Child Eater

10/13/2018

Child Eater is a short horror film about what happens when the monster the kid is worried about is real. It's, uh, not good. The short is later turned into a full-length feature film, and maybe that's better, but this short just seemed to miss the mark. Short horror films can explore unique concepts while really only focussing on that concept and the quality of the cinematography. Themes have to be explored in unique ways due to the lack of screentime. Child Eater decided to cram a bunch of themes into fifteen minutes and really didn't get creative in how they handled pretty much anything. We go from boogie man in the closet who eats eyes, which somehow instantly kills the victim, to nightmares to storks that eat eyeballs and children to a missing child to teen pregnancy to