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Evil Children Attack in THE DAY

By: Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Monday, March 31, 2008
Source: Ryan Rotten

Newcomer writer-director Tom Shankland has a second horror film called The Day gearing up in the UK, reports Ryan Rotten. Site says that while his first project Waz is currently on hold for the Weinstein Company, his second feature film is ready to go, based on an original story by Paul Andrew Williams (The Cottage). The film---which has begun shooting in the UK---will star Rachel Shelley ("L Word"), Stephen Campbell Moore (The Bank Job), Eva Birthistle, Eva Sayer and Jeremy Sheffield (Creep).

Plot Concept: The story centers around a family trip that goes awry when they encounter malicious children in the woods

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Shocker • Mar 31, 2008, 05:52am •

Malicious children... now that's scary.

jyansr • Mar 31, 2008, 06:57am •

I saw this when it was called Wicked Little Things.

galaga51 • Mar 31, 2008, 10:12am •

The Day...? What a really descriptive title! [/sarcasm] Instead, how about The Day Trip or The Outing or What I Should Have Learned From Watching Children of the Corn.

irascible • Mar 31, 2008, 10:24am •

Nice galaga - I thought the same.. And speaking of that - shouldn't they be doing a "reimagining" of Children of the Corn soon anyway - they're remaking everything anyway... Shit! Did I just give an unimaginative hollywood suit another bad idea?

mckracken • Mar 31, 2008, 12:56pm •

the only malicious children i remember are from Wicked Little things... oh...

and Villiage of the Damned and Children of the Corn and that movie where all those kids were on the island fighting each other....

DvlDrvr13 • Mar 31, 2008, 01:55pm •

mckracken...are you thinking of lord of the flies? i was at blockbuster last night...and the asian guy that created the grudge has a movie in the 8 films to die for series for 2007... and geuss what...its sounds just like...the grudge... maybe it is true the every new idea has been run through a million times before.....

muchdrama • Mar 31, 2008, 02:12pm •

"Malicious children". Pfft. You know what you do to "malicious children"? You punt them like footballs, that's what.

Whiskeymovie • Mar 31, 2008, 05:13pm •

Yeah, i never got what is so scary about children,,,other than the fact that they can turn sting peas into a total nightmare.

mlaforcer • Mar 31, 2008, 06:24pm •

Well the original is Children of the corn but now it seems as though it has been chewed, swallowed and defecated out onto our front lawns and renamed Children of the woods, I'm sorry, I mean, Evil Children Attack in THE DAY oooohh it's an ominous sounding title, is it not? creepy...

mckracken • Mar 31, 2008, 08:49pm •

DvlDrvr13, yes thank you... Lord of the Flies... yes.

I'm fairly sure "that Asian Guy" in the Horrorfest:8 films to Die for was "Reincarnation" which only looks like The Grudge from the trailer.. its about an old abandoned hotel and the reincarnated spirit of a girl that returns there only to find that its haunted by the slain ghosts of victims, guests and hotel staff murdered by a serial killer. (thats the reason its abandoned and dilapidated)
its got a twist ending which I thought was good and I thought it was a pretty good entry into the series (if we're both talking about the same flick) of course... like this years crop... most of them sucked outright.

i tried catching them all either renting or buying but it turns out I did miss two of them... The Abandoned (2007's stand out "voted #1 by fans" and one other that somehow got skipped in the process of renting.

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