ROTTEN TOMATOES: Exclusive: Brand New The Children Photos and Director Introduction

Exclusive: Brand New The Children Photos and Director Introduction

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Tom Shankland:

The scares in a film about kids come more from their creepy behaviour, the adults' blindness to their malevolence, and from as many 'that's so wrong' images as you can load in. It's all about messing with the audience's idealised notions about childhood. Just associating children with images and artefacts of violence and blood disturbs us because instinctively we want to protect them from these things. We find it almost impossible to deal with the idea that they might be relishing or, even worse, causing that violence. More 'psychological horror' than full-blown 'slasher'.

Half the battle was finding children with the most interesting faces - faces that gazed out at you with a mesmerising ambiguity. Are they cute? Are they malevolent?

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indiemaker0583 writes:
on Sep 26 2008 08:28 AM

I hate being the type of dick to say this type of thing, but this film already exists and it's called "Who Can Kill a Child."

Seriously, it's the same damn movie, only that one is far more epic. Everything this guy describes is in that movie. I don't doubt for one moment that he hasn't seen it and is shamelessly ripping off of it. I'm surprised he's getting away with it.

For years, that movie was nearly impossible to find, but it finally got a decent dvd release last spring and all the horror mags like Rue Morgue and Fangoria covered the sh*t out of it.

Really, same movie. Except the stills here are unimpressive.

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Joe Utichi writes:
on Sep 26 2008 09:14 AM

I believe they're well aware of Who Can Kill a Child, and in fact in Tom's original copy he talks about the influence of that film, though for space we weren't able to include his comment. The Children, he says, takes the concept a step further in that it involves the parents of the kids.

I've followed the film for a while and think there could well be something in it, hence the decision to profile it here. I believe they hadn't screened Who Can Kill A Child when the script was being written but saw it ahead of starting production.

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Rash Hunt writes:
on Sep 27 2008 07:52 AM

This is exactly why I keep recommending to city hall that they build more wells, we need somewhere to keep the little flea *****ers while they roam like infested bags of plague. No one is gonna want to kill them, so throw em in a well.

And if the "live doll" of the child involves anything less than a slow motion train impact I will be very dissapointed. I suggest the director email the scene to me so that I may snicker and promote his dirty film project.

Will there be nudity? If you want to push lines with children, you know there is only one way.

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susan08 writes:
on Sep 28 2008 02:11 AM

WOW...Just heard my bros told me some hot models are putting up their profile on a tall dating site ___Tallchat.com___,are they just on fire or what??

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medikboi_84 writes:
on Sep 28 2008 12:56 PM

Sounds like a very promising film. But I am getting tired of the virus thing in horror films. Although in our society today that is what works, back in the 60's and 70's they used religion and mysticism to scare the heck out of you, now it is science that scares people.

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