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== Anime And Manga ==

* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'': "My mother has killed me... my father is eating me... my brothers and sisters, sit under the table, picking up my bones! They'll bury them, under the cold marble stones[[Musicalis Interruptus|...]]"

* ''[[~~Amatsuki (Anime)|~~Amatsuki]]'' has a choir of children sing the creepy nursery rhyme "Toryanse" in a whisper when [[Eldritch Abomination|Yakou]] appears.

* ''[[Amatsuki]]'' has a choir of children sing the creepy nursery rhyme "Toryanse" in a whisper when [[Eldritch Abomination|Yakou]] appears.

* ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of ~~The~~ Wind]]'' features several eerie moments when Nausicaa as a child chanted [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbk6AKl0_cI this eerie little tune], which is still quite ominous despite it being only "Na na na". If you fail to see why, consider that at the film climax, Nausicaa has more or less {{spoiler|become an avenging version of [[The Messiah]]; in the manga, it is [[Dark Messiah|far, far worse]].}}

* ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'' features several eerie moments when Nausicaa as a child chanted [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbk6AKl0_cI this eerie little tune], which is still quite ominous despite it being only "Na na na". If you fail to see why, consider that at the film climax, Nausicaa has more or less {{spoiler|become an avenging version of [[The Messiah]]; in the manga, it is [[Dark Messiah|far, far worse]].}}

== Film ==

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

* ''[[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"]

{{quote| "One, two, Freddy's coming for you...<br />

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Seven, Eight, gonna stay up late...<br />

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 (~~Film~~)|Coraline]]'', in which it's practically the whole soundtrack.

* 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.

* The opening of ''[[Children of the Corn]]'' depicts what happens to the town after the children murder all the adults through crayon drawings as a choir of children sing wordlessly.

== Live Action Television ==

* In ''[[Dark Shadows (TV)|Dark Shadows]]'', we hear Barnabas Collins' [[Dead Little Sister]] Sarah long before we meet her. She sings "London Bridge" quietly, and occasionally plays a recorder.

* In ''[[Dark Shadows (TV series)|Dark Shadows]]'', we hear Barnabas Collins' [[Dead Little Sister]] Sarah long before we meet her. She sings "London Bridge" quietly, and occasionally plays a recorder.

* ''[[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]]'':

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== Theater ==

* Toby sings a creepy variation of "patty-cake" at the end of ''[[Sweeney Todd]]'' after realizing Todd had killed Mrs. Lovett and then killing Todd himself. This is left out of [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (~~Film~~)|the Tim Burton movie]], in which Toby just silently walks away.

* Toby sings a creepy variation of "patty-cake" at the end of ''[[Sweeney Todd]]'' after realizing Todd had killed Mrs. Lovett and then killing Todd himself. This is left out of [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|the Tim Burton movie]], in which Toby just silently walks away.