Children of the Living Dead

2001 "Thirty years later and they're walking again..."
2.4| 1h30m| en
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Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town, Matthew Michaels only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface, this small town is anything but calm and peaceful. Firstly, he learns that his new property is located on the site of a graveyard, which all the townsfolk regard as an evil place that must never be visited. He then discovers that years earlier the town had suffered an infestation of the living dead ...zombies who prey on human flesh. One zombie, the infamous Abbot Hayes, escaped destruction. As the construction team begin degging, they unleash the thing the townsfolk fear the most, the wrath of Abbot Hayes and the awakening of ... The Children of the Living Dead.

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ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.
BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See
Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Bezenby In fact, the scariest thing about this film is the names 'Bill Hinzman' and 'John Russo' appearing in the credits. If you've sat through those new bits they filmed for Night of the Living Dead, or their own sequel to that film, Flesh Eater, you know you're in a for a bumpy ride.We open with a posse/police force wasting a whole bunch of zombies just like the end of NOTLD and Flesh Eater, plus Tom Savini quipping and diving around the place like an action hero (pretty badly). He gets wasted by a zombie called Abbot Hayes, who then spends the next seven to fourteen years doing nothing at all.After this long, pointless interlude Abbot gets the hump when a student has a chug on his mum's grave and the next thing you know the kids are wasted, then back up again as zombies, and from then on things get even more boring and uneventful.The main problem with this film is that it's crap. Flesh Eater was also crap, but fun to watch, gory, and hilarious. This one not so much. The story stop starts all over the place, the characters spit out crappy quips, and Abbot Hayes does nothing at all. Nothing! The Majorettes sounds good though - might have to seek that out
masondixonkid This film is terrible. As a matter of fact it's so terrible that you absolutely must watch it! This will have you laughing for the duration of the movie, though it is not supposed to be funny. But I guess that's part of what makes you laugh so hard. The "acting" is almost non-existent and the dialogue delivered without any real conviction. Some of the lines are just the corniest things you will ever hear. The main antagonist, zombie "king" Abbott Hayes, walks like a 70's pimp daddy and mutters guttural sounds and half-hearted shrieks as he comically wiggles his tongue. One may come to the conclusion that the actor portraying him is "special", which may be the case, since this whole "film" could be considered "special". But if that's the case, I guess it would be rude to laugh and point...screw it!! That's all you can do with this movie. It is horrible, but WELL worth watching. Be sure to watch, just don't expect it to be good, expect it to be "good".
ragweedfarmer This movie was so goofy it was quite entertaining. Most of the acting was terrible, with some of the actors obviously trying not to laugh. Tom Savini was terrific for the first part of the movie, but...well I won't spoil it for you. I would definitely like to see him get larger roles.The movie starts out with a bunch of zombies roaming a field with the local yahoos shooting at them. The action leads to a barn where the hero of the movie discovers more zombies and shoots all of them except the head zombie. The movie then shifts to 14 years later when we learn that the head zombie is Abbot Hays, who was executed as a murderer, but the body disappeared. A crooked car dealer buys out the cemetery and starts digging up the graves to put in a new dealership. Hey, none of the locals complained about that? The movie cannot seem to decide whether Abbot Haze is the hero or the villain. Is he protecting the cemetery or just causing mayhem? It makes the sheriff into a heal and then a hero in the end. It makes the crooked car dealer's heal side kick into a hero at the end too.Yeah, people are saying how bad this movie is, but that was what made it fun to watch, but if you want to be scared out of your wits this won't do it for you.
Michael_Elliott Children of the Living Dead (2001) BOMB (out of 4) The film starts off in the late 80s when a serial killer comes back from the dead during a zombie outbreak. The zombies are eventually killed off but flash forward fourteen years and the cemetery is about to be turned into a mall so the serial killer zombie comes back with some of his "children". John Russo produced this film and it's yet another attempt at him to milk his Night of the Living Dead for all its worth. He acted in and produced that film but his career and his partner Romero's career have certainly gone down different paths. This film here contains some of the worst zombie attacks I've ever seen and even the zombies themselves are quite bland and boring. The acting is beyond bad to the point where I was really wanting to claw my eyes out. The legendary Tom Savini appears at the start of the film and he's the only worthy thing going on here so it's a shame he gets so little screen time. The story itself is beyond stupid and at times doesn't make any sense at all but I guess you should expect that from this type of film.