Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

How sad is this?

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

"Beware:Children at Play" tells the shocking story of small town in New Jersey called Pine Barrens.Every month one child is missing from it and some adults are mysteriously butchered and cannibalized.It's up to Sheriff Carr and paperback writer John DeWolfe to solve the mystery...Mik Cribben's "Beware:Children at Play" is an amateurish and surprisingly nasty "Children of the Corn" knock-off.The acting is poor and the gore effects are gleefully cheap for example a salesman gets sliced clean in half but still attempts to crawl away with his entrails hanging out.The chanting of murderous children is pretty creepy.The final showdown is an insane and bloody massacre of children which is poorly executed at the same time.6 dead children out of 10.

Are your kids holy terrors? Out of control? Are they about ready to make you tear your hair out and drive you into taking excessive doses of Valium? Pop this DVD in and you will feel so much better about your troubled, terrorizing toddlers.... after all, at least they haven't killed you (yet). Those who are childless but thinking they might like a precious babe or two will renew their birth control pill prescriptions or run and buy the biggest box of rubbers the drug store carries. For everyone else - well, my God... the title of this movie alone makes it worth seeing ten times over. You know how you hear old people say "Kids today..." as they shake their heads with disdain... well if those old-timers got a load of these kids they'd probably keel right over. If you're *still* not convinced... the film's stunning climax is, well... stunning. Trust me, I'm a grown up - it's those gosh darn kids that you need to beware of....

When I was still in high school, my friend called me up and told me to rent this movie. I believe his exact words were, "You will want to kill yourself this movie is so bad... but the last five minutes make up for the suckiness of the entire movie up to that point." And he was right.The Movie is TERRIBLE. You know those kinds of movies that are so bad that they're good, in a funny kind of way? Well, this one is like that, except it's so bad that it passes right by funny and is almost impossible to get through.But then there's the last five minutes. I've never been so happy to see a lot of people die, and I was laughing my ass off the entire time. It should be noted, however, that I had been drinking as a way of coping with the movie thus far, and therefore, it is possible that my impressions of the ending were slightly skewed. But that did not stop me from recommending the movie to all my friends, if only to make them sit through what I had to sit through.If you liked "In the woods" or the 1st version of "The hitchhiker's guide" then you should have a ball with this one. However, seeing as how I've never met anyone who actually DID like the 1st version of "the hitchhiker's guide"...

After reading some of the outraged viewer comments I decided to write give my 1 cent. I am a 31 year old b-horror movie obsessed freak that still lives with his parents- so maybe that explains my taste in absolute trash. Over the years I have obtained a collection of dvds, videos, and laserdiscs that puts most video stores to shame (of course that is not saying much these days with Blockbuster and Hollywood video stores horrible horror section). Since I couldn't rent this at the time I bought this, I purchased this after seeing some clips of children being shot in really unrealistic fashion I couldn't resist.The key is this- very campy. All you "Grudge-Ring-I know What You Did Last Summer with Van Helsing" fans will probably not "get it". What is there to get, you may ask? It's just funny, funny that a movie was put together professionally, shot on 35 mm film, that has scenes where children get shot on screen and they actually use squibs (some of you know what squibs are). Yes, you can see the kids breathing, strings connected arrows, and blood tubes, etc. But that's why I bought it.So, the film as a whole is not that entertaining, but the death sequences are worth it for you fans of the bottom of the barrel films. Have fun. I'm going to go back to my room before my mom asks me to take the trash out.