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Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)

Who Can Kill a Child? poster
Original title
¿Quién puede matar a un niño?
Directed by
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Genre
horror film
Country
Spain
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
16
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 286 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An English couple travels to a remote island for a vacation. They discover that the adult residents have vanished and the children are acting strangely and violently.

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What happens

Who Can Kill a Child? (Spanish: ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?), released theatrically as Island of the Damned in the US, and Would You Kill A Child?, Death Is Child's Play (original release) and Island of Death (1979 re-release) in the UK, is a 1976 Spanish horror film directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. The film follows an English couple who find an island inhabited by maniacal children. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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