Wicked Little Things

2006 "Prey for Them"
5| 1h34m| R| en
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Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Scott LeBrun Lori Heuring ("Mulholland Dr.") plays Karen, a young widow with a teen aged daughter (Scout Taylor-Compton, Rob Zombies' "Halloween" films) and little girl (Chloe Grace Moretz, "Carrie" '13). After the death of the husband / father, they move to the isolated woodsy abode that they supposedly inherited from his family. They'll find that adjusting to rural life is not going to be their primary concern. The aggressive, bloodthirsty spirits of children who perished in an early 20th century mining accident will be out and about, ready to kill whomever they please."Wicked Little Things" is pretty standard stuff, with a story by Boaz Davidson ("Hospital Massacre") and screenplay by Ben Nedivi. Filmed in the wilds and studios of Bulgaria, it has plenty of that truly forbidding rural scenery that you can often get in European cinema. It is nice to see that veteran director J.S. Cardone ("The Slayer", "Shadowzone", "The Forsaken") cares so much about atmosphere, and creates so much of it. For a while, the story is fairly absorbing without being extraordinary in any way. It does play all its cards too soon by being too quick to show the childish spirits in action, and by showing just how barbaric they can be; it may have been better to hold off just a bit longer. As it is, it does descend into typical body count / gore fest shtick. This approach may appeal to some horror fans, but a lot of the gore loses its impact by being shot in a realistically low lit fashion.The characters aren't unlikable, but Taylor-Compton is required to be rather useless, and Moretz' tendency towards wandering off gets to be annoying. Heuring is okay as the heroine of the piece. The late wonderful character actor Geoffrey Lewis ("The Devil's Rejects") isn't seen for long before being unceremoniously dispatched. Ben Cross ("The Unholy" '88) does make a strong impact as superstitious local Aaron Hanks. And Martin McDougall is a mildly amusing slime ball as the greedy Mr. Carlton."Wicked Little Things" doesn't have that much to offer, but it's not a complete waste of time. The resolution is, ultimately, rather unsatisfying.Six out of 10.
Josh Blake Wicked Little Things has great cinematography and some really nice atmospheric woodland scenes, however the only thing that lets this film down is at times there are some weak points, where the scenes seem rushed. The acting was okay there are some weak points at the beginning but as the film goes it seems to level out and seem more natural. There are a few good scares in the film which kind of makes up for the loss of direction that happens once or twice during the film. If you are interested in films with zombies in then you will most likely want to give this a watch, as it is definitely an under rated film that I would recommend to any horror fan.
jaguiar313 During the early 1900s in a rural Pennsylvania mine, a group of children used as workers are killed when a dynamite charge is used unsafely while they're inside. Now in modern day, pretty widow Karen (Lori Heuring) and her two daughters, young Emma, (Chloe Grace Moretz) and teen Sarah, (Scout Taylor-Compton) move into a recently inherited property in the area. Soon supernatural occurrences begin to happen and Karen finds out that the vengeful children still inhabit the woods at night sating their hunger for revenge by devouring anyone foolish enough to be out there after dark. Worse yet, her family may be tied to these ghouls in a much deeper way then just living in their domain. Director J.S. Cardone gives the film a nice atmosphere and keeps a story that might have gotten silly appropriately creepy. Cinematographer Emil Topuzov gives the film a nice visual style and makes use of the dark Bulgarian woods (which stand in for Pennsylvania) and the old house our characters occupy. The cast does well too with Heuring giving depth to the strong willed mother trying to start a new life for her girls and now faced with an unnatural horror. As the girls, the young Moretz is good as Emma, who one of the dead children is drawn too, and Compton plays the rebellious teen very well. They are joined by genre vets Geoffrey Lewis as the local handyman and Ben Cross as a hermit with ties to the flesh eating specters. The film's not perfect, the pace is a bit slow, though, I feel that is deliberate, and some of the plot elements are a bit cliché' for this type of flick (ominous warnings from the local eccentric, local teens ignoring the legends and going in the woods at night) . But, one can forgive some of the flaws and familiarities as the film provides enough chills and there is some decent gore too. Overall a spooky little horror flick that never tries to be more then what it is. More like 6.5/10
Nitzan Havoc The 2006 After Dark Horrorfest seems to have been quite the experience. I've got around to watching Wicked Little Things after watching Penny Dreadful, and just like the latter - I find it to be quite underrated.In my humble personal opinion as a devout Horror fan, films involving creepy evil children are some of the scariest in the genre. Except for The Children (2008) and the remake of The Omen (and maybe Children of the Corn Genesis) I haven't seen too many of these in the past years, and that's a shame.In these films, the most important thing if you ask me is to make sure the children are actually scary (unlike in the original Omen anthology), especially if they're bloodthirsty zombies/ghosts. In that aspect - Wicked Little Things has certainly come through. Their Japanese-Horror style make up, combined with their slow eerie movements and the fact they never talk has really made them everything they've been supposed to be.The story wasn't all that original, and other aspects like acting, cinematography, lighting and script weren't all that commendable, but they didn't really have to be. The film was spooky and unnerving enough to be worthwhile. Another thing in its favor - for a change, upon discovering the existence of unnatural beings, the protagonists were genuinely shocked and barely able to cope, rather than the "oh, well..." attitude in which we've seen them react in too many other films.All in all, I think Wicked Little Things is underrated, and I can't say I agree with some of the more harsh critics. It might have used a better name, like "The Mine" or "Blood of their Kin" or something of the sorts, but it's definitely worth watching. Not magnificent, but very enjoyable.