Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Scott LeBrun Lori Heuring ("Mulholland Dr.") plays Karen, a young widow with a teen aged daughter (Scout Taylor-Compton, Rob Zombies' "Halloween" films) and little girl (Chloe Grace Moretz, "Carrie" '13). After the death of the husband / father, they move to the isolated woodsy abode that they supposedly inherited from his family. They'll find that adjusting to rural life is not going to be their primary concern. The aggressive, bloodthirsty spirits of children who perished in an early 20th century mining accident will be out and about, ready to kill whomever they please."Wicked Little Things" is pretty standard stuff, with a story by Boaz Davidson ("Hospital Massacre") and screenplay by Ben Nedivi. Filmed in the wilds and studios of Bulgaria, it has plenty of that truly forbidding rural scenery that you can often get in European cinema. It is nice to see that veteran director J.S. Cardone ("The Slayer", "Shadowzone", "The Forsaken") cares so much about atmosphere, and creates so much of it. For a while, the story is fairly absorbing without being extraordinary in any way. It does play all its cards too soon by being too quick to show the childish spirits in action, and by showing just how barbaric they can be; it may have been better to hold off just a bit longer. As it is, it does descend into typical body count / gore fest shtick. This approach may appeal to some horror fans, but a lot of the gore loses its impact by being shot in a realistically low lit fashion.The characters aren't unlikable, but Taylor-Compton is required to be rather useless, and Moretz' tendency towards wandering off gets to be annoying. Heuring is okay as the heroine of the piece. The late wonderful character actor Geoffrey Lewis ("The Devil's Rejects") isn't seen for long before being unceremoniously dispatched. Ben Cross ("The Unholy" '88) does make a strong impact as superstitious local Aaron Hanks. And Martin McDougall is a mildly amusing slime ball as the greedy Mr. Carlton."Wicked Little Things" doesn't have that much to offer, but it's not a complete waste of time. The resolution is, ultimately, rather unsatisfying.Six out of 10.

Spikeopath A widow and her daughters move into the inherited family home and get terrorised by "zombie" kids from the local Carlton mining disaster that occurred many years earlier.You know very early from the off that we the audience are going to be asked a lot of as regards character behaviours and rationales. The grieving mother moves herself and her daughters into what can only be described as an isolated pig sty, and right from the off all the warning signs are there for them that all is not well in this part of town.Story unravels in standard revenge from the grave formation, but the setting is very much in the film's favour even if the core story is not. Creepy forest, crumbling abodes and the spectre of the mine disaster ready to unleash its secret. The kids themselves are actually ghosts who eat meat, human or animal, so it was a tenuous marketing strategy to be calling it a zombie film.However, the kids themselves are splendidly ghoulish, pale faced and dark eyed, these very much are creepy kids. Low tone cinematography and gentle pacing help the mood considerably, and cast performances are fine given that the writing saddles them with weak dialogue exchanges and drawn out sequences obviously used to extend the running time. A teen romance strand involving the eldest daughter also just feels like filler.A modest spooker but certainly watchable enough, atmosphere and location setting ensure this is the case. 4/10

TheBlueHairedLawyer Sarah and Emma lost their dad to an unexplained illness; now they are moving to an old coal-mining town in Pennsylvania. The house turns out to be a decrepit old wooden shack full of rats, with bad plumbing and belongings like a Christmas tree left behind. Sarah makes new friends, a trio of stoned high-schoolers, meanwhile her little sister Emma creates a pretend friend called Mary. Emma's mom is worried, but is also wondering about William Carlton, a selfish land-developer who is tearing the old houses and mines down for a ski resort. Unknown to him the group of zombies, children who were murdered in a mine shaft in 1913, are out to find him. Next, oh crudlychunks, Emma seeks help from a neighbor, the eccentric and religious Hank, who kindly offers to help her... but not Carlton. Interesting as it was, Wicked Little Things was typical and predictable. Sarah's group of hick friends are all perverts, in fact the first thing one guy says to her is, "I got something hard for you to catch", and he points to his crotch. Growing up in a mining and steelmaking province myself, I can recall the old documents of child labor and what-not. However, the plot is still very predictable. The overused "I met an imaginary friend that is actually real" plot is there, Chloe Moretz (Carrie 2013), played a boring and annoying role as Emma. Hank was a great character, all he wanted was to help the kids. Watch at least once, you might enjoy it.

Chrysanthepop 'Wicked Little Things' is pretty much your typical B-grade zombie-flick except this one isn't as entertaining as the average zombie slasher. A hot widow (Lori Heuring) moves to the mountains with her two daughters with the intention to sell a tattered shack that her late husband had left her. Little do they know that, years ago, a bunch of kids were tragically left there to die during a mine accident. 'Wicked Little Things' tries to draw the viewers in the first half hour by attempting to be atmospheric but instead it ends up being mind-numbingly boring. There isn't much gore as one would expect in such films. The art direction is quite good and the acting is mostly quite bad. Lori Heuring is the only one who acts decently while the young actress who plays her teenage daughter is a cliché and the child actor is terrible (blame the director for this). Where the rest of the cast is concerned, I'm glad they died a horrible death on screen. This certainly isn't the ideal B-grade zombie entertainment and there are plenty of other movies that do more justice to the genre.