Product Description

Transformed into atomic zombies after their school bus drives through a cloud of muclear waste the children return home to their parents & melt the skin from their bones with deceptively sweet radioactive hugs. Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 11/08/2005 Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65932 in DVD
• Brand: Ff
• Released on: 2005-11-08
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

So bad it's good!
It may seem like a nice day for a group of kids on a school bus going home, unfortunately there is a radioactive fog created by a nuclear power plant that gets in the bus's way. It has a deadly side effect which involves changing the kids into deadly pale-faced atomic zombies with black finger nails and if they hug anyone they would literally fry them, the adults start to panic as they must battle these sinister kids into trying to find a way to stop them.

Entertaining and somewhat silly low budget Sci-fi/horror flick with an interesting plot and some shocks. The acting with some of the special effects are kind of bad but the film is a riot and easy to make fun of "MST3K"-style at home, this was one of the highest grossing movies in the summer of 1980! it was discontinued on video for 25 years and has been a hard-to-find flick until now as Troma has finally re-issued this movie on DVD.

The DVD has an ok if somewhat bad picture and sound quality but there's some good extra like audio commentary by writer and producer Carlton J. Albright, introduction by Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman, Trailers to other Troma flicks, Tromadance short, interview with Carlton J. Albright, a featurette, and interview with Gil Roger and Patrica Albright.



Also recommended: "The Toxic Avenger", "Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 and 1990)", "The Crazies", "Beware! Children at Play", " Class of Nuke'Em High", " Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 and 2004)", " The Pit", "Children of the Corn", "Battle Royale", "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie", "Pet Semetary", "Bloody Birthday", "Sleepaway Camp", " Bio-Zombie", "28 Days Later", "Halloween", "Nightmare City ( a.k.a. City of the Walking Dead)", "The Stuff", "Return of the Living Dead Trilogy", "Final Destination", "C.H.U.D", "Slugs" and "It's Alive".

What's with the uproar and complaints concerning the picture and sound?
This short "review" is about the picture/sound quality and other related issues of the 25th anniversary DVD release of "The Children".
Frankly I don't get it. I bought this movie - the 25th Anniversary Edition - on eBay,
in spite of the numerous negative 1 & 2 Star reviews here - for my collection (mostly
for sentimental reasons). I was expecting horribly washed out, blurry images, faded or absent colors, distorted weak sound, lots of pops and scratches, etc... Hmmm... I found none of the above. The film was the same low budget, silly and somewhat unexplained small independent movie, with fine picture, colors, sound and in very good all around condition. I played/watched it on an OK Sony DVD player on my old 27" Panasonic (CRT) television. This is the honest truth: both my wife and I were satisfied with the picture and sound of this DVD. Aside from a few "cigarette burns" (markers) and a few lines here and there, the image quality is just fine.
I'm glad TROMA released it on DVD, since (to date) nobody else has. Sadly it is OOP and hard to find, and I was lucky to secure 2 copies. I've seen many films on DVD that I can't even start to comment on without risking a coronary or brain aneurysm, induced by their transfer "quality"! Some of these are so bad, nearly unwatchable, colorless, blurry mess, that it verges on the criminal! That "The Children" is not among these is the understatement of the Millennium. I was very pleased and glad that I found and purchased this cheesy (in a good way) fairly low key and low budget movie, made nearly 3 decades ago, with its very good all around quality. This is my honest opinion. Hope my remarks were of some help. Laszlo S.

The Children
It ain't Shakespeare, that's for sure. The only way to watch the piss-poor supposed re-mastering of The Children is Mystery Science Theater-style with a batch of mixed drinks and a group of friends who all share a fondness for bad cinema. The tacky late-70's/early-80's fashions are a hoot though...and a pregnant character huffing on a cigarette sent us into hysterics. This review is strictly for rental purchases only. Troma blatantly lied about the quality of this release and anyone foolish enough to purchase a copy after reading the last couple of reviews, deserves to lose their money.