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The new Norwegian movie The Innocents doesn’t play by the rules of many Western movies about children – and is all the better for it.

In most child horror the juvenile is either the victim, or possessed by some external malign force that corrupts their ‘innocence’ and adds the element of terror and/or threat, i.e. the child is not a child at all, but becomes something ‘other’. In Eskil Vogt’s movie the four children are simply children.

Click here to read Martin Jameson’s full review