the audience applauded

Fantastic!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The main reason to watch this film would be the story as it gives a refreshingly fresh take on the Zombie genre.The Carlton's had owned the land for generations. On that land were forests, houses, and a mine. Deep in the mine were buried the Carlton's darkest injustice. But some transgressions don't stay buried... These ones are on the hunt for retribution.The Carlton's used child labour down in their mine and one day an avoidable incident caused the deaths of most of the youngsters. Carlton was cleared of any wrongdoing and was never prosecuted for the deaths. The event was ruled a tragic accident.Wanting revenge, the children now walk the woods looking for Carlton and his bloodline...Enter Karen (Lori Heuring) and her two daughters, Sarah (Scout Taylor- Compton) and Emma (Chloe Grace Moretz), who move into a property on Carlton land. The house had been left to their husband and father, who had passed away leaving them in enough debt that they had to sell their home. The house is one of the most oppressive I've ever seen. It's dark and foreboding. The door is open and blood has been painted on the door.It's not long before Emma has made a friend in Mary... The trouble is, nobody else can see Mary.The director, J S Cardone (of The Slayer - reviewed on this blog) does a winning job of creating atmosphere, tension, and suspense at all the right times in the movie. The night scenes in the moonlit woods are lovely, verging on beautiful, they do give an eerie feel to the location and situation. However, as I stated in the review to The Slayer, it appears he also likes dark houses. It's actually brighter outside in the woods by moonlight than it is in the house with all the lights burning. It's just as annoying here that the light of an electric bulb only radiates a couple of feet. There are some wonderful iconic and haunting shots of the children in their miner's garb carrying their work tools, which they use to dispatch anybody they run into.The actors all give good performances, though, at times, both Ben Cross as Aaron Hanks and Martin McDougall as Mr Carlton ham it up, but they do reign in the piggies after a short while. Not one actor or actress stands out above the rest, they are all fair at making their characters believable. Though I do have a fondness for Geoffrey Lewis, especially after the hauntingly eerie rocking chair scene in Salam's Lot that stays with me today. He is good as the irascible plumber Harold.It's the story that's the star in this film, though, and that is a very unusual thing to say about a horror film. It's the fresh take on the Zombie mythos, in some ways it harpers back to the original Zombie, where a spell or a curse would resurrect the dead. They then become unstoppable until the curse is lifted has run its course. The course here is the revenge of the children on the Carlton bloodline.I would recommend this to all horror fans or the casual viewer looking for something respectable in the genre. You could do worse.

A widow and her daughters move into the inherited family home and get terrorised by "zombie" kids from the local Carlton mining disaster that occurred many years earlier.You know very early from the off that we the audience are going to be asked a lot of as regards character behaviours and rationales. The grieving mother moves herself and her daughters into what can only be described as an isolated pig sty, and right from the off all the warning signs are there for them that all is not well in this part of town.Story unravels in standard revenge from the grave formation, but the setting is very much in the film's favour even if the core story is not. Creepy forest, crumbling abodes and the spectre of the mine disaster ready to unleash its secret. The kids themselves are actually ghosts who eat meat, human or animal, so it was a tenuous marketing strategy to be calling it a zombie film.However, the kids themselves are splendidly ghoulish, pale faced and dark eyed, these very much are creepy kids. Low tone cinematography and gentle pacing help the mood considerably, and cast performances are fine given that the writing saddles them with weak dialogue exchanges and drawn out sequences obviously used to extend the running time. A teen romance strand involving the eldest daughter also just feels like filler.A modest spooker but certainly watchable enough, atmosphere and location setting ensure this is the case. 4/10

An owner of a mine uses child slaves, and after an explosion, a group are buried alive. Flash ward a few years and Karen Tunny has just lost her husband due to terminal illness. Without any money, she moves with her daughters to the old house in the mountains that belonged to her husband. She is advised by her neighbours to stay at home during the night, and there are stories of zombies in the area. When Her youngest becomes friend with Mary, her mother believes she is an imaginary friend. However, when her other daughters friends are attacked and eaten by zombie children and Her youngest vanishes. She decides to make the film a little more interesting...Despite the okay cast, this has to be one of the most boring and mundane things I've endured in such a long time.Banging doors, jump scares and freaky kids are all here, and don't forget the young girl who can speak to the dead. The guy from Chariots of Fire looks severely unimpressed by his choice of career, and of course, there's some bad guy who wants to build a ski slope.It's all a little bit Scooby Doo come the end, and it doesn't help that the kids look like French Mimes.I was waiting for one of them to pretend to be stuck behind an imaginary mirror.Pants.

WLT is a very interesting movie, a good amount of gore, and suspense. It keeps you guessing whats going to happen next. Although, it was boring in the beginning, it got you excited towards the middle and end. This could be a spoiler to you----- The end where they leave just does not make sense. She has hardly any money, and doesn't know where shes going. This movie makes you scared for the characters, and feel bad for the little miner children. It has some funny moments, and exciting moments. In my opinion, I liked the car scene with the teenagers the most. Honestly, I'm not one to watch gory gory scary scary movies. So I'll give this movie a lot of stars, because I will never ever go camping deep in the forest. Stars given---- **********