LMFAO!! This was fantastic!! Radioactive zombie children that hug you to death? What more could you ask for?
The acting is admittedly not this films strong suit, but they more than make up for it with creepy kids and a BRILLIANT scene with a shotgun!
The Children
...thank God they're somebody else's!
Rating
3.0 (1)
Release Date
6/13/1980Runtime
93 minsGenres
Overview
A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
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How It Feels
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A grimly efficient B-movie about innocent children transformed into unstoppable killers by radiation, bleak and pulpy, with practical gore and a fatalistic view of nuclear-age paranoia. It's horror about helplessness against uncontrollable forces, played entirely straight.
Mood
Dread-soakedTenseUnsettling
Themes
CorruptionSurvivalComing apart
Tone
Matter-of-fact
Pacing
Propulsive
Look
NaturalisticPractical effects
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violenceChild endangerment
Martin Shakar
John Freemont
Gil Rogers
Sheriff Billy Hart
Gale Garnett
Cathy Freemont
Shannon Bolin
Molly
Tracy Griswold
Deputy Harry Timmons
Joy Glaccum
Suzie MacKenzie
Jeptha Evans
Paul MacKenzie
Clara Evans
Jenny Freemont
Sarah Albright
Ellen Chandler
Nathanael Albright
Tommy Button
Julie Carrier
Janet Shore
Edward Terry
Hank
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