Horror Short Film “Childer” | ALTER

An introverted mother's worst fears are amplified when she is seemingly stalked by the feral children living in the woods surrounding her home.

“Childer” by Aislinn Clarke

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Horror Short Film “Childer” | ALTER

[znti]

Knew she was crazy the moment she vacuumed grass like c'mon you obviously hand wash grass to get that shine in

[helenscream]

Maybe the childrens are her children...and also killed them, so thats why they said "they were home ....

[rontronimous]

Watched this a few times the past few years and just realized the Post Man saying "Bye now Son" was probably literal.

[inessa]

The five apples floating in the water (symbolising the drowned children) towards the end was a really nice touch.

[arasairam]

vacuuming grass is a whole new level of crazy

[ninelbasilio]

My grass is dirty.. might vacuum it later idk

[Azurmalachite]

I think mark saying "mommy" means he knew what was going to happen because most people (especially children) are at a loss for words when a traumatic event happens and the fact that mark said mommy shows that he knew, probably because the ghosts of the other kids told him.

[Cessdoeschaos]

9:19 I think this shows the cause of their mother killing them. From left to right, messy eating, kissing a frog, unknown(but im guessing from getting hurt), getting his clothes dirty. There's also clues in what greatly triggers her anger such as messy eating, the frog, the child getting blood in the house, and finally the clothes getting dirty.

[PupVex]

Dresses her son as a ghost

Children: *are we a joke to you?*

[birdnerd]

I only just realized that when she says “I’ll make you a ghost” it’s foreshadowing.

[sarahwithanh]

The way she says “I told you not to play with those children” then “I told you not to play with those childer” at the end freaked me out! This was so well done, I love the fact that it doesn’t rely on jump scares, screaming or gore to be scary

[oshayneal]

I like the symbolism of the recurring nightmare that she has that she is being taken by the forest as it represents the children she’s buried exacting revenge on her

[manishamahanandia]

I think she killed the boy because he found out what his mother had done to his siblings. That's why he didn't say much when he came home.. And also the apples that are in the bowl or whatever represent five kids being murdered in the bathtub.. It really scared me! It was brilliant

[laelae]

Anyone notice how the title is the words "Children" and "Murder" morphed into one word?
Oh, just me... Ohkay than

[shroomyk]

"It's nearly November. Why aren't they dead yet?" made me question whether she was talking about the children or the trees (because of the leaves). I like it.

[QVRBL]

This was brilliant story telling and metaphors. The use of representation of the other children being his lost siblings so close but so out of reach for him. The fact that they clearly made the twist clear and hardly up to interpretation was something I can appreciate. I find a lot of short horror is left up to interpretation, which is fine. But having a clear cut twist is refreshing.

[angelmeat]

Who didn’t flosh the toilet after they’ve had their SHET?

It wasn’t me

Well it was fokin of of yus!


D I S G U S T A N G

[BeornDeMirkwood]

"Fine, I''ll be a ghost."
You didn't know how right you were.

[charlotteeee]

In the beginning when the boy was eating he was actually so clean tho like most kids aren't that good at eating without making a mess😂 also it hurts to see him apologize so frightened at his mother for getting upset about the food because she treated him unfairly

[jaynoir]

My take on this was what everyone else’s was but I was surprised nobody talked about what bobbin for apples also means in Druid history. When you cut open an Apple it has a pentagon(in a sense) and they use to do “bobbing” for apples in a ritualistic way where during Halloween they sacrificed people. I don’t recall what for but it seems the same way in this story. She must’ve killed each kid near Halloween as a sacrifice, but also because their dirty? If you notice on the calendar there’s a cut open Apple where you can see the seeds. 5 seeds. 5 children murdered. Idk the correlation but I found it interesting.