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Are you Kidding Me?


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THEY WERE CHILDREN??? They got tortured and defeated by CHILDREN!!! Really? When I first saw the previews for this it looked scary and had me even checking my back at night here and there. Once I found out they were children I was thinking if that happened to me I would just take care of business myself with ease. I would look like terminator compared to those kids.

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Yes, I had trouble believing that 10-15 year olds:

- made a grown woman disappear without a trace in total silence
- turned a street light off
- got into the back of a car in total silence to strangle a young woman to death
(from opening scene)
- broke into a car and drive off with it
- cut phone and power to enormous residence
- tracked and shone lights wherever the couple looked outside a 2nd floor window
- remained virtually unseen and emitted no voice during their assault on the residence, which they seemed to know inside and out
- when they did emit vocalisation during the chase outside the house, they did not sound like children (or anything terrestrial, for that matter)
- pulled a grown man across the ground like he weighed nothing
- physically carried off and subdued a grown woman, made her disappear without a noise in a split second, as occurred also in opening scene.
... and probably other things I haven't picked up on but I'd say that covers it.

Not a bad film, and one of the most tense I've ever watched for sure. The fact that the attackers were exposed at the end as 10-15 year olds made it more twisted for sure (especially given one of the leads was a teacher). There are more realistic films featuring kids as killers out there though.

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It was actually laughable, such a bad movie, by the end I just wanted it over

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And the kids even did it without weapons !!!

The adult victims were running away from the *WEAPONLESS* children - and the adults even had a fireplace poker in their hand !

Uh, I guess somebody needed to tell the adults that they're allowed to beat the hell out of somebody who breaks into your house. You don't have to jump out of a window and run into the woods !

But I guess if somebody shows up in a scary mask then you just run away from them - even if they're kids who don't even have weapons (and you do).

Totally laughable movie !

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