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The 1980 horror hit, finally available for the first time on DVD! A busload of school kids drives through a cloud of nuclear waste, transforming the innocent children into atomic zombies with flesh melting hugs!
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
It may seem like a nice day for a group of kids on a school bus going home, unfortunately there is a radioactive fog created by a nuclear power plant that gets in the bus's way. It has a deadly side effect which involves changing the kids into deadly pale-faced atomic zombies with black finger nails and if they hug anyone they would literally fry them, the adults start to panic as they must battle these sinister kids into trying to find a way to stop them.
Entertaining and somewhat silly low budget Sci-fi/horror flick with an interesting plot and some shocks. The acting with some of the special effects are kind of bad but the film is a riot and easy to make fun of "MST3K"-style at home, this was one of the highest grossing movies in the summer of 1980! it was discontinued on video for 25 years and has been a hard-to-find flick until now as Troma has finally re-issued this movie on DVD.
The DVD has an ok if somewhat bad picture and sound quality but there's some good extra like audio commentary by writer and producer Carlton J. Albright, introduction by Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman, Trailers to other Troma flicks, Tromadance short, interview with Carlton J. Albright, a featurette, and interview with Gil Roger and Patrica Albright.
Also recommended: "The Toxic Avenger", "Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 and 1990)", "The Crazies", "Beware! Children at Play", " Class of Nuke'Em High", " Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 and 2004)", " The Pit", "Children of the Corn", "Battle Royale", "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie", "Pet Semetary", "Bloody Birthday", "Sleepaway Camp", " Bio-Zombie", "28 Days Later", "Halloween", "Nightmare City ( a.k.a. City of the Walking Dead)", "The Stuff", "Return of the Living Dead Trilogy", "Final Destination", "C.H.U.D", "Slugs" and "It's Alive".
Entertaining and somewhat silly low budget Sci-fi/horror flick with an interesting plot and some shocks. The acting with some of the special effects are kind of bad but the film is a riot and easy to make fun of "MST3K"-style at home, this was one of the highest grossing movies in the summer of 1980! it was discontinued on video for 25 years and has been a hard-to-find flick until now as Troma has finally re-issued this movie on DVD.
The DVD has an ok if somewhat bad picture and sound quality but there's some good extra like audio commentary by writer and producer Carlton J. Albright, introduction by Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman, Trailers to other Troma flicks, Tromadance short, interview with Carlton J. Albright, a featurette, and interview with Gil Roger and Patrica Albright.
Also recommended: "The Toxic Avenger", "Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 and 1990)", "The Crazies", "Beware! Children at Play", " Class of Nuke'Em High", " Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 and 2004)", " The Pit", "Children of the Corn", "Battle Royale", "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie", "Pet Semetary", "Bloody Birthday", "Sleepaway Camp", " Bio-Zombie", "28 Days Later", "Halloween", "Nightmare City ( a.k.a. City of the Walking Dead)", "The Stuff", "Return of the Living Dead Trilogy", "Final Destination", "C.H.U.D", "Slugs" and "It's Alive".
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
What's with the uproar and complaints concerning the picture and sound?
April 28, 2008
By Sunislow
Format:DVD
This short "review" is about the picture/sound quality and other related issues of the 25th anniversary DVD release of "The Children".
Frankly I don't get it. I bought this movie - the 25th Anniversary Edition - on eBay,
in spite of the numerous negative 1 & 2 Star reviews here - for my collection (mostly
for sentimental reasons). I was expecting horribly washed out, blurry images, faded or absent colors, distorted weak sound, lots of pops and scratches, etc... Hmmm... I found none of the above. The film was the same low budget, silly and somewhat unexplained small independent movie, with fine picture, colors, sound and in very good all around condition. I played/watched it on an OK Sony DVD player on my old 27" Panasonic (CRT) television. This is the honest truth: both my wife and I were satisfied with the picture and sound of this DVD. Aside from a few "cigarette burns" (markers) and a few lines here and there, the image quality is just fine.
I'm glad TROMA released it on DVD, since (to date) nobody else has. Sadly it is OOP and hard to find, and I was lucky to secure 2 copies. I've seen many films on DVD that I can't even start to comment on without risking a coronary or brain aneurysm, induced by their transfer "quality"! Some of these are so bad, nearly unwatchable, colorless, blurry mess, that it verges on the criminal! That "The Children" is not among these is the understatement of the Millennium. I was very pleased and glad that I found and purchased this cheesy (in a good way) fairly low key and low budget movie, made nearly 3 decades ago, with its very good all around quality. This is my honest opinion. Hope my remarks were of some help. Laszlo S.
Frankly I don't get it. I bought this movie - the 25th Anniversary Edition - on eBay,
in spite of the numerous negative 1 & 2 Star reviews here - for my collection (mostly
for sentimental reasons). I was expecting horribly washed out, blurry images, faded or absent colors, distorted weak sound, lots of pops and scratches, etc... Hmmm... I found none of the above. The film was the same low budget, silly and somewhat unexplained small independent movie, with fine picture, colors, sound and in very good all around condition. I played/watched it on an OK Sony DVD player on my old 27" Panasonic (CRT) television. This is the honest truth: both my wife and I were satisfied with the picture and sound of this DVD. Aside from a few "cigarette burns" (markers) and a few lines here and there, the image quality is just fine.
I'm glad TROMA released it on DVD, since (to date) nobody else has. Sadly it is OOP and hard to find, and I was lucky to secure 2 copies. I've seen many films on DVD that I can't even start to comment on without risking a coronary or brain aneurysm, induced by their transfer "quality"! Some of these are so bad, nearly unwatchable, colorless, blurry mess, that it verges on the criminal! That "The Children" is not among these is the understatement of the Millennium. I was very pleased and glad that I found and purchased this cheesy (in a good way) fairly low key and low budget movie, made nearly 3 decades ago, with its very good all around quality. This is my honest opinion. Hope my remarks were of some help. Laszlo S.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By PolarisDiB
Format:DVD
This is probably one of the few Troma productions I can call good and mean it unironically. I appreciate the idea behind Troma and always feel good about its very existence, but for the most part they keep to cheesy horror flicks that I just can't take seriously.
This one's pretty good, though. It's one part Village of the Damned, one part Romero, a touch of The Incredible Shrinking Man, and a tad of the usual Troma-tic effects (rubbery burn marks and gratuitous nudity). It follows a story about a bunch of kids who are on a schoolbus one day when it drives through a radioactive cloud, transforming into near-zombie killing machines.
In general it's a creepy and entertaining horror film, very reminiscent of fun 40s horror movies but with a better cinematographer. I actually really liked watching how the filmmakers moved the camera and composed the shots. I think some of the things they did were very original and interesting.
If it wasn't for the cheesy way the kids die and some of the lesser-rounded moments of acting and dialog, I'd say it's a really good film. Heck, as it goes it's one of the more horrifying movies I've seen, merely because it's not overstuffed with thick flashy editing and crazy digital effects, much more willing to linger on a shot of something horrific than just move along and act as if the audience must be sent into an epileptic seizure instead of scared.
At any rate it's made me realize that maybe some things Troma might not be half bad.
Edit: Since the transfer seems like a hot-button issue on Amazon, I thought I'd put in my two bits: The way I understand it, Troma has NEVER had money. Ever. I met Lloyd Kaufman once and he talked a lot about how hard it was to get these projects off the ground and how he wouldn't be able to do it if he wasn't so dedicated about it. And here these people are freaking out because the DVD isn't a pristine print. Listen... I could see the image (even on the poorly lit scenes) and I could understand the dialog. The image and sound are a LOT better than a lot of DVD prints I have seen. Seriously, what do ya people expect, anyway?
It adds to the experience... seriously, like finding an old warped record player in the attic that hardly works and listening through the hisses and pops to what remains of the music on the scratched vinyl. In a bizarre way this is how old horror classics are meant to be seen.
--PolarisDiB
This one's pretty good, though. It's one part Village of the Damned, one part Romero, a touch of The Incredible Shrinking Man, and a tad of the usual Troma-tic effects (rubbery burn marks and gratuitous nudity). It follows a story about a bunch of kids who are on a schoolbus one day when it drives through a radioactive cloud, transforming into near-zombie killing machines.
In general it's a creepy and entertaining horror film, very reminiscent of fun 40s horror movies but with a better cinematographer. I actually really liked watching how the filmmakers moved the camera and composed the shots. I think some of the things they did were very original and interesting.
If it wasn't for the cheesy way the kids die and some of the lesser-rounded moments of acting and dialog, I'd say it's a really good film. Heck, as it goes it's one of the more horrifying movies I've seen, merely because it's not overstuffed with thick flashy editing and crazy digital effects, much more willing to linger on a shot of something horrific than just move along and act as if the audience must be sent into an epileptic seizure instead of scared.
At any rate it's made me realize that maybe some things Troma might not be half bad.
Edit: Since the transfer seems like a hot-button issue on Amazon, I thought I'd put in my two bits: The way I understand it, Troma has NEVER had money. Ever. I met Lloyd Kaufman once and he talked a lot about how hard it was to get these projects off the ground and how he wouldn't be able to do it if he wasn't so dedicated about it. And here these people are freaking out because the DVD isn't a pristine print. Listen... I could see the image (even on the poorly lit scenes) and I could understand the dialog. The image and sound are a LOT better than a lot of DVD prints I have seen. Seriously, what do ya people expect, anyway?
It adds to the experience... seriously, like finding an old warped record player in the attic that hardly works and listening through the hisses and pops to what remains of the music on the scratched vinyl. In a bizarre way this is how old horror classics are meant to be seen.
--PolarisDiB
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Children
Was a good movie and a good classic film if you love classic horror films you might like this movie
Published 8 months ago by Bigboy
5.0 out of 5 stars
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Great grade B movie! It scared my niece and I when we were younger. This movie is never shown on TV for some reason. It's not so scary now, but fun to watch. Read more
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Published on August 16, 2010 by Mike Payne
4.0 out of 5 stars
So Many Hands, So Few Samurai Swords...
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Not as bad as I was expecting...
I read all the reviews from other people before buying this and was pretty nervous about getting the movie. Read more
Published on November 12, 2009 by L. Tapper
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the children
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Published on September 21, 2009 by M. Lemire
4.0 out of 5 stars
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I never thought I'd feel compelled to take the time to defend Troma, of all companies, but here it is: Honestly this is a video release done with love and spunk and genuine... Read more
Published on December 12, 2008 by Charles Hankins
5.0 out of 5 stars
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I can't believe that you have this movie. I've been looking for this movie for years!! I seen this movie about 26 years ago and this is the only movie that actually scared me so... Read more
Published on January 28, 2008 by Mr. Butler
