What age rating is Who Can Kill a Child??

In Spain, Who Can Kill a Child? is not recommended for children under 18 years old.

When does Who Can Kill a Child? come out in Spain?

Who Can Kill a Child? hits Spanish theaters on April 26, 1976.

Who Can Kill a Child?

Name: Who Can Kill a Child?
Director: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: 1976-04-26
Duration: 1 h 52 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo, Miguel Narros, María Luisa Arias

1976

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Release Date

26/04/1976

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Tom and Evelyn are an English-speaking tourist couple who take a vacation before the birth of their third child. At first, a TV documentary they watch together shows real footage of adults abusing children during wars and famines, while the opening credits roll over those images. Then the couple arrives at Almanzora Island, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, planning to relax. There they find a small fishing village where there seem to be no adults. There are only children, with serious, silent faces, who watch them without looking away. Tom and Evelyn begin to sense that something is not right in this place.

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Facts about Who Can Kill a Child?

Releases, age ratings, box office, post-credit scenes and more.

Post-credits sceneNone

Age ratingNot recommended for viewers under 18 years old

Spain releaseApril 26, 1976

Runtime1 h 52 min

Original LanguageSpanish

CountrySpain

Production companiesPenta Films

Based onNovel or book

Trailer views40K

More ratings

3.8/5Letterboxd70/100Trakt

Awards for Who Can Kill a Child?

2total awards

2total nominations

Who Can Kill a Child? Cast

Lewis FianderTom

Prunella RansomeEvelyn

Antonio IranzoCrying Child Father

Miguel NarrosCoastguard

María Luisa Arias

Marisa PorcelBeach House Mother

Juan Cazalilla

Luis CigesPostman Enrique Amorós

Antonio Canal

Aparicio RiveroMale Nurse

Fabián CondeCamera Shop Clerk

Andrés Gómez

Maria DruilleCrying Child

Lourdes de la CámaraChild

Roberto NautaChild

José Luis RomeroChild

Javier de la CámaraChild

Marian SalgadoChild

Cristina TorresChild

Luis MateosChild

Adela BlancoChild

Juan Carlos RomeroChild

Julio Jesús ParraChild

Carlos ParraChild

Juan Antonio Balandín Jr.Child

Pedro BalandínChild

Chicho Ibáñez SerradorMan Next to the Bus (uncredited)

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Cast of Who Can Kill a Child? by the numbers

44average cast age in years

5years of age gap between the leads

33%women in the cast

10%women in the crew

The youngest in the main cast: Marisa Porcel, age 32 at release. The oldest: Juan Cazalilla, at 60.

Cast ages at release

Lewis Fiander38 years old
Prunella Ransome33 years old
Antonio Iranzo45 years old
Miguel Narros47 years old
Marisa Porcel32 years old
Juan Cazalilla60 years old
Luis Ciges54 years old
Antonio Canal40 years old

Crew

AddressChicho Ibáñez Serrador
WritingChicho Ibáñez Serrador
Original novelJuan José Plans
MusicWaldo de los Ríos
PhotographyJosé Luis Alcaine
EditingAntonio Ramírez de Loaysa, Juan Serra
Production designRamiro Gómez
Visual effectsSixto Rincón

Trivia about Who Can Kill a Child?

The film is based on the novel El juego de los niños by Juan José Plans, but the screen adaptation was written by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador under the pseudonym Luis Peñafiel.

At the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival in 1977, Ibáñez Serrador received the critics' prize for this film.

Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide gave it three out of five stars and called it perhaps the best variation on an enduring horror theme.

Over the years it has built a cult following. Slant Magazine ranked it at number 86 on its list of the 100 greatest horror movies of all time.

In 2012, Come Out and Play premiered, a Mexican remake that follows the plot of the original very closely.

In Spain it drew 868,396 viewers and grossed 380,557.32 euros, according to data published by the Filmoteca on its commercial run.

The film had a heavily censored U.S. release under the title Island of the Damned, a version that cut material from the original work.

In 2026, the Sitges Film Festival announced a new 4K restoration by Radiance Films to mark the 50th anniversary, with its world premiere at the festival.

Sources: Wikipedia (English) · Wikipedia (Spanish)

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