspenseful, brutal, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, murder, evil child, burned alive, nightmare, investigation, deputy, ghost child, abusive husband, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
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 5.5
 62K
The Omen (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: demon, devil, murder, killer child, devil worship, evil child, antichrist, 666, prophecy, parents and children, hospital, death ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, rome italy, europe, new york ...
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 5.9
 73K
Vivarium (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an ...
Style: surreal, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, mind blowing ...
Plot: trapped, psychological torture, paradox, human experiment, young couple, evil child, buying a house, suburbs, evil wins, unhappy ending, real estate agent, mysterious man ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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What the Peeper Saw (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Oliver! star Mark Lester undertook a change of pace - and then some - with this uncomfortable, Bad Seed-like shocker. He plays Marcus, the preteen son of a recently-remarried, well-to-do writer, whose first wife (Marcus's mother) died a ...
Style: slasher, psychological thriller, grindhouse, erotic, romantic ...
Plot: sex with a minor, boy, evil child, female nudity, sexual tension, killer child, love, erotica, murder, coming of age, tiny, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 70s
Place: spain
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 5.0
 1K
Yulenka (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A university professor, who wants to slow down a little, moves with his wife and daughter, from the big city to a small town and starts a new job as a teacher in a girls' gymnasium. Something weird is happening with the class, they seem to hide ...
Style: captivating, rough, suspenseful, exciting, horrifying
Plot: evil child, rivalry, dishonesty, mentor, manipulation, death, violence, danger, murder, emotional blackmail, mother daughter relationship, female nudity ...
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 6.4
 46K
The Good Son (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, serious ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: children, manipulation, evil child, killer child, psychopath, problem child, brutality, disbelieving adult, creepy child, murder, death, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: maine, japan, usa, asia, new england
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Better Watch Out (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.
Style: christmas horror, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: home invasion, christmas, evil child, holiday horror, babysitter, snow, murder, teenager, winter, killer child, survival, psychopath ...
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The New Daughter (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering ...
Style: scary, tense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: evil child, teenage girl, supernatural, indian burial ground, single parent, danger, curses spells and rituals, life turned upside down, parents and children, family in danger, father daughter relationship, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
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 5.8
 41K
Eli (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boy named Eli with a rare autoimmune disorder is confined to a special experimental clinic for his treatment. He soon begins experiencing supernatural forces, turning the supposedly safe facility into a haunted prison for him and his fellow ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, bleak, rough, scary ...
Plot: antichrist, evil child, allergy, evil wins, child protagonist, macabre, treatment, disease, demon, danger, ghost, quarantine ...
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 5.8
 13K
Joshua (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua, an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.
Style: scary, psychological, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: child as adult, creepy child, boy, psychopath, baby, family relations, family problems, parents and children, manipulation, evil child, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Dorothy Mills (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the murder of a young child, a psychologist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' resistance, the therapist soon suspects that ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot: psychiatrist, supernatural, creepy child, afterlife, social relations, teenage life, mental illness, danger, supernatural ability, clergy, babies and infants, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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Devil Times Five (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, rough ...
Plot: evil child, mental illness, murder, snow, killer child, escaped mental patient, isolation, winter, teenage life, obsession, danger, violence spree ...
Time: 70s
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 5.5
 5K
Home Movie (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary ...
Plot: killer child, husband wife relationship, twins, evil child, psychopath, family problems, found footage, danger, family life, siblings relations, thanksgiving, halloween ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.4
 32K
Them (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise. They're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
Style: scary, tense, disturbing, creepy, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: home invasion, couples, killer child, breaking and entering, stranger, danger, violence, isolation, forest, invasion, teenage life, blood ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, year 2002
Place: europe, bucharest, romania
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Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys, Gene & Karen York. When Karen realises her baby was born under suspicious circumstances, she hires a private investigator to find ...
Style: demonic, suspenseful, satanic, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, evil child, omen, antichrist, demon, religion, babies and infants, good versus evil, devil, xmas, killer child, exorcism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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