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Child Eater

Russian title: Пожиратель детей
Original title: Child Eater

Horror movie – USA, Iceland
Production year: 2015
Movie length: 82 minutes

Director: Erlingur Thoroddsen
Writer: Erlingur Thoroddsen
Cinematograph: John Wakayama Carey
Music: Einar Sv. Tryggvason

Movie description:

A simple night of babysitting takes a horrifying turn when Helen realizes the boogeyman really is in Lucas’ closet.

Helen is babysitting a small boy in an area shadowed by the myth of Robert Bowery, said to eat the eyes of children to ward off his own blindness. Layered over that is the myth of a black stork who lures children out of their beds at night, pecks out their eyes, and then eats them. The boy Helen is babysitting, Lucas, inexplicably walks off into the woods while she’s babysitting him, and then Helen and her boyfriend Tom follow, and all three are stalked by Robert Bowery, a monster who inhabits the border between man and myth. The feature adds another character,
Ginger who is, as she says, «the one who got away», a former child victim of Bowery’s who es-caped and who now seems mostly to wander crazily around the woods...

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