WHO CAN KILL A CHILD (1976, QUIÉN PUEDE MATAR A UN NIÑO?) – Episode 219 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“I had a shotgun in my room, I grabbed it…but I…I didn’t do anything. No one in the village did a thing, do you understand? Because… who can kill a child?” That’s not a question you want to be the answer to. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out a legendary and infamous Spanish horror film, Who Can Kill a Child? (1976, ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?).

Decades of Horror 1970s
Episode 219 – Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)

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A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.

 

• Directed by: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (as Narciso Ibañez Serrador)
• Writing Credits: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (screenplay) (as Luis Peñafiel); Juan José Plans [novel, El juego de los niños (The children’s game)]
• Selected Cast:
  • Lewis Fiander as Tom
  • Prunella Ransome as Evelyn
  • Antonio Iranzo as Padre (the father)
  • Miguel Narros as Guardacostas 1 (Coastguard)
  • Marisa Porcel as Brit van der Holden
  • Luis Ciges as Enrique Amorós
  • Fabián Conde as Empleado (Employee)
  • Maria Druille as Niña que llora (credited as María Druille)
• Niños (children): Lourdes de la Cámara, Roberto Nauta, José Luis Romero, Javier de la Cámara, Marián Salgado, Cristina Torres, Luis Mateos, Adela Blanco, Juan Carlos Romero, Julio Jesús Parra, Carlos Parra, Juan Antonio Balandín, Pedro Balandín

Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), is a politically incorrect title for a Spanish horror film on a difficult subject directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. The film tells the story of a married couple expecting a baby who travels to a remote island off the coast of Spain for a vacation and finds it almost completely devoid of adults. WTF? WTF, indeed! The direction and cinematography are brilliant and the acting doesn’t miss a beat. The 70s Grue Crew, joined this episode by Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff (yay!), are simultaneously disturbed and impressed by this cult classic and think it deserves a wider audience… if you can take it!

TRIGGER WARNING: The movie begins with ten minutes of newsreel footage depicting the heartbreaking damage done to children by the actions of adults in wars. Many viewers will understandably want to skip this section.

At the time of this writing, Who Can Kill a Child? (1976) is available to stream from various YouTube links and is available from Mondo Macabro as a standard format Blu-ray disc.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Chad, will be Snowbeast (1977), a TV movie written by Joseph Stefano (Outer Limits, 1963-1965) and starring Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Logan, Clint Walker, and Sylvia Sidney. It’s time for a good creature feature/big foot flick, but is this the one? Time will tell.

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