8) Damien in The Omen
"What's the matter, Damien? Oh, it's just a church, that's all." The Omen may be a classically cheesy movie, but it has plenty of genuine scares. The soundtrack is synonymous with satanic horror and it features some of cinema's most memorable glass sheet / church spire induced deaths. Gregory Peck's sense of doom increases as he realises what a big mistake he made when agreeing to a baby swap, and Lee Remick faces a pivotal scene at the safari park when she realises that animals are terrified of her little boy. With Billie Whitelaw as his somewhat unnerving nanny, Harvey Stephen's Damien isn't quite as terrifying as the things that happen around him. There is even a (brief) sense of reality, as we see him behaving like a normal little boy at times (baboons and churches notwithstanding). He mostly appears not to KNOW that he is the embodiment of evil. You'll be pleased to know that he achieves a more self-actualising wicked side in Damien: Omen II (1978). Unfortunately even Mia Farrow couldn't save the gimmicky 2006 Omen remake, in which anyone with half a mind would have carted off the silently brooding Damien (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) to a psychiatrist asap.