Child Eater (2016)

Watched on March 7, 2019

Child Eater (2016)

Director: Erlingur Thorrodsen

This one is worth a watch.

I love the director’s vision. With a larger budget, I think this could have made its way into the pantheon of five-year-rotation movies.

This is sort of a spoiler, but the ride is what is great about this one: it is a better version of Jeepers Creepers.

It suffers from two issues. One, the sound editing is all over the place. I don’t know what they were thinking, but I could have easily rectified this issue. Two, there were a lot of continuity errors. However! The dark lighting is captured extremely well. This entire movie is in the dark, and having done as many low-light wedding photography sessions as I have, I know how treacherous these conditions can be. Nonetheless, I thought that the cinematography was exceptional for this caliber (budget) of film!

There are a few things that I really love in horror flicks. I love when there is a long and not-boring exposition. At the 24 minute mark, I checked and noticed that nothing actually scary has happened, but I was never bored.

Secondly, I love when the events of a horror tale are not mystically secret to the other characters. This can take form by having events take place in a crowd, or, as is expertly conveyed in this movie, by a single character, other than the victim. Normally, you would have to wait until the end for this type of thing, but you get it early in this one, which makes it scarier. What you don’t want in a horror flick is to be the omniscient viewer. In that case, anything can be real or fake or have no bearing on the story, but when the viewer and at least one other character are exposed to shock simultaneously, the situation escalates exponentially! This movie does a great job with this!