Children of the Living Dead, 2001

This film is slightly all over the place, it starts off during a zombie infestation that seems to be dealt with, however one zombie seems to escape into hiding. This zombie was apparently in a previous life a serial killer named Abbot Hayes.

Years later a businessman tries to set up a new car dealership in what was a cemetery and has the bodies removed to elsewhere. Abbot Hayes recruits these bodies to be part of his zombie horde and attack the town to stop the new car dealership from going ahead...

This film should have been renamed a Cure for Insomnia, every time I watched this film I always fall asleep. The first 15 minutes or so are fairly good until Tom Savini's character is killed off!

The plot is all over, I always felt that when I did watch it I must have missed something that happened earlier in the film but never seem to find what it is I've missed on any repeat viewings I have tried.

The acting is terrible bar Savini's as I really thought the film was going to be good especially with how the first 15 or so minutes went!

There is a connection to the Romero films and not just because Tom Savini is in it. It was produced by John Russo who was involved in Night of the Living Dead. Around the time this film was made he has did an anniversary edition of Night of the Living Dead with newly added scenes (which are god awful) and that Children was supposed to be a sequel of sorts to this.

Bill Hinzman did the cinematography on this, Bill best being known for the main zombie in Night of the Living Dead. The film also has Sam Nicotero who was the uncle of Greg who was in Day of the Dead and also does special effects in other movies and currently involved with the Walking Dead TV show.

I do know the director Tor Ramsey, made a post on IMDB apologising for the film and let everyone know that from start to finish it was a nightmare to work on. A lot of the problems came from the writer of the film, Karen Wolf who wrote a piss poor script that a few directors and other writers walked off the project and then she became a bit of a diva with not wanting any chances to the script and would bully staff to get her own way. From what I read in Ramsey's apology it sounded like a right nightmare to work on.

This ended up being a straight to video release, if it had hit the big screen it would have flopped massively. I wouldn't even recommend this film to anyone, even if they enjoy bad movies and definitely don't recommend the anniversary edition of Night of the Living Dead as there is an actor in it who is so over the top not even Hollyoaks would take the fucker on!