10 Creepiest Children In Horror Movies

Brightburn is a film in a similar vein to Superman, except if Superman was evil and wanted to destroy the world.

It centres on a couple with fertility problems who keep a baby boy they find in a crashed spaceship near their house. This desperation to have a baby means that they are willing to ignore a lot of warning signs about little ‘Brandon’ and forgive things that should have raised red flags a lot earlier. The fact he is never ill or injured should have been given more notice, but they are so happy to have a child they try not to think about this.

At age twelve, his personality starts to change. The obvious link to puberty plays on the parental fear that their children are growing up and they aren’t as close as they once were. Brandon becomes a ‘moody teenager’, but this is amplified because of his super strength and other powers like the ability to fly, use telekinesis and shoot laser beams from his eyes. These skills would be frightening enough but paired with an emotional angry boy who hates the world, he becomes terrifying.

His anger towards his parents for lying about where he came from is the final turning point into his descent into destruction. His mask further removes his humanity and when his parents finally give in and accept that he isn’t the child they longed for it is too late and he has become too powerful, losing any shred of humanity he had.