This movie does take a little to much time with the setup, so much so that I was beginning to think it was going to be an all around weak ending with maybe one kill or something. Most of the first hour or so is used establishing this and that, lots of teenage whining, lots of people looking for people in the woods and such, I was so sure this would be the best of the after dark movies that I was really getting disappointed. However, the last twenty or so minutes I got the movie I was expecting as it was one bloody ride the rest of the way. The story, well for the first part it rather mirrors the start of "Mortuary" as we have a family moving into a new home...we have the single mom, the little girl, and sub a teen girl for the guy in that movie and you have your setup. The house is in rather bad shape, as for some reason the mother here never apparently checked it out beforehand and there ya go. The whining about wanting to go back home and thinking the place is the dumps gets old quick. Well there is also a mine on the property, a mine where children were forced to work and they died there as well in an accident. Makes me want to smack those kids who are in stores wanting video games even more, the spoiled brats. Well you just know the mining accident and the children who died are going to be the cause of the terror. Unfortunately, there is not much terror to be had during the very long setup. This movie was going to score a three or four before the very bloody conclusion where people are getting totally chopped up and we even get zombies!!! So if you can make it through the first part, you are in for a treat as the movie totally changes gears and ramps up the horror. Before that it almost was like a television movie or something.
Review of Wicked Little Things
