I can’t believe it. Somebody actually made a “horror comedy” that works watchably well as both.
I have never seen a film that is so charming and so grisly at the same time. The four adorable, precocious young daughters (played by real-life sisters, all seeming about 6 years old) of a smitten mother, revealed in the opening scenes as being involved in a very passionate and very kinky relationship, decide they don’t like her fiancee and, on a family trip to a sylvan lakefront cabin, decide to do something about it. And, oh my, they do, as the film takes a hard right turn in the middle from charming comedy thriller into more serious territory.
Unfortunately, a flawed gem, marred primarily by a very lazy and gratuitous ending—and I mean just the last two or three minutes, but, a really disappointing out-of-left field “denouement” that is more of a letdown than a climax. Other than that, it’s fairly quiet and low-key, and likely to disappoint most horror fans, but I liked it. These little girls are surprisingly good actors for little kids, really convincing as the casually sinister sisters. And both the comedy and the thriller elements work, not great, but watchably well, until just that very last scene.
In the closing credits: “filmed in Ontario”. Canada does it again.