Cinematic conversations with a boy named Zombion! 6 movies that will keep you awake! Film number 4...
Children's room
I will not be able to adequately explain my position. I’m going to take out what’s in my head right now.
The movie’s tagline is “Whose Hand Rocks the Cradle?” What it is, someone remembered an old painting by Curtis Hanson, a-hee-hee, probably. Very strange thing. “Children’s Room” received the highest rating of all six films (this Spanish TV project).
I mean, people liked the movie. Hmm, curious. My emotions are a little different. I’m not touching New Year’s story (of course), but Ghost and Hell House went much better.
Iglesia is a pretty cool Spanish director, no doubt about it. He's a real magician. Each of his films is a step into the unknown (well, except for the more or less mundane “Murder in Oxford” with Wood). Only my uncle never made a pure horror movie.
Iglesia’s trick is not even crazy scenarios (in collaboration with a man whose surname is difficult to pronounce – Gerrickaechevarria), but rather freakish heroes. From “Beast Day” to “Witches of Sugarramurdi”.
Plot. We are shown a family - mom, dad and a small child. They move into a new home and hear sounds. Yes, yes, by standard. Install cameras (hello to Paranormal 2).
Iglesia (as it were) describes the horror, but this love of friction (sorry that I call it the author’s streak) – it really destroys a serious horror film. And if Iglesia’s mother was “mocked” not so much (it will do for horror), then the head of the table, I don’t know, guys.
It is sloppy (right from the first seconds) and sometimes even sloppy. All this talk about sex, all this talk in the office at work. I got a smile a couple of times. And those Iglesia jokes are, "Push the button, the cops are coming in three minutes, ten minutes, with traffic in an hour."
Oh, Iglesia, my dear, what are you doing, you're making a movie about a paranormal entity in a bloody house. Be at least a little ordinary director, show a person - for whom it would be scary (the main character is even scared funny, check out the scene with the bed). No use.
He didn’t care about the genre, so as a horror film – average. One cruel scene does not save. Iglesia is a great author (with cockroaches in his head). The "Children's Room" can be seen. Just in contrast to his other eccentric filmography - well, guys, it's a passerby. Absolutely subjective, I do not insist.
6 out of 10