Review - Wicked Little Things

I caught another one of the After Dark Horrorfest’s 8 Movies to Die For, Wicked Little Things on SciFi . . .

. . . this one was not so impressive.

I found that throughout the film I kept yelling at the television. I mean most horror movies in general have their share of very obvious things to watch out for but in this film in particular it seemed as if the characters were just ignoring the very visible signs of impending danger.

First of all, who carts their kids to destinations unknown upon finding an old deed in their late husband’s papers; especially when aforementioned late husband never talked about his family – seemingly repelled by the subject?

But okay let’s suspend our disbelief for a moment and get into the story:

Karen Tunny (Lori Heuring) and here daughters Sarah (Scout Taylor-Compton) and Emma (Chloe Moretz) make the ill fated journey out to the old Tunny house in the backwoods hills of an old Pennsylvania mining town after the death of the family patriarch. When they arrive there are several issues. First and foremost is that the house is a complete dump. And they find what seems to be blood smeared all over the front door – maybe some sort of backwoods hills welcome?

Things go from bad to worse when the electricity and plumbing just don’t seem to be working. Enter disposable character number one, plumber Harold Thompson (Geoffrey Lewis). Wasn’t much point to his character other than to be dinner for the Wicked Little Things that roam the woods at night looking for retribution. This leads me to my next point of contention in the film . . .

So you have these “zombie children” roaming around in the woods, right? But how did they become zombies? In the beginning of the film you see the children working the mines and there is some type of major collapse which would in essence have crushed all their little tiny bodies so to me, the zombie thing doesn’t really work. So then if you believe that they are ghosts then the whole “in the flesh eating flesh” thing doesn’t really work. My disbelief is having quite a hard time being suspended right now if I am being honest. One theory my hubby came up with is that maybe they are Zombie Ghosts?

During the time the Tunny’s come into town, William Carlton (Martin McDougall) shows up. He is the heir to the old Carlton mines. Let me just tell you the children do not like him one bit. Aaron Hanks (Ben Cross) – the mountain crazy (yep, every backwoods mountain mining town needs one) – tries to warn every one of the dangers of the woods. He has been working to appease the zombie children as they seek their retribution for the wrong that was done to them night after night. It seems though that nothing but Carlton’s blood will appease them.

All in all not a strong recommend on my end. The film takes too long to get going and when it does, it doesn’t really end up in a great place.

Directed by
J.S. Cardone

Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Boaz Davidson story
Ben Nedivi screenplay


Cast (in credits order)
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
Alexander Ganchev ... Ryan
Yoan Karamfilov ... Caleb (as Ioan Karamfilov)
Albena Ivanova ... Zombie
Alexander Alexandrov ... Zombie
Emil Antov ... Zombie
Emil-Alexander Georgiev ... Zombie
Georgi Mikovski ... Zombie
Itai Diakov ... Zombie
Ivan Angelov ... Zombie
Ivan Danailov ... Zombie
Joana Georgieva ... Zombie
Kalina Kyuchukova ... Zombie
Konstantin Rafailov ... Zombie
Marchela Varbanova ... Zombie
Mihaela Rafailova ... Zombie
Simeon Velkov ... Zombie
Nikoleta Stoycheva ... Zombie
Sevar Ivanov ... Zombie
Tzvetomir Kolev ... Zombie