17. Isaac Chroner - Children of the Corn (1984)
A silly film with a silly premise, you would nevertheless prefer not to have Isaac as your child, or indeed any of the corn children because they kill adults and belong to a weird cult which worships He Who Walks Among the Rows - whoever the heck he is. The adult hating town in the film is called Gatlin and it relies upon corn for the health of its economy. One year, the crops failed and a mysterious boy preacher called Isaac appeared and brainwashed all of the kids into killing the adults as a sacrifice to He Who Walks Among the Rows. Now any passing adult is sacrificed to the 'God'. A young couple - Burt and Vicky - end up in Gatlin, battling the children but a more interesting conflict is going on among the kids themselves. Malachai, Isaac's right hand man, is growing tired of Isaac's arrogance and ends up engineering Isaac's sacrifice in the place of Vicky's. The squeaky voiced little prick goes up in smoke and Malachai tries to gain control of the kids. However you can't keep a good creepy kid down. The reanimated corpse of Isaac sneaks up on Malachai and breaks his neck. As the human representative of He Who Walks Among the Rows, Isaac is an effectively creepy kid. The actor who played him - John Franklin - had human growth hormone deficiency which accounts for Isaac's high pitched whine. He would return in one of many Children of the Corn sequels - Children of the Corn 666 - Isaac's Return. He is still a creepy little kid in the sequel.