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Children of the Night
Directed by	Tony Randel
Produced by	Norman Jacobs Steven Jacobs Howard Nash Damon Santostefano Christopher Webster
Written by	Nicholas Falacci William Hopkins Tony Randel Christopher Webster
Starring	Karen Black Ami Dolenz Peter DeLuise Garrett Morris
Music by	Daniel Licht
Cinematography	Richard Michalak
Editing by	Rick Roberts
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	1991
Running time	92 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Children of the Night is a 1991 horror film directed by Tony Randel.

Plot

Cindy and Lucy (Ami Dolenz) are eighteen and going away to college. As a ritual, they must rid themselves of the "dirt" from their small hometown of Allburg... by swimming in an abandoned church crypt. Both girls strip down to their underwear, jump into the water and begin talking about sex. Then Lucy drops her crucifix... which drifts down to land on the remains of an ancient vampire, Czakyr, apparently waking him up. Czakyr kills Cindy as Lucy looks on in horror. Mark Gardner (Peter DeLuise), a school teacher from a nearby town, gets directed to Allburg. There he tries to help Lucy. Lucy becomes the target of a town-turned-vampire, due to her "virgin blood". She, Mark and an old wino shack up in an abandoned building outside of town; eventually, they are lured back to Allburg by the locals. There (after a giant, glowing cross spears the front of their Toyota), they battle Allburg's entire vampire populace... ultimately taking on the evil Czakyr.

Trivia

• This is the first, if not only, vampire movie in which the bloodsuckers sleep underwater with their lungs floating on the surface.
• Ami Dolenz and Peter DeLuise would later co-star as a high-school cheerleader and her bumbling kidnapper (respectively) in the 1993 movie Rescue Me.
• "Children of the night" is a line taken from the 1931 film Dracula, originally said by Béla Lugosi.

Main cast

• Karen Black as Karen Thompson
• Peter DeLuise as Mark Gardner
• Ami Dolenz as Lucy Barrett
• David Sawyer as Czakyr
• Garrett Morris as Matty

References

• Children of the Night (film) at the Internet Movie Database

External links

• Children of the Night at the Internet Movie Database
• Children of the Night at Allmovie