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3.0 out of 5 stars
IT'S NOT THAT BAD...REALLY, January 18, 2005
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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The Evil Dead of Vampire Movies, January 24, 2009
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.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Uh, yeah!, February 18, 2008
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.
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