Who Can Kill a Child?

Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador

1976 / 111min / DCP

English couple Tom and the heavily pregnant Evelyn (Lewis Fiander and Prunella Ransome) are off for a last vacation before the baby comes, looking for rest and relaxation on a secluded island off the Spanish coast— but it turns out they might be on their last vacation, period. The island seems to only be inhabited by roving gangs of children, constantly tittering as though in on some secret inside joke; the secret is the fate of the island’s adult population, and once our protagonists discover it and race to escape mobs of mad moppets, the relevance of the title becomes terribly clear. Widely regarded as one of the finest and most unsettling of all Fantaterror films.