This entry in the "something's wrong with the children" horror subgenre is demented. It seems in terms of story and production like a scary movie aimed solidly at children, and yet, it's far too scary for any child. And it's strange enough, and likable enough just for so thoroughly being what it is, that I'm reluctant to give away any spoilers.
It gets undeniable points for originality—if nothing else, what's wrong with the children in this one being different from what's wrong with them in any other film like this. I don't know who looked at a children's playground and saw, in their mind, the idea for this movie, but to them I say, bravo for being so weird... weird enough that I don't even want to give away any more details of the conceit than I have.
Truly, the whole endeavor is just a little bizarre, and it's hard to understand how such a silly idea and impossible-to-take-seriously effort still managed in some ways to stand out enough from the crowd to be worth mentioning, at least as a curiosity... until, after watching, I looked it up, and... Yep, it's a Canadian film.
It's not a great movie by a long shot, and has serious plot holes, lapses in logic, and contrived situations like any bad horror movie. But, even if nobody would ever say it's terrifying, it gets undeniable points for an original idea, and very decent execution, with acting that at times rises above a silly conceit and makes horror out of some truly absurd ideas, and some passing moments of effective surrealism. This is a movie that commits wholeheartedly to what it wants to be and sticks to it, and I have to give it credit for that alone, even if what it wants to be is somewhat questionable. It's a little different.
A lot of the reviews on IMDB say things like, "That was better than I expected it to be", which is about the right response. Canada manages to do it yet again.
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