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In 1913, in Carlton, Pennsylvania (shot in Bulgaria), the cruel owner of the Carlton mine exploits poor immigrant children. After an explosion, a large group of the children are buried alive. In the present day, Karen Tunny has just lost her husband after a long period of terminal disease and has inherited her husband's home near the since-abandoned Carlton Mine. She moves to the house with her daughters Sarah, a teenager, and Emma, who is younger.
 
The three stop by the local market for supplies and is told by Walter, the shop keep, that he doesn't deliver to the area they live in. Returning to the road, Karen has a near miss with a man crossing the road. She exits the car, looking for the man and he's nowhere to be found. They soon arrive at the house and Sarah points out the blood on the door while Karen declares it's just "paint." Emma runs up the stairs looking for her new room, while Karen heads to the basement looking for the circuit breaker and Sarah checking if the water is up and running.
 
Sarah meets a couple of teenagers around her age, and mentions to them that she lives up in the hills, and one replies, "Up where the zombies are?"
 
Emma hears the children giggling and leaves the house following the giggling. Karen goes out looking for Emma and finds her upon entering an old mine. As they try to find their way back to the house, it becomes nightfall and they get lost. They find a house, which is occupied by Hanks, and enter. Karen is advised by Hanks to stay at home during the night, and he also tells her that there is no need to thank him for the blood smeared on his and the Tunny's door.
 
William Carlton, the last surviving heir of the Carlton estate, which owned the mine in 1913, and still does, is hungrily devouring property and kicking people off his own property, which he claims goes from the mine to Addytown.
 
Meanwhile, the zombie-like children begin to kill, which is dismissed among the community as disappearances; though it is hinted that most of the community is aware of the presence of the "children".
 
As it turns out, the Tunny's and Hanks, who leaves animal sacrifices for the apparently cannibalistic children, are all relatives of the zombie-like children, who ignore blood relatives, while killing all others. Emma, who has had friendly contact with a less violent zombie named Mary, informs her mother that the "zombies won't eat me" and that Mary would not directly hurt her mom (who is not a direct Tunny blood relative), but passes on the warning that the other children might. Karen finds some old family photo albums in the basement that contain pictures of her late husband, as well as the Tunny and Hanks children who died in the mine disaster, thus revealing that the family is related to some of the children who died.
 
Karen and Sarah leave the house to go look for Emma. As they exit the mine, not being able to find Emma, they become surrounded by a dozen of the children. They escape, with the children pursuing, and find a car on the road passing through with Carlton inside, and enter, telling him to drive, but the tires are slashed before they can pull away. Karen and Sarah run to the Hanks house unsure of what to do. Soon enough, Karen figures out that Hanks blood has a supposed repellent effect on the zombie children. As both Hanks and Carlton attempt to shoot the children, they realize the bullets are ineffective, and run to the barn. Hanks realizes that as he and Emma are direct blood relatives, it turns out Mary has an older brother that's also a Tunny, and Karen is in some way protected by Emma's relationship with Mary. The children are really after Carlton, as they blame his family for the mining accident that killed them. After Carlton is killed by the children, Emma remarks that "they won't be hurting anyone anymore".


Dolby Digital 5.1 in Deutsch
Dolby Digital 5.1 in Englisch
DTS Digital 5.1 in Deutsch