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((Infobox film
| name           = The Children
| image          = Children film poster.jpg

| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Tom Shankland]]
| producer       = [[Allan Niblo]]<br /> James Richardson
| screenplay     = Tom Shankland 
| story          = [[Paul Andrew Williams]] 
| narrator       =
| starring       = [[Eva Birthistle]] <br />[[Hannah Tointon]] <br />[[Stephen Campbell Moore]]
| music          = [[Stephen Hilton]]
| cinematography = Nanu Segal
| editing        = Tim Murrell
| studio         = Screen West
Midlands <br />[[BBC Films]] <br />Aramid Entertainment <br />Barnsnape Films
| distributor    = [[Vertigo Films]]
| released       = ((Film date|2008|12|05|df=y))
| runtime        = 85 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
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'''''The Children''''' is a 2008 British [[horror thriller film]] set around the [[New Year]] holiday<ref>https://www.gbhbl.com/horror-movie-review-the-children-2008/</ref><ref>https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2016/12/12-days-of-christmas-horror-day-8-the-children-2008/</ref> directed by [[Tom Shankland]], based on a story by [[Paul Andrew Williams]] and starring [[Eva Birthistle]] and [[Hannah Tointon]].<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dljwq|title=The Children|work=BBC One|access-date=11 August 2021))</ref><ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/33872/tom-shankland-talks-the-children|title=Tom Shankland Talks The Children|date=6 October 2009 |publisher=DreadCentral))</ref> The story centers around a virus that turns all children into blood-thirsty monsters during a winter vacation. The film premiered on 5 December 2008 and received positive reviews from critics.

==Plot==
Elaine and Jonah travel with their two children, Miranda and Paulie, and Casey (Elaine’s teenage daughter from a previous relationship), to spend the New Year with Elaine's older sister, Chloe, her husband Robbie, and their two children, Nicky and Leah. On arrival, Paulie vomits, which his mother believes is due to motion sickness.

As the night progresses, Nicky and Leah also begin to show symptoms of illness. Leah coughs up black bile, in which strange forms of bacteria are seen proliferating exponentially. By the next day, all of the children have become pale and ill, and exhibit signs of disturbing behavior. Also the family cat Jinxie goes missing.

After an upset during lunch, when Miranda unexpectedly attacks Chloe, Robbie takes the other children sledding in the garden, to defuse the situation. But Nicky places a garden rake in the path of Robbie’s sled, which slices open his head on impact. Robbie dies and the children flee into the forest.

Casey had planned to leave and meet up with her friends for a party, but before she can do this she is frightened to find Leah in the forest, laughing and cutting into something.

Back in the house, Jonah tries to call emergency services, but they are held up by the snowy weather. Paulie attacks Jonah and also causes Elaine to break her leg. Casey and Elaine seek refuge in the greenhouse.

Chloe finds Robbie's body mutilated by the children, and is herself attacked by Leah. Casey saves her, and Elaine in turn saves Casey from Paulie, accidentally killing him. Chloe accuses Casey and Elaine of going insane, and angrily runs off into the woods with Jonah to find the other children.

Jonah and Chloe are separated in the woods: Chloe finds Nicky and Leah, but they attack and kill her. At the house, Casey sees Miranda beating Jinxie's corpse and throttles her, but just then Jonah arrives and Miranda tells him Casey attacked her. Jonah locks Casey in a bedroom and he and Miranda flee by car. Leah and Nicky break into the house and approach Elaine menacingly, but she cannot bring herself to hurt them. The kids attempt to cut into her stomach, but Casey escapes from the bedroom and kills Nicky.

Casey and Elaine drive off, but find Jonah dead in his car, having crashed into a tree. When Casey investigates, Miranda tries to attack her, but Elaine runs the child down with her car. She and Casey notice a crowd of staring children, including Leah, emerging from the woods; Elaine, who has observed Casey vomiting in the woods, is unsure whether to let Casey accompany her, but ultimately she's unable to leave her behind and they drive off.

As Elaine drives, an unresponsive Casey starts staring into space like the infected children did. As the film ends, the audience are left wondering if the virus has infected Casey as well.

==Cast==
((Cast listing|
* [[Eva Birthistle]] as Elaine
* [[Stephen Campbell Moore]] as Jonah
* [[Hannah Tointon]] as Casey
* Eva Sayer as Miranda
* William Howes as Paulie
* [[Rachel Shelley]] as Chloe
* [[Jeremy Sheffield]] as Robbie
* [[Rafiella Brookes]] as Leah
* [[Jake Hathaway]] as Nicky
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==Locations==
The film was shot in [[Cookhill Priory]], a former [[Cistercians|Cistercian]] nunnery, and in the nearby villages of [[Cookhill]] and [[Alcester]] in the English counties of [[Worcestershire]] and [[Warwickshire]], respectively.

==Box office==
The film opened at 10th place in the UK, grossing only £98,205 at 132 cinemas.((citation needed|date=August 2021)) In the weeks after its release, the film dropped to 13th place and then again to 22nd place.

==Critical response==
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 76% based on reviews from 17 critics. The site's consensus reads: "Unsettling and spine-chilling low-budget British horror, with effective and disturbing scares".<ref>((cite web|title=The Children (2008)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1204946-children|access-date=2020-08-08|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]))</ref>

The film opened to generally positive reviews from UK critics. ''[[The Guardian]]'' writer Phelim O'Neill said, "the violence is skilfully enough executed to make you think you see much more than you actually do and the fundamentally disturbing and creepy aspects about such random and unpredictable child-centric mayhem are always present, no matter how ludicrously intense and darkly humorous things get".<ref name="Guard051208">((cite news|last=O'Neill|first=Phelim|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/dec/05/the-children-review|title=Film review: The Children|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=5 December 2008|access-date=15 July 2008))((rating|4|5))</ref> ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' gave the film four out of five stars and said "This taboo-shattering movie taps in to primal fears about the unknow-ability of children, its blood-stained virgin snow and insidious terror recalling cruel fairy tales and ‘demon child’ movies such as ''[[The Omen]]''."<ref>((Cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-children |title=The Children |last=Floyd |first=Nigel |date=2008-12-02 |website=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] |access-date=2017-10-09))</ref>

In the [[United States]] reviewers were equally positive. ''[[Bloody Disgusting]]'' said "The Children has it all and is guaranteed to please even the hardest to satisfy horror fan."<ref>((Cite web |url=http://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/111422/the-children-the-day-2/ |title=The Children (The Day) |last=Miska |first=Brad |date=2009-10-06 |website=[[Bloody Disgusting]] |access-date=2017-10-09))</ref> ''[[IGN]]'' said of the film "The Children is a flawlessly mounted horror film that knows exactly how to scare its audience."<ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/10/06/the-children-dvd-review |title=The Children DVD Review |last=Shaffer |first=R.L. |date=2009-10-06 |website=[[IGN]] |access-date=2017-10-09))</ref>

==Awards==
Director Tom Shankland won the Special Mention Award at the [[Fantasia International Film Festival]] in 2009 for his professional approach to the [[child actor|children actors]] in the film.

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* ((IMDb title))

((Tom Shankland))

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