It just screams in your face and demands that you keep watching despite your ever-growing confusion. And if she does have psychic abilities, is she using them to reanimate the dead or control them? Or do they just do whatever she wants? The Child wasn't made to give you those answers. Then there are the drawings - Rosalie has been sketching everyone who was at her mother's funeral, marking them for death. Father and daughter have a good laugh at that while Len just seems embarrassed by his family. And even dinner is strange, as her father relates a story of Boy Scouts eating a soup stirred with oleander that caused them all to die. After all, people have seen Rosalie wandering the cemetery late at night, a place where she brings kittens so that her friends there will do anything she asks.
It's a very subtle scene that hints that things might not be right here. When Alicianne first meets Rosalie, he jack in the box suddenly moves by itself. She probably should have listened, as everyone in this family - hell, everyone in this movie - is touched, as they say. Whitfield, who warns her about the Nordon family. A journey through the woods brings her to Mrs. Along with her father and brother Len, she lives in a house on the edge of the woods.Įven the trip to the house is strange, with Alicianne's car breaking down after she drives it into a ditch. Sometime in the 1930's - which you'd only know from the old cars, as this film feels like an anachronism lost in no particular time - Alicianne has been hired to be the caretaker for Rosalie Nordon, the titular child, who has just lost her mother. For me, it was the main selling point of the entire second volume.
So when it was announced that Arrow Video was about to clean it up and release it was part of their American Horror Project series, I was excited. "Oh, The Child!" exclaimed Bill, hurriedly running in to try and explain why he was growing more and more obsessed with multiple rewatches of the film.Įvery print I've ever encountered of this film has been beaten to hell and back. The sound wasn't turned up, the images all felt like transmissions from beyond and nothing really added up in the movie.
While some folks drank in the kitchen or enjoyed the mix of Goblin and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult blasting in the sitting room, I was entranced by a film that was playing on the TV. We first encountered The Child at a Halloween party thrown at the palatial Mexican War Streets home of Mr. Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 8 / 10 Weirdness from another world
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