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The Children 2008 123movies

The Children 2008 123movies

You brought them into this world. Now ... They will take you out.Dec. 05, 200884 Min.
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Watch: The Children 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – Elaine and Jonah and their teenage daughter and young son and daughter, come to spend New Year with her sister Chloe and husband Robbie and their two young children at their isolated country home. One by one the children, after apparently being sick, become increasingly malevolent..
Plot: A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents
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Very strong directing ruined by very weak script
After so many good reviews I was pretty psyched to see The Children. Several times I’d seen it put on a par with “Eden Lake”, which I thought was one of the most tense, horrifying, well-conceived horrors of recent times.

I must say it started out really promising. It looked like it was paying close attention to building atmosphere and establishing characters – which is a rarity these days. It was quiet and disturbing for the first half hour, not to mention beautifully shot. I was settling in nicely, absorbed into the character’s little Christmas get-together, and pleasantly anticipating the start of the horror.

But then it really went off the rails fast. There was a sudden rapid-fire sequence of ill-conceived, unbelievable, almost “Rube-Goldbergian” death and injury scenes, followed by a bunch of hysterical characters who – if they weren’t doing something downright stupid and frustrating – were instead doing something that just didn’t make any sense.

I spent a good deal of the last half of the film turning to my significant other and saying “I don’t get why that character just did that…” The characters motivations for even the simplest actions through the last half of the film seem so weak as to almost be alien. In fact, the evil “possessed” children were acting in a more understandable way than the apparently normal adults.

You can’t excuse the way the adults in the film act by simply believing they are operating under extreme circumstances the way you can in movies like “Eden Lake”. But you can explain it by shoddy, lazy writing. Most of the movies I’ve seen in recent weeks had okay screenplays but floundered on bad directing. This was the exact opposite – beautiful directing ruined by a really weak script.

Dangit I’d hoped this would be a good one. Oh well, onto the next…

Review By: The_Dead_See
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The Children is directed by Tom Shankland who adapts the screenplay from a Paul Andrew Williams story. It stars Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell, Hannah Tointon, Eva Sayer, William Howes, Rachel Shelley and Jeremy Sheffield. Music is by Stephen Hilton and cinematography by Nanu Segal.

A Christmas holiday at a remote country home turns into a fight for survival when the children suddenly start to turn on the adults…..

Could you kill your own kid? There’s a nasty edge to Shankland’s little shocker, and we are not just talking about creepy kids offing adults here. Although lifting freely from classic evil-children horrors from the past, The Children manages to remain fresh by playing on the aspect of the parents’ refusal to accept that their cherubic offspring could do evil. Even when faced with blatant malevolence, the adults struggle to fight back. I mean, could you drop-kick your own child down the stairs? Added kicker in the writing is that the only character in the set-up who grasps what is going on is the troubled teenager (Tointon excellent), a nice twist for it is so often the case in horror movies that we bemoan dumb teens doing even dumber things.

With the makers unfolding the drama amongst a virginal snowy setting, there’s much thought gone into crafting more than just a standard gory shocker. Shankland shows a good sense of mood and pacing, drip-feeding the unease and never getting carried away with the premise. His closeup camera-work has an unsettling quality to it, while the deaths are inventive and mercifully not over done, the editing neatly giving us the viewers the chance to fill in the blanks. Some of the adult actors irritate rather than gain our belief, and the odd “dumb” reaction to a situation rears its ugly head. But mostly this is a thoughtful and spicy Brit horror that’s worth seeking out by those after more than your rank and file slasher movie. 7/10

Review By: hitchcockthelegend

Other Information:

Original Title The Children
Release Date 2008-12-05
Release Year 2008

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 24 min (84 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director Tom Shankland
Writer Paul Andrew Williams, Tom Shankland
Actors Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield
Country United Kingdom
Awards 1 win & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm

The Children 2008 123movies
The Children 2008 123movies
Original title The Children
TMDb Rating 6.106 308 votes

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