Who Can Kill a Child?
Sub-Genre- Creepy Kids
In Attendance- Me
Cast Members of Note- A bunch of creepy little kids.
What's it about?- A couple decide to take a two week vacation on some crappy little Island, only to find the place inhabited by possessed little kids.
These kids do fun, cute little things such as beating old men to death, using corpses as pinatas, molesting dead bodies, and naked hopscotch. Luckily for the couple, they don't catch on to this stuff to early in their trip, and get a chance to walk around and see the sights.
I wont spoil the ending here, but suffice it to say that one of the kids doesnt make it.
The Good- Who Can Kill a Child? is creepy; from the footage of real life war atrocities suffered by children over the opening credits, to the idea that an entire town full of kids gets possessed and kill the adults like it was a game. This movie gets under your skin and stays there, and in my case had me rooting for the adults to kill the kids, which is creepy in its own right.
It's a well made film for the 70's... and were it not for the dumb as a box of hammers main characters, I'd say it's among the best from that era. I just cant but leaving your pregnant wife alone in an abandoned town while you go around looking for, and finding creepy shit. It did add to the tension greatly though.
The Bad- So let me get this straight... You're on an island with your pregnant wife which appears deserted except for a few kids; you see a small girl cane an old man to death and then she and her friends play pinata with the body using a sickle; You tell your wife nothing is wrong, then leave her alone to rummage around in the attic; you find more dead bodies in your hotel; You find out another woman is alive and try to get to her before the kids, but are too late; you see the kids attempting to strip and rape her newly dead body... and it takes all of that before you say "We need to leave."
Right.
The Downright Horrendous- A baby killing it's mother from inside of the womb is pretty fucked up. Sickle-pinata with granddad isn't very sweet either.
The Gory- Plenty of bloody corpses are laying about; An old man gets beat to death off screen; a game of sickle-pinata; kids mowed down by a machine gun.... plenty of carnage.
The Naked- Some naked corpse boobs... nothing exciting.
Best Line- "Fuck this shit, we need to go!" Oh wait, they never said that.
What did we learn?- If weird shit starts to happen and you don't get the hell out of dodge, you deserve death; also, fuck the police.
Rating- C+ As a horror movie, I give it an A; it's creepy as hell and the premise is genuinely terrifying... however, the absolutely moronic behavior by the lead actors in the face of danger brings the film down. It's worth checking out for sure, but i guarantee you'll be yelling "Leave already!" at the screen way before they get smart enough to realize it on their own.
Final Thoughts- I would have ran every last fucking one of them over with the car.
