10 Things In Horror Movies That Just Aren't Scary Anymore

Kids are scary, there's no denying it: from babies possessed by the devil to spooky little ghost girls dressed all in white chasing our protagonists through an abandoned house children are often the most unsettling part of a horror film. What is, however, more often annoying and uninteresting than bone chilling is all the weird bug eyed kids scribbling scenes of murder while the family sits around watching some evening TV.

Perhaps as a parent the idea of your kid growing up to be a complete weirdo is a daily fear ripe for the picking by Hollywood executives but the logic of staying alive suggests sending those kids to a boarding school miles and miles away and seeing them only on holidays and maybe every other birthday.

These wide-eyed blank canvases ripe for possession only grow worse the older they get with young tweens becoming angst ridden edge-fuelled spoofs of the modern day teenager, stomping around the house and threatening to kill everyone they come across.

It doesn't matter if the actor behind them was in Stranger Things or not, these characters are never anything more than a total cliché.