Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Samara Morgan (deadgirlsamara) It's a horror movie and most of them are known for their greatness, but that's okay, I love them anyway.I think there is a fairly good story here. At one point it was named Zombies, but watch and see if you see zombies. I did see an army of the dead, but they didn't appear as zombies, although they do eat their victims. It's all great except that all our cannibals are children, young children. People think they are vile and vicious, and they are, but with cause. One of our living children, Emma (Chloe Grace Moretz) goes in the cave where our murderous waifs reside. She instantly makes friends with Mary trading dolls. Emma is protected, is the rest of her family? I love this movie even though it seems rather stupid in places. But I don't like anything that is perfect

Stephen Abell The main reason to watch this film would be the story as it gives a refreshingly fresh take on the Zombie genre.The Carlton's had owned the land for generations. On that land were forests, houses, and a mine. Deep in the mine were buried the Carlton's darkest injustice. But some transgressions don't stay buried... These ones are on the hunt for retribution.The Carlton's used child labour down in their mine and one day an avoidable incident caused the deaths of most of the youngsters. Carlton was cleared of any wrongdoing and was never prosecuted for the deaths. The event was ruled a tragic accident.Wanting revenge, the children now walk the woods looking for Carlton and his bloodline...Enter Karen (Lori Heuring) and her two daughters, Sarah (Scout Taylor- Compton) and Emma (Chloe Grace Moretz), who move into a property on Carlton land. The house had been left to their husband and father, who had passed away leaving them in enough debt that they had to sell their home. The house is one of the most oppressive I've ever seen. It's dark and foreboding. The door is open and blood has been painted on the door.It's not long before Emma has made a friend in Mary... The trouble is, nobody else can see Mary.The director, J S Cardone (of The Slayer - reviewed on this blog) does a winning job of creating atmosphere, tension, and suspense at all the right times in the movie. The night scenes in the moonlit woods are lovely, verging on beautiful, they do give an eerie feel to the location and situation. However, as I stated in the review to The Slayer, it appears he also likes dark houses. It's actually brighter outside in the woods by moonlight than it is in the house with all the lights burning. It's just as annoying here that the light of an electric bulb only radiates a couple of feet. There are some wonderful iconic and haunting shots of the children in their miner's garb carrying their work tools, which they use to dispatch anybody they run into.The actors all give good performances, though, at times, both Ben Cross as Aaron Hanks and Martin McDougall as Mr Carlton ham it up, but they do reign in the piggies after a short while. Not one actor or actress stands out above the rest, they are all fair at making their characters believable. Though I do have a fondness for Geoffrey Lewis, especially after the hauntingly eerie rocking chair scene in Salam's Lot that stays with me today. He is good as the irascible plumber Harold.It's the story that's the star in this film, though, and that is a very unusual thing to say about a horror film. It's the fresh take on the Zombie mythos, in some ways it harpers back to the original Zombie, where a spell or a curse would resurrect the dead. They then become unstoppable until the curse is lifted has run its course. The course here is the revenge of the children on the Carlton bloodline.I would recommend this to all horror fans or the casual viewer looking for something respectable in the genre. You could do worse.

Nitzan Havoc The 2006 After Dark Horrorfest seems to have been quite the experience. I've got around to watching Wicked Little Things after watching Penny Dreadful, and just like the latter - I find it to be quite underrated.In my humble personal opinion as a devout Horror fan, films involving creepy evil children are some of the scariest in the genre. Except for The Children (2008) and the remake of The Omen (and maybe Children of the Corn Genesis) I haven't seen too many of these in the past years, and that's a shame.In these films, the most important thing if you ask me is to make sure the children are actually scary (unlike in the original Omen anthology), especially if they're bloodthirsty zombies/ghosts. In that aspect - Wicked Little Things has certainly come through. Their Japanese-Horror style make up, combined with their slow eerie movements and the fact they never talk has really made them everything they've been supposed to be.The story wasn't all that original, and other aspects like acting, cinematography, lighting and script weren't all that commendable, but they didn't really have to be. The film was spooky and unnerving enough to be worthwhile. Another thing in its favor - for a change, upon discovering the existence of unnatural beings, the protagonists were genuinely shocked and barely able to cope, rather than the "oh, well..." attitude in which we've seen them react in too many other films.All in all, I think Wicked Little Things is underrated, and I can't say I agree with some of the more harsh critics. It might have used a better name, like "The Mine" or "Blood of their Kin" or something of the sorts, but it's definitely worth watching. Not magnificent, but very enjoyable.

Tina Thomas This is one film I highly recommend for those "Zombiefest" or "Zombie Apocalypse" parties. You've got killer zombie children--and the reason they became that way is "logical" once you get through the weird and look at the back story. This ensemble did well in this flick but one person stands out in it and that is Ben Cross.In playing Hanks, Cross delivers a performance that is believable. One is left thinking a guy like that can exist out here! He knows when to hold back and deliberate and he knows when to throw those lines out there like somebody's freaking life depends on it--like when he's trying to start the truck and get the heck out of there!Hanks also is the "caretaker character". He knows the hows and the whys and does not tamper with what is--he just tries to keep the zombies out of everybody's hair. HE also works very well with kids from what I see here. He was convincing. Chloe Moertz looked scared when he addressed her. I definitely wouldn't want to be on that guy's crap list after watching him here OR in Dark Shadows Resurrected.I think the gory scenes were overkill at times, but at least this movie spent more time focusing on the real story--the hows and whys rather than the blood, guts and gore.