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{{quote|''Expensive horror films have more expensive theme tunes, they'd be sort of choirs of small children going, "Ahhahhhhahhhhahhhahhhahhh I died tragically ahhhahhhahh"''|'''[[Eddie Izzard]]''' }}
If a program or film wants to add fear to a scene one of the most creepy ways is to have a [[Creepy Child]], or a whole creepy choir, singing somewhere in the distance or background, usually the tune is a mournful nursery rhyme. Sometimes it will seem like the characters can hear it and they may even call out, asking if anyone is there.
Compare and contrast: [[Ironic Nursery Tune]] which is always something the characters can hear and is often said or sung by one of them. Compare [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]. Contrast [[Cherubic Choir]].
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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]]'' 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]].}}
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Seven, Eight, gonna stay up late...
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.
* 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.
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== Live Action Television ==
* 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
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':
{{quote|Can't even shout, can't even cry,
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Far away, for to see
Friendly angel come to me. }}
* ''[[Quatermass]]''
{{quote|Huffety puffety Ringstone Round.
If you lose your hat it will never be found,
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