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Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, USA: Helen (Cait Bliss) is to
babysit young Lucas (Colin Critchley), a bit of a weird boy who seems to
be unfazed by the horror film they're watching together, but is afraid of
a "monster in the closet", something he ties to a creepy man he
has seen wandering the woods time and again and who he's sure is out to
get him ... The house Lucas and his dad (Weston Wilson) are living in
has a very creepy history though, as it was once inhabited by Robert
Bowery, a blind man who has come to the belief that he would see again if
he ate the eyes of preferably young children. And while he might have been
blind, he knew the surroundings like no other and had very acute hearing,
and was thus very effective in tracking down his prey - until one girl,
Ginger, got away ... As it's almost customary for babysitters it seems,
Helen receives a visit from her boyfriend Tom (Dave Klasko), and that
somehow ticks off Lucas - and then all of a sudden he's gone. And while
initially Helen and Tom still think he has just run off and is hiding
somewhere close, more and more evidence points to him having been abducted
by Robert Bowery, who apparently hasn't died after all - and then he kills
Tom, and on the run from him, Helen stumbles upon Ginger (Melinda
Chilton), now a grown-up who has set out to defeat Bowery - only problem
is she's bat-shit crazy and might do more harm than good. So Helen finds
herself between a rock and a hard place, and she knows she has to do
everything to save little Lucas, too ... Ok, in story alone, Child
Eater is your rather typical slasher flick with a few especially
macabre details attached - but that's not doing the film proper justice,
actually: For one, Child Eater is dead serious, so no post-modern
genre re-interpretation, so eye-winking injokes for genre fans, no camp
moments, silly oneliners or gore effects for the gore's sake. Instead the
film is strong on characters and treats the story as a whole more like a
mature thriller than a simple stalk-and-slash revue, favouring suspense
over effect, atmosphere over shocks (though there are plenty of those
still. So even if slashers are totally not your thing, you might enjoy
this!
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