Wicked Little Things

I watch this movie the other day on Netflix called Wicked Little Things. The description said it was about a mother and her 2 daughters who move to an inherited house in the PA woods and they have creepy new neighbors. Sounds terrifying. How can you go wrong with a house in the woods and creepy new neighbors????? Oh, in sooo many ways can you go wrong.

The premise was good. Abandoned house, creepy woods, some kind of mining disaster involving children. Could be really spooky. Except it wasn't. The mom and her 2 kids move to this inherited house after the dad dies and leaves it to them. Mom didn't even know it existed. Okay, why would you pack up all your crap (which in their case fit into 1 car) and move to a property you have never once laid eyes on and who know one has lived in in 50+ years. This house was disgustingly dirty. I'm talking rats and black with dirt dirty. But sure let your kids sleep on the beds that have been there for 50+ years on whatever sheets you may or may not have brought with you, have no working plumbing, eat in a kitchen with rats on the table, and have minimally working electricity. Seems like a good plan. You are mom of the year.

First off the whole movie was shot so dark that I couldn't even tell what was going on half the time. A fact for which I was glad because the parts I could see did seem kind of gory and that grosses me out.

Secondly, while the house was creepy and the woods were creepy the dead mining zombie children were not creepy.

Third, all the zombie children wanted was their revenge on the grandson of the owner of the mine who killed them. So they went around killing other people while they waited for this guy to show up and he just conveniently wanted to build a ski resort in this creepy town and showed up to research that. A ski resort??? In this creepy town that has no restaurants or shopping???? That just doesn't seem realistic to me.

The end of the movie...the zombie kids got their revenge, the mother and teenage daughter got covered in his blood, the youngest daughter befriended the zombie children, and they promised they wouldn't kill anyone ever again so mom let them have her inherited house and her and the kids moved away.

And I wasted 120 minutes of my life.