80s, Child Killers, Drama, Horror, Horror?, Movies

River’s Edge (1986)

River’s Edge In a small Northern California town, high schooler John has just strangled and killed his girlfriend, Jamie. John is not horrified, ashamed, or even phased by this act. Quite the opposite. He seems almost proud of it, in fact. So proud that he immediately tells his friends what he did and takes them […]

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80s, Child Killers, Demons, Horror, Monsters, Movies

Pumpkinhead (1988)

Pumpkinhead Ed Harley is a widowed father who owns a small general store out in the country. While Ed’s busy running his day to day business, he gets some new customers one evening: a group of city kids who are out in the area to stay at their friends cabin and do a little camping. […]

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Holiday, Horror, Killer Children, Modern, Movies, Mystery, Thriller

The Children (2008)

The Children Elaine and her husband Jonah take their two kids and Elaine’s eldest daughter, Casey, to visit Elaine’s sister Chloe and her husband Robbie, and their two children at their isolated country home over the New Year’s weekend. They’re not even through the front door before Elaine’s son, Paulie, throws up outside. Chalking it […]

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80s, Child Killers, Drama, Horror, Movies, Slasher

Nightmare (1981)

AKA: Nightmares in a Damaged Brain AKA: Blood Splash George Tatum has just been released from a psychiatric institution. He had been incarcerated there for several years, after he brutally murdered and sexually mutilated an entire family in Brooklyn. But after years of therapy, drugs and experimental procedures, George has been declared “reformed” and is […]

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80s, Child Killers, Games, Horror, Slasher

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

The Baker family has suffered a great tragedy. While boating on the lake one day John Baker and his two children, Angela and Peter, are run down by a wayward ski boat. Jumping ahead eight years we learn that Angela, the lone survivor, has been adopted by her (very) eccentric aunt, Martha. Aunt Martha is […]

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