Their son Léo is on the verge of dying if he doesn't get an organ transplant on the quick, but organs don't grow on trees of course, so parents Greg (Malik Zidi) and Anne (Brigitte Urhausen) take a trip to some Eastern European country to meet with organ traffickers (Darko Bulatovic, Nikola Krminac, Zureb Tsitishvili, Irina Fedotova) to get their hands on the organ needed. And pretty much after the transaction is concluded, a woman, Lydia (Ludia Indjova) storms the place and shoots the traffickers dead - because she's the mother of the (now dead) girl the organ for Léo was taken from. And she's so overcome with anger that she also wants to kill Greg an Anne, figuring them part of the problem (with justification of course). Greg and Anne manage to escape into a nearby forest, find a house to hide in, but then got locked in with somebody or some thing, and they realize a woman mad for revenge isn't even their biggest problem anymore ...

Now Child offers an unusual approach to things, it starts out as a psycho drama, eventually becomes a revenge thriller before it settles for straight horror (that's never fully explained away by the way - which works for the film), and it has a cautionary tale coda. And why this at all works is because the film doesn't miss a beat between these genre shifts, keeps its characters constant and their objectives clear. And add to this a very effective directorial effort and a solid cast, and you're in for a genre treat for sure.

Child will be in UK cinemas from October 2nd 2026.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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