Just perfect...

It is a performances centric movie

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

This is a classic Troma movie, so bad you can't help but watch it. With soundtrack taken from Friday the 13th and a ton of cheap special effects it makes you at first assume it's not worth the trouble to view. But it's not too bad and not a total waste of time.It starts out at a chemical factory of some sort; two nimrod employees are thinking more about going to the bar than doing their job. Without noticing, they let loose a cloud of yellow gas that drifts towards an unsuspecting New England town, and this gas has no effect on adults but somehow gives children the ability to nuke people just by touching them. A town sheriff starts searching for a group of the kids that vanished from a bus on the way back from school, and we meet the parents of these kids, including a heavily medicated lesbian couple, a famous model who has a pimp and frequently gets stoned with her husband, and an average couple, a cop and his pregnant wife, both of whom have another kid, named Clarkie. It isn't long before the sheriff discovers the murder victims, some of whom include a guard dog, a kid's teenage sister and the missing bus driver. Soon he teams up with the couple to stop the strange mutant children before it's too late.Well, one thing can be said for it, at least for the factory they used a real factory and not stock footage the way some horror films do. The acting of the kids wasn't too bad; they pulled off some extremely creepy faces at times, and it's not that bad of a movie. If you want something fun to watch, this is a good one.

Lame rip-off of "Village of the Damned". Acting was lame, special effects were lame, and the obvious "twist" ending was lame. " I can't believe, I watched the whole thing!" A bit of 70's silliness and nudity livened it up a little, for your inner adolescent. I would regard a repeat viewing, as cruel and unnatural punishment. I guess it could be alright to watch with a rowdy group, if you were all hammered. The soundtrack is quite comical. The manner in which they "dispatch" of the children is extremely lame. "The Village of the Damned" is a masterpiece compared to this pathetic drivel. I highly recommend it, as well as, the book on which it was based, "The Midwich Cuckoos", by John Wyndam.

A radioactive fog turns a group of kids into deadly, black nailed killers who can kill you with a touch (particularly hugs-they love to do that.) "The Children" is the screen writing debut from "Luther the Geek" director Carlton J. Albright. While it suffers some of the same problems as his later movie (wooden acting, plot holes), it's still a decent slice of low budget horror.Much like "Luther", "The Children" has an absolutely ridiculous plot. Yet, also like "Luther", it contains some creepy, atmospheric moments. The Children themselves are quite creepy, and Albright knows how to use them. Also, if that score sounds familiar, that's because it's from "Friday the 13th" composer Harry Manfredini, who was working on the score for that movie while doing the score for this one.Unfortunately, this and "Luther the Geek" remain the only two horror movies Albright has been involved in. A shame, as we could use another goofy but surreal horror movie from him.

Legendary Drive in Trash horror film about a school bus full of kids that goes through a chemical cloud and causes them to become black nailed little monsters that melt you if they touch you.This movie has to be seen to be believed- however be warned the effects aren't good-there are frequent laughably bad death scenes and the film ultimately isn't very good- still somehow there is something about the film that sticks in the memory-that causes anyone who's seen it to say "is that the one with the black nails?". Not a particularly good film but a classic of its type (what ever that is)-though not one I'd really recommend unless you like this sort of thing.