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Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)

aka Island of the Damned

The title asks a rather disturbing question that sets the mind on edge. In this little known Spanish film two tourists visiting a remote island are confronted by this unthinkable dilemma. The harrowing experience is reminiscent of Romero's Night of the Living Dead or Hitchcock's The Birds as the couple are hunted down by an ever-increasing horde of blood-thirsty children. In a shocking and somewhat unseemly opening, the film answers the why with a series of archival atrocities perpetrated against children. I found the concept of the children's influential madness fascinating. It's as if their infecting hate has a purpose.

3½ human piñatas out of 5

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