On their roadtrip through Australia, 5 friends - Dan (Damian Sommerlad), his pregnant girlfriend Liz (Corinne Furlong), family man Michael (Peter Maple) who didn't even want to come, Alix (Cloé Fournier), who has designs on Michael, and Deb (Georgina Neville) - stumble upon a little boy one night, who doesn't talk at all or show any proper reaction to anything they're asking him, but he seems to be attached to Liz ... but the next morning before everyone else is up, he gestures Michael to follow him - to some clinic nearby where Michael finds many kids like him, and the clinic'd doctor (Barry French), who seems to be on the verge of dying but first gives Michael a cryptic message about taking care of the children. Michael dashes back to his friends to fetch them, but when he returns, the children are gone from the clinic and so is the doctor - but upon closer examination, the kids can be found locked up in the clinic's backyard. The problem is, the children are not normal children, as it only slowly turns out they are actually flesh-eating zombies whose appetite is only triggered by sunlight though (which is why our heroes were perfectly alright with the kid last night), and who need special treatment to be able to control their urges. Unfortunately though our heroes don't know any of this, and thus are exposed to a horde of carnivourous undead kids totally unprepared (as if you could prepare for such an occasion) ...

The creepiest aspect of this film is of course that all the zombies are children, and the scenes with the zombie kids are consequently the chilliest of the movie, plus the death scenes don't exactly shy away from the gory side of things. That said, the film takes a bit too long and features a few too many subplots that need to nowhere in the beginning, but once at the clinic, the film really manages to have the audience at the edge of their seats. And the string-heavy musical score, including many elegiac and lyrical tunes is really first rate.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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