“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.