{"id":18704,"date":"2013-02-06T04:09:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T09:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=18704"},"modified":"2019-02-09T06:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T11:15:28","slug":"you-have-to-see-this-who-can-kill-a-child-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/you-have-to-see-this-who-can-kill-a-child-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have to See This! Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>2012 saw the remake of \u201cWho Can Kill a Child?\u201d hit many movie festivals under the new title \u201cCome Out and Play.\u201d And while that movie has been, from what I\u2019ve seen, met with mixed reviews on a mostly negative arena (one worst of 2012 list included the remake in its worst ten), there\u2019s no denying that \u201cWho Can Kill a Child?\u201d will never actually be replaced.<\/p>\n

When Tom and Evelyn seek to vacation in Spain, even in spite of reports of adult bodies washing ashore mutilated beyond repair, they go to a local tourist island for food, dance, and laughs only to discover the island has been taken over by children. And these almost infinite groups of prepubescent terrors are intent on viciously murdering anyone and everyone who isn\u2019t a child. Can Tom and Evelyn survive long enough to make it off the island and back to shore to warn civilization?<\/p>\n

While folks often cite \u201cVillage of the Damned\u201d and or \u201cChildren of the Corn\u201d as downright horrifying examples of children run amok and transformed in to monsters of terror, there\u2019s often the omission of the 1976 Spanish horror film \u201cWho Can Kill a Child?\u201d An often shocking and absolutely disturbing film, director Narciso Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez Serrador\u2019s has been very misunderstood and gone through a lot of phases during its life. It\u2019s been banned in certain countries and has been re-titled almost a dozen times.<\/p>\n

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It goes by its original moniker \u201c\u00bfQui\u00e9n puede matar a un ni\u00f1o?\u201d as well as \u201cIsland of the Damned,\u201d \u201cThe Hex Massacre,\u201d \u201cDeath is Child\u2019s Play,\u201d \u201cIsland of Death,\u201d \u201cThe Killer\u2019s Playground,\u201d \u201cTrapped,\u201d and \u201cWould You Kill a Child?\u201d Not to mention it\u2019s been edited down from its original form splicing out many of the murders in the film that revolve around children. In 2007, Dark Sky Films released a special edition unrated DVD of the film in its uncut glory, positing the film as something of an inexplicable turning of the tide in regards to man against nature, while Hitchcock\u2019s \u201cThe Birds\u201d showed what would happen if nature\u2019s inexplicably turned man into its number one enemy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho Can Kill a Child?\u201d shows what would happen if children suddenly decided that they simply have had enough of the adult population and became murderous, merciless monsters. The dilemma posed by the film is could you really kill a child? More on point, if your sweet seven year old daughter suddenly started attacking you with a machete intent on murdering you and bathing in your blood, could you murder her in self defense? \u201cWho Can Kill a Child?\u201d is an unnerving and calculated horror film that shows what happens when children just flip a switch and decide that friend or foe, they\u2019re massacring every adult in the general vicinity. In one very horrifying instance, a mother screams at her son and daughter to go outside and even smacks them on the behind to get them moving.<\/p>\n

The brother and sister are greeted by the swarm of psychotic ankle biters who approach the siblings, softly whispering in their ears in an almost inaudible string of words. Suddenly the looks of innocence and smiles on the siblings inexplicably transform in to sheer gleams of blood lust. When their mother greets them outside demanding they get to work her offspring are unresponsive, and behind her groups of children trickle down from the rocks preparing to unleash ungodly acts of pain on her.<\/p>\n

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Director Narciso Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez Serrador doesn\u2019t really display much exposition behind the source of this evil; he just shows the audience that this turn of events was inevitable with footage of children being massacred during various wars, and young kids starving to death in villages. All of whom are casualties of the violent conflicts. When Tom and his pregnant wife Evelyn arrive at the local island prepared to relax during their vacation, they\u2019re disturbed to discover that all of the adults on the island are nowhere to be found, and what civilization there are consists of children that run around seemingly innocent and committed to their own secret doings in the darkness.<\/p>\n

When Tom and Evelyn discover that the children have not only slaughtered every adult on the island, but have made a game out of mutilating an old man in the village square, the fight for their lives become ever more harrowing, as the angelic monsters will stop at nothing to kill the duo. Narciso Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez Serrador is never above tugging at the heart strings of audiences giving them some material to cringe at. Save for the ghastly prologue, there\u2019s a moment where a male survivor is lured to his death by his bawling daughter who begs for her dad to bring her home after she\u2019s injured herself, only for him to meet immediate death. And in one of the most creative death scenes I\u2019ve ever witnessed in a horror film, wife Evelyn meets her fate in a manner you\u2019ll never see coming.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho Can Kill a Child?\u201d is a grueling and very harrowing horror masterpiece with a thick sense of urgency and an atmosphere that signals this sudden transformation is definitely in the favor of the cherubic moppets with the inability to show quarter toward their adult counterparts. It\u2019s a gem that vastly outweighs \u201cVillage of the Damned\u201d as an evil children feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2012 saw the remake of \u201cWho Can Kill a Child?\u201d hit many movie festivals under the new title \u201cCome Out and Play.\u201d And while that movie has been, from what I\u2019ve seen, met with mixed reviews on a mostly negative arena (one worst of 2012 list included the remake in its worst ten), there\u2019s no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1717],"tags":[367,477,1294,703,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-18704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yhts","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-killer-kids","tag-mystery","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30419,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions\/30419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}