The Children

The Children (2008) is a British horror film directed by Tom Shankland — watch it online on iFILM. Two families arrive at a country house for Christmas. The kids are restless, then feverish. Then something shifts.

Eva Birthistle and Rachel Shelley play mothers who keep rationalizing what they see. Stephen Campbell Moore is the father caught between logic and raw instinct. The children don't explain themselves. They just escalate. Director Shankland strips the premise down to its ugliest core — no mythology, no backstory, no monster with a name.

At 84 minutes, the film wastes nothing. The horror runs on the collapse of the one trust adults don't think to question. Stream The Children (2008) online on iFILM.