House of Wax director Jaume Collet-Serra here delivers a stylish shocker that's streaked with morbid playfulness. A couple adopt a nine-year-old girl after their third child is tragically stillborn, but young Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) is not what she seems... Before you can say "Bad Seed", Esther is playing Russian roulette with her younger, deaf sister, threatening her older brother with emasculation and hammering nuns to death. Will mother Vera Farmiga's internet research into "children who kill" make her oblivious husband Peter Sarsgaard finally face the truth about their terror tyke? Thoroughly contrived, this really flips into high-camp gear when Esther's intriguing "secret" is revealed. Even an over-extended finale can't entirely dampen this enjoyably daffy yet suitably sick crowd-pleaser.

After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.