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Lori Heuring, Scout Taylor-Compton, Chloe Moretz

Recently widowed Karen Tunny and her two daughters, Sarah and Emma, move to a remote mountain home which Karen has inherited from the family of her late husband. However, she is unaware that the home ...( read more  read more... )is situated near an old mine, the site of an early 20th century tragedy in which many children were buried alive...

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R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: J.S. Cardone

Release Date: November 19, 2006

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DVD Release Date: March 27, 2007

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  • BloodyKitten
    January 5, 2009
    BloodyKitten
    Not bad. Part zombie flick, part ghost story, Wicked Little Things boasts a pretty good urban legend-esque premise in its undead, vengeance-driven children. The only real problem it faces is conquering genre cliches - the spooky old house, the creepy locals, the friendly little...( read more) girl ghost, the kids in the car hearing a noise, etc. If you can see past those cliches, however, Wicked Little Things is a well-shot, well-acted, and all-around fun movie.
  • lewiskendell
    August 26, 2008
    lewiskendell
    I was excited by the trailer, but the actual film left me disappointed. The bare minimum of a plot and a lack of any real scares or suspense hobbles this movie.
  • Stinger839
    May 10, 2008
    Stinger839
    'Wicked Little Things' was annoying. After banging my head, to no avail, against my LCD monitor (perhaps thusly the ineffectiveness) for two days, that is really all I can say about this movie. The production, cinematography, and acting values are there but the story is too weak ...( read more)and illogical to match the 'effective scare' this movie is going for.
    To zombie fans, file this under the "ghoul" category with "Creepshow" as these undead kids are conscious little buggers hellbent on revenge for the awful fillicide they endured in the collapsing mines.
    The leads are played well, and sometimes the makeup is effective. The lighting is pretty much 75% on, so why wasn't I that thrilled? Because the execution of the story was poor, and again another zombie flick falls short.
  • SilentWarProductions2009
    September 27, 2007
    SilentWarProductions2009
    Directed by: J.S. Cardone.
    Starring: Lori Heuring, Scout Taylor-Compton, Chloe Moretz.

    A perfect horror film?....Shit no!
    A horror film above Hollywood standard? For the most part....yes.

    One of the '8 films to die for', I am slowly working my way th...( read more)rough them, the only other I have seen is 'The Abandoned', which is thick on atmosphere but terribly bland everywhere else. So far, Wicked Little Things is the better film (obviously). I personally feel this film should have been released wider, especially in a world where Hollywood regurgitates so called 'horror' films onto the mainstream audience. The 'average' has now become a hard hitting low, thankfully Wicked Little Things is above them and should really be the new 'low standard' for horror. What proves to make the film better then it could have been are the visual elements. J.S Cardone proves to be quite worthy behind the camera, sure he doesn't have the pure skill or control like John Carpenter, Wes Craven or Neil Marshall (an odd name to add to that list for now....but you wait), but he manages to impress through a majority of the film by avoiding cheap scares. Sure there are some to be had in the third act (expected for a 'finale' in a film like this) but for the first two acts he really focuses on the atmosphere and draws a slow tension and creepiness from that. On that note, the cinematography is very dark, thick and claustrophobic, the use of shadows and lighting on these kids (pretty decent make-up effects on that note) is impressive. Now this brings me to the script, which is where the film falls victim, but thankfully not all the way. The premise starts off as quite intriguing, in 1913 in a mining town in Pennsylvania, children are used for child labor. When an accident occurs (and the miners show no soul), the mines collapse, trapping 12 children inside, where they are buried alive. Jump to many years later, where a family inherit a new home in the hills of Pennsylvania, one that is handed down by there father and husband who passed away from a long illness. This is where it has both its strong and weak points. Thankfully, the dialogue proves to be more formed than you would expect and the writer does try to develop on them with there loss, but the problem is how terribly cliché and one-dimensional they are. We have the stupid mother who leaves her daughter alone at the wrong times and walks into peoples homes because the 'door is open', the older daughter who clearly has no soul and just adapts to these 'new friends' she finds and tries to be cool around them, the younger daughter becomes fascinated by these zombies and walks off into the woods (surprise), the other teenagers are typical, tough brainless jock, ditsy blond girlfriend and a calm, 'sweet' out of place friend who takes a liking to this 'older daughter'. The list goes on with these characters and its just terrible....thankfully, two of the cast members (Scout Taylor-Compton and Chloe Moretz) don't always fall prey to there characters and they adapt well and show potential (I can see why Scout was picked for 'Halloween'). From there we do have mysterious buildups of these zombies motives, but then it turns into an 'all too familiar' finale that just loves to put the icing on the cake in the most cliché way.

    Clearly there are many, many horror films out there that are superior to this film, but the problem is that they are hard to find. When Hollywood's 'standard' horror films are atrocious, its good to see a slightly above average horror film come along and prove to be fun in its terribly cliché way. A film that shows potential for what could hopefully be the new 'low standard' for Hollywood horror films....which would be a start.
  • Beefy
    May 28, 2007
    Beefy
    No one single element stood out to me to make this interesting or unique.
  • Sloirishbud
    November 16, 2009
    Sloirishbud
    This is a not so well made modern zombie movie about a bunch of little kids who died working in a mineshaft at the turn of the century who come back as little zombies with mining equipment who use said equipment to slaughter, disfigure, and kill people from the local town when th...( read more)ey go to the woods. I generally like zombie movies but this one wasn't really my favorite.
  • aiorosoro
    November 3, 2009
    aiorosoro
    Muy buena para no momir
  • dukeakasmudge
    October 22, 2009
    dukeakasmudge
    Better then I thought it was gonna be
  • svmainus
    October 10, 2009
    svmainus
    Story of a young widowed mom and her two daughters who go to live in a house she inherits from her husbands estate in the mountains of PA in an old mining town. This is peculiar in that the ghosts they encounter here (dead children and miners from the old mines) are part ghost a...( read more)nd part zombies. Doesn't make sense? No it doesn't. It's a shame because the performances in this are good but the story is weak.
  • Nenebelle
    September 6, 2009
    Nenebelle
    In 1913 in a place called Addytown,Pennsylvania a ruthless mine owner used small children to work in his mine,Carlton Mines. One day there is an explosion in the mine and many of the children are buried alive including one really cute little girl called Mary. Skip to present day ...( read more)and Karen Tunny is moving to Addytown after inheriting a house from her deceased husband,accompanied by her two daughters Sarah and Emma,none of them really want to be there but Karens husband had been terminally ill for a long time and his illness used up all of their savings so with no other place to live they return to his family home the Tunny house set in the moutains and next to the mine where the children perished (personally i would of stayed in the city and slept in my car rather than sleep in that creepy house,i love a good gothic mansion but this house was scary!!!). Shortly after moving into the house creepy things start to happen and rumours are heard of zombie children who want your flesh and blood.

    Wicked Little Things (presently renamed Zombies in the UK...how unoriginal,i prefer WLT) was better than i was expecting. It creates a good atmosphere with the creepy house,lonely dark woods and the seemingly crazy locals. The actings not bad and the storylines okay. Infact the only thing that doesnt look scary are the zombie kids lol,i think more attention need to be paid on them in make-up.

    Nothing special but a good rainy day watch.

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