Now this is one of my favorite all time XMAS movies. This intense, nightmarish holiday genre flick is a fine tuned machine that will give you trouble sleeping especially if you have kids.
THE CHILDREN
Ghost House 2008 84 Mins. Eva Birtistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield and Hannah Toiton star. Written and Directed by Tom Shankland.
Imagine it's Christmas and all the kids are getting sick and than they turn violent and malicious. Not in the way of "28 Days Later" but in a more sinister, calculated way. They want to murder all of the adults in the most brutal of ways.
This is the plot of The Children a nightmarish little slice of genre cake. Although the concept can feel a bit familiar the execution is anything but. Capturing the chaos of a house filled with children and people who don't really like eachother around the holidays. The movie intercut disturbing images as multiple scenes of super intense horror are spliced together for an onslaught of stylish cinematic mayhem. As the performances go the kids are pure nightmare fuel.
Eva Birthistle of Brooklyn is great as the torn mother, sexy Jeremy Sheffield of Creep and Wedding Date is just eye candy as the supremely hott Uncle and Hannah Toiton is awesome and bad ass as our kick ass heroine Casey. The movie is simplistic in its terror but so intriguing in its horrific subtext and dissection of family.
RATING= 8.75 KILLER SANTAS OUT OF 10
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