"Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities"
Roxanne Benjamin's "There's Something Wrong with the Children," being unceremoniously dumped on digital and the newly rebranded MGM+ today, four days after a big horror drop day—look out for Tuesday the 17th!—is a film with interesting ideas that keeps faltering due to shoddy execution. It takes WAY too long to get anywhere interesting—at times, it feels like a script that would have suited an anthology format like "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities" better than a feature's length—and then it races through some of its best beats, eventually allowing them to sink under the weight of behavior that doesn't feel recognizable as human in the final scenes. The midsection of Benjamin's film, when one character knows something is terrifyingly wrong, and no one will believe him, is easily the strongest, turning the common fear of not being ready to be a parent into something literally horrific. There's not much wrong with this film on paper—there's just something wrong with the execution.
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