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The Children

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The Children	comment	The Children is a 2008 British horror film written and directed by Tom Shankland.Whilst on holiday with relatives for New Year's Eve, parents Jonah, Elaine, Chloe and Robbie notice that their young children are beginning to act oddly after they become ill with an unknown virus. The children then begin to exhibit violent behavior that quickly escalates to murder.
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The Children / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
The Children / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Robbie, the seemingly strongest dad, gets killed first by being pushed down a hill into a spike by his infected kids.
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The Children / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
The Children / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Miranda, although it doesn't work out too well for Jonah, her dad.
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The Children / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Children / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: None of the characters explain their motivations or reasoning to anyone else. They simply do something and expect everyone else to go along, then bring up looks of shock and horror when someone foils their agenda — both good and bad characters. Elaine finally figures it out after she is cornered on a stairwell, about to be dug into by two of the kids.
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The Children / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
The Children / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: Casey's friend, Lisa. We hear her voice in the phonecall Casey makes to her. We even see her text on Casey's phone ('where r u?'), but we never see her physically. Judging from her mentioning her little brother feeling sick (possibly the same virus as Casey's half-siblings and maternal cousins), she could be in just as much danger as Casey and her mother is.
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The Children / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
The Children / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: The entire family turns against Casey and then against Elaine, with the implication that they blame Elaine for being a teen mother and not raising her properly.
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The Children / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Children / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Why is the ambulance going to take so long to reach them after Robbie’s fatal sledding accident and Elaine's leg is fractured? Because the Hate Plague is everywhere and kids are murdering adults all over the place.
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The Children / int_22e6c07e	type	Pervert Dad
The Children / int_22e6c07e	comment	Pervert Dad: Robbie is extremely inappropriate around his niece-by-marriage, Casey, who is an underage teenager, encouraging her to show him her tattoo (representing herself as "the abortion that got away") and smoking with her in the shed.
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The Children / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Children / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Of the four younger children only one (Leah) is still alive at the end.
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The Children / int_2bf83d5f	type	Extremely Protective Child
The Children / int_2bf83d5f	comment	Extremely Protective Child: Casey ultimately reveals how much she cares for Elaine when she attempts to fight off the kids attacking them both.
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The Children / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
The Children / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: Elaine would have been much more equipped to fight off the kids attacking Casey if she hadn't brutally compound-fractured her leg.
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The Children / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Children / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Infected children exhibit this behavior, although it's mixed with cold calculation.
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The Children / int_2fef0c01	type	Twisted Christmas
The Children / int_2fef0c01	comment	Twisted Christmas: The film opens on 30th December (but still has a Christmas-y feel), and ends on New Year's Eve the next day. Everybody except Elaine and Casey dies, with the implication that Casey is infected.
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The Children / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Children / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Nearly all of the main characters are dead, except Casey, Elaine and Leah. The illness that the children have is now more widespread, the emergency services are no use, more children are infected, and Casey is showing possible signs of infection...
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The Children / int_57cf76a1	type	Hate Plague
The Children / int_57cf76a1	comment	Hate Plague: One that infects children exclusively (symptoms include: vomiting, becoming irritable, skin becoming pale and having strange flickering visions), turning them into pint-sized homicidal maniacs. At least one teenager (Casey) is presumably infected
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The Children / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Children / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: We never find out the exact origin/cause of the virus or even get concrete confirmation that it's real. The film deliberately leaves things ambiguous (dropping a few hints), leaving a lot to the viewer's interpretation, like for example: Jonah mentions to Robbie that he works in TCM (which involves importing ingredients from China) and says something about viruses spreading around. It could be linked to a possibly supernatural force in the woods, as seen from the vast amount of infected (or possessed) children around the forest area in the end. Each child seems to gradually become less phased by what's happening over the course of the film. At first, they are visibly scared and even appear to accidentally cause their destruction. Then, once Paulie dies, the surviving kids steadily become more outwardly malicious, almost as if their impressionable minds became fascinated with the violence around them.
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The Children / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Children / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Chloe and Robbie. Their actions end up costing them dearly.
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The Children / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
The Children / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The ending shows a group of infected children surrounding the van, with a lingering shot of Casey, who may or may not be infected.
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The Children / int_8bff32a8	type	Creepy Doll
The Children / int_8bff32a8	comment	Creepy Doll: Leah's baby doll, made even worse when she stuffs it inside Robbie's stomach.
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The Children / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Children / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Leah giving herself eye shadow with a coloured pencil. Whilst Casey is speaking to her friend Lisa on the phone, Lisa mentions that she has to cheer up her five-year old brother Danny, who’s feeling ill.
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The Children / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
The Children / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: New Year's Eve.
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The Children / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Children / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Chloe's death involves a coloured pencil in the eye.
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The Children / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
The Children / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: None of the adults. Casey, however...
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The Children / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Children / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Elaine realizes in the final scene of the film what has happened: once the children start to get sick, they become violent and murder every adult around. Elaine's hesitation before letting Casey back into her car speaks volumes.
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The Children / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
The Children / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Final Girl: Casey and Elaine.
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The Children / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
The Children / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Elaine and the possibly now-infected Casey, driving away from the house together.
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The Children / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
The Children / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: More than likely. It appears that the illness is widespread and probably incurable.
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The Children / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Children / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Jonah. He isn't successful, courtesy of Miranda.
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The Children / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Children / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Casey is blamed by every single person - even her mother Elaine isn't immune - for the murders rather than blaming the (little) kids.
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The Children / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
The Children / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Jonah, who runs off with his youngest daughter while abandoning his wife and step daughter. YMMV however. Considering the events of the movie solely from his point of view, this can also be a case of Jerk Ass Has A Point.
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The Children / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
The Children / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child / Enfant Terrible: All of the children, but Leah especially.
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The Children / int_fdfd52d9	type	Gross-Up Close-Up
The Children / int_fdfd52d9	comment	Gross-Up Close-Up: Before the children start their killing spree, we see close ups of the children coughing (one closeup of Nicky coughing a bit of blood on his spinning toy gun and wiping it off) or vomiting, and puddles of greenish-yellow vomit (with specks of red, which is implied to be blood) on the snow, the floor of their tent and in one noticeable example, the black smear on Leah's pillow which reveals a microscopic view of black bacteria swarming and multiplying inside the vomit.
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