Children can be pretty creepy, right?  Right.  Dolls are pretty creepy, right?  Right.  So dolls of children should be super creepy, right?  Maybe... Greta has been hired by the Heelshires to look after their son while they are away.  When she arrives, she learns that Brahms is actually a doll... a doll made to look like their deceased son.  Escaping an abusive relationship, and needing the money, Greta takes the job. Soon, she learns that there's more to Brahms than meets the eye... The premise of this movie really intrigued me.  I wanted to see it.  I was hoping that this would be a great supernatural horror movie that provided spooky tension and unease like " The Others " (2001), " The Changeling  "(1980), and " The Woman in Black " (2012). For the most part, the movie delivered on this promise with some really nice ghostly, "What the fuck?" moments.  Strange noises and whispers, shifting shadows, and the Brahm...

Halloween and children go together like peanut butter and jam.  Murder and children... not so much, right?  You might be surprised... Two families come together to share the holidays together, and ring in the New Year. Unfortunately, their children start to fall ill, and act irrationally. The New Year's going to be rung in with murderous intent this year... The story's concept brings to mind the classic " The Children of the Corn ", in that it too has kids killing adults.  That is where the similarities end though.  While the other film gives a fairly cohesive reason as to WHY the kids have turned against adults, " The Children " does not.  It's simply waved off as a virus.  There's no clue given as to why the virus does this... and given the reveal later, there's no mention of something similar happening elsewhere on the news or anything.  It's an interesting concept that unfortunately has the holiness of a soup strainer when exam...

One of the surest way to get give people the heebie jeebies is to have a creepy kid in the movie.  " The Grudge " did it, " The Ring " did it... even Stanley Kubrick's " The Shining " did it.  One of the movies I watched during "Terrorpolooza 2012" did it as well... The Colemans have adopted a young girl named Esther, who promises to bring some happiness back into the torn family.  Soon however, that happiness turns to fear as "accidents" begin to happen to those around them... with Esther at the center of the malestrom... The premise reminds me a bit of " The Good Son " (1993), though there is an interesting, if slightly far fetched twist at the climax. Other than the children Maxine and Daniel, there is very little to LIKE about most of the characters.  The husband and the shrink are idiots, and easily manipulated.  While you can understand the trauma and emotional problems the mother has, I found it hard to ro...