History Film / TheChildren

** [[spoiler: Jonah mentions to Robbie that he works in TCM (which involves importing ingredients from China) and says something about viruses spreading around.]]

* DelicateAndSickly: Leah is implied to be this, as her mother Chloe tells Elaine (her maternal aunt) that she's nearly got Leah off the inhaler. Later, when Elaine voices her thoughts of the kids catching some kind of bug from Paulie, Chloe complains that Elaine brought her kids when they got sick, as Leah is known to be very susceptible to illness.

* DelicateAndSickly: Leah is implied to be this, as her mother Chloe tells Elaine (her maternal aunt) that she's nearly got Leah off the inhaler. Later, when Elaine voices her thoughts of the kids catching some kind of bug from Paulie, Chloe complains that Elaine brought her kids when they got sick, as Leah is known to be very susceptible.

* DelicateAndSickly: Leah is implied to be this, as her mother Chloe tells Elaine (her maternal aunt) that she recently got Leah off the inhaler. Later, when Elaine voices her thoughts of the kids having some kind of bug from Paulie, Chloe complains that Elaine brought her kids when they got sick, as Leah is known to be very susceptible.

** [[spoiler: It could be linked to a possibly supernatural force in the woods, as seen from the vast amount of infected (or possessed) children around the forest area in the end.]]

* DelicateAndSickly: Leah is implied to be this, as her mother Chloe tells Elaine (her maternal aunt) that she recently got Leah off the inhaler. Later, when Elaine voices her thoughts of the kids having some kind of bug from Paulie, Chloe complains that Elaine brought her kids when they got sick, as Leah is very susceptible.

* DelicateandSickly: Leah is implied to be this, as her mother Chloe tells Elaine (her maternal aunt) that she recently got Leah off the inhaler. Later, when Elaine voices her thoughts of the kids having some kind of bug from Paulie, Chloe complains that Elaine brought her kids when they got sick, as Leah is very susceptible.

* GrossUpCloseUp: Before the children start their killing spree, we see close ups of the children coughing (one closeup of Nicky coughing a bit of blood on his spinning toy gun and wiping it off) or vomiting, and puddles of greenish-yellow vomit (with specks of red, which is implied to be blood) on the snow (Casey lands in a puddle at one point, with yellow vomit covered all over her hand), the floor of their tent and in one noticeable example, the black smear on Leah's pillow which reveals a nasty microscopic view of [[MonstrousGerms black bacteria]] swarming and multiplying inside the vomit.

* GrossUpCloseUp: Before the children start their killing spree, we see close ups of the children coughing (one closeup of Nicky coughing a bit of blood on his spinning toy gun and wiping it off) or vomiting, and puddles of greenish-yellow vomit (with specks of red, which is implied to be blood) on the snow, the floor of their tent and in one noticeable example, the black smear on Leah's pillow which reveals a nasty microscopic view of [[MonstrousGerms black bacteria]] swarming and multiplying inside the vomit.

* GrossUpCloseUp: Before the children start their killing spree, we see close ups of the children coughing (one closeup of Nicky coughing a bit of blood on his spinning toy gun and wiping it off) or vomiting, and puddles of greenish-yellow vomit (with specks of red, which is implied to be blood) on the snow, the floor of their tent and in one noticeable example, the black smear on Leah's pillow which reveals a microscopic view of [[MonstrousGerms black bacteria]] swarming and multiplying inside the vomit.

* GrossUpCloseUp: Before the children start their killing spree, we see close ups of greenish-yellow vomit (with specks of red, which is implied to be blood) puddles on the snow, the floor of their tent and in one noticeable example, the black smear on Leah's pillow which reveals a microscopic view of [[MonstrousGerms black bacteria]] swarming and multiplying inside the vomit.

* GrossUpCloseUp: Before the children start their killing spree, we see close ups of greenish-yellow vomit puddles on the snow, the floor of their tent and in one noticeable example, the black smear on Leah's pillow which reveals a microscopic view of [[MonstrousGerms black bacteria]] swarming and multiplying inside the vomit.

** [[spoiler: It could be linked to a possibly supernatural force in the woods, as seen from the vast amount of infected children around the forest area in the end.]]

* TheVoice: Casey's friend, Lisa. We hear her voice in the phonecall Casey makes to her. We even see her text on Casey's phone ('where r u?'), but we never see her physically. [[spoiler: Judging from her mentioning her little brother feeling sick (possibly the same virus as Casey's half-siblings and younger cousins), she could be in just as much danger as Casey and her mother is.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Why is the ambulance going to take so long to reach them after Elaine's leg is fractured? Because the HatePlague is ''everywhere'' and kids are murdering adults all over the place.

* KillEmAll: With the exception of [[spoiler: Elaine and Casey (along with Leah and the crowd of infected children in the forest)]], everyone is dead by the final scene.

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[[caption-width-right:259:Be very afraid.]]

''The Children'' (2008) is a British horror film. Whilst on holiday for New Year's Eve (and slightly belated Christmas celebrations with relatives), parents Jonah, Elaine, Chloe and Robbie notice that their young children are beginning to act odd after they become ill with an unknown virus. The children then begin to exhibit violent behavior that quickly escalates to murder.

* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: We never find out the exact origin/cause of the virus or even get concrete confirmation that it's real. The film deliberately leaves things ambiguous, leaving a lot to the viewer's interpretation, like for example:]]

* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: We never find out the exact origin/cause of the virus or even get concrete confirmation that it's real. The film deliberately leaves things ambiguous, leaving a lot to the viewer's interpretation.]]