We want to consider them innocent creatures, but sometimes kids are more unpredictable and evil than we expect. We saw it recently with The Innocents (aka De uskyldige) (2021) [read our review here], and we’ve seen it many other times.
In There’s Something Wrong with the Children (2023), Margaret and Ben take a weekend trip with longtime friends Ellie and Thomas and their two young children. Eventually, Ben begins to suspect something supernatural is occurring when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.
This is the new movie of Roxanne Benjamin, one of the most exciting young female directors in the horror scene, responsible for Body at Brighton Rock (2019), segments in the anthologies Southbound (2015) and XX (2017), and episodes in the TV series Creepshow (2019–), Riverdale (2017–), Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020), Nancy Drew (2019–), and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (2022–). T.J. Cimfel and David White, the writers of Intruders (2015) and the segment Vicious Circles in V/H/S Viral (2014), have been the authors of the screenplay for There’s Something Wrong with the Children (2023).
The main cast for the movie is formed by Zach Gilford, Amanda Crew, Alisha Wainwright, Carlos Santos, Briella Guiza, David Mattle, and Ramona Tyler.
There’s Something Wrong with the Children (2023) is produced by Jason Blum via Blumhouse Television and MGM+. Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing it on January 17, 2023. Watch its official trailer here.
