Review – Children of the Living Dead

This starts out as something along the lines of the Dead trilogy, though the closest George Romero gets to this one is the brief before-and-behind-the-camera appearance of Tom Savini. However, once the prologue plays itself out, the plot takes a turn for the worse. By the time the film-makers have crammed a walking dead, serial-killing religious fanatic in with a group of teens who become some sort of flesh-eating, zombie Manson cult, the whole thing starts to seem like a horror movie Manhattan Project striving to reach critical cliché mass. Further, the technical quality (especially the editing) reek of recent film school grad. So if these guys can get money to make crap like this, whatever happened to Romero himself. Come back, George! The next generation is depending on you to save it from schlock like this. See if desperate