A mute child arrives at a children's home and starts terrorizing the other children with her demonic powers.A mute child arrives at a children's home and starts terrorizing the other children with her demonic powers.A mute child arrives at a children's home and starts terrorizing the other children with her demonic powers.
Zeynup Turan
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- (as Zeynep Turan)
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- TriviaThis film was made as a school project.
- Alternate versionsThe 1985 VHS release opens with the credit "FGL Films Presents",which is missing from the 2017 DVD release.
- ConnectionsFeatured in School of Shock (2017)
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It's the viewers that suffer.
A young girl is found on the doorstep of a children's home, a note explaining that her name is Elizabeth and that she is mute. The home's well-meaning carers, Maurice (Colin Chamberlain) and Jenny (Ginny Rose), invite the girl to stay, unaware that she possesses demonic powers.
Ultra-low-budget shot-on-video horror Suffer Little Children was made to promote the dubious talents of the precocious tykes attending classes at Meg Shanks' New Malden drama school. Not content with flogging grainy VHS copies of their home movie to doting parents, Shanks somehow found a distributor (Films Galore) who neglected to submit the film to the BBFC; in doing so, Suffer Little Children became swept up in the whole 'video nasty' debacle, thereby ensuring a level of notoriety it doesn't really deserve. What it deserves is to be totally ignored.
The movie's amateur pedigree is evident in every frame, from the title cards knocked up on a home computer, to the awful acting (actors regularly flub their lines), to the static camerawork, to the choppy editing and diabolical sound recording (music frequently drowns out the improvised dialogue). For the excruciating first hour of the film, nothing much of interest happens, leaving one wondering why the cover for the DVD boasts the label 'Strong Uncut Version'. All becomes clear, however, in the final fifteen minutes -- a crazy quarter-of-an-hour of violence that is just as technically inept as all that has gone before, but which clearly ruffled feathers thanks to the heady concoction of killer kids, buckets of blood, and the intervention of none other than Jesus Christ himself!
This final act is certainly something 'special', as Elizabeth uses her powers to whip the other children into a Satanic frenzy of bloodlust, the youngsters grabbing kitchen implements and getting all stabby. The arrival of Jesus to vanquish the evil is truly a sight to behold, but it still isn't enough to make up for all the amateurish drivel that has gone before (in this case, Christ is NOT the Redeemer). Fans of z-grade garbage should give this bizarre '80s oddity a one-time watch just to tick it off their list, but everyone else would be wise to give it a miss.
Ultra-low-budget shot-on-video horror Suffer Little Children was made to promote the dubious talents of the precocious tykes attending classes at Meg Shanks' New Malden drama school. Not content with flogging grainy VHS copies of their home movie to doting parents, Shanks somehow found a distributor (Films Galore) who neglected to submit the film to the BBFC; in doing so, Suffer Little Children became swept up in the whole 'video nasty' debacle, thereby ensuring a level of notoriety it doesn't really deserve. What it deserves is to be totally ignored.
The movie's amateur pedigree is evident in every frame, from the title cards knocked up on a home computer, to the awful acting (actors regularly flub their lines), to the static camerawork, to the choppy editing and diabolical sound recording (music frequently drowns out the improvised dialogue). For the excruciating first hour of the film, nothing much of interest happens, leaving one wondering why the cover for the DVD boasts the label 'Strong Uncut Version'. All becomes clear, however, in the final fifteen minutes -- a crazy quarter-of-an-hour of violence that is just as technically inept as all that has gone before, but which clearly ruffled feathers thanks to the heady concoction of killer kids, buckets of blood, and the intervention of none other than Jesus Christ himself!
This final act is certainly something 'special', as Elizabeth uses her powers to whip the other children into a Satanic frenzy of bloodlust, the youngsters grabbing kitchen implements and getting all stabby. The arrival of Jesus to vanquish the evil is truly a sight to behold, but it still isn't enough to make up for all the amateurish drivel that has gone before (in this case, Christ is NOT the Redeemer). Fans of z-grade garbage should give this bizarre '80s oddity a one-time watch just to tick it off their list, but everyone else would be wise to give it a miss.
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- Jun 25, 2020
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- £7,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was Suffer Little Children (1983) officially released in Canada in English?
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