51 - The Children

    A British production.  a pair of siblings bring their respective spouses and children together for the holidays.  Some illness spreads through the children, making them want to kill adults.

    It's a really creepy movie.  Many things are left unexplained, but we get exactly as much information as the adults do.  (With the exception of some strange, fast cut bits that are supposed to have something to do with the insanity manifesting in the children.

    While it starts a little slowly, and it establishes characters that come across as being kind of broadly unlikable, (the wiki summary describes them as yuppies.  That seems about right.) the movie takes a well handled approach to building suspense.

    I found myself much more fascinated with the way that they handled the issue of adults killing children.  It's still very taboo, but there's another movie - Who Can Kill A Child? - which covers similar ground, along with the Children of the Corn movies.  This one was more explicit in violence.  Still, very effective.