To call it a "sleeper" is accurate in more ways than one

Part of the After Dark Horrorfest/8 Films to Die For cluster from 2010, “The Reeds” is essentially “Children of the Corn” (1984) but in the middle-of-nowhere English moor instead of middle-of-nowhere Iowa, cattails and sawgrass instead of corn, rent-a-boat instead of rent-a-car and black-eyed teen ghosts instead of underage redneck religious maniacs.

Maybe I wasn’t in the mindspace for this flick. Maybe I was tired. Maybe I had too much absinthe and donuts… but I was pretty bored. Granted, it’s going to be hard to compete with the two “[REC]” movies I just watched.

The acting, camera, direction etc. were fine, but “The Reeds” wasn’t very entertaining by a long sight. To be frank, I kinda didn’t get it. Did the story really take place or not? Did the six Londoners have to pay for the boat they blew up? What’s with the “ghosts” making a campfire to roast a dog?

A solid “meh.” Doc Splatter barely gives this a C- out of apathy. Should be easy to find on Amazon or Netflix in your neighborhood.