Who Can Kill a Child?
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously.
Our read · Who Can Kill a Child? (1976) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · thriller · cult entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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