There’s Something Wrong with the Children (2023) Video Mp4 Download Movie
Margaret and Ben take a weekend trip with longtime friends Ellie and Thomas and their two young children. Eventually, Ben begins to suspect something supernatural is occurring when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.
Roxanne Benjamin’s “There’s Something Wrong with the Children,” being unceremoniously dumped on digital and the newly rebranded MGM+ today, four days after a big horror drop day—look out for Tuesday the 17th!—is a film with interesting ideas that keeps faltering due to shoddy execution. It takes WAY too long to get anywhere interesting—at times, it feels like a script that would have suited an anthology format like “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities” better than a feature’s length—and then it races through some of its best beats, eventually allowing them to sink under the weight of behavior that doesn’t feel recognizable as human in the final scenes. The midsection of Benjamin’s film, when one character knows something is terrifyingly wrong, and no one will believe him, is easily the strongest, turning the common fear of not being ready to be a parent into something literally horrific. There’s not much wrong with this film on paper—there’s just something wrong with the execution.
The script by T.J. Cimfel & David White has a smart set-up—two couples go on a camping trip together to drink, maybe get a little high, and leave their problems at home. Of course, that last part is the hardest, and Ellie (Amanda Crew) and Thomas (Carlos Santos) have brought some marital tension with them. Ellie reveals to her friend Margaret (Alisha Wainwright) that she recently had a foursome with another couple, and, well, it didn’t go as planned. To help the couple resolve their issues, Margaret and Ben (Zach Gilford) agree to watch their friends’ kids, Lucy (Briella Guiza) and Spencer (David Mattle), for the night. Maybe it will help push them to have kids themselves? They’ve been dragging their feet in that area, partly because of mental issues that Ben has recently fought. When are you actually ready to have kids? No one is ever 100%. And Cimfel & White use that common anxiety as a starting point, but the script doesn’t take enough advantage of it, turning it into something more predictable than it could have.
There is Something Wrong with the Children (2023)
Genre: Horror
Release Date: an 17, 2023 (United States)
Stars: Zach Gilford, Amanda Crew, Alisha Wainwright, Carlos Santos
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Language: English
Subtitle Language: English