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Best movie ever!

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Evil mute girl Elizabeth (a creepy portrayal by Nicola Diana) gets dumped by persons unknown at a children's home located in the British countryside. Elizabeth soon begins to terrorize the other residents of the place with her formidable demonic powers. Okay, so this micro-budget shot-on-video item was clearly shot by amateurs with more enthusiasm than ability, but fortunately director Alan Briggs does still manage to develop a genuinely eerie and unsettling atmosphere while also grounding the premise in a plausibly drab everyday reality. Moreover, the sluggish pacing and rather uneventful opening act is more than compensated for by a gloriously bonkers climax in which a bunch of kids go on a gruesome adult slaughtering rampage before none other than Jesus finally materializes to save the day (!). This film deserves extra praise for its take-no-prisoners attitude: Children are severely hurt, placed in all kinds of danger, bump off several grown ups, and a few kids are even killed themselves. A cool little fright flick.

Had this been done by professionals I doubt I would have given it more than 3. However it has been made by drama students with no budget and limited resources. The story is pretty basic. It takes place in an orphanage. One day a girl named Elizabeth knocks on the door with a written message in her hand. Elizabeth can't speak and is taken care of by the caretakers. Elizabeth seems rather harmless until she is gifted a necklace with a cross as present. This she uses rather effectively to get some of the kids under her control and "accidents" start to happen. There is a lot of rather boring dialogue but the build-up is good, the first accidents are rather tame but at almost the 1 hour mark things really start to get bad. Camera work was pretty effective. I was also impressed with the dream sequence where Elizabeth gets the first 2 kids under her demonic control. The ending well was pretty lame as if they ran out of ideas. The title of the movie is also the title of a song played in the movie at some point, rather catchy I must say.

A mute little girl named Elizabeth(Nicola Diana)comes to Sullivans Children's Home after being left by her mother.The girl seems weird and soon strange things begin to happen.She turns out to be an evil Satanic minion with telekinetic power who raises some hell at Children's Home.Her children of Satan begin to group behind her.It's time for Jesus Christ to show up and destroy the evil...Utterly cheesy and inept horror movie made by the students of Drama School.The editing is horrible,the plot makes no sense and the lighting is amateurish.The acting of children is gloriously wooden and the noisy climax is a laugh riot with Jesus saving the world from evil.If you like low-budget grade-Z trash give "Suffer,Little Children" a look.4 out of 10.

As a teenager back in 1983 who wasn't actually in Meg's drama school but found friendship with the cast. I had a wonderful time being buried and used as a zombie in the nightmare scene - check out the only Zombie wearing a pair of creepers and dodgy socks. The film is low budget, cheap effects, less than scary but was fun to be a part of. If you like B rate movies and enjoy the simplicity of that era it's worth a look (if you can find a copy of it). The location of 45 Kingston Road, New Malden was in fact a run down building being used as a squat. It was quite a scary building on it's own but not because of the cast and crew. The building is no longer there and the site was re-developed a few years later. Of all the cast and crew - Meg's Daughter one Ginny Rose had actually been on TV before so I was told, I think in an episode of Dr. Who if memory serves. But fame found it's way to another involved in the production. Neil Longley, now better known as Neil Long on the Tolworth based Radio Station "Radio Jackie"