Review: THE CHILDREN
horrorsnotdead.com 7/3/2009 — Directed by Tom Shankland , 2008 Written by Tom Shankland based on a story by Paul Andrew Williams More horror movies come out per month than I have numbers for. Plot that out over a year and the number of titles becomes sheer cacophony. There is so much mediocrity in the world that a ...

The Children (Review)
jadedviewer.com 10/15/2009 — The Children The Children (2009) Directed by Tom Shankland [this is a review I wrote for UGO.com's Movie Blog , hence the shortness and the letter grade] The Children represents a subgenre of horror that will never be fully accepted in the United States of America. Oh yeah, we’ve had our ...

The Children (2008)
pretty-scary.net 5/13/2009 — It's rare that a film features children behaving as they are actually inclined to behave. Too often screenwriters, directors, and others in responsible chairs simply forget how children act; they forget that children are, at some fundamental level, retarded and sniveling little disease ...

FANTASIA '09: THE CHILDREN (Film Review)
fangoria.com 7/28/2009 — ORPHAN may be wringing some nasty, campy fun out of its evil-kid scenario in theaters right now, but THE CHILDREN (screened at this month’s Fantasia film festival in Montreal, and coming on special-edition DVD from Lionsgate in October) is the real thing, a film that evokes true terror from the premise of our own offspring turning against us. In fact, never mind comparisons within its limited subgenre; this British production is one of the most effective fright features in recent years, ...

Movie News - Exclusive: Clip From The Children
empireonline.com 3/18/2009 — Kids can be scary. We know this from such cautionary tales as Children Of The Corn , The Exorcist , The Omen and proto-ASBO drama The Red Hand Gang. Their heads go all the way round, they 're prone to outbreaks of brutal violence and, worst of all, ...

Movie Review:"The Children"
www3.webng.com 3/30/2009 — Tom Shankland's "The Children" is the best killer-kid flick I have seen since "Children Of The Corn". Although there haven't been many released since then, there have been a few. And they haven't really lived up to expectations. But Shankland's film manages not only to be scary, but also very ...

The Children - B Movie Premise Delivers A+ Scares
allthingshorroronline.com 10/16/2009 — The Children (2008) Directed by: Tom Shankland Written by: Tom Shankland & Paul Andrew Williams DVD available from Ghosthouse Underground http://ghosthouseunderground.com/ Rating: 4/5 Look, I seriously love children. I used to work with them as a social worker, and I am an uncle ...

WOAH THAT'S HEAVY: Killing Children in Horror Films.
dayofwoman.blogspot.com 5/24/2009 — After every recommendation email basically mentioned this, I had to make this the first topic. It was also my idea in case I got some craptacular recommendations, but I didn't! You guys were awesome! One of the biggest taboo's in horror films is to kill children. Children are the epitome of ...

Day Four.
thehorrorsection.blogspot.com 4/16/2009 — Moving on from Cronenberg, we get into a brood of a different sort. Tom Shankland’s recent British import The Children . An awesome trailer and a few rave reviews were all I had to go on, but that was enough for me to reel it in. I’d give you a synopsis, but this trailer sums it up better ...

Hidden 2010
horrorsociety.com 29 days ago — Hidden (2010) Synopsis: HIDDEN is the story about a young man, Kai Koss (aka KK,) who unwillingly returns to the small town he ran from 19 years ago. His cruel mother has recently died, and left him the house he grew…