Review of The Children (1980) by Bill T — 25 Apr 2016

Pretty amazing movie here. This movie about a bus full of kids that meets a cloud of nuclear gas emitted by a power plant. They turn, I guess, into zombies, and start wreaking havok in the town. They've just so many questions about the plot of this film. Apparently that kids can only kill with their hands, why is this? How did this happen? If they hug somebody, that person becomes toast. Like, their whole body starts frying. Again, why is this? And why does it appear that the children, and the children's families, and the sheriff or two, are the only people in the town?

I havent Even started.

What really fascinates me about this movie is the unexplained character arcs that litter this movie. Let's start with the first woman the children kill. She seemed to have a chip on her shoulder because of something the sheriff did. What was that? We don't know because she's soon killed after that. She's also apparently looking after an invalid. It seemed that the invalid had a connection to the sheriff as well, but that's left hanging. And on it goes, couples are fighting for no reason, ladies are sun tanning in the nude with sweaty bodybuilders, etc. Etc. Etc.

Finally, everyone says "Goddamnit" a lot.