Product Details

• Actors: Tom Savini, Marty Schiff, Damien Luvara, Jamie McCoy, Sam Nicotero
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Live / Artisan
• VHS Release Date: March 26, 2002
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (90 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005NKUN
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,080 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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33 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Yes, It's Another 1-Star Review, April 22, 2008

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Caesar M. Warrington (Lansdowne, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Children of Living Dead (DVD)

As a rule, smart people who are familiar with Amazon's "customer" reviews quickly learn to pour a bag of rock salt over most of the single-starred ones; on the other hand, when they total over half the number of a title's reviews, it's now exception-to-the-rule time. In the case of CHILDREN Of The LIVING DEAD, consider those 1-starred reviews as reliable as Lindsay Lohan's next meltdown.

Why do I loathe CHILDREN Of The LIVING DEAD? You tell me...

-Disjointed plot: The movie opens in the middle of a zombie holocaust where, for some inexplicable reason, children are sitting around unharmed and smiling. Jumping 14 years ahead, the townspeople seem to have forgotten everything that's happened. Plot holes like this are all over the place: One moment its hordes of undead, the next it's unscrupulous used car salesmen, then we have the corpse of a serial killer looking for the teenagers who broke beer bottles on the grave of his dear departed mother--who used to force him as a child to dress as girl (yes, just like that movie, Psycho)!

-No direction: Several times in the movie people are told that zombies can only be destroyed by a bullet to the brain, yet several of them clearly get taken out by body shots. Then there is the pack of rabid zombies who stop short of a diner's large windows, where they calm down to glide their hands over the glass. What was up with that? And, of course, we have the 6-shot revolvers firing 8 or 9 times.

-Deception: Although he is only in the beginning 10 minutes, Tom Savini gets top billing. Savini was the only reason I chose to watch this garbage.

-Amateurish makeup: The zombie serial killer looks like he's wearing a mask bought from a dollar store, while his nose and hands grow with each scene. Any movie "starring" Tom Savini, one of the greatest makeup artists in the business and an FX legend, should never have such low grade makeup/FX.

Savini should've walked off the set, I then never would've watched this garbage. It would've been a better world for us all.

To call CHILDREN Of The LIVING DEAD a bad movie is giving it undeserved praise.

The contents in the seat of a bum's pants have more worth than this movie.

I don't want to give it any stars.

So, if you are thinking of purchasing or renting this DVD don't just take my word for it, feel free to read the 54 out of 80 other negative reviews. You'll thank me later.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THE WORST ZOMBIE MOVIE EVER!!!!, October 22, 2003

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"greatvampirekiller" (LAKE ARIEL, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Children of Living Dead (DVD)

I SAW SOME STINKERS IN MY DAY BUT THIS ONE REALLY TAKES THE CAKE...DON'T BUY THIS MOVIE OR EVEN BOTHER RENTING IT. THE ONLY QUESTION THAT I STILL HAVE IS... WHY TOM SAVINI HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One of the worst independent horror films I've seen, January 6, 2002

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J. Autrey "jimmyplm" (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Children of Living Dead [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have seen a lot of bad low budget horror flicks in my time, but this one takes the cake. The special effects are bad, the plot is non-existant, and there isn't even some decent erotic stuff to make up for it all. This movie reminded me of the old "Revenge of the Living Zombies" movie, but it doesn't even live up to that one. Only watch this one if you are a diehard zombie movie fan.