Unless you totally forget what it was like to be a kid, or you were
the one handing out the wedgies, you should know that kids can be the
most mean things on earth, in Who Can Kill A Child this gets turned up
to 11.
The film starts out with a montage of documentary footage about how
much children have suffered from war and famine and whatnot, over the
creepy soundtrack of a humming child.
After the opening we are introduced to our happy couple Tom and his
pregnant Evelyn vacationing in Spain, for some reason there seems to
be constant fireworks, now don't get me wrong, I love fireworks, bit
this shit is constant. They decide they are going to go to Almanzora,
another more isolated island. Tom has some nostalgia for Almanzora,
and probably wants to get the fuck away from the fireworks.
Once they get there they meet several strange children who even help
them out of their boat, but by the time the reach the empty plaza of
the town we all realized something is seriously effed here,
Evelyn finally sees an old man crossing the street and calls Tom to
come check it out, Tom gets there just in time to see a cute little
girl grab the old man's cain and beat the fuck out of the old man. Tom
runs over to try and stop the beatdown, but gets there too late and
the old dude is dead. Tom yells at the girl but all he does is laugh
at him like she's on nitrous. Tom runs back to Evelyn and lies to her
about what happened. We get treated to a great scene where the kids
use the old man's corpse as a pinata!
Eventually a dude comes down from the basement and gives us the
lowdown on what is going on with the kids, before being led off to his
own sad end by his daughter. Thing heat up from the point and Tom
decides he and Evelyn need to get the fuck off this island. After the
run into all the kids standing in the town square like a bunch of
creepers Tom find himself a jeep and he and his wife are off.
After some misadventures Tom finally answers the title question with
"this fucking guy right here" and starts knocking off the little knee
biters like no one's business! I don't want to ruin it for you, but
all hell breaks loose, before the final curtain grimly falls on this
epic.
Who Can Kill A Child is a creepy little film. The emptiness and
silence of the town gives the time they spend on the island a heavy
atmosphere of dread, the absence of music for most of the film was a
great choice as it ads to the emptiness of the town. Things that you
may normally perceive as cute, such as children laughing and playing
are twisted around to become scary.
