The Innocents - Reviews

...gives a grounded background that makes the ensuing battle between pint-sized good and miniature malevolence both epic in threat and intimate in delivery.

...harnesses the terrifying malice of bored kids and blurs the line between social drama and out-and-out horror.

An effective and unsettling allegory for growing up, this is the kind of low-key horror that will make you look twice at cherub-faced youngsters.

Clayton brilliantly uses slow dissolves to create ghostly superimpositions, and the harmless squeals of bath-time fun, or squeakings of a pencil, suggest uncanny screams.

...manages to conjure unique imagery of troubled youths...

Sometimes it doesn’t take a village—it takes a kid figuring out they won't ever really be innocent again.  

"Boyhood" meets "The Bad Seed" in Eskil Vogt's nuanced portrait of childhood that also happens to feature a lot of telekinetic stabbings.

Angry, bitter kids who haven’t yet grown into empathy are the absolute worst, especially when they’re supernaturally enhanced.

...ett potent stycke skräckfilm som får en att sitta på evigt helspänn.