Expect the obligatory characteristics of any low-budget indie (e.g. cat-fight), but overall, in fact, you get an original and startling portrayal of cooperating child homicidal criminals -- which certainly seemed substantially even more bizarre in the early 70s.
The young actors were of course the basis of the movie's success: This was Leif Garrett's third significant movie role, filmed just before his 13th birthday, and the first such role for Tierre Turner who turned 14 after the filming, and both did go on to substantial subsequent careers. Now Gail Smale, who seemed with her albino look and covered in a nun's habit perhaps the same age, was clandestinely in her twenties.
The story, with conscious progression, reveals the oddities of the children step by step -- perhaps most clearly in Leif's character for example, who takes an odd turn at minute 38 as he makes a curious point of discussing a dress with Taylor Lacher. Later at minute 102 we suddenly recognize that the girl in a mirror shot is in fact Leif when he removes his wig.
NOT your normal killer-kid movie. Pay attention -- it will stretch your imagination.
The young actors were of course the basis of the movie's success: This was Leif Garrett's third significant movie role, filmed just before his 13th birthday, and the first such role for Tierre Turner who turned 14 after the filming, and both did go on to substantial subsequent careers. Now Gail Smale, who seemed with her albino look and covered in a nun's habit perhaps the same age, was clandestinely in her twenties.
The story, with conscious progression, reveals the oddities of the children step by step -- perhaps most clearly in Leif's character for example, who takes an odd turn at minute 38 as he makes a curious point of discussing a dress with Taylor Lacher. Later at minute 102 we suddenly recognize that the girl in a mirror shot is in fact Leif when he removes his wig.
NOT your normal killer-kid movie. Pay attention -- it will stretch your imagination.