This spine-tingling thriller in the tradition of Dracula and The Lost Boys will take you to the ultimate in supernatural evil: a town where every living soul is a vampire. Everyone ... except you. Allburg is an idyllic small town far removed from the crime of the big city. Safe peaceful ... and in deadly danger. When a vampire is released from his long imprisonment in an underground crypt the unsuspecting town becomes the target of his unearthly bloodlust. One by one the entire population becomes either vampire or helpless victim. A teenage girl a school teacher and a wino become an unlikely trio of vampire hunters as they struggle to destroy a monstrous danger more unspeakable than death in this truly terrifying tale of horror and suspense.System Requirements:Running Time 92 MinsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 043396078598 Manufacturer No: 07859 Product Description
Okay, I want to be fare to the others who rated this movie favorably but it just aint that great. But let me qualify for you which vampire movies I really liked. Dracula, with Bela Lugosi; Interview with the vampire, my favorite; Queen of the Damned; Underworld, Kindred, Vampire Journals, Forever Knight... I lament the fact that there are so few good vampire movies. I wish someone would do more movies based on Anne Rice's novels. The church, in this movie, where the girls went swimming in the basement crypt, is in fact a really cool church; I could live there. But swimming in a flooded crypt? Come on man. The vampires looked more like saber-toothed tigers than vampires. Most of them were plain slobs. Whoever heard of vampires meeting in a hunting lodge to play bingo and stuff? Oh, and the grandma vampire...please. That was seriously corny. So was the vampire who coughed up their lungs turning them inside out, outside their body to breathe while they slept. I saw this movie on fearnet and fast forwarded a lot of it. It's a real B movie. I'm really glad I didn't buy it. In my opinion, the best vampire movie to date is Interview with the Vampire.
February 19, 2008this movie was SOOO stupid! i couldn't even get through all of it because it was that dumb! but i DID watch most of it so you can't say, "oh, you don't know what its like cos you didn't watch it all." so what?! i had had enough! it was supposed to be a horror movie but it wasn't terrifying at all. most of the blood and stuff looked really fake and during many parts i asked myself, "is this horror or comedy??" but maybe you will like it. i don't know. maybe, 1)i'm not one for vampire films, or maybe 2)this really IS a stupid movie. i would have to say the answer is probably 2. but this is only my opinion. and i think this movie is pretty cheesy.
January 4, 2007 |  | IT'S NOT THAT BAD...REALLY |  |
Come now...How can you not like a horror movie which features the talents of Karen Black, Ami Dolenz, Peter DeLuise, and Garret Morris? Well I suppose you can hate it but I actually thought it wasn't that bad and had one very genuinely creepy scene.
Set in a small town called Allburg, two girls Lucy (Dolenz) and Cindy (Maya McLaughlin) visit an old abandoned church. A creepy looking old gothic cathedral. The legend goes that you can actuall swim in an old crypt beneath the church so the girls give it a try. Well, Cindy loses her crucifix as it floats to the bottom of the crypt and awakens a vampire from his sleep and he immediately kills her while Lucy escapes.
Meanwhile a former priest (DeLuise) has heard the legends of the vampires and comes to Allburg to invesigate and runs into Lucy as she is escaping from the vampire. The pair along with the town drunk, (Garret Morris) have to find a way from stopping the vampire from spreading is bite as already dozens of townspeople have been turned into vampires themselves. One of those, played by Karen Black, is imprisoned in the house of another priest who she constantly torments with her taunts and screams.
The acting is nothig to write home about. Black and Morris are both way over the top, but in kind of a fun and b-movie way. The scene in the old gothic church was quite creepy although why ANYONE would ever want to go swim in a mold invested crypt is beyone me. For a change the vampire isn't some sauve, GQ pretty boy but a rather decrepit, pasty faced, demonic looking thing.
Children of the night was no classic but you could do much worse.
January 19, 2005A vapire flick that is worth seeing more than once about a small town being overrun by vampires and the humans who are left standing are in the fight of their lives. But in the end good triumphs over evil and the story ends yet doesn't.
September 30, 2004HEY I DUG THIS MOVIE IT WAS MORE FUNNY THAN SCARRY A UNIQUE TWIST ON VAMPIRE LORE WHERE THE VAMPS SURVIRE UNDER WATER INSTEAD OF A COFFIN THEY SPIT THERE LUNGS OUT AND USE THERE LUNGS AS GILS.....PRETTY COOL, I WOULDN'T HAVE THOUGHT OF IT. ALSO IT THIS ONE SCENE WHERE KAREN BLACK COCOONS HER SELF IN HER OWN BODY FLUIDS ITS DISGUSTING BUT REALLY COOL. ALSO THEY GUY WHO PLAYED STAN ON THE MARTIN SHOW WAS VERY FUNNY AS THE TOWN DRUNK WHO SEEMS TO KNOW ALOT MORE THAN HE LET ON....ALL IN ALL ITS GOOD LIL MOVIE FOR LAUGH AND IF YOU LIKE VAMPIRE MOVIES YOU'LL LIKE THIS!
December 31, 2000More reviews at Amazon.com ...
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