Not to be confused with the 1980 film with the same name, The Children is NOT about a bunch of kids turned into nuclear zombies, rather, it is about a relaxing Christmas vacation where children turn against their parents. The Children (2009) is being released on DVD and Blu-ray March 31st by Vertigo Films.

Special Features Include:

The making of The Children
Location Featurette
Paul Hyatt talks Prosthetics
Snow Set Design Featurette
Deleted Scenes
Tom Shankland’s On-Set Lair
Working with Children Featurette

Synopsis:

The Christmas holidays. What starts as a relaxing house party for two families coming together to celebrate the festive season gradually turns into a horrifying fight for survival as one by one the children mysteriously fall ill and begin to turn against their parents with increasingly disturbing consequences.

Starring Eva Birthistle (Ae Fond Kiss), Stephen Campbell Moore (Bright Young Things) Jeremy Sheffield and introducing Hannah Tointon.

Written and directed by Tom Shankland (WAZ) based on a screenplay by Paul Andrew Williams (London To Brighton)