The Children (1980 film)
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| Directed by | Max Kalmanowicz |
| Produced by | Max Kalmanowicz Carlton J. Albright |
| Written by | Carlton J. Albright Edward Terry |
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Martin Shakar Gil Rogers Gale Garnett |
| Music by | Harry Manfredini |
| Cinematography | Barry Abrams |
| Distributed by | World-Northal (original) Troma Entertainment (current) |
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93 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Children (a.k.a. The Children of Ravensback) is a 1980 low-budget horror film, written and produced by Carlton J. Albright. The movie is about five children in a small town who, thanks to a yellow toxic cloud, are transformed into bloodless zombies with black fingernails who microwave every living thing they put their hands on. The surviving adults of the town must attempt to put a stop to them.
The film is currently being distributed by Troma Entertainment.
Jim and Slim, a couple workers at a chemical plant in the fictional New England town of Ravensback, decides to call it a day and head for the bar. Unfortunately, a large buildup of pressure leaks from one of the pipes that starts to form a yellow toxic cloud that drifts across the ground. Meanwhile, a school bus is taking children home, after dropping one child off with only five children left on the bus: Paul MacKenize, Jenny Freemont, Ellen Chandler, Tommy Button, and Janet Shore. Suddenly the bus passes through the yellow cloud. Cathy arrives home, but the school bus is detained somewhere.
After Billy Hart, the local sheriff, finds the idling bus abandoned near a cemetery and the children's possessions still on it, he radios his deputy Harry Timmons and Molly, an older woman who works at the local general store and acts as the part-time police dispatcher. Paul's sister Suzie is seemingly a slutty blonde who's only interested in the dopey town deputy, Harry Timmons and tries to seduce him. Billy orders Timmons to set up a roadblock at the intersection of the main highway and the lone road leading into town, recruiting a couple of armed locals believing that the children were possibly kidnapped.
Meanwhile, Dr. Joyce Gould, Tommy's mother's female lover, who's hostile towards the sheriff for no reason goes with him to investigate. She hops on the school bus where she finds Tommy's things on board. She ends up at the cemetery to look for him and runs up to a nearby gravestone and falls over on the bus driver's badly burnt corpse. Soon after, Tommy approaches her to give a him hug. When they embraced, Joyce suddenly screams as yellow steam comes from his hands and burns her alive before he finally releases her corroded body and trudges on.
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