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Overview
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Release Date:
13 June 1980 (USA)
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Tagline:
...thank God they're somebody else's! more
Plot:
A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails. full summary | full synopsis
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Child Killing Child
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(2 articles)
Uncle Bob Martin: Suffer the Little Children
(From Dread Central. 30 October 2009, 1:39 AM, PDT)
Back Catalogue #2 Troma
(From Fangoria. 17 June 2009, 8:40 PM, PDT)
(From Dread Central. 30 October 2009, 1:39 AM, PDT)
Back Catalogue #2 Troma
(From Fangoria. 17 June 2009, 8:40 PM, PDT)
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Beware the black fingernails of death....
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Martin Shakar | ... | John Freemont |
| Gil Rogers | ... | Sheriff Billy Hart |
| Gale Garnett | ... | Cathy Freemont |
| Shannon Bolin | ... | Molly |
 | Tracy Griswold | ... | Deputy Harry Timmons |
| Joy Glaccum | ... | Suzie MacKenzie |
| Jeptha Evans | ... | Paul MacKenzie |
| Clara Evans | ... | Jenny Freemont |
| Sarah Albright | ... | Ellen Chandler |
| Nathanael Albright | ... | Tommy Button |
| Julie Carrier | ... | Janet Shore |
| Michelle La Mothe | ... | Dr. Joyce Gould |
| Edward Terry | ... | Hank |
| Peter Maloney | ... | Frank |
| Jessie Abrams | ... | Clarkie Freemont |
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Also Known As:
The Children of Ravensback
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93 min
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Iceland:16 |
Australia:M |
France:-16 |
Norway:15 (video premiere) |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
West Germany:18
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On opening weekend of this movie, a drive-in in Tucson, Arizona had a 6-mile backup.
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Movie Connections:
References "The Muppet Show" (1976)
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FAQ
Why didn't the radioactive cloud turn Cathy and the bus driver into zombies?more
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This B-grade horror flick has some surprising special effects, and a completely predictable twist ending. When a school bus drives into the fog from a nuclear plant leak, the children inside are transformed into black-fingernailed zombies that incinerate anyone they touch, apparently from the inside-out. My fondness for this movie probably stems from the circumstances in which I saw it--I was 12 or 13, alone in front of the TV at my sister's house at around 2 AM,watching a "rated R movie(!)" I had been expressly forbidden to see. I'm not sure whether I was more afraid of the movie or an adult catching me, but either way, it was good fun. I'm looking forward to the day this one is finally released on DVD.