Doomtomylo
a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Stephanie
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Brooklynn
There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
bloopville
It is obvious that the director intended to include every possible bad horror movie cliché as some sort of post-modern wink to horror audiences, but, there is a reason that people criticize movies that use these clichés. Possible spoiler alert1. Rural characters that know about killer zombies, but still live there. 2. Stupid teenagers getting high, doing stupid things, making bad decisions and then becoming cannon fodder. 3. A film set in a specific region that has a specific accent, but the characters speak in some sort of generic southern hill accent that bears no relation to where the movie is set. And the architecture is very unwestern Pennsylvania as well. 4. Car gets stuck in mud. 5. Flashlight only works sporadically. 6. Kid has imaginary friend that is supernatural in origin. 7. Against all logic, people go searching in dangerous places where many people have died, alone, at night, with that great anti-ghoul device, the sporadically working flashlight. 8 Teenage girl trips when running. 9. Truck won't start. 10. People keep shooting at zombies, instead of running away, even though they have observed that bullets have little effect. 11. At the end of the movie, the main characters are barely touched by their experience, driving away happily to their next phase, even though they have clear proof of the supernatural and they have watched several people mutilated including a boyfriend. Their neighbor will clean everything up, and there will be no downstream consequences of several people dying, including friends.Argggh.
jaguiar313
During the early 1900s in a rural Pennsylvania mine, a group of children used as workers are killed when a dynamite charge is used unsafely while they're inside. Now in modern day, pretty widow Karen (Lori Heuring) and her two daughters, young Emma, (Chloe Grace Moretz) and teen Sarah, (Scout Taylor-Compton) move into a recently inherited property in the area. Soon supernatural occurrences begin to happen and Karen finds out that the vengeful children still inhabit the woods at night sating their hunger for revenge by devouring anyone foolish enough to be out there after dark. Worse yet, her family may be tied to these ghouls in a much deeper way then just living in their domain. Director J.S. Cardone gives the film a nice atmosphere and keeps a story that might have gotten silly appropriately creepy. Cinematographer Emil Topuzov gives the film a nice visual style and makes use of the dark Bulgarian woods (which stand in for Pennsylvania) and the old house our characters occupy. The cast does well too with Heuring giving depth to the strong willed mother trying to start a new life for her girls and now faced with an unnatural horror. As the girls, the young Moretz is good as Emma, who one of the dead children is drawn too, and Compton plays the rebellious teen very well. They are joined by genre vets Geoffrey Lewis as the local handyman and Ben Cross as a hermit with ties to the flesh eating specters. The film's not perfect, the pace is a bit slow, though, I feel that is deliberate, and some of the plot elements are a bit cliché' for this type of flick (ominous warnings from the local eccentric, local teens ignoring the legends and going in the woods at night) . But, one can forgive some of the flaws and familiarities as the film provides enough chills and there is some decent gore too. Overall a spooky little horror flick that never tries to be more then what it is. More like 6.5/10
Tina Thomas
This is one film I highly recommend for those "Zombiefest" or "Zombie Apocalypse" parties. You've got killer zombie children--and the reason they became that way is "logical" once you get through the weird and look at the back story. This ensemble did well in this flick but one person stands out in it and that is Ben Cross.In playing Hanks, Cross delivers a performance that is believable. One is left thinking a guy like that can exist out here! He knows when to hold back and deliberate and he knows when to throw those lines out there like somebody's freaking life depends on it--like when he's trying to start the truck and get the heck out of there!Hanks also is the "caretaker character". He knows the hows and the whys and does not tamper with what is--he just tries to keep the zombies out of everybody's hair. HE also works very well with kids from what I see here. He was convincing. Chloe Moertz looked scared when he addressed her. I definitely wouldn't want to be on that guy's crap list after watching him here OR in Dark Shadows Resurrected.I think the gory scenes were overkill at times, but at least this movie spent more time focusing on the real story--the hows and whys rather than the blood, guts and gore.
zombiesfan
Produced & directed by genre regular J.S. Cardone (is anyone ever going to put out a decent DVD/Blu-ray of The Slayer (1982) or what?) this was one of the seven horror films to premiere at one of those After Dark Horrorfest events & while it's not terrible I wouldn't exactly call Wicked Little Things particularly worthwhile either. For a start the script is pretty slow going, it's over half an hour into the thing before anyone dies, until that point there's exposition & attempts at foreboding which aren't particularly foreboding to be honest & after a solid twenty minutes of nothing happening most people will start to lose interest. The whole film film has the same central core as Aliens (1986) with the mother daughter relationship although here it feels like it's there just to pad things out rather than give the film or it's character's greater depth, the character's generally are walking clichés like the young cute girl who know's something is going on, the creepy store owner, a crazy mountain man who's silly stories & warnings turn out to be true, a cowardly human bad guy there to get it to redress the balance & the flesh eating zombies that feel like they belong in an Asian ghost film as much as a US zombie one. In fact I would say it's more of a ghost film than a zombie film, the ideas & themes of some terrible event in the past, a haunted location, someone wronged reaching out to the living for revenge or redemption or closure are all more prevalent in Wicked Little Things than merely flesh eating zombies rising from the grave. To be honest I thought this was quite predictable, there are no big surprises & at over 90 minutes it goes on for to long with a small body count & there's just nothing that memorable here.Wicked Little Things is a dark film, I am not talking about dark as in a conceptual or thematic sense but as in a you can barely see what's going on because most of the time the picture is black sense. If you do want to watch this make sure you get your hands on a good copy because you will need it, there are many times when it's impossible to see what's going on or what the camera is pointing at & it's just so dark with most of the screen most of the time just pitch black which is a shame since the locations are nice & you can sort of sense a decent atmosphere but the darkness becomes annoying. There's not much gore here & a pretty low body count, people are stabbed with pick-axe's, a pig is killed & there are a few shots of zombie kids eating flesh & guts plus the carcass of a chopped up pig is seen but nothing else & the gore is masked by the darkness anyway so it's difficult to see. Known under the title Zombies: Wicked Littles Things here in the UK this was originally set to be directed by Tobe Hooper & had the working titles The Children (already taken...) & Zombies.