GL84 After years of disappearances around town, the local sheriff finds them all tied to a local legend about a ravenous zombie intent on waging war on humanity and forces the town's survivors to fight off his undead hordes.This here actually wasn't that bad. One of the better elements is the fact that it features a main zombie who has a distinct personality and a sense of intelligence which is a nice change of pace from most zombie films, staying in the shadows while setting out a game plan and knows when to sneak up on victims. This gives it more than a typical zombie film in his behavior, and along with the rather impressive make-up work on the zombies with lots of wounds that get bloodier and more disgusting, and with their rotting, dead look and glaring fangs create some pretty imposing features and makes for an overall effective amount of zombie mayhem. Another big factor here is the action within this one as this features a rather enjoyable amount of action within this. The fact that the film starts off with a big action scene of them trying to knock off hordes of zombies rampaging through the countryside is a big plus, leading to a lot of close-calls and big action as the odds are stacked towards them enough to make them seem like a threat. Other great sequences include the great barnyard encounter as well as the big swarm encounters through town that occur in the later half which really makes for an entertaining time. Along with some fun suspense scenes of the zombies attacking the townspeople in a series of surprise attacks as well as plenty of great bloodshed are the film's good points, while this one here doesn't have too many flaws to it. The fact that it does have some really blatant obviousness in its cheapness is something to get over. The gore and wounds are hardly realistic, especially the finale bloodbath though there are plenty of obvious examples before that and allow for some pretty big examples. Aside from the low-budget, another flaw in here is that the film has a bit of a problem with pacing here, especially in the middle section. This is due to a confusing habit of changing around years, jumping around to different years at various points along the way by seemingly injecting a new scene into the film almost every time it changes scenes. It's not clear why this is done and it's purpose is a puzzling one since it could've easily done so without changing around the years around to make this as confusing as it is. While some out there will decry the new treatment afforded to the zombies' behavior and actions, it's not enough to hold it back like the rest of the film's flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

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.

Tom Jeffrey . . . because that means it wasn't a total waste of celluloid.I am a great fan of bad movies. In fact, I believe that many "bad" movies are not really bad, but just misunderstood, as I've tried to explain in my reviews of other much maligned movies such as "Robot Monster" and "Night of the Living Dead 3D." But this one, in my opinion, is not enjoyably bad, not laughably bad. Just plain bad.The opening scenes with Tom Savini are passable. But when Abbott Hayes makes his appearance, things go downhill really fast. In fact, it quickly got to the point where I could no longer watch this movie. I felt that I had already wasted too much of my life on this piece of trash and could not afford to waste any more.All the negative comments that have been made about this movie by previous reviewers are true. It is total garbage. For the few who enjoyed it, I say more power to you. But as for me, I wish I had read the reviews before investing a half hour of my life that I will never get back.

bobwildhorror Let me put this on the table first: I'm a Tom Savini fan. I was, anyway, until I saw this movie. I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive him this one.Actually, that's not true. As bad as Tom's part is, he has more charisma than 99% of the cast. And when a former makeup man outshines the "actors" in the film, you know what you're in for.Now, I'm not going to be cruel. I know this was a low budget venture. I knew it when the monster showed up with rubber hands. But there's no excuse for some of the plotting. Why is the zombie massacre sequences inserted at the top of the picture, for instance? Is it to give Tom an excuse for his stunt coordinator billing? The story takes place "14 years" after this zombie holocaust, but it's as if it never happened. No one references it again. It's like the filmmakers were 10 minutes short and decided to tack on an unrelated opening sequence. Instead of discussing the hordes of zombies that descended on the area and required hundreds of men to subdue them, all the cast can talk about is Abbot Hayes (a mass murderer who lived in a farmhouse on the edge of town).And how convenient is it for a group of teenagers who drive off a random cliff to get buried in the same graveyard? Oh, sorry...did I say buried? What I really meant to say was that they have their caskets left overnight in a field so that Abbot Hayes can resurrect them. Apparently, in this town they don't believe in interring the dead. They just leave them in a field. I think that's a form of child abuse in some states.Insanity.