About the film
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
- Directed by
- Tom Shankland
- Released
- December 5, 2008
- Certification
- R
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Starring
- Eva Birthistle, Hannah Tointon, Stephen Campbell Moore, Rachel Shelley, Jeremy Sheffield, Rafiella Brooks, Jake Hathaway, William Howes, Eva Sayer
- Language
- English
- Studios
- Aramid Entertainment, Barnsnape Films, BBC Film, Vertigo Entertainment, Screen West Midlands
- Written by
- Tom Shankland
- Produced by
- Allan Niblo, James Richardson, Nigel Williams
- Cinematography
- Nanu Segal
- Music
- Stephen Hilton
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