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Wicked Little Things
DVD/APPROX. 94 MINS/2006/USA R18+
DVD/APPROX. 94 MINS/2006/USA R18+
If there was ever a film that should have been called by its alternate title (Wicked Little Things), this is definitely it! It might as well have been
given the name of a Porno or something coz this has about as much to do with zombies as Friday the 13th!
The story starts in an old mine in Pennsylvania, 1913. The mine owner orders a child to crawl into a tunnel to lay down some TNT and when the
child doesn’t come back, the miner detonates the dynamite anyways, which causes some areas of the mine to collapse killing all of the children
working in there.
Fast forward to nowadays and recently widowed single mother Karen Tunny (Lori Heuring, Mullholland Dr.) and her 2 daughters Sarah (Scout
Taylor-Compton, currently lined up to play Laurie Strode in the new Halloween (2007 by Rob Zombie) & Emma (Chloe Moretz, Amityville Remake)
are moving into the old Tunny estate in the Pennsylvania woods that they just inherited. Upon arriving at the old house, which is slightly
dilapidated, Emma runs off into the forest and discovers an old Mineshaft not far from the house. Standing directly in front of the shaft, Emma
hears the voice of children. It turns out the children from the mine collapse are very much alive, in one form or another…..
Every night the children come out of the mine hell bent on revenge and hungry for justice against the last living ancestor of the original mine
owner, and anybody else who gets in there way….
The only way to really sum up this film would be to call it a cross breed of Village Of The Damned, and the very last episode of the Kingdom
Hospital Mini-Series, with the only thing really having anything do with zombies is the fact that they cant be killed, or one scene where they devour
one of there victims… All in gory detail!! For a very recent film there is a surprising amount of touchy subjects in here! Child exploitation in the work
force, firing a shot gun at children, and lastly cannibalistic children!
Story wise this is no slouch, with minimal dead patches near the start and once it gets going it’s a pretty good show, if slightly derivative. The
locations play a huge part of this film and they are all shit hot! I don’t think the locations could have suited the film anymore, as you have the
spooky old woods with cabins and houses in the middle of nowhere. The woods themselves are always covered in fog, and in one particular brief
moment the way the sunlight comes through all the fog and other shit reminds me a hell of a lot of the front cover from Celtic Frost’s To Mega
Therion!
Boy, director J.S. Cardone has come a hell of a long way since his 1982 debut The Slayer! While I admit The Slayer was a complete heap of shit, I
thought it’s director would’ve just faded into oblivion, but no J.S. has 12 directing credits to his name, although they are all B grade affairs at least
he is around and still doing stuff. You have to commend a guy for sticking it out that long! And to his credit J.S. finally knows how to construct a
film! This would have to be one of the most fluent indie films I have seen in a bloody long time!
Worth a hire for sure, go in not knowing what to expect and you may be quite surprised, just don’t let that title mislead you like it did me!
given the name of a Porno or something coz this has about as much to do with zombies as Friday the 13th!
The story starts in an old mine in Pennsylvania, 1913. The mine owner orders a child to crawl into a tunnel to lay down some TNT and when the
child doesn’t come back, the miner detonates the dynamite anyways, which causes some areas of the mine to collapse killing all of the children
working in there.
Fast forward to nowadays and recently widowed single mother Karen Tunny (Lori Heuring, Mullholland Dr.) and her 2 daughters Sarah (Scout
Taylor-Compton, currently lined up to play Laurie Strode in the new Halloween (2007 by Rob Zombie) & Emma (Chloe Moretz, Amityville Remake)
are moving into the old Tunny estate in the Pennsylvania woods that they just inherited. Upon arriving at the old house, which is slightly
dilapidated, Emma runs off into the forest and discovers an old Mineshaft not far from the house. Standing directly in front of the shaft, Emma
hears the voice of children. It turns out the children from the mine collapse are very much alive, in one form or another…..
Every night the children come out of the mine hell bent on revenge and hungry for justice against the last living ancestor of the original mine
owner, and anybody else who gets in there way….
The only way to really sum up this film would be to call it a cross breed of Village Of The Damned, and the very last episode of the Kingdom
Hospital Mini-Series, with the only thing really having anything do with zombies is the fact that they cant be killed, or one scene where they devour
one of there victims… All in gory detail!! For a very recent film there is a surprising amount of touchy subjects in here! Child exploitation in the work
force, firing a shot gun at children, and lastly cannibalistic children!
Story wise this is no slouch, with minimal dead patches near the start and once it gets going it’s a pretty good show, if slightly derivative. The
locations play a huge part of this film and they are all shit hot! I don’t think the locations could have suited the film anymore, as you have the
spooky old woods with cabins and houses in the middle of nowhere. The woods themselves are always covered in fog, and in one particular brief
moment the way the sunlight comes through all the fog and other shit reminds me a hell of a lot of the front cover from Celtic Frost’s To Mega
Therion!
Boy, director J.S. Cardone has come a hell of a long way since his 1982 debut The Slayer! While I admit The Slayer was a complete heap of shit, I
thought it’s director would’ve just faded into oblivion, but no J.S. has 12 directing credits to his name, although they are all B grade affairs at least
he is around and still doing stuff. You have to commend a guy for sticking it out that long! And to his credit J.S. finally knows how to construct a
film! This would have to be one of the most fluent indie films I have seen in a bloody long time!
Worth a hire for sure, go in not knowing what to expect and you may be quite surprised, just don’t let that title mislead you like it did me!
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