Or maybe it’s a rhetorical question. Anyway, we’re kidding, because if we were willing to kill children, we’d have to start with ourselves. This 1976 film, which discussed the dilemma of child murder much more grippingly than you’d expect for a low budget potboiler, was originally a Spanish production called ¿Quien puede matar un niño? Basically, a couple end up stranded on an island of possessed, homicidal children. There used to be other adults there, but they’re all dead as the film opens because—you guessed it—they dared not kill a child. Wimps.
On a side note, various web sources claim there’s a curse associated with this film. Allegedly, a dozen of the cast members—including lead actress Prunella Ransome—died within six months of each other. We’re highly dubious of that claim, and a quick scan of IMDB confirmed only three deaths around the same time. That doesn’t mean the curse legend isn’t true, but we’re too lazy to do the heavy research on this today. We’ll look into it later, maybe.
