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The Crazies
Why this pick
Like The Children, it turns a toxic contamination into a bleak small-town nightmare, following ordinary people as social order collapses under an inescapable biological threat.
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MOVIE1980 1h 33m USA
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The Night Child
Why this pick
A distinctly eerie killer-child horror with an adult world unable to comprehend the danger, matching the unsettling innocence-corrupted mood of The Children.
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Who Can Kill a Child?
Why this pick
Its sunlit island setting and calm early pace make the threat of hostile children especially disquieting, sustaining the same moral dread and isolation.
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The Brood
Why this pick
Cronenberg similarly makes children frightening through body-horror unease and cold suburban isolation, with a measured, clinical atmosphere rather than simple shock tactics.
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Village of the Damned
Why this pick
This foundational eerie-children tale shares The Children’s image of a community confronted by emotionless young outsiders and its mounting adult helplessness.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Jim and Slim, a couple of workers at a chemical plant in the fictional New England town of Ravensback, decide to call it a day and head for the bar. Unfortunately, a large buildup of pressure leaks from one of the pipes that starts to form a yellow toxic cloud that drifts across the ground. Meanwhile, a school bus is taking children home. After dropping one child off, five children left on the bus: Paul MacKenize, Jenny Freemont, Ellen Chandler, Tommy Button, and Janet Shore. Suddenly the bus passes through the yellow cloud.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Martin Shakar
John Freemont
Gil Rogers
Sheriff Billy Hart
Gale Garnett
Cathy Freemont
Nathanael Albright
Tommy Button