Moving to a new house in the woods, and woman and her two children find that the area is home to a group of vicious ghost-like children who are seeking revenge for a past misdeed and must find a way to appease them and end their rampage.This one turned to be quite an above-average effort with a lot to really like about it. One of the better elements with this is the rather creepy leads where which is quite impressive for all sorts of reasons. Not only do they have a creepy air about them being demented children after all, so the make-up is effective but the general sense of their being so many of these kids running around makes for some pretty chilling times. This also makes the action scenes all the more enjoyable by putting these creepy villains into these rather fun and thrilling sequences, as scenes like the attack on the couple in the car out in the forest or the later scenes of the family running through the woods and stumbling upon the different houses certainly makes for some thrilling moments and plenty of action that allows this one to get a lot of rather exciting action scenes among it's creepier elements. The finale in the barn for the most part here is rather fun as the revenge comes to fruition in a series of tense, thrilling chases with all sorts of exciting confrontations and rather chilling action which settles the plot line quite well. That ties in with the opening cave-in and the resulting echoes of that rather nicely, and along with the suspense from the woods and the numerous ghostly whispers echoing through the landscape make up the good points here. There's not a whole lot really wrong here, as about the only flaw to be found is the everlasting angle of whether the kids are ghosts or zombies, and it's not a great job of either. Despite the repeated claims of them as zombies, only their bullet invincibility remains here with very little other evidence to the contrary. Likewise, their use of tools and overall appearance say they're ghosts but none of their other actions scream ghost either and makes the film really confused about what they are. Along with the troublesome point of having a lot of scenes filmed too dark to make anything out, this is really the film's only flaw.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

During the early 1900s in a rural Pennsylvania mine, a group of children used as workers are killed when a dynamite charge is used unsafely while they're inside. Now in modern day, pretty widow Karen (Lori Heuring) and her two daughters, young Emma, (Chloe Grace Moretz) and teen Sarah, (Scout Taylor-Compton) move into a recently inherited property in the area. Soon supernatural occurrences begin to happen and Karen finds out that the vengeful children still inhabit the woods at night sating their hunger for revenge by devouring anyone foolish enough to be out there after dark. Worse yet, her family may be tied to these ghouls in a much deeper way then just living in their domain. Director J.S. Cardone gives the film a nice atmosphere and keeps a story that might have gotten silly appropriately creepy. Cinematographer Emil Topuzov gives the film a nice visual style and makes use of the dark Bulgarian woods (which stand in for Pennsylvania) and the old house our characters occupy. The cast does well too with Heuring giving depth to the strong willed mother trying to start a new life for her girls and now faced with an unnatural horror. As the girls, the young Moretz is good as Emma, who one of the dead children is drawn too, and Compton plays the rebellious teen very well. They are joined by genre vets Geoffrey Lewis as the local handyman and Ben Cross as a hermit with ties to the flesh eating specters. The film's not perfect, the pace is a bit slow, though, I feel that is deliberate, and some of the plot elements are a bit cliché' for this type of flick (ominous warnings from the local eccentric, local teens ignoring the legends and going in the woods at night) . But, one can forgive some of the flaws and familiarities as the film provides enough chills and there is some decent gore too. Overall a spooky little horror flick that never tries to be more then what it is. More like 6.5/10

Clichés abound in this film, with such classics as the car that won't start at a key moment. But it's a little more enjoyable than most films of this genre.Quick plot. A single mother and her two daughters move to this town in Pennsylvannia where they apparently forgot to mention "Zombie Children walking about since 1913" in the Chamber of Commerce Brochures. The descendant of the guy who authorized the accident where all these kids were killed I think what makes it work well is the characters are likable and the Zombies are actually kind of creepy. And watching the rich jerk get his comeuppance was kind of satisfying.

This is one film I highly recommend for those "Zombiefest" or "Zombie Apocalypse" parties. You've got killer zombie children--and the reason they became that way is "logical" once you get through the weird and look at the back story. This ensemble did well in this flick but one person stands out in it and that is Ben Cross.In playing Hanks, Cross delivers a performance that is believable. One is left thinking a guy like that can exist out here! He knows when to hold back and deliberate and he knows when to throw those lines out there like somebody's freaking life depends on it--like when he's trying to start the truck and get the heck out of there!Hanks also is the "caretaker character". He knows the hows and the whys and does not tamper with what is--he just tries to keep the zombies out of everybody's hair. HE also works very well with kids from what I see here. He was convincing. Chloe Moertz looked scared when he addressed her. I definitely wouldn't want to be on that guy's crap list after watching him here OR in Dark Shadows Resurrected.I think the gory scenes were overkill at times, but at least this movie spent more time focusing on the real story--the hows and whys rather than the blood, guts and gore.