Reviews of The Children 2008
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Why I hate children. Exhibit A. Look at them. Acting innocent and sweet. And then stabbing you in the eye, cutting your head open, being evil. They're so evil. And they know adults won't fight back cause "Oh, the children. You can't hurt the children! They're just sweet fucking cherubs!" Bullshit. They're demons. You have no idea how many times I screamed, "Kill the children! Kill all the children!" at the screen. Nearly set a record.
Also, this movie makes for a good Christmas movie.
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Well spank my hiney this film was disturbingly creepy.
The build-up, though a bit predictable, is expertly done, it has tension at the right moments, chooses its more gory moments really well and it has those kids.....damn, they were creepy.
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Another win for UK horror. Really well acted somethings not right with the Children flick. Whats great about this is it leaves a lot to your imagination, you have to obtain what you think by what you see, its not going to give away anything. Explanations prove elusive. This is a throwback in this regard. Nowadays everything holds your hands.
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This movie was mostly really great but partly really irritating. The beginning set the scene quite well, but the parents were all douches and there were bits in the movie of all the kids screaming and being loud all together which just annoyed me. I think this was on purpose but still, it was irritating. Apart from that, the suspense and gore was great and well-timed, and overall a really good little horror film.
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Superb. Gorgeously and inventively shot. The brilliance of the film, however, lies in the way it's edited, never showing too much and being all the more effective for it. In fact, in many scenes, even though you have a pretty clear idea what happened, the possibility is left open that it could be a misinterpretation. Which is, of course, one of the factors troubling the parents who can't believe what's happening to them. Unsettling stuff.
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great camera work, great cut, but all in all i didn't get that thrilled by the children.
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Zwei Familien mit kleinen Kindern treffen sich an Weihnachten zum gemeinsamen Feiern. Doch dann werden die vier Racker krank... und Tollwut ist nichts gegen die Folgen!
Kinder sind von Natur aus gruselig, was auch schon andere Horrorfilme unter Beweis gestellt haben. Hierbei handelt es sich allerdings nicht bloß um einen psychologischen Grusler, sondern es geht blutig zur Sache. Ja, aufgepasst! In diesem Film töten Kinder ihre Eltern. Aber auch anders herum geht es nicht zimperlich zu. Bei einigen Szenen hat…
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Between this movie and Eden Lake, I'm thoroughly convinced that children are the bane of our existence, and a danger to our future survival as a species.
Most of the film built up some great suspense, but when the kids started their reign of terror, these scenes were punctuated by some truly awful editing and camera work. I could not explain to you how any of the adults actually died.
The acting was fine, and the story was well told,…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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While I don't generally like films about evil children (unless they're feral) I found this movie to be incredibly tense, and it featured a lot of evil kids being killed so that's a plus.
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If you ever want to see how to fail at making kids scary, watch this.