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A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.
Michelle La Mothe
- Dr. Joyce Gould
- (as Michelle LeMothe)
John P. Codiglia
- Jackson Lane
- (as John Codiglia)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Children, made in the same year as Friday the 13th (1980), has the same composer asFriday the 13th (1980).
- GoofsAll entries contain spoilers
- Quotes
Dr. Joyce Gould: I just don't know how Leslie's gonna take it when I tell her Tommy's missing.
Sheriff Billy Hart: Don't tell her.
Dr. Joyce Gould: ...That's one way to deal with it...
- Crazy creditsNo music is played over the credits.
- Alternate versionsThe Vinegar Syndrome release of this film features an additional scene set in a diner in which the sheriff speaks to a waitress.
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WHAT THE HELL?!?. . .
This is one of those movies that is like an idiot step-child--it's totally moronic but still strangely hard to dislike. When so many horror movies are so transparently and unimaginatively exploitative, it's refreshing to see a movie so ludicrous and completely off-the-wall that god only knows WHAT it's trying to exploit. Is it trying to prey on every parent's fear that their lovable moppets will turn into radioactive zombies? Is it trying to make an environmental statement about how nuclear waste will turn children's fingernails black and make them kill every adult they touch? Is it trying to impress the gorehounds with its incredible special effects (i.e. dry ice and black fingernail polish)? Someone ought to put this movie, "The Carrier" (1987), and "The Pit" (1982)all on a single DVD compilation and call it "WHAT THE HELL?!..." or something like that. I'd definitely buy it.
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- lazarillo
- May 9, 2004
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- Also known as
- Kinder des Todes
- Filming locations
- Aston Magna House, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA(The Shore family home)
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- Budget
- $400,000 (estimated)
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