The Child (1977) from Arrow - American Horror Project Vol. 2No.

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I was surprised to see that no one seems to have started a discussion thread on The Child (1977) or even regarding Arrow's American Horror Project Vol. 2 blu ray set.

The Child was the highlight of the set, for me. It's one of those really rough little hidden indie horror gems that I love to stumble across. It's chock-full of great ideas, with a creepy remote farm setting, a disturbing supernatural young teen, a beautiful young lead that's also the final girl, some great camera work, decent pacing, and a wonderfully creepy score with some off-the-wall sound effects. It features some very nasty undead creatures back for blood, and it manages to produce heaps of creepy, disturbing atmosphere. Major Night of the Living Dead vibes are packed in here, but the dead in this case are far more sinister and malicious, even straight-up evil, with an agenda. Their relentless onslaught in the last third of the film is fairly aggressive and memorable. It's easy to forget this was filmed in 1977. The very low-budget nature of the filming and costumes actually benefits the scrappy little production, in some ways. Line deliveries and nutty characters are occasionally so wooden as to be distractingly awful, and various transitions from the editing choices are a bit jarring and awkward, but it also makes the film feel more surreal and absurd, almost like Fulci could've had a hand in it. I really appreciate what the director was able to achieve here, and considering this was 1977, long before many of the great zombie and undead films of the genre, I think this minor car crash is quite effective, memorable, underrated, and solidly executed. I find it highly rewatchable, and I've enjoyed revisiting it several times now. If you're a fan of kitschy, messy, low-budget horror, undead horror along the lines of italian zombie flicks or some even rougher Romero-style fare, or are just tired of glossy, bland, uncreative, redundant, by-the-numbers schlock, and are willing to delve into some coarse low-budget mayhem, I think it's worth a good look.

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There is a thread for this set, I don't know why it doesn't show up if you look at the set.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=316252

I realized the other day that I actually own this set...never got around to watching it, I was put off by some post I remember seeing somewhere where a guy said that unlike the first set two of the movies on this set "felt like homework." Glad The Child sounds decent, I'll have to watch it sometime.