“Oh yes, children often commit murders, and quite clever ones too,” explains Reggie Tasker, a writer with criminal insight in The Bad Seed. In horror films, kids are often the helpless victims of an evil villain, but there are also plenty of young boys and girls thirsty for blood. Whether the scares are frighteningly realistic or wildly supernatural, young murderers in the movies challenge us with questions of nurture versus nature. Let’s check out five movies with kids that would make any grown man or woman run away in fear.

With the subdued intensity of James Franco and the cocky swagger of a Euro-rock star, Robert Sheehan is bound for stardom. The young Irish lad is only 23 years old, but he has already demonstrated his tremendous range and addictive charisma.

Paying a subscription fee for an unlimited monthly pass to the movies sounds like a great idea at first. MoviePass promises to deliver the sort of satisfaction we had with Netflix for so many years. But quite frankly, the unlimited monthly pass just will not work.

With the tremendous success of The Walking Dead, zombies officially sank their teeth into pop culture. Like the AMC TV series, the best zombie movies have always balanced stomach-churning gore with insightful social commentary.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he probably didn’t realize that he’d written a potential tagline for every paranoia-driven movie to follow that speech. The fears of paranoid characters are constructed, either by themselves or others around them, but our best filmmakers allow us to see the world from these fragile perspectives. Let’s immerse ourselves in the unsettling terror of the mind.

Remakes and sequels dominate the American horror movie market. If not blatantly derivative of their foreign counterpart, other movies of the genre emphasize gore and cheap shock over substance. But thank god for the filmmakers outside of the U.S. who consistently deliver psychological and philosophical horror films.