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Title: The Children


Date: 2008
Type: Horror
Rating: 4 Stars 4/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Tom Shankland
Producer:

Comment
Two families get together for New Year in a remote house only to find that their children start acting strange and causing accidents to the adults. The adults are the sort of annoying middle class parents who over indulge but do not discipline their children, but it is Hannah Tointon who becomes the central character of the film as she moves from sullen teenager to the one person who starts to understand what is happening. This is good as a small scale British horror film that starts to build the tension right from the start and continues the tension through the film and avvoids all the usual cliches of many popular American horror films.

Actors

Jeremy Sheffield
Eva Birthistle
Stephen Campbell MooreStephen Campbell Moore
Rachel Shelly
Hannah TointonHannah Tointon

Oscars

None
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