Watch The Children Online
Samedi, septembre 4th, 2010 |
Watch The Children Online.
Movie Title: The Children The Children is available for streaming or downloading. |
I saw this film a few months ago and it immediately became my new favorite “evil children” movie, but also one of my favorite recent horrors. And it gets huge bonus points for being actually frightening. This review is of the US Region-free Blu-ray release from Lionsgate/Ghost House Underground, released today, Oct. 6, 2009.
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The performances are uniformly excellent, which is crucial for a horror film to be scary. Special kudos for Mr. Shankland for coaxing genuinely creepy performances out of very young children. See recent The Omen remake to see how not to do it. 
This film is not for fans of jump scares or fast-paced editing. Well, to be honest, there are a couple brief flash-cut editing moments, but they are thankfully brief, and I can see the point to them, so they are forgiven. My point was, this is a slow burner that takes its time to establish the setting, characters and mood. And as a real horror fan, I can appreciate this deliberation as true scares are built from those building blocks. The horrors that do happen, in time, are that much more effective wen they do.
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The picture on the BD looks great to me, but I’m not a real A/V geek, so you can look elsewhere to discuss crushed blacks. There are a wealth of special features here, too, but noticeably absent is a director’s commentary, alas.
On a side note, what was wrong with the fantastic cover art of the UK release? And why does Ghost House feel the need to plaster their graphics all over more prominently than the film title?
Anyway, highly recommended for horror fans who are tired of cheap jump scares. But parents beware, as the themes here are truly disturbing.
These lines of direct to DVD horror flicks to come along recently, the After Dark Horrorfest and more recently Ghost House Underground, usually feature a diamond in the rough among their various lineups. British import The Children is by and far such a film in this year’s Ghost House Underground lineup, and it may in fact be the ballsiest horror film you’ll come across right now. A family get together turns deadly when a virus infects the young children, which subsequently causes them to attack and murder the adults. As they fight for survival, it becomes clear that director Tom Shankland (The Killing Gene) is quite simply going for the throat of the viewer, as he pulls no punches in presenting some shocking scenes of brutality and bloodletting. Not to mention the fact that the film is actually suspenseful and it features a simply dynamite ending, The Children winds up being a blood-curdling shocker. The film’s editing may be occasionally sloppy, but regardless of that, The Children is definitely worth your time if you’re a horror fan. Be on the lookout for the gorgeous Hannah Tointon, who may in fact be a star in the making.
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