Devil-child movies
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A devil-child movie is a type of horror movie where the antagonist or anti-hero is a child or child-like demon or child possessed by an evil force or something similar. For example, Rosemary's Baby was about a woman who sells her baby to a witches' coven.
Many such movies were made in the years 1960-1984, which was precisely when Generation X was being born.
A Brief Chronology of the Devil-Child Movie Era:
- 1956 The Bad Seed
- 1960 Village of the Damned
- 1961 The Innocents
- 1964 Children of the Damned
- 1968 Rosemary's Baby
- 1973 The Exorcist
- 1974 It's Alive!
- 1976 Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (made for television)
- 1976 The Omen
- 1976 Carrie
- 1977 Exorcist II: The Heretic
- 1978 It Lives Again
- 1978 Damien: Omen II
- 1978 Halloween
- 1980 The Children
- 1984 Children of the Corn
- 1989 Pet Sematary
- 1993 The Good Son