Children Of The Grave

As Entertainment? Yes. As a Factual Paranormal Document? Probably not.
I watched this film last night and let me start by saying this: I think it's very likely that there are ghosts, hauntings, etc., but I am a very "skeptical believer". Back in the late 1800's, during the big "Spiritist" movement, tables were being rocked and floated, seances produced phantom images and voices "from beyond", ectoplasm squiggled into the air from the noses and mouths of "mediums", and about all of it was exposed as fraudulent. These days people are, again, pretty enthusiastic about ghosts and hauntings and speaking with their departed loved ones through some show-biz personality who reels them in like brook trout. The big difference between the old fashioned hoaxters of 130 yrs ago and the new breed of "Ghost Hunters" is that the toys and technology are phenomenal in these times. We can do literally anything we want with film and imaging now in the digital age and one would be hard pressed to discern the "real from the reel".
I saw an error in one of the pictures...

Bullsh*t
I can't even *begin* to say what is wrong with this film. It may contain historical facts about the children. That part is very sad.
What is sadder is how their memory is being used by the Booth Brothers -- once again the children are being abused.
Zero stars aren't allowed, unfortunately...

Worth it for Historic Value
Once again the "ghostly" value of the video is overwhelmed by the historic value.
I had no idea of the institution that housed these poor children. This was a part of history that seems to have been shoved into an old file. Bringing it to light - in my humble opinion - shows us just how bad things were in that era.
Learning about the poor babies who were fed poisoned milk, the little lady who had her doll thrown into the fireplace, the children who were nameless except for a number, buried in mass graves... That's not horror in the ghostly sense, but horrible in the lack of compassion.
The shame of that era is well noted. Train loads of abandoned children shoved into an institution to live out their lives? How sad... how very sad.
I am not sorry I bought this DVD, but it sure doesn't come across as frightening if that's what you're looking for. But man's inhumanity to man comes across with shocking clarity.

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