Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Claudio Carvalho Elaine (Eva Birthistle), her second husband husband Jonah (Stephen Campbell Moore), her teenage daughter Casey (Hannah Tointon) and her children Miranda (Eva Sayer) and Paulie (William Howes) travel to the isolated house of her sister Chloe (Rachel Shelley) to spend the New Year with her family. They are welcomed by Chloe, her husband Robbie (Jeremy Sheffield) and their children Nicky (Jake Hathaway) and Leah (Rafiella Brooks). Casey is upset since she will miss a party and Paulie vomits, but his parents believe he is sick because of the travel. During the night, Nicky and Leah become also sick and Leah vomits something strange. Along the day, the other children become also infected and Miranda attacks Chloe. Robbie brings the other children to play in the snow and while riding in a sledge, Nicky puts some tools in the way and Robbie dies with the impact on his head. Soon the children attack the adults and Casey and her mother seeks shelter. Will someone survive?"The Children" is a gore horror film with a story that does not explain why only the children are affected by some mysterious virus that make them violent against adults. The plot is tense but gives the sensation that something is missing to make "The Children" a great horror movie. The open conclusion makes the viewer wondering whether Casey is also infected or not. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): Not Available

tdrish This was a good movie. HOWEVER! Very upsetting. Very disturbing. Very violent. Very gory. I have a major pet peeve against movies that depict children getting hurt or injured, much less killed off altogether. That's why it took my eight tries, over a course of three and a half years, to get through this mess of a film. There's only one other movie that I have watched in my lifetime that was as gory and upsetting as this, and that was Tromas Beware Children At Play. We want to look at kids as cute, harmless young beings building their way to adulthood, most of us do not want to think of them as psychotic killers trying to off their own parents off. ( And we don't want to think of a parent turning on their own child, and offing them off either, but that is pretty much what The Children is all about). The patience of the film, added together with its intense suspense, is what makes this feel like an actual movie, and not a slasher movie, which earns stars from me. If you are easily upset, this is not for you.

Sandcooler I wasn't expecting that much from this movie, because it all just seemed very familiar. Evil children turning on their parents who are too dumb to notice anything's wrong until it's too late, there are at least a dozen movies like that. Combine that with an incredibly uninspired title and you get a movie that just sits on my shelf for years.Unjustly, because as unoriginal and predictable this movie is...it's also really freightening! The scary atmosphere is done really well, and it helps that you don't actually see the children kill for the first two acts. It's all in the power of suggestion, and in the feeling of dread you get from every scene. The child actors are also great, their blank, unemotional stares send shivers down my spine. The plot follows the creepy kid formula beat by beat, but it's not a problem. Just take the obligatory first kill, the one that always looks like it's an accident. That scene is executed perfectly, really unnerving. The movie never really drops the ball from then on.There's nothing ground-breaking about "The Children", there's not even anything interesting to the plot. It's very much style over substance, but the style is great and that's enough for me to recommend it.

jlthornb51 A powerful film that brilliantly plays upon every parent's worst fear: that their young children will turn on them during Christmas vacation and chase them with knives. Anyone who has been through this experience will especially find this a deeply disturbing, haunting motion picture experience. The movie captures beautifully the pain of these horrified parents as their little loved ones enter a homicidal rage and pursue them without mercy. The transition from loving mother and father to simply a human being fighting for survival in the most extreme circumstances imaginable is sensitively observed and tastefully depicted. Certainly a film that will bring buried fears to the surface and reawaken bad memories of past holiday unpleasantness.