The Child
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Description
Because 11-year-old Rosalie has "always been strange," her ornery father hires lovely Alicianne to be Rosalie's governess in their big, gloomy house. Of course, what no one understands is that darling little Rosalie possesses strange psychic powers, which she uses to make objects move - and a scarecrow come to life. Worse, she spends the nights in a nearby cemetery playing with her ...uh..."friends." Rosalie also blames daddy and the neighbors for the death of her mentally-ill mommy, so she sends her cemetery pals out to kill, starting with the little old lady next door whose face they rip off. As Rosalie and her zombies escalate their attacks, Alicianne and Len, Rosalie's older brother, flee for their lives and hole up in a claustrophobic shack as the graveyard ghouls stage a full-scale assault. Bonus feature: Zombie mania continues as a mad doctor mixes science and voodoo to turn the natives of a remote tropical island into an army of crusty-faced, bug-eyed monsters in Del Tenney's horror romp, I Eat Your Skin (1964, 79 min.); Trailers for this and Harry Novak's Axe, Behind Closed Doors, Booby Trap, Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks, Kidnapped Coed, The Mad Butcher, The Toy Box and Toys are Not for Children; 2 Creepy Kids Short Subjects: Life is hell when you're The Outsider, and life is hell continues with The ABC of Baby Sitting; Horrorama Radio-Spot Rarities; Gallery of Horror Drive-In Exploitation Art.
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3 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Just a warningFriday, February 06, 2004
I purchased this DVD in order to obtain a relatively clean and sharp copy of I Eat Your Skin. Now, Something Weird has been completely honest in listing this as an "extra" rather than promoting the disc as a "double-feature," because I Eat Your Skin is plagued with a video-produced "SWV" watermark that distractingly appears on the screen during the entire feature.
The print also suffers from damage that eliminates 1-2 minutes of important dialogue, including the intruduction of a character.
1 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:
BOOOORRRRIIIINNNNG!Wednesday, July 17, 2002
The main problem I have with exploitation films is that so many of them neglect to exploit. "The Child" ranks right up (or down) there with "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" as a supposed zombie flick where the zombies obviously missed their wake-up call. The film starts out well as little Rosalee enters a cemetery with a Red-Riding-Hoodesque basket on her arm. She kneels before a headstone, reaches inside the basket and produces a darling little kitten. She then nonchalantly hands the mewling kittie over to a gray rotting hand that emerges from the other side of the grave marker. Fortunately, we don't see the kittie get chomped on. Unfortunately, this is the last we'll see of the zombies until the final reel of this dog. Though not too poorly made, this is still one long, dull slog of a feature. As usual, however, SWV's extras are another story entirely. "The ABC's of Babysitting" is a particular high-point in that it advises all young female would-be entrepreneurs to phone the cops at the slightest (and I do mean SLIGHTEST) provocation. Smell smoke? Call the cops! Hear a funny noise? Phone the fuzz! Got a splinter? Make contact wit da man! These boys in blue look like they're about ready to go Inglewood on the babysitter by the end of this short. Funny, funny stuff!
3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A decent zombie movieSunday, July 14, 2002
The Child is a zombie movie, although not a "great" one. A city-girl returns to the countryside where she grew up to be a nanny for a little girl who has been very awful since her mother died. But as the nanny falls in love with a man working at the house, the girl gets angry. The girl has control of zombies from the nearby cemetary, and she uses them to strike back at everyone around her.
This disk is very good, as well. It contains trailers for many other movies, and it has a "short" movie (which is about 70 minutes, I believe), that also has zombies in it (that movie is older, and there is very little gore, since the zombies are basically used as cheap workers, as in most older zombie movies).
Excluding several scenes, this one is not as graphic as most zombie movies, but still is gory enough that some people may want to avoid it.
4 out of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Little Girl and Her Zombies Who Live Down the LaneWednesday, November 14, 2001
Extremely odd little movie about a little brat of a girl who hates her pretty nanny cuz she has the hots for the hired guy.
Little brat gets jealous and because she is psychic, ala CARRIE...she can manipulate things. I'm assuming that she has made the corpses in the cemetery come alive...otherwise she has some mighty wierd friends. At some point this turns into a zombie flick and the little brat dissapeers until the end when she very pitifully and unconvincingly gets axed. The editing in this film is really strange. I liked it anyway.