A couple of English tourists rent a boat to visit the fictitious island of Almanzora, just off the southern Spanish coast. When they arrive, they find the town deserted of adults, there's only children who don't speak but stare at them with eerie smiles. They soon discover that all the children of the island have been posessed by a mysterious force or madness which they can pass from one to another, and which makes them attack and murder their elders, who can't defend themselves because nobody dares to kill a child...
You probably skipped the plot 'cause you thought it was too long so i'll summarize it quickly for you. An English couple visits a Spanish island where they find out there are no adults and only murderous children! Sounds awesome right!? Well.. It is. Who Can Kill a Child takes all the time it needs. Even when the couple arrives at the island the tempo stays relatively low. The setting is lovely by the way. The island doesn't lack any sun and the beautiful old white buildings, the clear blue sky and the deserted streets and alleys bring lots of atmosphere (And make me wanna go on vacation to Spain). There isn't a lot of tension in the first 60 minutes. There actually doesn't even happen a whole lot of things but the atmosphere kept me interested. As the film continues more and more strange things start to happen. The first kill Tom (one of the tourists) witnesses is amazingly dark. The children actually beat an old man to death and then use him as a pinata. Though the tempo stays slow and the characters start making some annyoing decisions. Just when I was done with the slow tempo an amazing looking scene shows where all the children walk down a mountain hill. From that moment on numerous cool and tensive scenes follow. The last 30 minutes are a chain of twisted scenes where Tom shoots a kid through the head, a fetus kills his mother from the inside and Tom again shoots down a whole army of kids. After that an amazing ending follows which i'll not spoil for you... Just watch the film!
Who Can Kill a Child does have a slow pace, and some of you might not like that, but the atmosphere is great and the last 30 minutes are so twisted and impressive that as a horror fan you just HAVE to see this movie. Groundbreaking and shocking... Who Can Kill a Child deserves its classic status a 100%.
Fun Fact (Source: IMDB)
Several sequences are homages to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds,
for example, the image of all the children in the island's village
square ready to attack Tom and Evelyn, and the final escape from the
island.
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