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¿Quién puede Matar a un Niño?

Who can Kill a Child?
Death is Child's Play / The Killer's Playground / Island of Death / Island of the Damned

Spain 1976
produced by
Penta Films
directed by Chicho Ibáñez-Serrador
starring Lewis Filander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo, Miguel Narros, María Luisa Arias, Marisa Porcel, Juan Cazalilla, Luis Ciges, Antonio Canal, Maria Druille, Javier De La Camara, Lourdes De La Camara
screenplay by Chicho Ibáñez-Serrador, based on the novel El Juego by Juan José Plans

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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To escape the usual tourist hordes, Tom (Lewis Fiander) and his pregnant wife Evelyn (Prunella Ransome) decide to spend their vacation on a little island just off the Spanish coast.

The apparent absence of grown-ups on the island strikes them as odd right from the beginning, but first they think little about it and make the best of it serving themselves at a bar that was left open yet deserted. When they see a cute little girl violently beating up an old man with his own cane, they do get a little (well very) suspicious, and it doesn't at all calm them down when the old man, only a few minutes later, is hanging down a tree headfirst, and a gang of children use them as the centerpiece of a kind of perverted Pinata, played with a sickle.

Soon Tom and Evelyn have caught the attention of the children, who seem to have gone mental and they lock themselves into the local hotel to escape their attacks. There they meet another tourist (Antonio Iranzo), who has gone half crazy with fear, and who fills them in on some backgrounds: That all of a sudden, all the children on the island have gone mad and started killing all the adults - including his wife. By pure chance, he managed to escape ... up to now, as his daughter (Maria Druille) shows up at the hotel's doorstep and akss her father to come and help her ... and the girl lures him right into a trap set by the kids.

Now Tom and Evelyn know they have to make a run for it, even if that means to use brute force against cute children, and eventually our couple ends up in a jeep, searching the island for a way to get of it. However, they seem to have little luck in a fisher's hut where they actually do find alive adults ... but the kids are close behind.

Ultimately their way only leads them back to the main village of the island, where Tom really wants to make it count by running over the kids, but pregnant Evelyn just can't let him do it and instead crashed the car, which leaves them with no alternative but to lock themselves into the police station, where Tom has to shoot a boy, no more than 5, in self-defense ... whereupon Evelyn totally loses it, thinks her unborn baby wants to kill her from the inside, miscarrries and dies in the process.

Now Tom is really hellbent, and he guns down the cute kiddies by the dozen with a machine gun he has found at the police station, and when he has run out of ammo, he tries to smacsh their heads with his gun ... When a policeboat arrives, and the cops (understandably) mistake him for a madman with a predilection for killing children, and they have to shoot hi ...

Of course, the kids soon decide to overcome the cops too, and take their boats to go to mainland Spain ...

 

As you might have noticed, this film (or rather the novel it was based on) was later blatantly ripped off by Stephen King for his much blunter (but much more successful) short story Children of the Corn (which was later made into a movie series), though the sources for both this story and King's rip-off can be traced back much further, an earlier version was the Star Trek episode Miri (1966, directed by Vincent McEveety), but quite possibly it all goes back to the H.G.Wells story Country of the Blind (at least in its underlying topic).

This film itself is interesting but not without major flaws, the main one being that it takes simply ages to kick into gear, a very long prologue that shows our lead couple getting to the island contributes nothing to the film, and several suspense scenes are simply played out way too long, so that one actually tends to lose interst in its outcome. Only the final quarter of the movie, that has our heroes being chased by incredibly cute children, does really catch the attention of the audience.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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