The Innocents finds horror in super-powered children

'The Innocents,' Eskil Vogt's new movie about children with special powers, is hard to watch. But the child actors, including Sam Ashraf, are great.

Moral development is a crucial element of childhood, and it so happens to provide fertile ground for horror. The lines between innocence and evil can blur in...

11/07/2021 - CANNES 2021: Eskil Vogt's terrific second film is one of the best horror flicks of recent years and is an instant classic

Eskil Vogt's Norwegian thriller The Innocents shares a title with one of the great haunted house movies, but it's a forgettable game of psychic tyke warfare.

Young kids use their supernatural powers for malicious ends in Norwegian horror The Innocents. Read the Empire review now.

THE INNOCENTS is a Norwegian psychological horror movie with supernatural elements. Also, it demands a lot from its audience. Movie Review >

Eskil Vogt directs a low-tech, high-tension Norwegian horror film starring a cast of children all under the age of 12.

"Boyhood" meets "The Bad Seed" in Eskil Vogt's nuanced portrait of childhood that also happens to feature a lot of telekinetic stabbings.

Film review: A sense of psychic dread pervades this paranormal drama

In the supernatural horror tale, 'The Innocents,' directed by Eskil Vogt, a group of Norwegian children's psychic powers lead to tragedy.

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The kids aren't alright

Four children develop unusual abilities in this wonderfully eerie Norwegian horror movie.

Its story about kids navigating their growing supernatural powers is slow-burn horror

Ben Kenigsberg reviews two films about the creative process, Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island and Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car, from Cannes.

Vogt is the kind of writer who never spells out his themes with clear, underlined dialogue or plot twists. He trusts his audience, giving them ideas to roll ...

It can often be difficult to know when to trust a child; on one hand, we want to believe that children are innocent and good, and will tell us the truth. On ...

Eskil Vogt constructs a whole new playground in compelling Un Certain Regard drama

Norwegian film The Innocents is about bullying, alienation, the extraordinarily powerful emotions of childhood and things often kept secret from parents.

The Innocents, the assured sophomore feature from Eskil Vogt, is a prickly film about childhood morality designed to get under its audience’s skin. It quic...

★★★★☆Finally, a film for grown-up audiences who are sick of watching superhero movies and feel that cinema has been ruined by superhero movies but,...

"Worst Person in the World" co-writer Eskil Vogt finds moral complexity in his unnerving child's-perspective scenario

Exceptional child performers and a superbly eerie yet gritty atmosphere distinguish this darkly satisfying art-house chiller.