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Language. English. Children of the Night is a 1991 American comedy horror film directed by Tony Randel, and starring Karen Black, Peter DeLuise, and Ami Dolenz. Its plot follows a young woman and a local schoolteacher who attempt to rid their small community of vampires that have been inadvertently unleashed.
Children of the Night: Directed by Tony Randel. With Karen Black, Peter DeLuise, Ami Dolenz, Maya McLaughlin. A schoolteacher teams up with with a priest to stop a town being overrun by vampires.
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- Horror
- Tony Randel
- 1991-09-06
Sep 6, 1991 · Story. In the quiet little town of Allburg, friends Lucy and Cindy are on the verge of going away to college when they partake in a cleansing ritual by swimming in an abandoned church crypt. After Lucy accidentally drops her crucifix in the water, it drifts down and awakens the ancient vampire Czakyr, who becomes thirsty for Lucy's virgin blood.
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is a 1991 American horror film directed by Tony Randel, and starring Karen Black, Peter DeLuise, and Ami Dolenz. Its plot follows a young woman and a local schoolteacher who attempt to rid their small community of vampires that have been inadvertently unleashed.
Before going away to college, two childhood friends, Cindy Thompson and Lucy Barrett, decide to symbolically cleanse themselves of the "dirt" of their small town by swimming laps in a flooded, abandoned church crypt. Lucy drops her crucifix, which drifts down onto the submerged remains of an ancient vampire, Czakyr. Czakyr awakes and kills Cindy.
Mark Gardner (Peter DeLuise), a school teacher from a nearby town, gets directed to Allburg by an old friend of his, Father Frank Aldin (Evan Mackenzie). Once there he tries to help Lucy, as she has now become the target of a town-turned-vampires, due to her "virgin blood". Lucy, Mark, and a drunken preacher make camp in an abandoned building outside of town and make plans to fight the vampire army. Utilizing the preacher's "cross mobile" they battle Allburg's entire vampire populace, ultimately taking on the evil Czakyr. Once Czakyr has been killed, the town's folk return to normal, with some complaining of "splinters in their chests".
•Karen Black as Karen Thompson
•Evan MacKenzie as Father Frank Aldin
•Peter DeLuise as Mark Gardner
•Ami Dolenz as Lucy Barrett
•Maya McLaughlin as Cindy Thompson
•David Sawyer as Czakyr
had its world premiere at the 1991 Toronto International Film Festival as part of their Midnight Madness program. Jay Scott (The Globe and Mail) referred to the film as a standout of the program, referring to the film as "a truly disgusting vampire film - imagine Karen Black in latex makeup, moaning through her rubber fangs".
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•Children of the Night at IMDb https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png
•Children of the Night at AllMovie
Create Subpage. Pray for Dawn. Children of the Night is a 1991 horror film directed by Tony Randel, starring Karen Black, Peter DeLuise, Ami Dolenz, and Garrett Morris. Two friends accidentally awaken an ancient vampire, who proceeds to turn most of the nearby town into bloodsuckers. A priest and a schoolteacher team up with the last remaining ...
special makeup effects artist. Felicia Linsky. ... hair stylist / makeup artist / makeup department head. Greg Nicotero. ... special makeup effects artist (as Gregory Nicotero) Lesley Terry. ...
Cindy and Lucy are eighteen and going away to college. As a ritual they must rid themselves of the dirt of their small home town (Allburg) by swimming in an abandoned church crypt. They jump in and begin talking about sex when Lucys crucifix falls into the water and drifts down to land on Czakyr's (an ancient vampire) head, apparently waking him up. Some time onwards a school teacher from a ...
