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Creepy Children Singing
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For added atmosphere, play the music from this track while reading on. 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. In Japanese works the Playground Song Kagome, Kagome is a popular choice for this, due to its sinister-sounding lyrics. Said lyrics include the line "Who is now behind you?", which makes a perfect cue for a Jump Scare. 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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Puella Magi Madoka Magica has quite a few, such as Wo ist die Käse and Noi! The Clara Dolls from the followup movie, most of them sung in Gratuitous German. | |
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The Hungry Choir in Pale has a recurring tune sung by a group of bloody-mouthed children who are thinned from starvation. The participants in the Choir's ritual are required to sing along, and if they miss a verse the children take bites out of them; if the participants die then a waiflike replica of them will join the choir. | |
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In the final episode of Over the Garden Wall, while Greg begins to turn into an Edelwood tree, has Greg's vocals in two songs. First, in the second half of the Beast's Villain Song "Come Wayward Souls". Then is "Potatus Et Molassus", a Dark Reprise of Greg's earlier song "Potatoes and Molasses", with Greg singing in Latin (which ends with a line taken from the previous song). | |
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Phantoms: At one point during the 1998 film, the Ancient Enemy uses a child's voice to sing 'Jesus Loves Me.' | |
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Imperial Radch: The protagonist of Ancillary Justice, the Artificial Intelligence of a spaceship that operates planetside through Meat Puppet soldiers called ancillaries, hears some children playing a game and singing about them. | |
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Poltergeist (1982) has a great one with "Carol Anne's Theme" (composed by Jerry Goldsmith), a semi-religious sounding lullaby that sounds very innocent and pure. Taken to a disturbing level in the ending credits when the children laugh ominously. | |
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Kara's theme in Boruto has these. | |
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Mr. Jones (2019): Starving Ukrainian children surround Gareth and sing (with a dissonant calm tone) a creepy song about Stalin being the organizer of this tragedy, and people eating their children after turning mad because of starvation. They later reappear (with a extract of the same song) during a hallucination sequence. A few notes from the same song are heard again much later, during a scene where Gareth encounters children in his hometown in Wales | |
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A trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron has children creepily singing "I've Got No Strings" (from Disney's Pinocchio) as violent action plays on the screen... the last lines ominously spoken rather than sung by Ultron himself (James Spader). | |
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At the end of the first Episode in Umineko: When They Cry, Natsuhi, George, Jessica and Battler are taking refuge in Kinzo's study when the phone rings. When they answer the only voice they can hear is Maria singing in the background. | |
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In Coraline, this trope is practically the whole soundtrack. | |
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Tower of Terror: When Buzzy Crocker and his niece Anna pay a visit to HTH: The Hollywood Tower Hotel so Buzzy can get a phony tabloid picture of Anna dressed as Sally Shine for The National Inquisitor, suspicious sounds send them exploring the resort's halls. They eventually hear the wandering spirit of the real Sally Shine, singing: | |
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In Rule of Rose the young Aristocrats sing a creepy tune about a monster called 'Stray Dog' around a fire in the chapter Sir Peter, shortly before Jennifer is forced to shove a rat-on-stick in Amanda's face. | |
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The Poirot episode "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" makes use of this at the beginning and throughout the episode, as children ominously sing the nursery rhyme. | |
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The Innocents has a few instances, plus a child's creepy poem recital for good measure. | |
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M opens with an old lady scolding children for singing a song about the child murderer who's stalking the city. | |
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The Rick and Morty episode "Lawnmower Dog" has, as a reference to the Nightmare on Elm Street example, a girl singing a nursery rhyme about a Freddy Krueger Expy. It uses the alphabet instead of numbers, doesn't rhyme particularly well, and skips G,H, and I. Even the monster hates it. | |
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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 the Tim Burton movie, in which Toby just silently walks away. | |
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The opening credits of Cooties feature the journey of a tainted chicken nugget from slaughterhouse to cafeteria, with all the gory details... which would have been disturbing enough without a soundtrack consisting of children chanting gibberish, grinding synthesizers, and what can only be described as a sinister kazoo chorus. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion uses this in the Rebuild movies in the distressing scenes. | |
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Pops up in Scrooged as well, which Danny Elfman also scored. | |
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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. | |
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The Binding of Isaac plays Jesus Loves Me over the credits when you beat it enough times, with a creepy distorted effect. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Nightmare as a Child", Helen Foley hears Markie creepily singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" in her mind. | |
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In an episode of DuckTales (2017), Scrooge and his family venture to Ithaquack where they face various challenges from Zeus who has a grudge against Scrooge. One of them involves Zeus summoning a siren (who has taken the appearance of a little girl) to hypnotize his son Storkules to destroy the McDuck family against his will. Scrooge even lampshades this trope when the siren begins her song. | |
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An iconic one from A Nightmare on Elm Street: "Freddy's Coming For You". The children are strongly implied to be spectres of Freddy's previous victims, as he often populates his nightmare world with them. | |
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Rightly found in ObsCure, a choir of children sing about the light (the only thing that seriously harm the infected kids of the school). | |
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This trope is invoked in Dragon Age: Origins when the Warden explores a creepy orphanage rife with demons and ghosts. | |
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The opening of Children of the Corn (1984) 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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Deep Red has a creepy lullaby that serves as a background music for some of the creepiest moments. | |
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In Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, the final mission's theme Chandelier is mostly this with elements of Cherubic Choir, for a very solemn and funereal atmosphere. Quite appropriate, as the mission features a superweapon in an Arctic frozen sea bombarding the capital city of Emmeria. | |
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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..." | |
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Stargate SG-1: The episode Grace has Major Carter wandering away from the X-303 Prometheus' bridge to investigate a rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star that seems to be coming from somewhere nearby. She doesn't find the source. | |
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The Ghosts of Sleath: From an apparently empty building, a choir of children are heard to sing the hymn "Lord of the Dance." | |
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In Bravely Default the theme tune of the Ba'als includes a segment of this in their Leitmotif. The bosses in question are Early-Bird Cameos for Bravely Second, where the theme returns | |
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In 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. | |
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The tag children singing "Kagome, Kagome" around Miku in the first Fatal Frame, and the handmaidens singing "Sleeping Priestess" in the third one. Especially effective with the handmaidens, since they are singing about skinning and impaling people in a monotone, almost entranced tone of voice. | |
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Samara Morgan sings one herself in the 2002 adaptation of The Ring. | |
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Dishonored features a rather ominous variant of The Drunken Sailor known as "The Drunken Whaler". | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: Also, the episode "Miri" has unseen children singing standard schoolyard chants, to creepy effect. |
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In a creepy scene in The Birds, schoolchildren sing the nonsense folk song "Risselty-Rosselty" while a mass of Creepy Crows slowly gather on an empty playground, waiting to attack them as soon as they leave. Subverted in that the children themselves are innocent victims, the creepiness coming from the context, suspense, and situation. | |
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One of the most legitimately unsettling moments in Silent Hill: Homecoming is when you enter the playground for the first time and you hear the disembodied voices of children sing the first line of "Ring Around the Rosey". It's no less creepy when you hear the same disembodied voices laugh together on the way back, either. You never find any actual kids and nothing comes of this either. | |
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Don't Look: The movie starts with a creepy girl's voice singing "Silent Night". The voice is Nicole's when she was a kid. | |
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Modesty sings a creepy song about hunting witches in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | |
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Not actually singing, but in The Bad Seed (1956), Rhoda playing "Au Clair de la Lune" on the piano, especially when Leroy is burning to death. | |
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"Ake ni Somaru" from Hell Girl starts with this, followed by creepy trance music. It did a damn good job of turning mundane, peaceful scenes (like a cityscape at sunset) into spooky panoramas. | |
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Nightwish's Imaginaerum album is full of this, particularly on "Scaretale." | |
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In Plague Inc., a young boy can be heard singing 'Ring around a Rosy' in a slightly distorted voice, in reference to the theory that the song is an allegory to The Black Death. | |
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One of the more infamous parts of Courage the Cowardly Dog in the episode "Freaky Fred" has a choir repetitively and monotonously singing "la la la" as the titular barber shaves the hair off a terrified Courage. | |
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Amatsuki has a choir of children singing the creepy nursery rhyme "Toryanse" in a whisper when Yakou appears. | |
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Nu-13's new theme in BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, titled Awakening the Chaos II, uses a regular dramatic choir for most of the music. After about five minutes, though, it switches briefly to a group of small children singing the same riff in 'La la la la la la la...'. It fits the character very well, because Nu is mostly a Killer Robot but is occasionally also a Psychopathic Manchild. | |
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In the 2007 adaptation of Hannibal Rising, the German children song "Ein Männlein steht im Walde" is a central theme that continues through the whole movie. The last scene shows young Hannibal marching off to his next kill while a creepy, high-pitched children's choir sings the song. | |
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Ju Dou: After the horrifying ending when Tianbai kills Tianqing, followed by Ju Dou setting fire to the dye mill (and apparently immolating herself), the film ends with a freeze-frame of the burning mill, and a thoroughly creepy recording of children singing a Chinese nursery rhyme. | |
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King's Quest VII: The ghoul kids in Ooga Booga can often be caught singing creepy little rhymes whever they're not up to other mischief. This is especially evident during the game's climax, as the volcano gets ready to erupt and kill them all. | |
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The Last Metro: A creepy children's choir singing what appears to be a Vichy France hymn sets an ominous mood when Bernard meets his La Résistance contact in a church. Sure enough, the contact is arrested. | |
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The fanmade My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic song "Daddy Discord" combines this trope with a Villain Song; for all her natural pony cuteness, Screwball quickly lands herself in Creepy Child territory as she sings of her unflinching desire to help her creator take vengeance for his imprisonment in stone by tearing the world apart through fear and chaos. | |
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Simon Dark: The kids in Gotham Village sing about Simon coming after those who are "bad" while skipping rope. It's unclear if Simon named himself after their song or if the song was made about him, but given Beth's reaction the song and its singers are unsettling. | |
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Doctor Who has been doing this since at least "The Trial of a Time Lord", in which the Doctor is hunted through a series of abandoned warehouses whilst Creepy Children sing Ring-a-Ring-o-Roses in the background. It isn't clear if he can hear or not. The new series uses it in the Series 6 episodes "Night Terrors", "Closing Time", and "The Wedding of River Song". During the Seventh Doctor's run, we have "Remembrance of the Daleks", in which a little girl witnesses the Doctor and Ace arriving, before singing: "The Beast Below": "Night Terrors": |
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The Wyatt Family has used children as psychological weapons in their feuds, attempting to unnerve opponents by having one (or a chorus) sing the children's Christian song "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" and selling their characters as a psychopathic, bloodthirsty, Deliverance-type Satanic cult. This was used to great effect by Bray Wyatt and his "followers" in their 2014 feud with John Cena. | |
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In League of Legends, Thresh the Chain Warden's leitmotif involves little children singing a creepy nursery rhyme about how the rattling of Thresh's chains may be the last thing you hear. | |
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South Park used this trope in the episode "Ginger Kids". | |
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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 Thumper chained to a urinal, struggling while the stadium is being demolished. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: | |
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The opening sequence and end credits of ABCs of Death 2 both feature children singing "La la la la" in an eerie manner. | |
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In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion pack Heart of Stone we hear some children singing about the Man of Glass. The children themselves are perfectly normal (and are actually present in the world rather than just part of the soundtrack), but the content of their song is decidedly creepy. | |
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Parodied in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, when the three lemurs wind up in Sonya the bear's supposedly empty train car. A creepy child-like "La la la" appears...but it turns out to be Mort. King Julien, who gets freaked out by the chanting, tells him to stop. | |
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In Pokémon 3, the Unown's Pokémon Speak often sounds like this, fitting their status as a Hive Mind of Eldritch Abominations. | |
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Although Mihaly's granddaughters in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown aren't creepy themselves, their singing is given a creepy context in a cutscene before the final mission, with shots from the viewpoint of the "Zone of Endless" AI, as well as automated factories preparing for a Robot War. | |
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Quatermass: | |
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind features several eerie moments when Nausicaa as a child chanted 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 become an avenging version of a Messianic Archetype; in the manga, it is far, far worse. | |
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