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Child 442015

Name: Child 44
Genre: Psychological, Survival
Released: 2015-03-15
Rating: 6

“How do you find a killer who doesn’t exist?”

Directed by Daniel Espinosa

6.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.4Rotten Tomatoes 30%Metacritic 41TMDB 6.3

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Year

2015

Runtime

137 min

Box Office

Budget

$50,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$12,951,093

Domestic

$1,224,330

🏆 2 nominations total

The premise

Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

Horror Vault's take

In the iron grip of Stalinist Russia, where the official line insists that murder is a capitalist disease, one disgraced intelligence officer refuses to look away from a mounting trail of dead children. Stripped of his rank and hunted by the very apparatus he once served, he pursues a killer through a society built on fear and enforced silence. Child 44 is a bleak procedural that weaponises its historical setting — the dread here comes not just from a monster in the shadows, but from an entire government machine that would rather bury the truth than admit it exists.

Content: Child Murder Themes, Violence, Depictions Of State Torture And Brutality