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Children of the Night

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1 star:		(2)

 

 

Come now...How can you not like a horror movie which features the talents of Karen Black, Ami Dolenz, Peter DeLuise, and Garret Morris? Well I suppose you can hate it but I actually thought it wasn't that bad and had one very genuinely creepy scene.

Set in a small town called Allburg, two girls Lucy (Dolenz) and Cindy (Maya McLaughlin) visit an old abandoned church. A creepy looking old gothic cathedral. The legend goes that you can actuall swim in an old crypt beneath the church so the girls give it a try. Well, Cindy loses her crucifix as it floats to the bottom of the crypt and awakens a vampire from his sleep and he immediately kills her while Lucy escapes.

Meanwhile a former priest (DeLuise) has heard the legends of the vampires and comes to Allburg to invesigate and runs into Lucy as she is escaping from the vampire. The pair along with the town drunk, (Garret Morris) have to find a way from stopping the vampire from spreading is bite as already dozens of townspeople have been turned into vampires themselves. One of those, played by Karen Black, is imprisoned in the house of another priest who she constantly torments with her taunts and screams.

The acting is nothig to write home about. Black and Morris are both way over the top, but in kind of a fun and b-movie way. The scene in the old gothic church was quite creepy although why ANYONE would ever want to go swim in a mold invested crypt is beyone me. For a change the vampire isn't some sauve, GQ pretty boy but a rather decrepit, pasty faced, demonic looking thing.

Children of the night was no classic but you could do much worse.

I always enjoy watching this movie. It has bad acting (not saying Evil Dead does), especially little Billy the Familiar, but Children of the Night is probably the funniest vampire movie I have ever seen! What sets this movie apart from the other vampire flicks are the vampires that either cacoon themselves of cough up a lung before bed time. It is an interest twist, but I prefer the traditional vampire. If you love 80s early 90s horror movies, then you will really like this movie. Garret Morris is in this movie! It can't be that bad. lol.

Okay, I want to be fare to the others who rated this movie favorably but it just aint that great. But let me qualify for you which vampire movies I really liked. Dracula, with Bela Lugosi; Interview with the vampire, my favorite; Queen of the Damned; Underworld, Kindred, Vampire Journals, Forever Knight... I lament the fact that there are so few good vampire movies. I wish someone would do more movies based on Anne Rice's novels. The church, in this movie, where the girls went swimming in the basement crypt, is in fact a really cool church; I could live there. But swimming in a flooded crypt? Come on man. The vampires looked more like saber-toothed tigers than vampires. Most of them were plain slobs. Whoever heard of vampires meeting in a hunting lodge to play bingo and stuff? Oh, and the grandma vampire...please. That was seriously corny. So was the vampire who coughed up their lungs turning them inside out, outside their body to breathe while they slept. I saw this movie on fearnet and fast forwarded a lot of it. It's a real B movie. I'm really glad I didn't buy it. In my opinion, the best vampire movie to date is Interview with the Vampire.

Stylish Horror/Thriller That Goes Right For The Neck With Good Fashion...Allburg Is A Small, Far From Outer Culture, The Ideal Setting For A Vampire Movie...A School Teacher (Peter DeLuise) Is Summoned To Allburg When One Of His Friends Claims That He Is Holding Two Female Vampires Locked Up In His Bedroom...The Quiet Town Is The Focus Of Vampire Colonization When Each Townsperson Is Playing Host To These Demonic Creatures...The School Teacher, A Wino And A Teenage Girl Must Now Help The Town From Being "Drunken Alive"...Plenty Of Gory Special Effects, And Splendid Acting...

this is without a doubt the worst movie i've ever seen.

the acting is painful, but the set and prop design is oh so much worse.

my favorite is the van and just about everything involving it.

it stretches the laws of physics and common sense to the breaking point.

the climax is amazing.

i have gained a whole new level of respect for tony randel.

A vapire flick that is worth seeing more than once about a small town being overrun by vampires and the humans who are left standing are in the fight of their lives. But in the end good triumphs over evil and the story ends yet doesn't.

The movie itself is questionable on its acting and quality but still something to watch with friends for a unique laugh with interesting comedy (well its funny to us) horror.

Not the best of vampire movies but not the worst kind of vampire movies. It adds a couple of nmew twists to Vampire mythology.

i've watched a lot of horror films. vampire films are usually boring and predictable. i consider the three best vampire films to be: 'dracula' 1932- i think- [with bela], the original 'nosferatu', and 'abbot and costello meet dracula' [or maybe it was frankenstein] but once again bela was in it. '30 days of night' was not bad.
'children of the night' is the best vampire movie that i've ever seen through the first 75% to 80% of the film. then it drops to all of the usual predictability. maybe the original writer died before he could finsh the script. there is a- swimming though a crypt scene [like a baptism to wash off the 'filth' of the town before you leave for college] which is absolutely great. the suspense to see what is being kept in a bedroom on the second floor of the preist's house is really cool. then the- karen black and her daughter- is totally spectacular. the punk that is the vampire's familiar is a little unexpected but very nice.
it's an infestation of a town due to nature releasing the trapped vampire. [much like the book 'salem's lot] and the infestation follows with it's cancer like spreading. but the last 20% to 25% is just the 'same old...' predictablity.
in my opinion: when it comes to vampire movies: 'children of the night' gets five stars for the first 75% to 80% and three stars for 20% to 25%. and that's about 4 and 3/4 stars. rounding off that's 5 stars. most of it is so good.

I love this movie. Not really a horror movie, but like a kids movie. Nothing there to really scare anyone. Very fun movie for anyone. All Great acting and great story. The kid is funnier then heck. Love the town drunk and the cop. lol Karen Black, Peter DeLuise, and Ami Dolenz are all great in this.