35 Scary movie-inspired baby names

Consider evil surnames such as Myers (Michael Myers from Halloween) or Lector (Hannibal the Cannibal from The Silence of the Lambs).

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Movie characters:

• Carol Anne – the little blue-eyed blonde who scared the crap out of us in Poltergeist (1975)
• Chuckie – the violent, killing doll from the 1988 movie Child’s Play
• Cole – “I see dead people.” The Sixth Sense (1999)
• Damien – In The Omen (1976), little Damien was the Antichrist; in real life, Damien is a French name meaning “To heal.”
• Elisabeth – the beautiful heroine of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)
• Esther – The moral of Orphan (2009): never adopt a 9-year-old girl who wears a collar.
• Freddy – Mr. Krueger from 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Henry – Macauley Culkin is genius as an antisocial pscyhopathic killer in The Good Son (1993).
• Jason – Interestingly, the popularity of this name rose following the release of Friday the 13th in 1980.
• Lestat – the romantic vampire played by Tom Cruise in 1994’s Interview with the Vampire. Claudia was the little vampiress played by Kirsten Dunst.
• Malachi – he cult leader of the murderous kids from Gatlin in Children of the Corn (1984)
• Matty – Atticus Shaffer played The Unborn in this 2009 flick.
• Norman – As in Bates. As in Psycho (1960). 
• Regan – There never was (and there never will be) a more frightening movie character than the possessed Regan of The Exorcist (1973).
• Rosemary – the 1968 classic Rosemary’s Baby starring Mia Farrow
• Samara – In the 2002 remake of The Ring, evil Samara Morgan just wants a new mother.

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Actors:

• Boris Karloff – the actor who played the monster created by the mad doctor in 1931’s Frankenstein
• Linda Blair – use the first or last of this actress who was too young to view her performance in The Exorcist.  (Bonus: Blair might also represent the eerie Blair Witch Project)
• Lon Chaney – best known as Erik in Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• Sissy Spacek –the bloody prom queen from the 1976 smash Carrie

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Writers:

• Anne Rice – Vampire Chronicles, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches
• Bram Stoker – Dracula
• Edgar Allan Poe – The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, The Telltale Heart, 
• Stephen King – Cujo, It, Misery, Salem’s Lot

Name your baby after a literary work: Film producers and directors:

• Alfred Hitchcock – The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Psycho, Rear Window
• John Carpenter – Halloween, The Fog, The Thing
• Roman Polanski – Frantic, The Ghost Hunter, Rosemary’s Baby
• Wes Craven – The Last House on the Left, Scream, Swamp Thing

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