Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Spikeopath 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

Nitzan Havoc 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.

Miraxxxx WLT is a very interesting movie, a good amount of gore, and suspense. It keeps you guessing whats going to happen next. Although, it was boring in the beginning, it got you excited towards the middle and end. This could be a spoiler to you----- The end where they leave just does not make sense. She has hardly any money, and doesn't know where shes going. This movie makes you scared for the characters, and feel bad for the little miner children. It has some funny moments, and exciting moments. In my opinion, I liked the car scene with the teenagers the most. Honestly, I'm not one to watch gory gory scary scary movies. So I'll give this movie a lot of stars, because I will never ever go camping deep in the forest. Stars given---- **********

Paul Andrews Wicked Little Things starts as single mother Karen Tunny ((Lori Heuring) & her two daughters Sarah (Scout Taylor-Compton) & Emma (Chloe Moretz) arrive in the small community of Abbytown in Pennsylvania to move into an old mountain side cabin she inherited through her late husband. Although a little run down the cabin is nice enough but some of the locals are a bit strange including their neighbour Aaron Hanks (Ben Cross) who talks of evil things in the woods at night which seem to go back to a mining disaster in 1913 when several children were killed in an explosion & they still live on as flesh eating zombie kids who roam the woods at night seeking vengeance on the mines owner, soon enough Emma is talking about imaginary friends & Karen finds out for herself that the stories are true & the killer zombie kids are real...Produced & directed by genre regular J.S. Cardone (is anyone ever going to put out a decent DVD/Blu-ray of The Slayer (1982) or what?) this was one of the seven horror films to premiere at one of those After Dark Horrorfest events & while it's not terrible I wouldn't exactly call Wicked Little Things particularly worthwhile either. For a start the script is pretty slow going, it's over half an hour into the thing before anyone dies, until that point there's exposition & attempts at foreboding which aren't particularly foreboding to be honest & after a solid twenty minutes of nothing happening most people will start to lose interest. The whole film film has the same central core as Aliens (1986) with the mother daughter relationship although here it feels like it's there just to pad things out rather than give the film or it's character's greater depth, the character's generally are walking clichés like the young cute girl who know's something is going on, the creepy store owner, a crazy mountain man who's silly stories & warnings turn out to be true, a cowardly human bad guy there to get it to redress the balance & the flesh eating zombies that feel like they belong in an Asian ghost film as much as a US zombie one. In fact I would say it's more of a ghost film than a zombie film, the ideas & themes of some terrible event in the past, a haunted location, someone wronged reaching out to the living for revenge or redemption or closure are all more prevalent in Wicked Little Things than merely flesh eating zombies rising from the grave. To be honest I thought this was quite predictable, there are no big surprises & at over 90 minutes it goes on for to long with a small body count & there's just nothing that memorable here.Wicked Little Things is a dark film, I am not talking about dark as in a conceptual or thematic sense but as in a you can barely see what's going on because most of the time the picture is black sense. If you do want to watch this make sure you get your hands on a good copy because you will need it, there are many times when it's impossible to see what's going on or what the camera is pointing at & it's just so dark with most of the screen most of the time just pitch black which is a shame since the locations are nice & you can sort of sense a decent atmosphere but the darkness becomes annoying. There's not much gore here & a pretty low body count, people are stabbed with pick-axe's, a pig is killed & there are a few shots of zombie kids eating flesh & guts plus the carcass of a chopped up pig is seen but nothing else & the gore is masked by the darkness anyway so it's difficult to see. Known under the title Zombies: Wicked Littles Things here in the UK this was originally set to be directed by Tobe Hooper & had the working titles The Children (already taken...) & Zombies.Although set in the US in Pennsylvania this was actually filmed in Bulgaria & to be fair the locations look creepy but it's a shame that it's so dark you can't really see them that well. The acting is OK, Geoffrey Lweis turns up in a small role while the majority of the rest of the cast appear to be Bulgarians whose names I can't pronounce.Wicked Little Things is a modest film, it has it's moments I suppose but the predictable plot & dark photography stop it from being anything more than average at best.