One of the very few horror films centred around New Year's Eve, The Children follows two sisters who plan an epic New Year's weekend getaway for their husbands and kids at a luxurious, remote English estate. What was supposed to be a holiday filled with sledding, hot cocoa, snowball fights, and other winter activities, emerges into a weekend from hell after one of the children begins exhibiting symptoms of an unknown illness. As the days go on, the other children begin acting strange, too, and it soon becomes clear that the disease they've contracted is a virus that shifts them into little murders.