And that
begins my first critique on the film – the plot. I really don’t find children to be scary,
more creepy than scary. In my humble
opinion, it is really far-fetched for a group of kids to literally kill off all
the adults in any given town and have no retaliation whatsoever from either
more adults or the elder kids. In the
story, they even have children willingly allowing the others to kill them at
age 19. I don’t know anyone that would
willingly die like that, and even if one or two did it would be very difficult
to get an entire group to fall into step with dying young. I honestly didn’t think there was a Stephen
King out there I couldn’t get behind, but I’d have to say this one is too
far-fetched for me to get the creeps from.
That being said, if you as a viewer can get past the inconceivability of
this plot, then you may find you enjoy this film. The cinematography is decent though one can
tell that it is an older film. Still not
bad, not bad. I can’t honestly say I can
remember the soundtrack so I am going to say that it wasn’t memorable and leave
it at that.
The casting, unfortunately, is another
downfall of this particular flick. Courtney
Gains as Malachai…I mean I’m all for giving child actors a bit of a break
because they are ‘green,’ so to speak, but this kid was not only terrible, he
was also obnoxious to look at. Every
time he yelled “Outlander!” I wanted to reach through the screen and shake
him…hard. John Franklin as Issac was pretty awful also, but at least he was
somewhat intriguing. Having not read the
short story for this prior to watching, I was hoping Isaac WAS the demon, or
possessed and immortal, or something cool.
But alas, I was let down on that as well. The creepiest thing about this movie was “The
Blue Man,” a cop that had been crucified by the kids, his rotting skeleton
serving as a point in the cornfield as their meeting place. Otherwise…it’s pretty out there. The kids all grab sickles and knives to kill
the adults…and the adults grab pipes and duller instruments to try to fight back. The kids all seem to go along with all of
this, and yet don’t appear as brainwashed as one might originally think when we
first meet them. All in all, this is one
of my least favorite conceptions that King has produced for us. Anyways, here come the stats: Number of deaths? 11.
Killers? This was a tough
call…probably thirty or so? Boobs? 0.
Not even anything remotely racy in this one.
Cheap thrills? 0. Actual spooks endured? 0.
Ravens Scream Meter says: 2 out of 5 Screams. Has some carnage so I couldn’t give it a one,
even if it isn’t my favorite movie to date.
Thanks again for reading and I’ll be posting another review
shortly! xx
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