Watching the Mexican horror film “Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse” be prepared for a film like you’ve never seen before. Chalked full of suspense, horror, comedy with The Book of Revelations and the seven trumpets thrown in made more compelling by superb black and white cinematography, costuming and an adaptive soundtrack.
Salvador (Farid Correa), 17, Oliver (Leonardo Cervantes), 12 and Benjamin (Mateo Ortega Casillas) 7, live in an isolated stone house in a forest without their parents who it is reasonable to assume have perished in the devastating Omega plague along with seemingly most of the world. The defence of vaccine crumbled with the virus mutating ahead of vaccines. The last vaccine backfires creating zombies and look out as if bitten by an infected zombie then zombiedom will be your fate.
The boys have two zombies chained in a cell in the basement they feed with rats and dog meat. Vicious, slobbering and snarling zombies they are. Put two and two together, get the hint, and you’ll guess why the boys are caring for these vile creatures. Whilst you are shivering in fright in your seat a sudden twist into dark comedy will set you off course and before you formulate a thought this diversion is cheesy you are thrust back onto the terror trail.
The two basement zombies are not looking too well (as far as zombie health can be detected) with a diet of rat and dog meat and after feasting on a possible girlfriend for Salvador the boys notice the basement zombies seem quieter, more relaxed and almost thriving and becoming more dangerous than the zombies, the boys go hunting for fresh human meat gruesomely bagging the main course for their basement guests.
A mystic-religious type smashes into the boys’ house spouting stories about the chosen one and sensing the boys are not baptized veers into threatening religious gibberish. The mystic is a bad Mexican villain spaghetti western like character. Your instincts relating to this character are right. Don’t trust him for a minute as he is consumed with the seven trumpets of the biblical Book of Revelations and well all hell breaks loose with sacrifices, stabbing and a vengeful zombie.
A quirky ending. In the beginning of the film the boys recall their father used to say there are two constants in life: family and change. How that makes sense with the ending!
Gruesome, horrific, zombie satirical/humorous, mystical all in a neat horrific bowl of a protein rich breakfast worm smoothie.
Watch the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMPA7Dek0cI
Will be available on VOD 3June2025.
Directed by Isaac Ezban.
RKS 2025 Film Rating 91/100.
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