Film Reviews: Wicked Little Things
An interesting idea of children who were killed in a mining accident haunting the surrounding woods of a small mountain community. When Karen (Lori Heuring) Tunning and her daughters Sarah and Emma (Scout Taylor-Compton and Chloe Moretz, respectfully) move into the old family home or her late husband nothing seems to go well as Emma finds herself befriending one of the ghost children while Sarah and her new friends are picked off one by one.
The ghost children are meant to be out for vengeance for their unwanted deaths on all the people responsible including an ancestor of the land who wants to “develop” the land for the future generations but instead the film becomes a stalk and slash zombie film with little in the way of characterization or inventive thrills and kills. This is actually not surprising coming from screenwriters Jace Anderson & Adam Gierash (with Ben Nedivi) who aside from their one great script for THE TOOLBOX MURDERS remake has done nothing but stinkers like CROCODILE 1 & 2, DERAILED, and SPIDERS, among other fluff. Director J.S. Cardone’s resume is also spotty having brought a little flare to his THE FORESAKEN but has remained in the slush pile of mediocrity with 8MM 2, TRUE BLUE, and SHADOWZONE.
Although the performances are passable the script is hampered with cliché after cliché of unoriginality that I’m sure leaves very little for the actors to play with. There is a surprise guest appearance from character actor Ben Cross, which is entertaining, so everything isn’t completely bad.
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