{"id":1313,"date":"2009-07-24T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2009-07-24T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T04:59:08","slug":"the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"The Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to do horror well but making kids the bad guys helps because killer kids are inherently creepy.\u00a0 And a willingness to follow through with the logical consequences of having a bunch of psycho kids on your hands helps this movie rise to the level of effective and genuinely scary horror.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not easily scared but I think the average joe would be legitimately freaked out by this movie and those of us who aren&#8217;t quite so susceptible to frightening suggestions will still feel stressed and excited enough to enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n<p>Oftentimes with horror movies we yell at the screen, wishing the characters would wise up and realize what it going on.\u00a0 Wishing they would act\u00a0intelligently and not be so oblivious and stupid.\u00a0 Well, in <em>The Children<\/em> I&#8217;m happy to report the characters act pretty much as I think real people would.\u00a0 All the characters have differing reactions but they are all valid and believable.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s even a little message to glean about childhood, adolescence and adulthood.\u00a0 Good stuff.\u00a0 Good times.\u00a0 Rock on.<\/p>\n<p>[rating:40]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to do horror well but making kids the bad guys helps because killer kids are inherently creepy.\u00a0 And a willingness to follow through with the logical consequences of having a bunch of psycho kids on your hands helps this movie rise to the level of effective and genuinely scary horror.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}