Maidgethma
Wonderfully offbeat film!
WasAnnon
Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Sexyloutak
Absolutely the worst movie.
Isbel
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
draftdubya
The adults in this were sad sacks of shiat. I said le God about 75 times while watching this rubbish. One lady had a single broken leg, but act like she couldn't crawl to save her life, but she can drive stick. One YA was trapped in a child's bedroom, but took a hour to get out. THE COPS NEVER COME to this place.
FountainPen
It's easy to score this flick a 7. I'd have gone to 8 or 9 had the ending not disappointed me. There wasn't really an "ending" as such: the surviving grown-ups simply escaped, and the film finished. Anyway... lots of violence, blood, gore... and damn well-done, too, with plenty of suspense and spine-tingling shocks, but no cheap gimmicks. The yelling, crying, whining, and screaming of the wee ones was irritating, but that's an essential part of the plot. And most parents will know that it's all an innocent part of growing up ~ except it turned out not to be quite as innocuous in this movie, heh heh heh. The film is very smartly directed: thank goodness we don't have to suffer through scene after scene shot in near-darkness, as is the case with so many low-budget horror movies these days. Also, there was no nasty intrusion by overly-loud or inappropriate music, no lengthy hand-held camera "Blair Witch" imitators. The director got the balance just right, and the actors fell into their roles very nicely indeed. No AA winners here, but no daft idiots trying to remember their lines and where to go, how to react. Congratulations! The premise of a bunch of partying youngsters going nuts and trying to knock off all the adults is definitely cool. Some of the kids certainly DO look menacing, even terrifying. Good stuff. I recommend "The Children" very strongly.
Claudio Carvalho
Elaine (Eva Birthistle), her second husband husband Jonah (Stephen Campbell Moore), her teenage daughter Casey (Hannah Tointon) and her children Miranda (Eva Sayer) and Paulie (William Howes) travel to the isolated house of her sister Chloe (Rachel Shelley) to spend the New Year with her family. They are welcomed by Chloe, her husband Robbie (Jeremy Sheffield) and their children Nicky (Jake Hathaway) and Leah (Rafiella Brooks). Casey is upset since she will miss a party and Paulie vomits, but his parents believe he is sick because of the travel. During the night, Nicky and Leah become also sick and Leah vomits something strange. Along the day, the other children become also infected and Miranda attacks Chloe. Robbie brings the other children to play in the snow and while riding in a sledge, Nicky puts some tools in the way and Robbie dies with the impact on his head. Soon the children attack the adults and Casey and her mother seeks shelter. Will someone survive?"The Children" is a gore horror film with a story that does not explain why only the children are affected by some mysterious virus that make them violent against adults. The plot is tense but gives the sensation that something is missing to make "The Children" a great horror movie. The open conclusion makes the viewer wondering whether Casey is also infected or not. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): Not Available
tdrish
This was a good movie. HOWEVER! Very upsetting. Very disturbing. Very violent. Very gory. I have a major pet peeve against movies that depict children getting hurt or injured, much less killed off altogether. That's why it took my eight tries, over a course of three and a half years, to get through this mess of a film. There's only one other movie that I have watched in my lifetime that was as gory and upsetting as this, and that was Tromas Beware Children At Play. We want to look at kids as cute, harmless young beings building their way to adulthood, most of us do not want to think of them as psychotic killers trying to off their own parents off. ( And we don't want to think of a parent turning on their own child, and offing them off either, but that is pretty much what The Children is all about). The patience of the film, added together with its intense suspense, is what makes this feel like an actual movie, and not a slasher movie, which earns stars from me. If you are easily upset, this is not for you.
