31 Days of Creepy Kids, Day 29: Them (Them/Ils, 2006)

Them

You may remember a little movie from a few year ago called The Strangers; a couple returns to their isolated home after a wedding and are set upon by a trio of masked psychopaths, who want to make them piss themselves. And die.

Well that movie bears a striking resemblance to this much better French film, Ils.

The creepy bus of death.

Ils is also the story of a young couple living in the isolated Romanian countryside, who are set upon by a gang of mask wielding killers, who seem to enjoy making them piss themselves... only the creepers in Ils have two advantages over those in The Strangers; first and foremost they are kids, which makes it infinitely creepier. And second, they have those friggin' noisemaker thingys, which are always creepy, even at parties.

How can you not hear that noisemaker that close?!?

The fact that there are six of them don't help matters either, especially because they really like to "play." By play, the six year old of the group means kill people and maybe rape them once they're dead. Remind me to never visit Romania.

You lost.

Them (Ils) is a great French Horror flick that American audiences need to see. As Creepy Kid movies go, it's got to rank up there based on sheer brutality alone. And again, those damn noisemakers they use... I still hear them in my sleep sometimes...