Product Details

• Actors: Tom Savini, Marty Schiff, Damien Luvara, Jamie McCoy, Sam Nicotero
• Directors: Tor Ramsey
• Writers: Karen L. Wolf
• Producers: John A. Russo, Joseph Wolf, Karen L. Wolf
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Live / Artisan
• DVD Release Date: October 9, 2001
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (86 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005NKSE
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #37,565 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
The plague continues…When Matthew Michaels arrives in a rural town in Pennsylvania to fulfill his father's wishes of developing a small, seemingly innocent piece of land, it marks the beginning of a horrifying phenomenon. The land is an old cemetery and those buried there are awakened and begin to walk the earth once again. Now, the hunt is on, as the living dead stalk their prey, arising from the shadows and terrorizing and killing the townspeople. And with the taste of human flesh in their mouths, the hunger of the deadly zombies intensifies. Your worst fears have just become a reality. Pray for a quick death.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars More desecration of the canon., April 1, 2008

By	Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Children of the Living Dead (Tor Ramsey, 2001)

Oh, how could you? Three of the principals from the original Night of the Living Dead-- John Russo (who produced), William Hinzman (cinematographer; his daughter appears in the film), and Tom Savini (who stars)-- came together to create this godawful offshoot of Romero's pictures, if offshoot it can be called. I'm not even going to offer you a plot summary on this one; the offenses to canon are even worse here than those in Day of the Dead 2: Contagium. Karen Wolf's script should have been published, as Melville once put it, only to the flames. Some of the acting is competent; most, to be kind, is not. Ramsey's direction is okay some of the time, terrible some of the time. (To be fair, it seems much of the problem lay with Wolf and Russo; according to IMDB, they lorded many crew hiring decisions over him, as well as recutting the final film without any input from him at all.) Technically, the film's a mess; the lighting and soundtrack are horribly inconsistent, the makeup is awful (how on earth did Tom Savini make this movie and have nothing to do with the makeup? Brilliant move, guys), the special effects are, shall we say, not so special. Avoid this one unless you need a reason to throw things at, or through, your TV. *

32 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Caesar M. Warrington (Lansdowne, PA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.