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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)
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- 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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Terrified me and my sister as, well, children
A leak at a nuclear plant releases a toxic cloud that poisons all the kids from Ravensback after their school bus drives through it. The kids end up being like zombies with black fingernails and they cause their parents to melt when they touch them. Jeez, talk about your nuclear family! It is up to Sheriff Billy Hart (Gil Rogers) and local dad John Freemont (Martin Shakar) to stop these radioactive little moppets. I saw this as a kid in the early 1980s and it freaked the hell out of me and my sister. It is such a simple premise (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD KIDS), but the filmmakers pull it off with the creepy kids saying nothing more than "Mommy! Mommy!" or "Daddy! Daddy!" with their arms extended. Also, the method of dispatching them (cutting off their hands) is done really effective and it is rare to see kids the subject of on screen carnage. It is a nice production too, with lots of great rural locations. There are also some really bizarre choices when it comes to the town folk. Harry Manfredini provides a score that sounds exactly like his F13 compositions.
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- Oct 21, 2011
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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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- $400,000 (estimated)
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