The Children Reviews
Borrowing liberally from classic evil-children horrors, the gruesome deaths are inventive, but this is more about killer set-pieces than a satisfying story. A respectable genre outing.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008
Shankland's approach is oblique rather than graphic, but these icy chills will send shivers down your spine.
| Original Score: 4/6 | Dec 5, 2008
The grown-ups, rather hysterically, blame each others' parenting skills. The plot promptly disintegrates into a gory struggle for credibility against appalling odds.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2008
The fundamentally disturbing and creepy aspects about such random and unpredictable child-centric mayhem are always present, no matter how ludicrously intense and darkly humorous things get.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2008
This efficient British chiller ticks the right boxes.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008
The idea of cosseted middle-class tots becoming feral psychopaths has potential, though most of it is squandered by uncertain direction and some unconvincing psychology.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2008