First, let's give a slow golf clap for the quality of sound design - some fine atmospheric synthwork by the auteur here. Totally wasted on this garbage barge, of course...in fact, it would have been way cooler if it was created just to be blasted forth from a lone speaker on some Staten Island garbage barge (as part of an avant-garde art installation with live webcam of seagulls and other birds interacting with the sonic space imposed on them by the incomprehensible forces of modernity and chaos, or something). Let's just say for the sake of argument that the little exposition provided as to how the kids turned evil is enough to let you fill in your own blanks. Psionic demon rays? Outbreak of a sentient fungus? The island was secretly a pedo resort and all the adults had it coming? (Honestly, this last one would explain why the dude spent the first ten minutes of the film trying REALLY HARD to take his very pregnant wife to this stupid place, which is apparently only accessibly by taking a local's fishboat out to a tiny dot in the sea, and giving the weird fisherman a "deposit" of two grand to borrow it.) Whatever, let's just get to the killer kids. Because heck, let's admit that the real reason we're all here not for the island scenery but to watch these tourist goobers duke it out with a bunch of murderous rug- brats, all armed to the (milk) teeth with a variety of household and garden implements. Maybe the evil kids have glowing eyes or weird discolored teeth. Hopefully they talk in unison. If the leads are likable enough, there's supposed to be some character hardening before they embrace their transgressively violent and absurd destiny and start dishing out some permanent detention. If they're unlikable people, then they spend an hour or so blundering around from one bad decision to the next before being murdered in some grisly and creative fashion, and then the adorable kids do adorable kid things with their entrails, eyeballs, severed limbs, etc. But this is where the film really earns its two-star rating. Even though the leads were completely unlikable (both as characters and as actors) and contributed their share to ruining this film, the blame falls squarely on Makinov for turning an otherwise totally workable formula into a plodding and aimless waste of time. Any suspense built by the soundtrack (and the half-decent camera-work) is quickly deflated. The two leads stumble around the island for over an hour without a single good, funny, or otherwise noteworthy line of dialogue between them. The wife's pregnancy is as arbitrary as their decision to go to this stupid island, and their whole dynamic had a weird sexist overtone to it. The kids fared only a little better - but at least they got to wallow around in some gore and act mildly cryptic, even though none of it means a thing and serves no purpose. Perhaps Makinov has some weird "preteen girls playing with gore" fetish, and that was the sole point of making this film..."pedo island" indeed.Even the title is ultimately meaningless. Certainly none of the kids ever chant it (in unison!) as they advance towards the frightened couple, clad in weird outfits, torches in pudgy little hands. That's what I would have liked to see in a film of this subgenre with that title. And they do none of that! So really, Makinov, what's the point even?Get a better writer, Makinov. Like, someone other than Makinov, you knowkinov?

Well, I neither read the book, nor saw the old film. But I find this theme is very interesting and at the end of the watch I kind of disappointed. Of course it is a low budget film, which involves little kids in a bad light, but that does not mean they should completely censor the violence. I'm disappointed with those serious avoidance which very essential for a film like this. I agree the children performing such act should not be shown, but the theme was promised something and delivered nothing. On that perspective anyone would be frustrated if they came here to see a good thriller.So you can call it a horror-thriller for the families, that's how it looks. It is the story of an American couple with the seven months pregnant visits a tourist island destination in Mexico and soon finds the town is deserted. While looking for other souls, they are targeted by those who were the reason for the scenario of the island. Then begins the run and chasing game, and how it all ends revealed with a tiny twist.As I feared the film failed to impress me, but there might be a few who would enjoy it better than me. So all I'm saying is just skip it if you're seeking 'Hatchet' kind of film, this is no way near to that. For a 30-35 years ago film, it might have worked better, but this is an outdated story to take place in the present world. The theme was fantastic, but I just wanted a different story and upgraded with the new stuffs. Though I must appreciate the director who has done multiple task for this film to happen. Finally, I want to clear that it is not a bad film of the year or decade or ever, but just too soft for its genre, that's all.5/10

I really wanted to like this remake of Spanish cult classic, Who Could Kill a Child (1975) AKA Island of the Damned. However the movie is so flat it becomes hard to sit thru since I knew the outcome from the very beginning. As for the acting? There was a reason the female lead of the original, Prunella Ransome, won the Best Actress award from the Sitges International Horror Film festival. Oh well, if you never saw the original, you might like this thriller. Keep in mind, it's not as fast paced as most recent horror thrillers. You might enjoy the build-up. Better yet, look for the original on The Dark Sky DVD label. Then you will see true fear.

What a waste of time and money to remake a film exactly like the first one..!!! Especially when the original wasn't even exactly a big hit... duh .. If you had planned on expanding, adding or enhancing it,,then yes otherwise what was the point ?The two main leads like the original were basically brain dead from the start. Nothing they did or came up with made any sense. And to add they were not even likable.. The premise that a pregnant woman can not exert some energy without endangering the child is also ancient crap... I know pregnant women that jog, exercise, dance and work right up to the 9th month..Only reason I gave this steaming pile of manure a 2 instead of a 1 was the island scenery made me feel warm on a cold day...