TheBlueHairedLawyer Sarah and Emma lost their dad to an unexplained illness; now they are moving to an old coal-mining town in Pennsylvania. The house turns out to be a decrepit old wooden shack full of rats, with bad plumbing and belongings like a Christmas tree left behind. Sarah makes new friends, a trio of stoned high-schoolers, meanwhile her little sister Emma creates a pretend friend called Mary. Emma's mom is worried, but is also wondering about William Carlton, a selfish land-developer who is tearing the old houses and mines down for a ski resort. Unknown to him the group of zombies, children who were murdered in a mine shaft in 1913, are out to find him. Next, oh crudlychunks, Emma seeks help from a neighbor, the eccentric and religious Hank, who kindly offers to help her... but not Carlton. Interesting as it was, Wicked Little Things was typical and predictable. Sarah's group of hick friends are all perverts, in fact the first thing one guy says to her is, "I got something hard for you to catch", and he points to his crotch. Growing up in a mining and steelmaking province myself, I can recall the old documents of child labor and what-not. However, the plot is still very predictable. The overused "I met an imaginary friend that is actually real" plot is there, Chloe Moretz (Carrie 2013), played a boring and annoying role as Emma. Hank was a great character, all he wanted was to help the kids. Watch at least once, you might enjoy it.

FlashCallahan An owner of a mine uses child slaves, and after an explosion, a group are buried alive. Flash ward a few years and Karen Tunny has just lost her husband due to terminal illness. Without any money, she moves with her daughters to the old house in the mountains that belonged to her husband. She is advised by her neighbours to stay at home during the night, and there are stories of zombies in the area. When Her youngest becomes friend with Mary, her mother believes she is an imaginary friend. However, when her other daughters friends are attacked and eaten by zombie children and Her youngest vanishes. She decides to make the film a little more interesting...Despite the okay cast, this has to be one of the most boring and mundane things I've endured in such a long time.Banging doors, jump scares and freaky kids are all here, and don't forget the young girl who can speak to the dead. The guy from Chariots of Fire looks severely unimpressed by his choice of career, and of course, there's some bad guy who wants to build a ski slope.It's all a little bit Scooby Doo come the end, and it doesn't help that the kids look like French Mimes.I was waiting for one of them to pretend to be stuck behind an imaginary mirror.Pants.

Paul Magne Haakonsen When I bought this movie from Amazon, it was titled "Zombies" on the DVD cover and had the "Wicked Little Things" as an subtitle. So I bought it with the hopes of it being a zombie movie."Wicked Little Things" was not a zombie movie in the traditional sense, as there weren't any brain-dead, shambling corpses or rotting corpses around. However, it was really a nice change of scenery to see dead children in a horror movie. And despite the lack of regular zombies, then "Wicked Little Things" wasn't actually a bad movie. The dead children looked cool, and their silent demeanor and black, dead eyes worked really well.The story was also quite good, a bit on the simple side though. But it was a storyline that you easily picked up on and got submerged into. There was no twists of events or subplots, just one story and it was straight to the point. A group of children working in a mine were killed and have been haunting the mountain ever since, killing people without remorse, seeking vengeance on the one responsible for their tragic end."Wicked Little Things" wasn't full of huge CGI effects, flashing special effects and the like. They made use of simple effects, but they were straight to the point and worked as intended. If you like gore, then you will not be disappointed, as there was an adequate amount in the movie as well.As for scares, well, then "Wicked Little Things" wasn't really harboring any shock-moments, but it was working on a nice slow-pace of building up suspense and story, having it come full circle at a satisfactory way at the end, although it was quite predictable.The movie was shot in a really great location, and there was a lot of spooky atmosphere to the entire movie. The location of a secluded cabin on a mountain with a spooky forest worked out really well.So despite the sort of misleading title on the DVD cover ("Zombies"), then "Wicked Little Things" was actually a great enough horror movie.

trashgang J.S. Cardone made fame with is first effort as director in 1982 with The Slayer, one of the video nasties. His latest effort was made in 2006, it was this flick here which is suddenly released in 2011 here in Europe. But it's called Carlton's Mine over here. It's weird that it took so long to be available in Europe. It was released under the After Dark Horrorfest label. So I knew that sometimes flicks coming out under that name aren't always watchable.This is one of them that hasn't many to offer. It's low on suspense and on the bloody side. I can't say that it all really got my attention. But I watched it for another reason. There's a really famous thespian in it but he's only in it for a few minutes, Geoffrey Lewis. Too much flicks to mention that he was in. Further on there are some other names in it that weren't really big back then. Chloë Grace Moretz (Emma) was 9 but you could see that see really had it in her so she went on to Let Me In and Kick-Ass. Before that she was Chelsea Lutz in The Amityville Horror. Scout Taylor-Compton went further as Laurie Strode in the Halloween remake by Rob Zombie. Lori Heuring came from Mulholland Drive. Ben Cross is also a thespian coming from for example Chariots Of Fire, he went on to Star Trek as Sarek. The score used in fact the effects used are now dated, I can't explain it but they used it around that time so many times like in Battlestar Galactica, it's a kind of zweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep (going louder and louder), by doing that you knew something was going to happen.It's funny to see big names in this kind of low on everything flick. The acting was sublime and all believable but for geeks in the genre it had nothing to offer or you must see Scout in her underwear and get sticky hands on that part. Still it got an rated 18 on it, maybe it's for one gory killing? All the others were done off-screen.Gore 0,5/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5