All Five Bodies Are Gone

Children of the Living Dead Review

Children of the Living Dead

I remember being at a local video store way back in 2005 and coming across a film that immediately peaked my interest. I was completely unaware of just what I was getting myself into. However, the film Children of the Living Dead took me hook, line, and sinker with two words on the cover — “Tom Savini.” I said, “Yep, I’m renting this,” drove home, and eagerly put it in my DVD player.

I’m sad to say that this film was really bad, I mean… really really bad, but after letting it slip from my memory, I bought it recently for a few bucks at a pawn shop. All that I could remember was that I really disliked it, so this time around I went in saying, “Maybe it’s not as bad as I remember…” It’s actually worse.

Tor Ramsey and writer Karen L. Wolf actually have the audacity to suggest that zombies do NOT eat children and one zombie in particular, the strangest chicken walking zombie on earth, Abbot Hayes, sticks around 14 years after the first outbreak to build an undead army and try again. The trickery of throwing Tom Savini’s name on this film makes you think we are getting something the caliber of Night of the Living Dead. Sad to say that Tom gets iced around 10 minutes in and this film takes a huge dive down the toilet.

The acting, editing, and effects are really terrible, even for a direct-to-video film. I can’t get over how bad the sound editing is; It seems like everything is dubbed over and doesn’t match up at all. This is just one of those God awful video store accidents hoping to pull you in with a horror icon’s name and halfway decent box art. It tricked me, so I can’t say too much about it. Hell, I even bought it after seeing it and knowing that it was bad. Shame on me I guess. Although I can try to prevent you from making the same mistake.

Do yourself a favor and skip this one. Save your money for a better low-budget zombie film.

I give this film .5 gravestones out of 5 and only for the Tom Savini cameo.

One Response to All Five Bodies Are Gone

  1. Mathijs Pluijmen says:

    Yep, I do myself a favor and skip this one!

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