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Children (2008)

Starring: Rachel Shelley, Eva Birthistle Director: Tom Shankland Rating: R (Restricted) Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Rachel Shelley, Eva Birthistle, Jeremy Sheffield, Stephen Campbell Moore, Hannah Tointon
  • Directors: Tom Shankland
  • Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Lions Gate
  • DVD Release Date: October 6, 2009
  • Run Time: 85 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B002I41KLO
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,125 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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You brought them into the world. They will take you out. A family anticipates a Christmas filled with sledding, laughter and hot cocoa as they head to their vacation home in the secluded backcountry…The holiday cheer takes a fast turn for the worse after a mysterious flu-like virus sweeps through the kids. One by one the children become deadly. Amidst the suspicion, mayhem and murder, the parents fight for survival against their own twisted offspring.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars My New Favorite "Evil Children" Movie, October 6, 2009
By Nanook (Culver City, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Children [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
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.

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 when they do.

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.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The best thing to come from Ghost House Underground, October 8, 2009
By N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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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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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Killer Kids movie EVER~!, October 6, 2009
I just watched "The Children" and I am in awe..I was expecting it to be decent but this film way exceeded my expectations.

I will give a brief synopsis because you can read the synopsis anywhere you look up the film.

It's New Years Eve, and two families are meeting to celebrate the holiday together, both families have two kids.One of the families has a teenage daughter as well...The kids start getting sick then all bets are off..They start to become vicious and evil.The camera work is genius and I was so unsettled and jumpy during the movie that I had to take a xanax..and I am a hard core horror lover..It was the suspense and the way the scenes were put together and intertwined that made it excel.

For a movie with such young kids in the production they spared no violence or hard core scenes.

I might expect they would soften it a bit but they didn't .Kudos' for that as well.

I was entertained from start to finish and I mean the last frame.

Think 1981's Bloody Birthday with gore no cheese and great acting.

This is definitely a film I will watch again and probably again .

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4.0 out of 5 stars High on the Creepy Scale
I would really give this 3 1/2 stars but I can't seem to figure out how to do that. Anyway....I like a good horror flick as much as the next person so this one got reviews good... Read more
Published 5 days ago by Eric Sanberg

4.0 out of 5 stars Someone Needs A Time-Out
THE CHILDREN, a British horror film about murderous -- wait for it -- children, may not have many surprises up its sleeve, but surprisingly adept execution and plotting keep it... Read more
Published 5 days ago by Mark Eremite

5.0 out of 5 stars Genuinely creepy horror movie...highly reccomended.
As someone who does not even have children this movie was sick, twisted, and disturbing. Just putting yourself in the shoes of the parents in this movie, what would you do if your... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Brian Semon

1.0 out of 5 stars Pay attention to REVIEW "Dates", This was horrible!
You will find a lot of this review may not make perfect sense, because the film itself is so bad its hard to no where to start and where to stop to hopefully save someone some... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Brent Turner

2.0 out of 5 stars not good
this movie was extremely boring.. not good at all.. it came in timely manner... but i read the reviews before i brought this movie.. and it was very misleading.. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Patrice Leonard

1.0 out of 5 stars Ripped Off Story with Poor Production Quality
The tale of evil children in a community has been done many times over and this version is amongst the worst for the following reasons:
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Published 2 months ago by G. Teslovich

4.0 out of 5 stars Horror that's Truly Horrifying!
This is a great film in any genre, the children really delivers the horror unlike 95% of other movies that claim to be horror and just plain suck. Read more
Published 3 months ago by John D. Glaser Jr.

5.0 out of 5 stars Only two reviews for this excellent film?
It's not often any more when I watch a modern horror movie, and instantly fall in love with it. "The Children" is a movie that should impress not only horror fans, but fans of... Read more
Published 3 months ago by D. Ritter

5.0 out of 5 stars superb movie but... extras?
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Published 3 months ago by GODFREY HAMILTON

4.0 out of 5 stars KIDS DO THE DARNDEST THING
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