Beware! Children at Play

Description

It's ten o' clock, do you know who your children are slaughtering? God fearing parents are in a panic as their children mysteriously disappear! Little do they know that the only thing worse than their children disappearing would be them coming back! After the youngsters of Tromaville fall under the ruthless control of a cult leader, they turn on their parents with gruesome results. Cannibalism, Parenticide and heartstopping gore explode from the screen in a movie that dares you to breed! Don't miss the last ten gut-wrenching minutes, which have made Beware! Children at Play a modern day classic! This exclusive DVD release features a director's commentary, introduction by Troma President and creator of the Toxic Avenger, Lloyd Kaufman, and it comes to you in an uncensored director's cut! Beware, you may never look at your children the same way again!

Customer Reviews:

Only for "Tromans" looking to complete a collection.......2006-10-11

The film is introduced by Llyod Kaufman as having a trailer deemed so controversial in it's depiction of children killing adults that it was booed at the Cannes Film Festival and half the audience walked out. That sounds like a bad joke I heard before. What does it take to offend a French person?...Or how many lightbulbs does it take to screw a French person?

The opening of the film is a father/son camping trip gone wrong. The father slowly dies after getting stuck in a bear trap and he tells his son to eat him spawning a cannibalistic cult of little children. And everything after this is screwier. The father was a professor that taught Anglo-Saxon poetry, or as the dimwit town sheriff affectionately refers to as "Angel Accent poetry", and this leads his son to believe that he, Glen Randell, is now "Grendel" from the poem "Beowulf". There are a variety of other bizarre explanations for the children's behavior in the convoluted plot involving the Sacrifice of Abraham's child to God amongst other things. Basically, the children disappear from the town, start a cult, hunt adults, and eat them. Sorry if this is confusing folks, but I watched the film and still don't get it. This is the most I could try to understand without falling asleep.

Unfortunately, as interesting as the premise sounds, the film is quite boring. It tried to be smart and I give it credit for that much. The SFX are good is some parts and bad in others. There are some scenes that try to make the mark, but fall short. One involves the young boy cutting open his father and eating his heart. At least I think that is what it was. The editing was strange and I am pretty sure it was not a real boy doing this for legal reasons. The stomach resembled an empty flap and a hand went in and pulled out a round, brown lump. The only scene that caught my attention for about 3 minutes was the slaughter scene at the end. And for the parents who secretly fantasize about killing their own kids, well here you have it.

There is a strange rape scene thrown in for no apparent reason. It seemed completely unnecessary and pointless. The child leader rapes a mom in front of other children including her own. That falls under the It's Just Wrong Category. And yet they somehow managed to make that boring as well.

The sound quality was okay, but there was goofy 80's boombox beat music at the oddest times. The film quality was decent, but there are problems with the editing and continuity issues. One scene in particular is shot at night and when the camera sings back to an actor talking, it is suddenly broad daylight!

Favorite Quote: A Bible salesman describing the Holy Bible he loves so much, "It is the best damn book ever! You don't need any god damn luck. You just say it is the word of God and their pocket book spreads it's cheeks and the long green pops out like puss from a pimple."

DVD Extras: The usual Troma fare: T.I.T. (Troma Intelligence Test), Still Gallery, Multiple Trailers, Commentary, and Bios. One note though, I could not read the menu. The font is illegible, so I just clicked on random colorful blobs I saw and hoped for the best.

Bottom Line: Only for "Tromans" looking to complete a collection.

Rating: 5/10

Molly Celaschi

Watch it for entertainment purposes only.......2006-08-16

This movie has it's moments, and drags on at times, but I have yet to see a funnier ending than this.
Don't expect a hollywood blockbuster here, it's just a good movie (A Troma movie at least).

It's TROMA........2005-12-31

That's all you need to know. It's not meant to be frightening or creepy or "good" in terms of cinematic classics. All these people that are rating it 1 because it has bad special effects and isn't scary, they just don't get it. At all. Lloyd Kaufman is a nutball. He's a cinematic genius. They make their movies to be absolutely ridiculous, and for some reason, alot of these people just do NOT seem to get it. I find it hilarious that they're so completely oblivious to the fact that it's not serious in the least. How could anyone think that a movie about children being brainwashed into cannibalizing people could possibly be a serious movie? If you want to see a movie that was meant to try to scare you, go watch The Ring. If you actually have a sense of humor and find bathroom humor, crappy sfx and dubbed-in fart noises laughable, watch Troma.

good Troma flick.......2005-12-05

I don't know whether to laugh at some of the people reviewing Beware!, or be shocked at how unbelievably oblivious they are. Everyone keeps going on and on about the "bad acting," the "horrible special effects," and the "lame plot." Hello - it's a Troma movie. In other words, it's supposed to be like this, it's called "camp horror." Nobody in their right mind expects it to be of the caliber of The Exorcist. Troma movies poke fun at themselves. They always have. If you're expecting anything more than that, you're kidding yourself and obviously know nothing about camp horror films. Let me tell you, as camp horror goes, Troma ranks right up there, and Beware! is one of the good ones. I think its funny how everyone keeps whining about the "cheesy ending"...that's exactly what the ending is supposed to be in camp horror, but apparently these viewers believe they are watching something of the type of horror film as Scream. To those people, all I can say is: I feel incredibly bad for you that you can't recognize an artform when it's right in front of your face. It truly is laughable that the points you use to say it's bad are actually what make it so good.

Beware! This Is Crap........2005-06-12

'Beware! Children At Play" is a pure crapfest. I figured that watching crazy inbred children killing adults would be funny but it just isn't. This is total garbage. I find it hard to believe that people would put in the time to make a film of this low caliber. Pathetic.

Everything put on film here is completely amateurish. The acting is pathetic, the camerawork was apparently done by a blind retarded man, the gore is just sad, and the script is just awful. From the looks of the box, this film looks like a slasher flick but in fact its mostly about some guy with a lame haircut investigating something or other and stumbles across this lame town with killer kids. This is one of the most boring films you will ever have the displeasure of seeing. I dare you to watch the first scene(involving a dad and his lame kid)and not want to turn it off. Pure dreck.

Avoid this film. It will sodomize you.

As an addition to this review: I know who Lloyd Kaufman is and what Troma puts out. But Kaufman had nothing whatsoever to do with the production of this film. The only thing he did was, for some godforsaken reason, release this hunk of s**t through Troma. I like Troma films but this movie is pure, unadulterated fecal matter.

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Beware! Children At Play

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Childhood used to be about jumping rope and playing hopscotch...but in one little backwoods town it's now about slitting throats and eating flesh! While visiting Tromaville, the DeWolfe family discover a terrifying secret. God-fearing parents panic as their children mysteriously disappear. Little do they know that only thing worse than their children disappearing would be them coming back! Lured into a cannibalistic cult, doe-eyed innocents are transformed into mindless killing machines. Parents and children face off in the most stomach churning finale of mutilated flesh to bloody the screen!

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