The Children (1980)

Too much of everything

Captivating movie !

Absolutely Fantastic

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

A nuclear waste dust cloud encloses a school bus, and the children become radioactive killer zombies. Almost everybody gets wasted.This picture has got some pretty unbelieving sequences: In one scene, a pregnant smoking-and-boozing housewife yells to her husband: "Don't kill Janey! She's our only daughter!" In another scene, the sheriff is shooting kids through a window. Kinda priceless! The sheriff and one of his co-workers are then trying to stop the kids by cutting their hands off with an axe.The strange plot aside, this picture actually improves as the story evolves, getting more and more fascinating. All in all a decent thriller!

Lame rip-off of "Village of the Damned". Acting was lame, special effects were lame, and the obvious "twist" ending was lame. " I can't believe, I watched the whole thing!" A bit of 70's silliness and nudity livened it up a little, for your inner adolescent. I would regard a repeat viewing, as cruel and unnatural punishment. I guess it could be alright to watch with a rowdy group, if you were all hammered. The soundtrack is quite comical. The manner in which they "dispatch" of the children is extremely lame. "The Village of the Damned" is a masterpiece compared to this pathetic drivel. I highly recommend it, as well as, the book on which it was based, "The Midwich Cuckoos", by John Wyndam.

After a school bus full of children drives through a toxic mist due to the nearby nuclear power plant, the terrible tykes are turned into black-nailed monster whose mere touch corrodes the flesh of their victims. Local sheriff Billy Hart (Gil Rogers) has to protect the townsfolk from their prepubescent wrath.The Children isn't a particularly scary film (ie. not at all), but it IS a fun film and can definite scratch any itch you may have for a cult '80's horror flick and sometimes that is enough to recommend a film. OK acting, laughable dialog, hokey special effects, what more do you want? Give this cult classic a try, you'll more then likely to have a good time with it.Eye Candy: Rita Montone gets topless My Grade: B-

Legendary Drive in Trash horror film about a school bus full of kids that goes through a chemical cloud and causes them to become black nailed little monsters that melt you if they touch you.This movie has to be seen to be believed- however be warned the effects aren't good-there are frequent laughably bad death scenes and the film ultimately isn't very good- still somehow there is something about the film that sticks in the memory-that causes anyone who's seen it to say "is that the one with the black nails?". Not a particularly good film but a classic of its type (what ever that is)-though not one I'd really recommend unless you like this sort of thing.