¿Quién Puede Matar a un Niño? (1976)
Genre: Horror / Mystery
Duration: 107 minuten / 111 minuten (unrated version)
Alternative titles: Who Would Kill a Child? / Who Can Kill a Child? / Island of the Damned
Country:
Spain
Directed by: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Stars: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome and Antonio Iranzo
IMDb score:
7,2 (8.427)
Releasedate: 26 April 1976
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¿Quién Puede Matar a un Niño? plot
"Suddenly… They were the only adults left alive on the island"
A group of English tourists rents a boat to visit Almanzora, an idyllic island off the Spanish coast. When they arrive on the island, they discover that only children live there. The children killed all the adults.
Actors and actresses
Tom
Evelyn
Crying Child Father
Coastguard
Beach House Mother
Postman Enrique Amorós
Male Nurse
Reviews & comments
wibro
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- 11590 messages
- 4098 votes
Not bad. Immediately thought of that other film about naughty children The Children (2008) which I liked a bit better. I can't really call this film horror. It's a mystery though and I didn't need that opening. For me, horror films consist 100% of fantasy and you shouldn't show images from World War II, the Vietnam War, etc.
By the way, those kids looked pretty evil. The two tourists didn't do much for me and visually this film actually had little to offer. I found it all amusing. The film had enough beautiful scenes, one of which reminded me strongly of the final scene from Hitchcock's film The Birds (1963).
3.5*
Shadowed
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- 10160 messages
- 6079 votes
Strange horror film.
But not necessarily a very good one in the end. The entire recipe almost screams for a hard elaboration, but certainly 90 minutes is still reasonably tame horror. Only in the last fifteen minutes does it finally get going, but this is relatively short unfortunately.
I had expected it to be a cheap film, but in general I didn't mind it. Only the film starts in a cheap shock way that I did find annoying. For the rest it forms a pretty weak excuse for the reason of the maniacal children. And besides, it doesn't belong in a horror film but in a documentary.
What we get next is unfortunately a rather slow horror film with very few memorable moments. With two leading actors who make little impression. I found Ransome in particular to be weak acting. On the edge of believability and a rather annoying appearance who constantly makes annoying choices.
For the rest also brackish dialogues that go around. Some really hit like a pig on a stick. The film still seems a bit neat, but those dialogues are really of trash level sometimes. Those children are also not exactly scary and I didn't feel much for them.
The film is otherwise a bit too slow. It often takes a long time before a thriller can finally look around the corner. When it does come, it is a lot better, but they are never really oppressive. The hard horror unfortunately also remains somewhat absent.
Only in the last fifteen minutes do we suddenly get a better film. With images that actually have an impact. That's what I was looking for in this film, but it really takes too long before it actually comes. Fortunately, they were strong. Certainly when Fiander shoots several of them at once.
Fortunately, the rest looks neat, and the crawling children sometimes have something. And of course a beautiful location.
shugenja
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- 558 messages
- 1437 votes
Wonderful film. With full colours, beautiful shots, beautiful locations. The children are very good, scary but also human. I was afraid that they might be dismissed as demonic monsters with red eyes.
The opening credits are really gruesome and indeed do not fit well with the rest of the film. but they are essential because it makes such an impression and it hangs throughout the film. By starting with these credits you do not have to legitimize the behavior of the children. You realize what injustice the children are being done. Then and now (e.g. in refugee camps in Greece, Libya etc.) .
I can well imagine that the writer and director convert the anger and frustration of all this useless hunger, war and misery into a story like this. Children are innocent, let them get rid of their parents and the problem is solved in the world. That this is of course an idea on a beer mat that you cannot translate into a 2-hour film speaks for itself. And then we come to the Achilles heel of this film. Because the main characters sometimes do illogical things. They do not act very well (but it is just enough) and it sometimes goes a bit slow and takes a while before it becomes clear what is really going on. But well, you see that so often in horror films, so if you accept that, this is just a very good film
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