Goddamn, is this film ever creepy as f*ck.
Ever thought about killing your kids when they p*ss you off? Well, what if they were trying to murder you, and you had no other choice?
I actually hated this little low budget horror-thriller, from the UK, at first. Because the first half is so saturated with the incessant screaming of pre-pubescent little bastards, that it is beyond annoying.
However, that is done with intention, as to put you on edge (and I'm sure this is much more effective with people who are actual parents...although parents might be endowed with a certain tolerance, from their years of exposure, that I lack).
Either way, by the end, it had completely won me over with it's overt creepiness, realistic gore, and general atmosphere of tension.
It starts off with a couple families of best friends getting together to spend the Christmas holidays together.
Everything starts off relatively banal, until the children contract an illness while playing out in the woods- when things start to take a darker turn.
Tantrums, and what could be attributed to an accidental death...quickly develop into full fledged murder...
What the children lack in stature and strength; they make up for with wit and utter remorselessness.
Leaving what ensues, one of the most realistic, and plausible, sequence of events that you can expect to find in a gory tension filled slasher.
The end is eerily similar to that of Vinyan, which was also released in 2008, and would qualify as being part of the same oeuvre.
Making this, not wholly original, but really quite effective.
Notable, particularly, for it's realism...it is definitely worth a watch!!!
7 out of 10.
Ever thought about killing your kids when they p*ss you off? Well, what if they were trying to murder you, and you had no other choice?
I actually hated this little low budget horror-thriller, from the UK, at first. Because the first half is so saturated with the incessant screaming of pre-pubescent little bastards, that it is beyond annoying.
However, that is done with intention, as to put you on edge (and I'm sure this is much more effective with people who are actual parents...although parents might be endowed with a certain tolerance, from their years of exposure, that I lack).
Either way, by the end, it had completely won me over with it's overt creepiness, realistic gore, and general atmosphere of tension.
It starts off with a couple families of best friends getting together to spend the Christmas holidays together.
Everything starts off relatively banal, until the children contract an illness while playing out in the woods- when things start to take a darker turn.
Tantrums, and what could be attributed to an accidental death...quickly develop into full fledged murder...
What the children lack in stature and strength; they make up for with wit and utter remorselessness.
Leaving what ensues, one of the most realistic, and plausible, sequence of events that you can expect to find in a gory tension filled slasher.
The end is eerily similar to that of Vinyan, which was also released in 2008, and would qualify as being part of the same oeuvre.
Making this, not wholly original, but really quite effective.
Notable, particularly, for it's realism...it is definitely worth a watch!!!
7 out of 10.