Creepy Children Singing: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Innocents]]'' has a few instances, plus a child's creepy poem recital for good measure.

* An iconic one from ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOf1AsaJWXY "Freddy's Coming For You"]

Nine, Ten, never sleep again." }}

* Easily half of [[Tim Burton]]'s films (particularly those scored by [[Danny Elfman]]) tend to have this in the background somewhere. Special mention to ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]'', in which it's practically the whole soundtrack.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has been doing this since at least "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S23 E1 The Mysterious Planet|The Trial of a Time Lord]]" where the Doctor was hunted through a series of abandoned warehouses whilst [[Trope Namer|Creepy Children]] sang Ring-a-Ring-o-Roses in the background. It wasn't clear if he could hear or not. The new series used it in the Series 6 episodes "Night Terrors", "Closing Time", and 'The Wedding of River Song".

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':

You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard. }}

* ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series''

Friendly angel come to me. }}

* ''[[Quatermass]]''

Huffity, puffity puff! }}

* Near the end of the second season of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', there's a closing-episode montage set to [[Alejandro Escovedo]]'s "Falling Down Again", which features children singing in the chorus and laughing during the fade-out, playing in conjunction with the imagery of {{spoiler|Thumper chained to a urinal, struggling while the stadium is being demolished.}}

== Video Games ==

* This trope is invoked in ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' when the Warden explores a creepy orphanage rife with demons and ghosts.

Eight nine and now you die }}

* Strangely, subverted by Disney. The Beta for ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' was supposedly going to have this in the form of the iconic song ''It's A Small World'' playing backwards during the Gremlin Village level. According to Warren Spector, the launch version was supposed to have the lyrical version as the boss for the Clock Tower, but copyright reasons kept this from happening. One can assume this is why the song doesn't play backwards at any point in the game.