Name: The Child
Director: Robert Voskanian
Genre: Horror
Released: 1977-01-01
Duration: 82 min

Let’s play hide and go kill…!

The Child (1977) tells of a young woman who becomes the caretaker for a strange little girl living in a remote countryside home. As eerie events unfold, she discovers the child possesses a terrifying power to summon the undead to avenge her mother’s death. This low-budget horror combines gothic atmosphere, rural isolation, and a haunting sense of supernatural menace.

The Child Blu-ray & DVD editions

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Comparison of The Child Blu-ray & DVD Editions
Disc Extras	Arrow BD-ALL/US 2019	Image DVD-0/US/OOP 2001
Audio Commentary by Director Robert Voskanian and Producer Robert Dadashian, Moderated by Stephen Thrower
Fathers of “The Child” - Interviews with Director Robert Voskanian and Producer Robert Dadashian (12:48)
Zombie Child - Interview with Stephen Thrower (13:13)
Gallery of Horror Drive-In Exploitation Art with Horrorama Radio-Spot Rarities (5:41)
Theatrical Trailer (2:24)
Theatrical Trailer [1.33:1] (2:25)
Theatrical Trailer [1.85:1] (2:25)
“The ABC of Babysitting” (Short, 10:22)
“The Outsider” (Short, 11:43)
Bonus Film: I Eat Your Skin (1971, 79:11)
Original Press Book (PDF)

Edition and Packaging Notes

Arrow’s Blu-ray is included in the “American Horror Project, Volume Two” box set with Dream No Evil (1970) and Dark August (1976). It contains a 60-page booklet with writing by Stephen R. Bissette (“The Gods of the Hills: Dark August and Vermont Folk Horror”), Travis Crawford (“I Don’t Have to Tell You Anything: Exploring the Enigmas of ‘The Child’”) and Amanda Reyes (“I’m Thinking That You’re Not Even Here at All: Exploring Loss, Grief, and the American Gothic in ‘Dream No Evil’”).
Image’s “Something Weird Video - Special Edition” DVD includes trailers for Behind Locked Doors (1968), Booby Trap (1970), The Toy Box (1971), The Mad Butcher (1971), Toys Are Not for Children (1972), Axe (1974), Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks (1974) and Kidnapped Coed (1976).