Scarecrowber: Suffer, Little Children
October 7 - 24, 2024
Suffer, Little Children is not a good movie by any definition…it is objectively poorly made in most ways: direction, effects, pacing, plot...but there is a can-do spirit to all of it, charming the viewer with every cheap sound effect and even cheaper gore gags. Ultimately, Suffer, Little Children wins over the viewer on enthusiasm, chutzpah, and one of the greatest cameos of any film. So it is written. —Dailydead.com
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Written by producer Meg Shanks (who also owned the school that supplied the movie’s child actors), Suffer, Little Children is one of the most unforgettable and immersive shot-on-video horror movies in existence. Combining exploitive “true crime” elements with a hallucinatory aesthetic, the movie purports to be a "recreation" of supernatural events that took place in August, 1984 at an orphanage in Surrey, England. Whether or not these events are true is a moot point. Banned during the UK’s Video Nasty witch hunt and previously only available via VHS bootlegs, Suffer, Little Children is a true bludgeon to the brain—now fully uncut and uncensored for the first time ever.
- Director: Alan Briggs
- Principal Cast: Colin Chamberlain, Ginny Rose, Jon Hollanz, Nicola Diana, Mark Insull
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1983
- Running Time: 76 min.
- Producer: Meg Shanks
- Screenplay: Meg Shanks
- Editors: Alan Briggs, Michael Ellis, Mark Insull, Nick Meier
- Music: Barry Gisbourne-Moor, Ginny Rose
- Filmography: School of Shock (2017)
- Format: DCP