I think you're projecting your own baggage onto the scene. I thought it was simply a demonstration of the depravity and inhumanity of the children. I personally increasingly prefer long scenes like this to the typical instant-death stuff that comprises the majority of horror film deaths.
If someone might complain of graphic sadism they could question the horrific treatment of the arrogant boyfriend, extended through roughly half of the film. Stabbing a man in the neck and the hand, shooting part of his face off, gouging out his eyes as he's conscious and then threading a vine or rope through his eye sockets with a stick - that's a lot for one character to endure, though as a representation of an exceedingly common intellectual, political, social and moral hubris, arrogance and ignorance in the U.K. and Europe toward America and Americans it was a guilty pleasure to watch.
As for the director being an egomaniac, what's new? It's a director.
I thought the Uncanny Valley-like nature of the kiddies was a nice approach, and the amount of up-close screen time for them was nice as well. Too many movies hell bent any more on keeping the monsters from really being seen. It's not a bad movie at all, I didn't feel like my time was wasted. It clearly could have been done better, and there could have been a little more coherence in the presentation, but I enjoyed it enough.
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