Who Can Kill a Child?(1976)¿Quién puede matar a un niño?(original title).A couple of English tourists rent a boat to visit the fictitious island of Almanzora, just off the southern Spanish coast. When they arrive, they find the town deserted of adults, there's only children who don't speak but stare at them with eerie smiles. They soon discover that all the children of the island have been posessed by a mysterious force or madness which they can pass from one to another, and which makes them attack and murder their elders, who can't defend themselves because nobody dares to kill a child... Written byPablo Montoya <mmontoyac@nexo.es>... Synopsis Who Can Kill a Child?(1976)¿Quién puede matar a un niño?(original title)
Movie Title: Who Can Kill a Child?(1976)¿Quién puede matar a un niño?(original title)
Run Time: 107 min
Rating: 7.2 / 10
Genres: Horror |Mystery |Thriller
Release Date: June 1978 (USA)
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Writer: Juan José Plans (novel),Narciso Ibáñez Serrador... and other credits
Actor: Lewis Fiander,Prunella Ransome,Antonio Iranzo
The story deals about a couple(Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome)on Holidays at Mediterranean Spanish coast. They decide go to island of Almanzora . At the beginning the place is abandoned but appears spontaneously some kids. Then happens several astonishing murders with bloody and gruesome executions. Various suspects children implicate a creepy killing. Meantime the couple is besieged and escaping of the wayward children who are originating a frightening massacre .
This is an unrelenting shock-feast laced with a touches of denounce especially in its prologue. Chicho Ibañez Serrador's first great success is compelling directed with startling visual content , skill use of images-shock and some zooms. This frightening movie is plenty of thrills, chills, body-count and glimmer color in lurid image with phenomenal results. This is a classic horror movie where the intrigue,tension, suspense appears threatening and lurking in every room, corridors and interior and exterior from the deserted island. This film along with ¨La Residencia¨ and ¨Sleeping corpses lie¨ result to be the tree essential movies of the terror Spanish cinema. This genuinely mysterious story is well photographed by Jose Luis Alcaine on location of Sitges and Menorca . Creepie and eerie musical score by Waldo De Los Rios.
The motion picture is well directed by Chicho Ibañez Serrador. Chicho directed another classic as ¨La Residencia¨ also titled ¨The Boarding School¨and for TV , ¨Historias para no Dormir¨, being his last film an episode titled ¨Blame¨(2006). Rating: Good, this is one more imaginative terror pictures in which the camera stalks in sinister style and still packs a punch for those who like to be terrorize . It manages to be both eerie and skillfully made , furthermore holds deservedly its cult status. At the time considered the plus ultra of disturbing movie is less disagreeable by nowadays's standards, yet its fundamental power to thrill remains undiminished.
