Wicked Little Things

2006 "Prey for Them"
5| 1h34m| R| en| More Info
Released: 17 November 2006 Released
Producted By: Millennium Media
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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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Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
Stephen Abell The main reason to watch this film would be the story as it gives a refreshingly fresh take on the Zombie genre.The Carlton's had owned the land for generations. On that land were forests, houses, and a mine. Deep in the mine were buried the Carlton's darkest injustice. But some transgressions don't stay buried... These ones are on the hunt for retribution.The Carlton's used child labour down in their mine and one day an avoidable incident caused the deaths of most of the youngsters. Carlton was cleared of any wrongdoing and was never prosecuted for the deaths. The event was ruled a tragic accident.Wanting revenge, the children now walk the woods looking for Carlton and his bloodline...Enter Karen (Lori Heuring) and her two daughters, Sarah (Scout Taylor- Compton) and Emma (Chloe Grace Moretz), who move into a property on Carlton land. The house had been left to their husband and father, who had passed away leaving them in enough debt that they had to sell their home. The house is one of the most oppressive I've ever seen. It's dark and foreboding. The door is open and blood has been painted on the door.It's not long before Emma has made a friend in Mary... The trouble is, nobody else can see Mary.The director, J S Cardone (of The Slayer - reviewed on this blog) does a winning job of creating atmosphere, tension, and suspense at all the right times in the movie. The night scenes in the moonlit woods are lovely, verging on beautiful, they do give an eerie feel to the location and situation. However, as I stated in the review to The Slayer, it appears he also likes dark houses. It's actually brighter outside in the woods by moonlight than it is in the house with all the lights burning. It's just as annoying here that the light of an electric bulb only radiates a couple of feet. There are some wonderful iconic and haunting shots of the children in their miner's garb carrying their work tools, which they use to dispatch anybody they run into.The actors all give good performances, though, at times, both Ben Cross as Aaron Hanks and Martin McDougall as Mr Carlton ham it up, but they do reign in the piggies after a short while. Not one actor or actress stands out above the rest, they are all fair at making their characters believable. Though I do have a fondness for Geoffrey Lewis, especially after the hauntingly eerie rocking chair scene in Salam's Lot that stays with me today. He is good as the irascible plumber Harold.It's the story that's the star in this film, though, and that is a very unusual thing to say about a horror film. It's the fresh take on the Zombie mythos, in some ways it harpers back to the original Zombie, where a spell or a curse would resurrect the dead. They then become unstoppable until the curse is lifted has run its course. The course here is the revenge of the children on the Carlton bloodline.I would recommend this to all horror fans or the casual viewer looking for something respectable in the genre. You could do worse.
TheBlueHairedLawyer Sarah and Emma lost their dad to an unexplained illness; now they are moving to an old coal-mining town in Pennsylvania. The house turns out to be a decrepit old wooden shack full of rats, with bad plumbing and belongings like a Christmas tree left behind. Sarah makes new friends, a trio of stoned high-schoolers, meanwhile her little sister Emma creates a pretend friend called Mary. Emma's mom is worried, but is also wondering about William Carlton, a selfish land-developer who is tearing the old houses and mines down for a ski resort. Unknown to him the group of zombies, children who were murdered in a mine shaft in 1913, are out to find him. Next, oh crudlychunks, Emma seeks help from a neighbor, the eccentric and religious Hank, who kindly offers to help her... but not Carlton. Interesting as it was, Wicked Little Things was typical and predictable. Sarah's group of hick friends are all perverts, in fact the first thing one guy says to her is, "I got something hard for you to catch", and he points to his crotch. Growing up in a mining and steelmaking province myself, I can recall the old documents of child labor and what-not. However, the plot is still very predictable. The overused "I met an imaginary friend that is actually real" plot is there, Chloe Moretz (Carrie 2013), played a boring and annoying role as Emma. Hank was a great character, all he wanted was to help the kids. Watch at least once, you might enjoy it.
Paul Magne Haakonsen When I bought this movie from Amazon, it was titled "Zombies" on the DVD cover and had the "Wicked Little Things" as an subtitle. So I bought it with the hopes of it being a zombie movie."Wicked Little Things" was not a zombie movie in the traditional sense, as there weren't any brain-dead, shambling corpses or rotting corpses around. However, it was really a nice change of scenery to see dead children in a horror movie. And despite the lack of regular zombies, then "Wicked Little Things" wasn't actually a bad movie. The dead children looked cool, and their silent demeanor and black, dead eyes worked really well.The story was also quite good, a bit on the simple side though. But it was a storyline that you easily picked up on and got submerged into. There was no twists of events or subplots, just one story and it was straight to the point. A group of children working in a mine were killed and have been haunting the mountain ever since, killing people without remorse, seeking vengeance on the one responsible for their tragic end."Wicked Little Things" wasn't full of huge CGI effects, flashing special effects and the like. They made use of simple effects, but they were straight to the point and worked as intended. If you like gore, then you will not be disappointed, as there was an adequate amount in the movie as well.As for scares, well, then "Wicked Little Things" wasn't really harboring any shock-moments, but it was working on a nice slow-pace of building up suspense and story, having it come full circle at a satisfactory way at the end, although it was quite predictable.The movie was shot in a really great location, and there was a lot of spooky atmosphere to the entire movie. The location of a secluded cabin on a mountain with a spooky forest worked out really well.So despite the sort of misleading title on the DVD cover ("Zombies"), then "Wicked Little Things" was actually a great enough horror movie.
JoeB131 Clichés abound in this film, with such classics as the car that won't start at a key moment. But it's a little more enjoyable than most films of this genre.Quick plot. A single mother and her two daughters move to this town in Pennsylvannia where they apparently forgot to mention "Zombie Children walking about since 1913" in the Chamber of Commerce Brochures. The descendant of the guy who authorized the accident where all these kids were killed I think what makes it work well is the characters are likable and the Zombies are actually kind of creepy. And watching the rich jerk get his comeuppance was kind of satisfying.