18
Feb
Just read your review. It was very thorough and unsurprisingly - completely right about everything. You hit the nail on the head at the ending. Those photographs had such potential for an amazing, haunting story and we're left with a rich kid's X-Men featuring Doctor Who's Oods as the villains.
lalumieredemelies

See, here’s what I thought the story was going to be like: The “home” was merely a façade for what was actually a Nazi experimental hospital, where they would kidnapped war-orphaned children and basically poke and prod at them to improve their senses and by so doing, improve the Nazi army. But they had to maintain appearances of normalcy because Wales wasn’t exactly Nazi friendly (I’m assuming?), so they would often let the children wander about “normally” so they could interact with one another and the townspeople wouldn’t suspect anything. Then children with natural abilities would come along (also kidnapped) and the Nazis would believe they’d made progress with their experiments when they really hadn’t done anything of the sort.

At least, that’s what MY mind was thinking when I put the phrases “actual vintage photographs” and “Nazi Germany” together.