Children of the Night

1991 "Be home before nightfall... and pray for dawn!"
Children of the Night
4.7| 1h32m| R| en| More Info
Released: 06 September 1991 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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In the quiet little town of Allburg, friends Lucy and Cindy are on the verge of going away to college when they partake in a cleansing ritual by swimming in an abandoned church crypt. After Lucy accidentally drops her crucifix in the water, it drifts down and awakens the ancient vampire Czakyr, who becomes thirsty for Lucy's virgin blood.

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avivafae I usually love bad movies, but this one is so hideous I want to use voodoo on the writer, director, producer, and any channel-heads who deem this viewable for any hour of the day, late-night or otherwise. The make-up is only semi-passable on two of the vamps and is reminiscent of those on "Buffy." The story itself starts by two girls (one a virgin) sneaking into a flooded crypt to go swimming and wake up the old vamp. The old vamp goes around turning everyone he can find. The redneck, small-town vamps then are controlled by the head vamp and thus become somewhat smarter then their humanselves. All the vampires either spend the day in a self-made, water cocoon or in a tub or crypt filled with water. Those who stay underwater have the benefit of upchucking and reswallowing their lungs every twilight. So, the vampires all come after the virgin because the mere scent of her makes them want to have an orgy and the head vamp wants her himself, of course. So rather than "taking care of business," the handsome hero, a teacher 10 years older than her, tries to keep her from becoming vamp chow. It all ends with a badly created special effect in which the head vamp decomposes into a skeleton with pink slime, a truly non-climatic ending to a film that never should have been made. Do not under any circumstances watch this film, it is not worth wasting the hour and thirty minutes on! The only good this movie can do is as a torture device; and then even P.O.W's would complain of it being cruel and inhuman.
FieCrier Two young women go swimming in a flooded church (a neat setting, though it recalls Argento's Inferno). The cross necklace one of them wears sinks to the bottom, somehow reviving a vampire. The vampire is in some sort of hibernation, a state in which its lungs and esophagus are outside of its body! Sometime later, a schoolteacher visits a priest friend who has a vampire captive. It, too, keeps its lungs outside its body. The teacher doesn't want to believe in vampires, but as he tries to help other people finds they are very real.Most of the acting in this film is very, very bad. Perhaps it's intentionally campy, I don't know. However, I did like the flooded church, the weird vampiric hibernation, and a post-feeding scene where a vampire shoots some sort of cocoon out of its mouth that envelopes its body.Not really recommended, but vampire fans might enjoy some of the original effects.
rezahafez eheheh this movie was so stupid, i kinda like it for that . Don't get me wrong, the movie is still bad..not even nearly half good , but the movie introduces many stupid stupid but funny scenes that i found myself hook to the t.v till the credits roll. Apart from the many many stupid scenes I also find myself drawn to the movie because of this one very annoying character.. i don't remember the name but he was the only boy visible in the movie. God talk about annoying, I've always got this problem with annoying kids in a movie..well this kid is by far the most annoying kid I've ever seen and to see him (spoiler ahead) died in a very stupid and funny manner makes me so happy that I have to add 1 * in my originally 2 * rating for this movie.So I end with saying that the only word to describe this movie is cheesy.If you're into that type of movie watch it, if not stay away 3* out of 10
Kristine I love vampire movies. I mean I really love vampire movies. But this was pathetic. It was so cheesy and too many plot holes. I'll admit that sometimes it's good for gory fun, and don't want a plot. But this was ridicules. There was a lot of ways to improve this film, but I don't want this to be an essay.2/10