WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976) — Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s Spanish Horror Classic Turns 50!

WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976) d. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (Spain)

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Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s taboo-smashing classic, Who Can Kill a Child (1976), is a movie that packs a lethal punch both in terms of onscreen mayhem and intellectual philosophizing. When a couple of English tourists (Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome) arrive on an isolated Spanish island, they begin to discover the mutilated corpses of adults and eventually realize the shocking truth: These innocent-looking youngsters have massacred their elders, exploiting the grownups’ reluctance to defend themselves against the children.

Like his terrifying La Residencia (aka The House that Screamed) from 1969, Serrador mines a rich vein of audience manipulation by making his antagonists the “untouchable” fresh-faced youth, while the film (loosely based on Juan Jose Plans’ novel, El juego de los niños) also pays homage to such obvious influences as Village of the Damned, Night of the Living Dead, and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, with the island village’s tykes standing in for the avian threats.

With sparse dialogue, oft-blinding outdoor daylight settings courtesy of Goya-award winning cinematographer José Luis Alcaine, dread-filled atmosphere, and its downbeat/upbeat ending, Who Can Kill A Child is an unusual, provocative and extremely well-made picture that provides a welcome change of pace from well-worn genre conventions.

Join AC and his fabulous panel of guests (Ashley Lamers, John McDevitt, Mackenzie Parker, Elena Romea) as we celebrate a half-century of this groundbreaking masterpiece of Spanish horror from one of the true masters of the genre, delivering biting social commentary on gender roles, political inequity, and tyranny against one’s fellow humans while elegantly delivering a sinister and spellbinding thriller that will stick with you for days!

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