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Simply A Masterpiece

i must have seen a different film!!

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

"Children of the Night" has some interesting ideas to update/revamp the vampire mythology, but unfortunately none of it really goes anywhere. The special effects are good and some scenes where the vampires go to sleep in their "cocoon" stage is pretty impressive, but in the grand scheme of things, the cocoon stage has no relevance to the plot and it turns into a routine vampire movie. Several plot points come out of nowhere and the film often feels like it's based on a book that it assumes the audience has read so it skips over important details. You never really get to understand why some people turn into vampires and other don't (do you have to die to a vampire bite? does it take a certain number of drainings?) and other than just stopping the vampires, it doesn't really have anything else going on story-wise. These factors make the plot forgettable and while the special effects are pretty good, some of the acting is bad and plants this firmly as "just another vampire movie". If you're a die-hard vampire fan you might be entertained but it's nothing special at all. Other films have taken just one of the multiple ideas in the film (such as a town being overrun by vampires or a wacky group of misfit characters being forced to combat the undead with rag-tag equipment) and made much more satisfying movie experiences and the ideas that haven't been used in other later films don't pay off so there's not much here to recommend. (On VHS, September 14, 2012)

This movie was pretty hilarious. It wasn't that scary, but was overall pretty enjoyable. It's one of those horror movies that you know are supposed to be scary, but are actually pretty funny. The movie begins with two teenage girls, Cindy and Lucy, deciding to go down to the flooded crypt of the Church (more like a flooded church basement), and deciding to take a swim in there, since that's perfectly normal. While swimming, Lucy's crucifix falls off into the water, waking up the dormant vampire who happened to be sleeping underwater. He rises up and claims Cindy as a vampire, who goes on to infect her mother as well. Lucy escapes. Meanwhile, a schoolteacher arrives in town and tries to help Lucy out, who is now the target of the vampire since she is a virgin. The schoolteacher, Mark, is in town to visit his friend, a priest who is having an affair with Cindy's mother. We find out that the priest has been locking Cindy and her mother up since they became vampires. Now, one strange thing about this movie is the vampires themselves. When they sleep in water, their lungs come out of their mouths and float above the water. It doesn't really make sense, but a lot that happens in this movie makes no sense. Somehow, the majority of the town becomes vampires, except for Lucy, Mark, and a random, drunk, homeless, black man we see throughout the film. The actor's have hilarious ways they say lines, that make you crack up so hard. An example: "For god's sakes! A milk man!" said by the over-dramatic Mark after seeing a vampire milkman. Before I forget, there's also some creepy little boy we see throughout the movie, who says the most random creepy things. At one point this kid starts talking about someone named Mr. Bubbles, and to this day I still don't know who he's talking about. We first see him looking at dirty magazines in the street, and later tells Mark that he has seen everyone in the town naked...this kid was so strange. Towards the end of the movie, the vampire has Lucy, starts to lick her neck, when Mark burst through the door to rescue his underage love. He proceeds to call the vampire a ton of random swear words. The vampire kicks his ass, but never fear! The random homeless black guy burst through the wall in a van, with a crucifix positioned on the hood that goes directly into the vampire's heart, making him die. This movie was weird, but funny. Not that scary though. The dialogue was hilarious and random. I strongly suggest watching this movie because I can't properly describe how ridiculous and hilarious this movie truly is.

Vampire movies are always going to be something, a yawner or a slap on the knees. This movie was a big slap on the knees kind of horror movie, yet, there's plenty of scare factor to go along with it. You got this sleepy town that soon gets a rude awakening when two teen girls encounter a wet tomb where a bloodsucker lies. One of the girls loses her cross swimming, and the cross awakens the vampire. Does crosses keep vampires at bay? For some reason, that one didn't. And the town gets a bite out of everyone, and there's a few people who would fight back: The town drunk, Matty(Garrett Morris), Mark Gardner(Peter DeLuise, "21 Jump St.") and the friend's victim. These friends would prove potent enough to take out the bloodsuckers one by one. Matty maybe loaded, but he's not out of his mind. And Cindy's friend Lucy(Ami Dolenz) wants to get back at the vampire leader. Well the results are good, and then everyone is wondering about having wood stakes in their chests, and the surgeon is like very clueless about what went on last night. And Matty ends up not being the town drunk at all. Too bad the town pervert wasn't spared. He should have never gotten in league of vampires in the first place. This movie was good, and it was fun all the way, I would have to say much about it, that it was different from the others I've seen before. 2.5 out of 5 stars!

Children of the night is the second in a string of 3 movies released by Fangoria films in the early 90's. I remember these movies were pretty heavily promoted to horror fans at the time. The best of these was mindwarp, and the worst one was severed ties. Children of the night falls squarely in the middle and it's kind of a middling movie in general (maybe a bit worse than middling depending on how you look at it).Early in the film there are a few scary scenes and that's why i don't give it a lower rating. It's sort of cheesy all the way through, but in the early going, there is some genuine darkness here and there... Unfortunately it deteriorates into a silly mess halfway through. It tries to be sort of a horror comedy, but it doesn't deliver any laughs. It feels like the director wants this to have a comic book quality and at times it does, but the material would have been better served with a darker treatment. The biggest problem with the film is it's lack of any sort of internal logic. It could have been a pretty entertaining movie, (even with it's undesirable cornball quality) if the plot didn't continually break down on a fundamental level. There are illogical horror films that work (like Lucio Fulci's "Seven Doors of Death") And they work because the whole film has a nightmarish, dreamlike quality... This film never pretends to have that kind of aesthetic. It's a more down to earth movie, and it needed to make sense.A good example of the flawed internal logic.... There is one vampire that seems immune to all the effects of vampirism. She retains her personality and is able to control her evil urges. Her remarkable ability is never explained and it seems that the only reason she was made that way was to allow for the films contrived and illogical ending sequence. All through the film you'll be asking yourself "why are they doing that?" the characters responses to the situations they face make no sense at all and it's so extreme that it's even over the line for a horror movie.so my recommendation would be... Watch this if your a vampire aficionado or a big horror fan, but if you start losing interest in the second half, just go ahead and turn it off... It doesn't get any better and you'll be pleased to see the credits roll