The Children is a 2008 British horror thriller film directed by Tom Shankland, based on a story by Paul Andrew Williams and starring Eva Birthistle and Hannah Tointon.

Leah coughs up black bile, in which strange forms of bacteria are seen proliferating exponentially.

But Nicky places a garden rake in the path of Robbie's sled, which slices open his head on impact.

Casey plans to leave and meet up with her friends for a party, but becomes frightened when she finds Leah in the forest, laughing and cutting into something.

Chloe accuses Casey and Elaine of going insane, and angrily runs off into the woods with Jonah to find the other children.

The site's consensus reads: "Unsettling and spine-chilling low-budget British horror, with effective and disturbing scares".

The Guardian writer Phelim O'Neill said, "the violence is skilfully enough executed to make you think you see much more than you actually do and the fundamentally disturbing and creepy aspects about such random and unpredictable child-centric mayhem are always present, no matter how ludicrously intense and darkly humorous things get".

[6] Time Out gave the film four out of five stars and said "This taboo-shattering movie taps in to primal fears about the unknow-ability of children, its blood-stained virgin snow and insidious terror recalling cruel fairy tales and ‘demon child’ movies such as The Omen.