Scary Babies in cinema
 

The guys over at Empire have made yet another compilation, this time on cinema history's creepiest infants.

Have a look - http://www.empireonline.com/features...eepiest-babies


Glaring omissions - The Omen, Dead Alive, Grave of the Vampire. Three which come immediately to mind.

Not cinema, but pretty creepy television babies:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8I01vTQh6j...l+Screen+V.pnghttp://nerddads.com/wp-content/uploa.../05/v_baby.jpg

does the brood count? if so then http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9HaR-XEG47...EgE/s400/4.jpg

and...

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n...-devil-boy.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...a66/belile.jpg

http://www.jahsonic.com/Brood.jpg

Looking at the link, I think the babies from "Transpotting", "a Nightmare on Elm Street 5", and "Eraserhead" would be the creepiest. Two are not technically human babies (one is an alien, the other is a maggot), three actually (the toy one), but yeah. However, what about the baby/babies from "the Unborn" 1 & 2 (not the remake)? That was something else. I would also not consider Belial from "Basket Case" to be a baby monster, but yes, he is quite creepy.

- Horrorman

I can't believe the Dawn of the Dead 2004 baby only has a 3 star creepy baby rating, lol, it's terrifying!!

The Undead baby in The Offspring was pretty cool..

Grace has a scary baby too.

A little history on this.
 

The concept of the "Evil Baby" or "Bad Seed" child stems mostly from the films of the 60s and early 70s, (It's Alive, Rosemary's Baby, The Omen, etc).

This stems from a drug called Thaliodomide.

In the late 50s the drug was introduced as an anti-nausea drug. It was extremely effective. So much so that doctors began to prescribe it for morning sickness.

Then the birth defects started.

These defects were centered in Europe. The United States lucked out on this because FDA inspector Frances Oldham Kelsey would not approve the drug until further testing was done. She received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for having the foresight to block the drug.

It was at this time that the horror baby/child movies began. The idea of something being inherently wrong with a baby or child was an amplified fear in the mind of the public that this genre was able to tap into.