The Child

Name: The Child
Genre: Horror
Duration: 1 h 22 min
Rating: 4.9
Cast: Laurel Barnett, Rosalie Cole, Frank Janson

1977
R
1h 22m

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4.9/10

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A newly hired housekeeper arrives to her employer's house in the countryside. She slowly discovers that the only child in the house, an eleven-year-old girl, hides a deadly secret.

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A newly hired housekeeper arrives to her employer's house in the countryside. She slowly discovers that the only child in the house, an eleven-year-old girl, hides a deadly secret.A newly hired housekeeper arrives to her employer's house in the countryside. She slowly discovers that the only child in the house, an eleven-year-old girl, hides a deadly secret.A newly hired housekeeper arrives to her employer's house in the countryside. She slowly discovers that the only child in the house, an eleven-year-old girl, hides a deadly secret.

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4.9/10

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Trivia
All the dialogue for this movie was dubbed in post-production.

Goofs
Len's hairstyle and clothing do not match the film's 1930s setting.

Quotes
Rosalie Nordon: My friends are going to come and hurt you both! Hurt you bad!

Alternate versions
The German DVD released by Best Entertainment in 2004 is listed as and has a running time of 85 mins. However the longer running time is due to a time expansion (meaning the film print was slowed down). It has nothing extra and the content is exactly the same as the US VHS tape with the following two exceptions- The opening title sequence is a little different in the way the credits appear and that it has some added wind sound effect playing in the background (which you can hear was from the film print and not something added as a new sound effect). Also towards the end when the zombies attack, our two main characters are fighting one by a saw mill type building where the zombie gets stabbed with a wooden stake. The US version then shows a far away shot of our two heroes running around to the front of the saw mill building before her leg breaks through a floorboard in the front. The German dvd omits this long shot, so after the zombie is stabbed it cuts to them already in the front of the building a second before her leg goes through the floorboard.

Connections
Featured in Elvira's Movie Macabre: Kill and Go Hide (1986)

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7/10

Delightfully kitschy

The filmmakers were not aiming to win major awards, and they succeeded. What they intended to make was a fun and sometimes genuinely frightening drive-in horror movie, and they succeeded in that, as well.

Legitimately terrifying monsters, beautiful actresses, a tween villainess, cheesy special effects and some eerie on-location settings make this a true classic of its genre.

The filmmakers admirably sought to set the film in the 1930s yet sprinkled with familiar items from the 1970s: clothing, a spiral phone cord, eye shadow, power lines, a plastic chair. Still, you appreciate the effort to take you to another time. This film is low-budget in all the right ways. The gender stereotypes are dated, but the female villain does help balance that relic of its time.

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