Children and horror often fade hand-in-hand; sometimes kids are the conduit for evil,others can see ghosts, and in The Shining, or the hand-holding is literal. The sub-genre of parents who are at their wits’ end because of supernatural occurrences impacting their family includes classics such as The Exorcist and The Omen,as well as the more recent Insidious and Conjuring franchises.
Source: blastr.com