qmtv OK, so production value is super low. The best actor was the main female lead. All others were super poor. What saves this movie is the initial idea, an evil or twisted child with some kind of power to bring forth the dead to kill people. After the initial idea, someone had to hire a writer. That's where it starts to fail. Our female lead was from that are and is returning, but there is no other connection to her to the rest of the story. They should have expanded on her and made some connection to the evil girl, maybe make her the child sister or the real psycho killer, something! The father of the child is also an evil bastard, but the son is normal. We have no background on these characters, what are they doing there? Where do they work? Something! The child, we need some more info, what about school? When we first meet the old lady, her dog attacks the female lead, and a girl pulls the dog back, then both disappear. What the hell was that? Was that the evil girl? There was a Halloween party, but we don't see any other people. OK? Best part was when the little girl, got the axe on the head. There's also a scene when her brother was busting the head of a zombie for 40 times, then he gets pulled in and gets his face ripped off. I also like the fact that the female lead started screaming nonstop, after the car crash and seeing the zombies, till the end of the movie. Very cool.So, we have low production. Story, acting, cinematography, editing, music/sound, lighting, sets, dialogue, dubbing, etc. What saves it is the initial idea. But that is not expanded. You the viewer must fill in the holes. If you don't have the imagination, then this movie will be a 1 star. If you have an incredible imagination, 10 stars. I have a decent imagination, but still I cannot give more than 4 stars.I would rather see movies like this then the crap that Hollywood is pushing in our face, like Star Wars 7, Force Awakens, a truly garbage movie for people who love sugar and plastic surgery. And, I would prefer this movie to any garbage by Dario Argento, especially, the super pile of crap garbage "Suspiria", or his Plumage or Flies movies. Argento sucks.I'd also like to mention that this movie is definitely more entertaining than Dawn of the Dead. I like most viewers have seen that movie many times. In my recent viewing I noticed how bad it was. Go watch it, the story sucks, the acting is horrible, and the zombie makeup is just plain trash.At least with the Child we have something. Imagine if they had the budget for the Force Awakens for the Child. But then again, they could also turn it into another candy mess. I initially gave this 4 stars for the production value, but after reading most of the reviews, I will give this one more viewing and have updated the rating to 5.Update: OK, I just re-watched this again last night. I will raise the rating to 6. Worth checking out. However, beware, you must overlook the dubbing, and the music/sound effects sometimes works, sometimes not. The cinematography and the idea of this film saves it from utter garbage. This movie should be re-edited and cut sections of lingering boredom. Also, there should be a re-dubbing. The musical ideas that work can be kept, some other ideas should be trashed. Taking the cinematography with new editing and audio tracks can easily turn this into a 7 maybe 8 stars. There are some great moments here. Check it out.

Johan Louwet This movie is for the first hour more of an atmospheric horror (the cemetery with its constant mist hanging over it, old houses with creaky stairs and where electricity always seems to fail making it often dark and spooky). There is actually very little story or character development. What follows after that is nice with a finale reminding me a lot of "Night of the Living Dead" original. The little girl is creepy but I had wished to see more of her. She obviously had a good bond with her deceased mother but why she blamed others for her mother's death and sent zombies to them remains pretty unclear in the end. There was way too little interaction between the girl and her nanny, actually too little interaction between characters in general. Low budget hoping to cash in on the popular zombie theme I guess. That's sad because the idea behind it was pretty good, but the execution could have been so much better. The soundtrack was what killed me most of times, heavy piano music that was really overkill.

lovecraft231 Rosilan (Rosalie Cole) is a girl with some problems-like her psychic abilities that allow her to talk to her dead mother, levitate objects, and raise the dead.From producer Harry ("Axe","Rituals", "Hitch-Hike To Hell" and plenty of soft core flicks) Novak comes "The Child", an uneven but still watchable take on the Zombie movie. The movie itself takes a while to get going, and like many movies of this type, the acting is terrible (especially Rosalie Cole, whose character is too much of a brat to be interesting or threatening), and the electronic score by Rob Wallace is grating.Still, when the final 20 minutes kick in, the movie kicks up. There's some nice moments, and the zombies themselves, while not Romero or Fulci levels, are still pretty creepy. The make up effects are also pretty good, especially considering the movie's budget."The Child" is an alright Bad Seed movie, only with the supernatural and the living dead instead of a killer kid. Don't go into it expecting much, and you might sort of enjoy it. It would make a nice double bill movie with "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things", I'll tell you that.

adrian_tripod We've all seen Night of the Living Dead and Dawn, and Day... most of us have seen Lucio Fulci's zombies, and some will have ventured into the Manchester Morgue... but if you like the zombie subgenre best check out The Child, a movie with a mid-seventies homemade feel, which springs some scary groping monsters on the camera in the last twenty minutes, and packs the rest of the running time with strange music, weird camera angles and warped acting as well. They really don't make them like this any more. The acting feels like the attempts of a schizo to pass for normal on a bad day. There's no attempt at realism because dry ice wafts around as soon as the heroine crashes her old-fashioned car at the start of the film. Old ladies who should just be side-line characters hog the script with eccentric non-actor habits. The camera tilts like a sick sailor. The music is Liberace vamping for Lon Chaney's stage show, alongside a deranged scorpion on a synthesizer keyboard. The story and characters are almost non-existent (although the lead female has 'problems'). It's like a fever dream before a scriptwriting session - better than a script, in other words. It refuses to become a normal movie and that makes it special. Watch it late at night but not too late...