What a waste of my time!!!

very weak, unfortunately

A Disappointing Continuation

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

I'm not a horror movie person but sometimes one pleasantly surprised me; I only watched this on demand bc of the critic rating which was over 70%, guess I watched a TOTALLY different flick! I'm the type of person who needs answers and t

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.

The concept of the film that under 10's could take out a group of adults seems a ridiculous concept; that is until you realise how gullible and immensely stupid the parents really are. If it would have been me, all the kids would have been dead within five minutes of the first murder and I'd have had one of them for Christmas dinner; as they didn't appear to have a turkey. Also, you would have been able to have another one for new year; freeze the rest and that's another two years sorted. The only one that seemed to grasp the concept of their situation was the eldest daughter, who against the odds, (and of course the stupid parents) did a sterling job of wiping out the screaming little brats. The only redeeming feature of this film and the reason I gave it an eight, is that kids died .... and we don't get enough of that in films (For the ultimate child death, watch the opening scenes of 'God Bless America' ..... Excellent....

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.