During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal mysterious powers. But what starts out innocent soon takes a dark and violent turn in this gripping supernatural thriller.
The Innocents (Norwegian: De uskyldige) is a 2021 film written and directed by Eskil Vogt.
The Innocents is an original and highly tense psychological thriller meets superhero origin story, filled with chilling supernatural elements and uncanny horror. During a bright Nordic summer, four children living in the same housing estate are left to their own devices and reveal their dark and mysterious powers. But when the adults aren’t looking, playtime takes a dangerous turn. The Innocents was written and directed by Eskil Vogt, writer of Thelma, Oslo, August 31st and The Worst Person in the World and director of award-winning Norwegian drama Blind. The Innocents won both the Audience Award and the Critic’s Award at Gérardmer International Fantasy Film Festival 2022.
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Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter called the film “low-tech, high-tension”, writing that “The lonely, uncanny and sometimes unthinkingly violent world of childhood is explored with chilling candor and exceptional skill”. Jessica Kiang of Variety praised the performances of the child actors as well as the film’s atmosphere, calling the film “both a satisfying genre exercise and a minute observation of the process by which young children acquire morality.” Sight & Sound‘s Anton Bitel wrote that the film “uses its genre frame to show the connectedness, curiosity and cruelty of its young characters, and also asks whether the inevitable loss of innocence at this age is a slate that can ever simply be cleaned.”