Karen Tunny is recently widowed. She and her two daughters, Sarah and Emma, move to a remote mountain home in East Bumblefuck, PA which has been inherited from the family of her late husband. What nobody told her was that the home is situated near an old mine, which was the site of an early 20th century tragedy in which many children were buried alive.

I'm not even going to beat around the bush with this one. Here's the good:

The mother and the older daughter were both pretty hot. That is actually the best part of the movie. We got a gratuitous panty shot from Scout Taylor-Compton. Also the gore was pretty good and the zombies gave us some Romero-esque eating. Plus, I did like the concept, but not the execution. That's it.

There's not really much more that can be said about this movie. The bad heavily outweighs the good and we get way too many clichés. For instance: There's the little girl who makes friends with the monster; Townsfolk who know EVERYTHING about the legend but choose to not say anything; Newspaper clippings chronicling everything about the "incident"; and the ubiquitous walking around a dark house.

While the movie gives us a decent atmosphere, it really doesn't do anything with it. It's one thing that I hate about most horror movies today - a build-up to a letdown. There were some attempts at "jump scares," but they were all bad.

Early on in the movie, the mother is told not to go out at night because "they" come out. When local kids come to pick up her daughter, what does she say? "Be home by 11:00." At this point in the movie, there had been obvious signs to take the advice that she was given, but she lets her daughter go out anyway. I think it's just me, but I was bothered when the mother didn't confront her 17-year old about smoking weed. In everyone's defense, the movie takes place in a back-water Pennsylvania mountain town. There's not much to do there except drink and get high, so I'll overlook this.

As I stated above, the gore is pretty decent and we get zombies that actually eat people (and animals) - most zombie movies just have them biting. What's different about these zombies is that they're strictly children, they only come out at night, and they carry mining tools (shovels, pickaxes, etc.) They also don't make other zombies.

While the gore was pretty good, the zombies were not. They were little more than kids with white face paint. A good portion of this movie was very dark and hard to see. If there are any filmmakers that read this review, please realize that "dark" does not necessarily equal "scary." When a movie's that dark, it's more annoying than anything else.

If you ever see this, bring a pillow since it's pretty boring. NOTHING happens for the first half hour and at that point we only get one kill. One hour into the movie, the body count starts to rise, but there's only about 35 minutes left at that point.

I'm giving this a 2 out of 10