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13 June 1980 (USA) moreTagline:
...thank God they're somebody else's! morePlot:
A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails. full summary | full synopsisUser Comments:
Beware the black fingernails of death.... moreCast
(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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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
93 minCountry:
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Iceland:16 | Australia:M | France:-16 | Norway:15 (video premiere) | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18Fun Stuff
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Writer/producer Carlton J. Albright's kids, Sarah Albright and Nathanael Albright, are cast in this movie as Ellen and Tommy, respectively. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When the bus breaks down, it's on the right side of the road, but all throughout the rest of the movie it's on the left side of the road. moreFAQ
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.