Suffer Little Children (1983)

My rating - 4.5/10

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A young mute girl arrives at a childrens home. She soon starts to terrorize the other children and adults and they become voilent leading to a nasty battle between good and evil.

Where do you really start with this?. It was made as a drama school project with the kids from the Meg Shanks drama school and somehow it found it's way onto VHS on the FGL label. There's even a DVD release of it now in it's original "strong uncut version". It even managed to gain a little controversy due to it's violence and gore, all of which is very poorly done, but because it involved actual children it was seized by police in some parts of the UK during the whole video nasty debacle, although it was never prosecuted.

Filmed in an old house that was being used as a squat, the direction, production, sound and effects are all poor. Most of the dialogue was improvised, but you know what?, despite all this there's something strangely fun about it all. Sure it's not good in any way, shape or form, but fair play to these kids for actually making something that somehow has become a bit of a cult movie.

I can't recommend this one except to those who have a real high tolorance for shot on video, zero budget, homemade amature films. If you do and can find a copy though then give it a try.

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