have spend all of her money caring for her terminally ill spouse and recently widow karen tunny ( lori heuring ) move with her two daughter sarah ( scout taylor compton ) and emma ( chloe moretz ) to her late husband run down family home in rural pennsylvania and where local legends speak of zombie who roam the wood at night . just see the name of this film writer and director in the opening credit be enough to send shiver up my spine represent boaz davidson be the genius responsible for pen the script for such stv title a octopus 1 and 2 and spider and crocodile and whilst j. s. cardone give u the godawful video nasty the slayer and dull vampire flick the forsaken . with such dubious talent responsible and i do not expect much from wicked little thing . and have just finish the film and i be glad i keep my expectation low . although the movie look good at time and with lovely use of the eerie woodland locale and and the cast give reasonable performance give the clichéd drivel that they be work with and the plot be so laboured and poorly write and and derivative that it impossible to be enthusiastic about . most importantly and perhaps and the film killer and undead child who rise each night from the mine in which they die and aren not in the least bit scary and a smudge of makeup and black contact and some crappy joke shop scar do very little to add to the sense of menace . scout taylor compton and company do their best to look afraid of the tiny terror and scream convincingly with every confrontation and but their admirable attempt to instill a sense of fear in the audience be to little avail represent the little blighter just ain not get what it take to chill the blood . there be a few lacklustre zombie chow scene in a futile bid to win over gore hound and and the final kill and which see the victim blood drench both compton and heuring and be suitably tasteless and but on the whole and wicked little thing ( aka zombie in the uk ) be instantly forgettable trashjust another clunker in the filmographies of cardone and davidson .