Updated 1/9/2009: There’s something about their wild consumption of Similac, insufferable screaming and the fact that they’re damn adorable that makes babies impossible to ignore. Impossible to ignore? Yes. Impossible to defeat? Well, that’s another story, especially when those babies are so evil they’ve either been planted by Satan himself or have grown into a terrifying toddler ready to wreak havoc and break necks! Today we’re calling on all the evil babies in the world, spawn of Satan or otherwise, and our Top 10 Evil Babies list .Today, we’re bringing the list back from the dead to help honor the theatrical release of the Odette Yustman starrer, The Unborn (in theaters January 9th, 2009) about a presumed only child who discovers her twin brother, who died in the womb, is causing a whole hell of a bloody mess when he decides he wants to be born. Check out our list after the jump and check out our Unborn recap for all the placenta covered news, interviews and clips you can stomach

By Eddie Nickerson

All month long, we're celebrating the most fearsome of all creatures-the evil baby-in honor of the 40th anniversary of that definitive demonic spawn flick, Rosemary's Baby. But when FEARnet set out to compile a list of the most evil babies in cinema, we had no idea just how difficult a task it would prove to be. We weren't looking for children or even toddlers. No sir, it had to be babies. In most cases, we had to assume that the little tyke was inherently evil. After all, if a baby's parent is a blood-sucking vampire, a flesh-eating zombie or Satan himself, there's a better than average chance that evil is somewhere in their genetic code. Another consideration was the baby's potential for evil. For instance, a baby sired by the Devil is going to have more evil potential than a baby whose momma is an everyday ghoul. One is content to eat the flesh of the living, while the other aspires to bring about the friggin' Apocalypse. That being said, FEARnet proudly presents "The Top 10 Evil Babies"!

#10 Possessed by the Night - Mind Controlling Embryo
Yes, this movie is complete crap. It was directed by movie crap king, Fred Olen Ray, and has a craptacular performance by 90s scream queen, Shannon Tweed. But, we're not talkin' Oscar-worthiness here, people. No, FEARnet is all about evil babies and in THIS writer's opinion, a mind-controlling embryo in a jar makes the list! ESPECIALLY when that mind-controlling embryo in a jar is controlling Shannon Tweed and making her do all kinds of kinky sh-t! Can you imagine the kind of potential that little embryo would have if it could just get OUT of the jar? I mean, think about it. It's a freakin' mutated fetus in formaldehyde, and it's out there screwing with people's heads? Speaking of screwing, did I mention this movie has a lot of T&A?

#9 Dawn of The Dead (2004) - Zombie Baby
Oh, little bouncing bundle of decay, we hardly knew ye! In its short but extremely disturbing cameo, this FEARnet sinfant captured our hearts, while wanting to eat our flesh. Born in a shopping mall to a loving father and a screeching undead mother, zombie baby faced the cruel greetings of a cold, prejudiced world. A world prejudiced, not only against the ashen-gray color of its skin, but by the mere fact that zombie baby was...a zombie.

#8 Grave of the Vampire - Vampire Baby James
A vampire by the name of Croft awakens from his grave, hungry and horny after a long slumber. Fortunately for him, there just happens to be a young college couple making out in the cemetery. After satisfying his bloodlust on the boyfriend, Croft takes care of his other lust on the girl. The result is vampire baby James, an infant who prefers mommy's blood to mommy's milk. The theatrical trailer for this 1974 cult classic warned audiences: "If the sight of an infant child nursing on human blood will make you sick, do not see this explicitly gruesome horror film." Oh, it made us sick! Sick enough to make the list!

#7 I Don't Want to Be Born - Possessed Killer Baby
Maybe it didn't want to be born because of disco. Maybe it was concerned about 70s inflation or the fact that its on-screen mother was Joan Collins. We may never know why this possessed killer baby didn't want to be born. The fact is, it was born...with a vengeance! In this 1976 British import, Joan Collins plays a stripper who spurns the lecherous advances of an amorous dwarf. To get even, the dwarf curses the stripper's unborn baby, causing the baby to be born with homicidal tendencies. The murderous moppet racks up an impressive body count, taking out its mommy, daddy, nanny and pediatrician, played by Donald Pleasence. (It took Michael Myers six Halloweens to kill off Donald Pleasance!)

#6 Alien - Alien Chestburster
The dramatic fashion in which these parasitic preemies enter into the world is enough to land them on our list. These toothy, extraterrestrial tykes don't believe in the path of least resistance when it comes to birth canals. No, they prefer to punch and crunch their way out through the sternums of their human incubators. (There's no telling how many young people abandoned their dreams of becoming astronauts due to the possibility of alien babies popping out of their chests.)

#5 It's Alive! - The Mutant Baby Davies
The mutated newborn featured in this 1974 Larry Cohen masterpiece only kills when it becomes frightened! Unfortunately for everyone who comes into contact with the Davies baby, newborns frighten pretty easily. The killing spree actually begins in the delivery room with the attending medical staff. The hospital massacre sets off a police mutant-baby hunt, which causes the Davies baby to become more frightened, which, in turn, causes more killing! With such a vicious cycle, you can see how things quickly spiral out of control. At the tender young age of three days, the Davies baby had already killed seven people.

#4 Braindead, a.k.a. Dead Alive - Zombie Baby Selwyn
Before making magic with The Lord of The Rings and monkeying around with King Kong, Peter Jackson unleashed zombie baby Selwyn on the world. In this camp-and-carnage-filled zomedy, Selwyn is the most memorable member of the living dead. Besides having a face that takes the ugly baby prize on our countdown, Selwyn's incessant evil giggle and chaotic nature makes him a force to be reckoned with. In the hilariously horrifying park scene, the hero of the film takes Selwyn for a stroll in a baby carriage, using barbed wire to prevent the little menace from escaping!

#3 Blessed - Satanic Twins
In this mediocre knock off of Rosemary's Baby, the devil jumps into the twenty-first century with both hooves, using in vitro fertilization to sire a son. A mysterious fertility clinic offers to help a childless couples free of charge-the only drawback is they're using the devil's demon seed! Heather Graham plays the barren, but bodaciously hot momma who gets impregnated with Satan's DNA. As is often the case with in vitro fertilization, Rollergirl gives birth to twins at the end of the movie. Evil twins!

#2 The Omen - Damian Thorn
Okay, we admit it. We're cheating a little here. After all, this film spends most of its running time on a child, not a baby. But let's forget, for a moment, the evil deeds this child does, and just look at its origins..."Damian Thorn"... That bad-ass name alone would be enough to earn this hell-spawned baby a spot on our top ten list. But he also gets a vicious rottweiler and an even more vicious nanny as his personal bodyguards. Couple that with the bizarre fact that his biological mother was a jackal and Captain Ahab himself couldn't kill the little son of a bitch. This baby had evil potential the size of Moby Dick!

#1 Rosemary's Baby - Adrian
Few movies are able to leave the audience with such a deep and disturbing sense of dread. Surrounded by a coven of adoring witches, viewers sense that baby Adrian is destined for something cataclysmic. Chanting "Hail Satan" and "Hail Adrian", the enthusiastic worshipers gleefully celebrate the newborn's arrival as the beginning of the end. The unsettling visual of the black shroud and the upside down cross hanging over the cradle, further enhance the feeling of impending doom. To this day, "He has his father's eyes" remains one of the creepiest lines ever uttered in a horror film. With a face even his own mother was reluctant to love, this little bringer of the apocalypse deserves the number 1 spot on our list, as the most evil baby in cinematic history.

Honorable Mention: Family Guy - Stewie Griffin
Zombie babies, the spawn of satan; those are all well and good, but how many of the babies on this list can say they've built a weather-control device, shot down their "father's men" via intergalactic battleship, and plotted meticulously to kill their mother with a series of Mussolini-inspired tactics? Well, if any of them can, I'd like to see them take on Stewie Griffin. Stewie is the evil and borderline-British-accented fledgling tyrant of the Griffin family. While his doughy dad Peter and doughier older brother Chris wouldn't hurt a fly (unless it got in the way of their TV), Stewie has literally put the Grim Reaper through physical therapy, trying to send his mother on an early flight to the afterlife. The thing is, most of the above babies are reacting on sheer instinct, fighting to survive and unable to control their demonic urges. But Stewie? Stewie is all too aware of his sociopathic tendencies. And he--and we--wouldn't have it any other way.