Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

laetitiapayombo It is a real pleasure to watch a clever horror story with striking references to the worse of human history. Sure the portrait of the loving scared wife is kind of caricatured... But other times... Other women. The movie could have gained in mastery if Narciso Ibáñez Serrador had chosen between art-house film and B-movie. Anyway it's a good movie for creepy movie lovers.

treywillwest This is one of the most interesting, challenging straight-up horror movies that I've ever seen. Truly ambitious both aesthetically and thematically, it transcends what we usually ask from the genre.The most truly horrifying scenes are the opening ones of the film which are composed of news footage of many of the twentieth century's horrors: global and civil conflicts marked by mass civilian casualties which, the narrator opines, always hit children the hardest. The many images of dead kids are the hardest to take in this generally mean and nasty little picture.The acting is in general far above what we would expect from a Euro-shock film but the most memorable and unique performances are those of the island children who have (inexplicably?) become bloodthirsty killers of adults. Many of them beautiful, the children seem authentically... childish. Their smiles and laughter seem innocent and sincere and this makes what they are laughing about, sadistic murders, seem all the more disturbing.Some will accuse me of overthinking the matter, but I came away with a distinctly political interpretation of the movie, which seems all the more convincing to me given that the film was made in the mid 1970s when many ideological clashes were taking a very violent form in many parts of the world. This is a terrifyingly even handed portrait of cultural revolution. We, as western film consumers, are allowed to identify with the victim-adults: representatives of the old order. But, the film's opening images of real life hellscapes begs us to ask, are we to blame the victims of the old order for wanting to destroy it and start over?

Cristiano-A An out of date movie. A kind of mix between The Birds, The Village of the Damned and Verano Azul. However, a pleasant discovery. The director, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, created a famous TV show (1,2,3) that appeared on television all along Europe. Becoming the children in our society an increasingly scarce good and becoming the same children more selfish each succeeding generation, we can expect that this cycle will tend to escalate in the future something we may also call the generational conflict, but that will have nothing in common with the conflicts that we had known in the past, because the dispute is no longer about values, as happened in May 68, but will be about the well-being of each of the generations estranged.

Gloede_The_Saint This film made be consider breaking through the 4th wall and kill these morons myself. I know some people like it. I don't get it. I'm sorry, but his is one of the dumbest films I have ever seen. It's just plain F-ing stupid. I suppose people like having their braincells get massacred.Children turns into evil killers, OK. We have seen that in Children of the Damned. Evil "zombie" children can work. But here we have a idiot tourist couple who sees loads of people murdered/dead and act like nothing is going on. That idiot leading man just walks around and leaves his wife defenseless time and time again though he knows that the children are killers. And even worse! They have a problem with killing these children? Why? It's not a moral dilemma if they are trying to F-ing KILL YOU! It's just ridiculous. And the opening? What? Yes children die all around the world, so what? A horrid attempt to play smart. Ah so the point is that the children are fighting back, how brilliant. First of all the way they are all just hypnotized and turns into monsters on the spot is just dumb, at least in a movie that tries to be about "reality" and suffering. If it had been some supernatural fairytale or if we knew the origins it could have worked somewhat better, but lets just drop that. No matter what this is just ridiculous and horrible.It was nicely framed though. That and the fact that it actually makes you want to rip out the lungs of these children, which I suppose was what they wanted is the reason why it does not get a 1.