THE CHILDREN

Year: 2008
UK: Vertigo Distribution
Cast: Eva Birthwistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield, Jake Hathaway, Raffiella Brooks, William Howes, Eva Sayer, Rachel Shelley, Hannah Tointon
Director: Tom Shankland
Country: UK
UK: 84 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong bloody violence and horror
UK Release Date: 5 December 2008


Synopsis

The Christmas holidays.

What starts as a relaxing house party for two families coming together to celebrate the festive season gradually turns into a horrifying fight for survival as one by one the children mysteriously fall ill and begin to turn against their parents with increasingly disturbing consequences.

Starring Eva Birthistle (AE FOND KISS), Stephen Campbell Moore (THE BANK JOB) Jeremy Sheffield (LAST CHANCE HARVEY) and introducing Hannah Tointon. Written and directed by Tom Shankland (WAZ) and based on a screenplay by Paul Andrew Williams (LONDON TO BRIGHTON).