Opening with a grand Spanish wedding set in 1981, happiness soon turns to heartbreak for the newlyweds in this Spanish chiller. Finding themselves unable to have children of their own, they adopt a pair of smiling blond-haired youngsters (think Children Of The Damned meets The Omen) from a nearby convent orphanage, whose rather unconventional way of communicating with God, obsession with religion and disturbingly detached bad behaviour has an increasingly unsettling effect. Indeed, religion weighs heavily over the story, as the children believe that their increasingly extreme acts are justified by literal reading of The Bible allied with concepts of sin and the soul. Some questionable parenting aside, this is an adequate creepy thriller with interesting off-kilter performances and that manages a couple of 'look away' moments in the second half, all building to a reasonably hysterical thunderstorm-at-night set finale.
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