Short Film: Child Eater

"Child Eater" directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen

Child Eater is a genuinely scary short horror film is a story about a terrifying local urban legend.  The legend concerns a Robert Bowery, the once-proud owner of a beloved petting zoo.  After falling ill, Bowery is said to have stalked children, eating their eyes to keep from going blind.  When ten year-old Lucas' family moves into the old house a short walk from the zoo, he lives in mortal terror that he'll be the next victim. 

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"Child Eater takes place over the course of one very long night. Helen isn't thrilled about babysitting little Lucas and it certainly doesn't make it any easier that he's convinced he hears breathing coming from his closet. But it's just his imagination, right?

When Helen goes upstairs to check on Lucas late at night, she's shocked to find an empty bed. Lucas is missing … and his closet door is wide open. Now she's got no choice but to follow his trail deep into the woods, the same woods where, decades earlier, an infamous serial killer preyed on children and ate their eyes in order to keep himself from going blind.

Needless to say, Helen is in for quite a ride ... "

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