Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Bob 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.

marcdavid-26974 I wanted to like this movie more than I did. Just seems like I've seen this plot before somewhere. And why oh why do evil kids in movies always sport huge dark bags under their eyes?

Paul Magne Haakonsen From the many good reviews and great praises this movie had gotten, then I had my expectation up high. But I must say that the movie failed to live up to those expectations. While the premises were quite interesting and the movie did offer some unique things, it just didn't push the right buttons for me.The story is about two families away together on a countryside vacation. And what starts as an idyllic vacation with snow and fun suddenly turns into a fight for their lives as their children mysteriously turn ill and start attacking the adults.Personally I found the no description of what caused the children to go berserk an interesting thing, because it keeps the audience in the dark and guessing. But I could also see how it would be a cause of frustration to some.And the fact that it is children who kill and also gets killed is something rarely seen in movies. So director Tom Shankland deserves a thumbs up for breaking the norm and going into taboo land.There were some good enough death scenes and a bit of blood and gore too. And again the director dares to show stuff that goes past what is commonly seen in movies.However, there was just something missing from the movie in order for it to really captivate me. I don't know what it was, but it just lacked that special ingredient.

GL84 When a family gathers together at a large mountainside cottage for a reunion, the children come into contact with a strange virus that makes them homicidal maniacs who begin to kill off the others one-by-one, forcing them into a fight for survival to get away. This one was a pretty problematic yet still enjoyable effort. When this one works, there's several things here that make this wholly enjoyable. There's some nice atmospheric scenes here with the snowbound setting provided a great place here which is incredibly important at deriving the perfect sense of isolation required here, as the coldness and wintry feeling is quite appropriate for the type of story here. There's also the fact that there's a rather nice series of encounters and attacks here that move this along very well, as the initial encounters out amongst the very edges of the house playing demented versions of children's games that constitute deadly forms of chasing around as scenes in the playground or out in the frosty woods surrounding the house so there's a lot of enjoyable times with that. As well, there's other rather fun encounters inside the house as the kids get more aggressive and daring in their homicidal instincts which brings about some really thrilling chases around the house as the scenes in the kitchen and bedroom are all featured here which makes for a rather fun time, and feature enough gore to get this one some extra fun along the way. These have enough to make this enjoyable enough, even if there's quite a few storyline problems. That is a major stumbling block with the film, as the majority of the time with this one is spent in situations that not everyone can relate to. Far too much of this is based around the situation of how parents would react in those situations, but that leaves way too many scenes where the parental instincts are pushed to the forefront and common sense and logic fall by the wayside. This one constantly keeps them in danger after failing to realize the obvious and trust in their parental instincts, and it gets old after the twentieth time spent utilizing the same set-up over and over again due to the stupidity exhibited. The other flaw to this one is the true lack of explanation for the virus, as there's little given here about its properties and origins for infecting the kids since all we get is the specific age range and how to get infected, but after that there's nothing here to give this away or what it does. That can be somewhat infuriating, but otherwise there's not all that much wrong here.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, violence-against-children and children-in-jeopardy.

jlthornb51 A powerful film that brilliantly plays upon every parent's worst fear: that their young children will turn on them during Christmas vacation and chase them with knives. Anyone who has been through this experience will especially find this a deeply disturbing, haunting motion picture experience. The movie captures beautifully the pain of these horrified parents as their little loved ones enter a homicidal rage and pursue them without mercy. The transition from loving mother and father to simply a human being fighting for survival in the most extreme circumstances imaginable is sensitively observed and tastefully depicted. Certainly a film that will bring buried fears to the surface and reawaken bad memories of past holiday unpleasantness.