Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner...But They Should; The Children Review

Ugh...So a bunch of kids get "Children of the Corn" flu and go all stabby stabby on their parental units. This little piece of British horror has a lot of promise, with a dark premise, it could be good, but with shoddy acting, and poor delivery it kinda falls flat.

The film follows two families as they spend the Holidays together in a remote house/cabin/ thing. Unfortunately one of the kids gets sick...? Yea so he says "I don't feel good", throws up and that's the start of the plot. One by one the kids start acting bad, and turn on the parents, first with simple smacks and ill temper...to full blown murder.

I don't mind the notion of an illness that makes people violent, but there isn't any logic to it. The children don't just simply become aggressive, they turn into evil masterminds, setting traps and tricking the adults to trust them, and the kids work together...??? If multiple animals get rabies they don't team up, the kid's obviously have some kind of brain damage, but at this point the illness isn't even neurological, it's just random. As stupid as "The Happening" at least it seemed grounded in some kind of branch of reality. Why would an illness only make kids violent...but only against adults, and it might not only affect kids... See this whole thing is just crazy BS...

So that just bugged me, but wait there's more! The acting is pretty bad. I know you can't expect much from kids, they did an alright job, at times they were downright "Village of the Damned" levels of creepy. The adults couldn't hold a candle Rafiella Brooks, the best of the kids (best of the whole cast to probably) in the film, she did a great job going from cute kid to the spawn of Satan.

I can't keep going, there's some much bad in this movie.It's unfortunate to, cause the atmosphere is decent throughout and the setting has that "If you died out here no one would know" kind of vibe, so they had some of the right pieces. I was really excited after "Splinter", i thought I'd get to see another great obscure horror film, but i got this B-grade, British bomb...blurg, 2.5 outta 5