Wicked Little Things (2006)

Director:

J.S. Cardone

Writers:

Boaz Davidson (story)
Ben Nedivi (screenplay)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Prey for them

Plot:

Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.

Plot Keywords:

Pot Smoking | Rat | Dead Child | 2000s | Evil Child

US TV Schedule:

Sat. July 12

3:00 PM

SCIFI

Cast

Lori Heuring	...	Karen Tunny
Scout Taylor-Compton	...	Sarah Tunny
Chloe Moretz	...	Emma Tunny
Geoffrey Lewis	...	Harold Thompson
Ben Cross	...	Aaron Hanks
Craig Vye	...	Tim
Chris Jamba	...	Sean
Julie Rogers	...	Lisa
Martin McDougall	...	William Carlton
Michael McCoy	...	Walter
Velizar Binev	...	Bull Foreman
Helia Grekova	...	Mary
George Zlatarev	...	Explosives Captain
Atanas Srebrev	...	Russel
Vladimir Mihailov	...	Trevor

Also Known As:

The Children (USA) (working title)
Zombies (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, language, and some teen drug and alcohol use.

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Australia:MA | USA:R | Germany:16 | Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

Nu Boyana Film Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria

Company:

Millennium Films

Trivia:

Tobe Hooper was initially attached to direct the film.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the ending sequence, Carlton's gun changes from a GLOCK (at the car) to a Beretta (in Hank's home) and then back to a GLOCK (as he leaves the home).

Quotes:

Karen Tunny: [frozen in fear upon seeing the children; quietly] Run.
Sarah Tunny: What?
Karen Tunny: Run.
Sarah Tunny: Where?
Karen Tunny: [pause] With me, RUN!
[they take off running with the children in pursuit]

Movie Connections:

References Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Works in theory but not in practice.

If you described any of the scenes; nightmares of children murdering you in your sleep, your infant daughter talking to ghosts, searching for your lost child in an abandoned mine at night, so petrified with fear that you can't move even though the blood from a murder victim is dripping onto you from the floor above – then I'd say you had a horror movie. But some how 'Wicked Little Things' just wasn't scary. I am a horror fan and I loved the location, the plot in principal and I liked the three leading ladies. I didn't want to see them come to harm, I wanted the 'bad guy' to get his just desserts, the rest of the cast are always simply cannon fodder so I was indifferent either way with them and it played out every cliché in the book - even down to the torch battery running out in the pitch dark just as you start to here whispering voices closing in on you.

I would still recommend that you watch it, but unless you are new to horror movies or under 12 years, you will have seen it all before.