Children are creepy…agreed. All by themselves, there is always something a little extra disturbing about children in any horror movie. However, my least favorite zombie portrayal is, in fact, given by a pack of kids.
Wicked Little Things is a movie about zombie children were killed (sacrificed) during a mining incident in PA. It's really a fun premise. I love movies where they artists/producers/directors take their personal lives and experiences to create something horrific to share with the world. This was obviously a story someone heard as a child and thought it would make an amazing horror movie- and possibly it could of. I don't blame the kids. I think when you deal with kids in horror movies, there has to be a line that you can't (or just probably shouldn't) cross since kids at a young age can't readily distinguish between reality and the fiction of a movie.
So these kids, with grimy hands and faces painted white wield pick axes and murder their way through the Pennsylvania mountain side. For kids, they did a great job. But it all had kind of a "children of the corn", mob mentality, follow the leader feel. They just weren't great zombies.
So what is your least favorite zombie portrayal?
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