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Beware! Children at Play
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Wikipedia article
'Beware! Children at Play' (also known as 'Goblins', 'Caution! Kids Are Playing', 'Warning! Children' and 'Attention! Enfants' and originally styled as 'Beware: Children at Play') is a 1989 American independent horror film directed by Mik Cribben and distributed by Troma Entertainment.
Plot
The film follows the inhabitants of a small rural town in New Jersey whose children are disappearing at an alarming rate and whose adults are simultaneously being killed in a ritualistic fashion. It is revealed early on that the kids are being inducted into a cannibalistic cult that live in the woods. The cult is somehow inspired or influenced by the legendary tales from the Old English epic poem 'Beowulf'.
Cast
* Michael Robertson as John DeWolfe
* Rich Hamilton as Ross Carr
* Robin Lilly as Cleo Carr
* Lori Romero as Julia DeWolfe (credited as Lori Tilgrath)
* Jamie Krause as Kara DeWolfe
* Mik Cribben as Isac Braun
Reception
The film is one of Troma's most controversial titles due to its gruesome finale, a sequence in which the townspeople brutally murder each of the cannibalistic children using firearms, pitchforks, and other assorted weapons. According to Lloyd Kaufman, when the film's trailer played at the Cannes Film Festival before a screening of 'Tromeo and Juliet', nearly half of the theatre walked out in protest.
See also
* 'Who Can Kill a Child?' a 1976 Spanish horror film
* 'Children of the Corn' (film series)
References
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