10 Stupid Movies That Will Help You Conquer Fears

1. The Good Son (Children)

"Pedophobia" is, obviously, a fear of children, and the causes range from a simple fear of one's own responsibility to the mirror that they hold up to our own lives with their complete lack of inner social monologue. Of course, some people find kids terrifying because they can be right, well, terrors, as evidenced by this ludicrously entertaining Macaulay Culkin vehicle The Good Son. Trying extra hard to shift his Home Alone persona, Culkin plays a psychopathic young boy named Henry who comes to terrorise his cousin Mark (Elijah Woods), resulting in the single best scene of Culkin's career, as he beckons to Wood, "Hey Mark...don't f*** with me." If you're not bowled over laughing by this point in the film, there's something wrong with you. Before you know it you'll find yourself asking, "Don't kids say the strangest things?", and chuckling at Henry's increasingly violent behaviour, ridiculous both because it comes from a child, and because it comes from Macaulay Culkin. The finale, in which Henry and Mark are both clinging to a cliff edge while Henry's mother has to choose which one to save, is a thing of demented beauty. In this case you'll get to have your cake and eat it; see the hilarity in juvenile psychopathy, and get to see Kevin McCallister fall to his grisly demise. What scares you the most? Has cinema ever managed to cure it through the art of humour? Let us know in the comments below.