I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A widow and her daughters move into the inherited family home and get terrorised by "zombie" kids from the local Carlton mining disaster that occurred many years earlier.You know very early from the off that we the audience are going to be asked a lot of as regards character behaviours and rationales. The grieving mother moves herself and her daughters into what can only be described as an isolated pig sty, and right from the off all the warning signs are there for them that all is not well in this part of town.Story unravels in standard revenge from the grave formation, but the setting is very much in the film's favour even if the core story is not. Creepy forest, crumbling abodes and the spectre of the mine disaster ready to unleash its secret. The kids themselves are actually ghosts who eat meat, human or animal, so it was a tenuous marketing strategy to be calling it a zombie film.However, the kids themselves are splendidly ghoulish, pale faced and dark eyed, these very much are creepy kids. Low tone cinematography and gentle pacing help the mood considerably, and cast performances are fine given that the writing saddles them with weak dialogue exchanges and drawn out sequences obviously used to extend the running time. A teen romance strand involving the eldest daughter also just feels like filler.A modest spooker but certainly watchable enough, atmosphere and location setting ensure this is the case. 4/10

The 2006 After Dark Horrorfest seems to have been quite the experience. I've got around to watching Wicked Little Things after watching Penny Dreadful, and just like the latter - I find it to be quite underrated.In my humble personal opinion as a devout Horror fan, films involving creepy evil children are some of the scariest in the genre. Except for The Children (2008) and the remake of The Omen (and maybe Children of the Corn Genesis) I haven't seen too many of these in the past years, and that's a shame.In these films, the most important thing if you ask me is to make sure the children are actually scary (unlike in the original Omen anthology), especially if they're bloodthirsty zombies/ghosts. In that aspect - Wicked Little Things has certainly come through. Their Japanese-Horror style make up, combined with their slow eerie movements and the fact they never talk has really made them everything they've been supposed to be.The story wasn't all that original, and other aspects like acting, cinematography, lighting and script weren't all that commendable, but they didn't really have to be. The film was spooky and unnerving enough to be worthwhile. Another thing in its favor - for a change, upon discovering the existence of unnatural beings, the protagonists were genuinely shocked and barely able to cope, rather than the "oh, well..." attitude in which we've seen them react in too many other films.All in all, I think Wicked Little Things is underrated, and I can't say I agree with some of the more harsh critics. It might have used a better name, like "The Mine" or "Blood of their Kin" or something of the sorts, but it's definitely worth watching. Not magnificent, but very enjoyable.

As written in the film's description, children were used in 1913 to help build a mine and many died...sort of. I enjoyed seeing the younger Chloe Grace Moretz (Dark Shadows, Hick, etc.) in the film; she's a great actress. The film moves along quite slowly with some scares here and there and the unravelling story of what really happened to all the "dead" children. There are some interesting moments about faith and how to deal with the ghost children and the location and backdrop (especially the house) is well done. However, the film could really have had a much more extended storyline which would definitely have increased the ratings. I find this movie would have been better as a "made for T.V." flick. I particularly enjoyed the last 30-45 minutes of the film but the ending left me confused. One thing that I'll take away from this film is how common these types of accidents were (and still are) throughout the world. I am from Vancouver BC Canada and when the Pacific railway was being built, MANY members of minority groups (Asians for the most part) were killed during construction and were used as opposed to Caucasians (sadly). Canada is still paying sums to families affected by all the deaths.If you're looking for an interesting (but by no means enthralling) supernatural thriller, give this film a chance.

Having spent all of her money caring for her terminally ill spouse, recently widowed Karen Tunny (Lori Heuring) moves with her two daughters Sarah (Scout Taylor-Compton) and Emma (Chloe Moretz) to her late husband's run-down family home in rural Pennsylvania, where local legends speak of zombies who roam the woods at night.Just seeing the names of this film's writer and director in the opening credits was enough to send shivers up my spine: Boaz Davidson is the 'genius' responsible for penning the scripts for such STV titles as Octopus 1 & 2, Spiders and Crocodile, whilst J.S. Cardone gave us the godawful 'video nasty' The Slayer and dull vampire flick The Forsaken. With such dubious talent responsible, I didn't expect much from Wicked Little things.And having just finished the film, I'm glad I kept my expectations low.Although the movie looks good at times, with lovely use of the eerie woodland locale, and the cast give reasonable performances given the clichéd drivel that they are working with, the plot is so laboured, poorly written, and derivative that it's impossible to be enthusiastic about. Most importantly, perhaps, the film's killers, undead children who rise each night from the mine in which they died, aren't in the least bit scary, a smudge of makeup, black contacts and some crappy joke shop scars doing very little to add to the sense of menace. Scout Taylor-Compton and company do their best to look afraid of the tiny terrors, screaming convincingly with every confrontation, but their admirable attempts to instill a sense of fear in the audience is to little avail: the little blighters just ain't got what it takes to chill the blood.There are a few lacklustre zombie chow scenes in a futile bid to win over gore-hounds, and the final kill, which sees the victim's blood drench both Compton and Heuring, is suitably tasteless, but on the whole, Wicked Little Things (AKA Zombies in the UK) is instantly forgettable trash—just another clunker in the filmographies of Cardone and Davidson.