Lost Child

Sep 14, 2018

1h 45m

★ 5.5

Overview

An army veteran discovers an abandoned boy lurking in the woods behind her childhood home. After taking in the boy, she searches for clues to his identity, and discovers local folklore about a malevolent life-draining spirit that comes in the form of a child: The Tatterdemalion.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Varient

Green Hummingbird Entertainment

Laundry Films

Lost Child Trailers

Cast

Fern

Leven Rambin

Billy

Taylor John Smith

Mike

Jim Parrack

Cecil

Landon Edwards

Fig

Kip Duane Collins

Florine

Toni Chritton Johnson

Foster Care Mother

Debbie Sutcliffe

Lyle

Shane Davis

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