The Children (2008)

Cautiously Recommended

UK/Cayman Islands

Feature Film

Director: Tom Shankland

Writers: Tom Shankland, Paul Andrew Williams

Cinematographer: Nanu Segal

Composer: Stephen Hilton

Cast: Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield, Rachel Shelley, Hannah Tointon, Rafiella Brooks, Jake Hathaway, William Howes, Eva Sayer

Two young families attempt to spend a relaxing new year’s eve in a remote, snowy idyll, but are met only with nightmarish pain and suffering when their children seemingly inexplicably turn into murderous beasts, in Shankland’s well paced and thoughtfully crafted if never entirely logically plotted horror flick, which is almost but not quite a zombie film. Iain.Stott