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Title: The Children (2008)
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1 win & 6 nominations.
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Elaine
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Jonah
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Elaine and Jonah and their teenage daughter and young son and daughter, come to spend New Year with her sister Chloe and husband Robbie and their two young children at their isolated country home. One by one the children, after apparently being sick, become increasingly malevolent. Written by don @ minifie-1
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children | christmas | child killing an adult | british horror | girl |Taglines:
You brought them into this world. Now ... They will take you out.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for disturbing bloody violent content, terror, language and brief drug use | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
5 December 2008 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
As Crianças See more »Filming Locations:
Cookhill Priory, Cookhill, Alcester, Warwickshire, England, UKBox Office
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£98,205 (UK) (5 December 2008)Company Credits
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Elaine: What?
Miranda: Be nice to Leah and Nicky
[grabs her leg splints]
Miranda: .
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Written by Eva Abraham / Andrew Waterworth (as Andy Waterworth)
Performed by Eva Abraham / Andrew Waterworth (as Andy Waterworth)
Published by Hamworth Music
Courtesy of Hamworth Music
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Was nominated for the 2009 Fright Meter Award for Best Horror Movie. See more »Goofs
In the ending scenes when Casey and her Mom escape in the Volvo and come across the crashed Range Rover, it is steaming as if the radiator is broken, but there is no damage apparent to the car other than the hood being up. The hazard flashers are also on, would the Dad really have had time to do that? When the Volvo crashes into Chloe and crushes her against the Range Rover, her body slides down, but in the next shot it is feet away from the car to the side, the Volvo is also completely undamaged despite having crashed into a Range Rover with a tow bar. See more »Quotes
Miranda: Bye-bye Mummy.Elaine: What?
Miranda: Be nice to Leah and Nicky
[grabs her leg splints]
Miranda: .
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AphrodisiacWritten by Eva Abraham / Andrew Waterworth (as Andy Waterworth)
Performed by Eva Abraham / Andrew Waterworth (as Andy Waterworth)
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Horrid smug Middle class parents get killed by and kill their own children, what could be better? Who could not enjoy this? Well, other than 15 year olds who can't appreciate a horror film with *shock horror* time spent on genuine character development, a decent script and people behaving in a believable manner when confronted and confused by the horror they're confronted with.
The Children is great because it's a rare oasis in the desert of generic (mainly US) horror, these are parents who understandably find it difficult to accept their own children have become killers and are obviously not too enamoured with the idea of killing their own offspring (which explains to certain 15 year old fools why the adults are so easily overcome). There are no generic idiot teens walking into danger for no discernible reason, in fact the one teen Casey (played excellently by Hannah Tointon) is the strongest character in the film.
This is the best Horror film I've seen in quite a while...if it doesn't appeal to teenage horror fans...so much the better.