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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 
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MCT:June 20, 2008
This movie is one of the eight horror fest movies that were released by Lionsgate. Basically, the horror fest movies are movies that were not released in theaters because they were deemed too graphic or offensive for mainstream release. All that being said, the movie is not nearly as traumatic to watch as the horror fest stigma might suggest. It is actually one of the more originally scripted horror films I have seen in quite a while. Most of the movie has a great manifestation of suspense. The elements that may have made it too controversial, are quite evident. The children do attack people and it is very graphic. However, I was very impressed with the child actors. They truly and effectively played the zombies in a creepy way. This is definitely not a movie for everyone. I would recommend this to people who love horror films. If you are not a person that loves horror films, you probably are not going to like this as much as I did. You may not be able to watch much of it at all.
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MCT:June 18, 2008This movie I liked very much. It´s movies like this one that makes you continue to watch horror movies.
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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
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MCT:June 7, 2008
another good one from the 07 movies to die for this one is filled with zombie miner children hahaha it makes for good stuff
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MCT:May 23, 2008
I liked this movie.
It isn't one of my favorites, but I do have to admit...zombie children are creepy. I believe what made them creepier than usual for me was the fact that they had been dead for about 100 years, but no bits of flesh were hanging off. Also they were aware of what they were doing.
It wasn't scary, but I had seen much worse films. I had to watch it all the way through. It would be the kind of movie to watcher either drunk or high with a bunch of friends. -
MCT:May 10, 2008'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 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. -
MCT:April 15, 2008
I enjoyed this. It was suspenseful with great pacing and had a creepy, dark atmosphere throughout. If I had any complaints it would be the over-stupidity of the mother in the movie. Other than that, there are a few horror movie cliches, but you kind of come to expect that in a movie like this. The acting was pretty decent from most, and really good from some.
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MCT:March 15, 2008This is one of the better of the 1st series of "8 Films to Die For" in the After Dark Horror Festival. The plot has been recycled for decades. A family move into an old house in the mountains.
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MCT:March 15, 2008
The premise was a bit silly with the children. To me children are not scary at all. It would have been better to have grown ups come back from the dead. The children look a bit silly and stupid. It had the potential to be a lot better.
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MCT:March 3, 2008
This is one of the better of the 1st series of "8 Films to Die For" in the After Dark Horror Festival. The plot has been recycled for decades. A family move into an old house in the mountains. The woods surrounding the house are haunted by the ghosts/zombies of miner children abandoned during a collapse in a mine. Minimal gore but decent atmosphere help the film. Not essential viewing, but you could do far worse.
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MCT:January 18, 2008
i guess having little kids run around, hacking people to pieces and eating dem could be disturbing...i loved it...and scout-taylor compton, hmmmm. lol!
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MCT:January 17, 2008
Wicked Little Things is easily my favorite of the 8 Films To Die For. It's probably the only one that had chills. The acting and script was poor, but the killers were creepy, and there was quite a bit of suspense.
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MCT:January 3, 2008The only thing wicked about this movie is the fact that I paid real money to buy it. Garbage. This "Eight Movies to Die For" horror fest was a waste.
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MCT:December 21, 2007Out of The 8 Fiilms to Die for Series, this is one of the best. Was good enought to have me scared the next foggy night at work. Its worth the buy. Little zombies running around.
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MCT:December 18, 2007
Hmm, the acting was ok, the plot was ok and it had some nice ideas. But it just wasen't scary.
I haven't seen all of last years After Dark's "8 films to die for", but by the standards set so far, I'd feel severely flippin cheated if I dropped dead after watching all eight... -
MCT:December 10, 2007
The Storyline was solid, The Actresses sold the script rather well. & the kids from the minds looked just right.
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MCT:November 18, 2007
This movie is part of the 2006 movies to die for.
A little creepy, I like it.
But I do not think that I would own it..
I might watch it again though. -
MCT:October 24, 2007
This was actually a pretty good movie..I originally thought it would be just another B horror flick. It is worth watching..
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MCT:October 21, 2007
This story totally blows...it doesn't make sense, unless it makes sense and i just got lost during the boring ass hour and half long non scary waste of time.
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MCT:October 19, 2007
This movie was part of Horror Fest. It was about a family who returns their family home in Pennsylvania after the dad dies and the family loses all their money. The town is haunted by the ghosts of children killed in a mining disaster.
Again, not a great movie. It had some nice gore and the ghost children were very well done. The plot was not bad, but poorly executed. The acting was sub-par.
I think I am becoming desensitized to horror movies. This was probably a great movie. Let me know what you think. -
MCT:October 3, 2007Movies about evil children ghosts/demons are never good. The only exception is the first Children of the Corn.
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MCT:September 27, 2007
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 through 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.
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sharkattack1978posted 148 days ago -
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Best Film From "After Dark Horrorfest 2006"
(8 Films To Die For)posted 157 days ago -
This was ok. Way too dark though. I know it was supposed to be creepy and all but half the time I could barely tell what was going on.
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