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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SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
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
a_baron If you can sit through this one without a break, it isn't only the zombies who are dead. This awful film begins with a pitched battle: the good guys against the zombies, the most significant scene being when a group of frightened kids are found cowering in a barn. After they are rescued, fourteen years roll by in the blink of an eye, and a group of teenagers are killed in a motor accident that is more motor than accident after a zombie runs out into the middle of the road in front of their van.Can it get any worse? How about a couple of grave-robbing grave diggers, and the disappearance of the five bodies from the cemetery? The zombie who caused the fatal motor accident is Abbott Hayes, a fictional Ted Bundy with more than a passing resemblance to Freddy Krueger. Hayes was murdered in prison, but now he's back. "Children Of The Living Dead" is one of a series of sorts, although most reviewers agree it is one of a kind.
Jared Teer This movie was awesome! Sure, it was intended to be serious, but if you take it seriously you will miss out on a really good time. I would expect "preppy prics" to talk crap about this movie, but not real horror fans.I think part of the entertainment in horror films (those before CGI) is making good humored fun of their attempts to make things look good without modern special effects. Also, who watches horror movies to see a picture that meets the standards of "best picture of the year?"Basically, this movie is full of the kind of laughs you get when you notice a stunt double that is obviously not the main actor. Or the kind of laugh you got from 80's movies when it was obvious that a dummy was used in an explosion scene, like in Commando.This movie is CLASSIC! Who can't appreciate the hilarity in Abbott Hayes picking up Hughs and supposedly running his arm through him, when actually his arm was obviously on the side of Hughs's body? THAT WAS CLASSIC!How about the guy in the ending "battle" that seemed to be casually tossing TNT, who then accidentally threw a stick in his own car and blew himself up(not to mention the voiced over "Oh crap" he said with his mouth closed)? CLASSIC!How about during the battle when the chick was getting chased in the diner by like 6 zombies and the sheriff comes in and shoots twice and kills them all? CLASSIC!I suggest you guys get over yourselves, have a good humored friend over, have a couple beers, and appreciate this movie.
Socar-1 My interest was peaked when a friend and I came across this title at the video store. Thinking that we had seen every Zombie movie known to man, we, of course, snatched it right up. In the opening scenes we saw a familiar face, the infamous, Tom (Sex Machine) Savini. That, unfortunately, was the end of any excitement.With a title like "Children of the living dead" I expected to see Baby Zombies, little kid Zombies, or even a freak-tastic Zombie sex scene. But, to all disappointment, there was none of the above.Being that Savini is a Modern day Make-up Mastermind, I feel robbed and betrayed by this film.Abbot Hayes (Main Zombie) was portrayed an almost "Freddy Kruger" of the living dead as he kept coming back to kill a small group of children who got away years before. The camera work sucked, the actors were under-trained, and most of the special effects were probably done by my 8 year old son.If the only contribution in my life has been to stop anyone else from seeing this film, then it was a success of immense proportions. Please save your self in true "Living Dead" style and Shoot yourself in the head before being subjected to this horrible tragedy. I would rather watch a 30 day loop of Gremlins 2.