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''Children of the Night'' is a 1991 {{Horror}} comedy film starring Creator/KarenBlack, Creator/PeterDeLuise, Creator/AmiDolenz, and Creator/GarrettMorris.

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''Children of the Night'' is a 1991 {{Horror}} comedy horror film directed by Tony Randel, starring Creator/KarenBlack, Creator/PeterDeLuise, Creator/AmiDolenz, and Creator/GarrettMorris.






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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Taking his preferred targets into equation Czakyr does give off a rather pedophile vibe. What happens to the victims he apprehends doesn't lessen that either.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Taking his preferred targets into equation the equation, Czakyr does give off a rather pedophile vibe. What happens to the victims he apprehends doesn't lessen that either.



* OurVampiresAreDifferent: These ones sleep in water [[BodyHorror with their lungs coming out of their mouths]] or in cocoons. Also, [[spoiler:killing Czakyr not only makes them human again, but brings back the ones who had been staked, who end up having no memory of ever being turned.]]

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: These ones sleep in water [[BodyHorror with their lungs coming out of their mouths]] or in cocoons. Also, [[spoiler:killing Czakyr not only makes them human again, but brings back the ones who had been staked, who end up having no memory of ever being turned.]]turned]].
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* KickTheDog: Czakyr murdering a bunch of children when the town nearly catches onto him. [[spoiler:Turns out he actually did worse by keeping the kids alive and conscious for decades to feed off of.]]
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-->''"Pray for dawn."''

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* DevouredByTheHorde: Cindy frees Czakyr's child victims kept in the crypt, and they swarm him and try to do this to him. He's able to overpower them and escape, but points for effort.


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* MadeOfPlasticine: At one point Mark manages to remove a vampire's entire face with one swing of a 2x4.
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* HeroicWillpower: Finding life as a vampire to be miserable, Cindy hates Czakyr and comes up with a plan for her and Lucy to kill him.
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''Children of the Night'' is a 1991 {{Horror}} comedy film starring Creator/KarenBlack, Peter [=DeLuise=], Ami Dolenz, and Creator/GarrettMorris.

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''Children of the Night'' is a 1991 {{Horror}} comedy film starring Creator/KarenBlack, Peter [=DeLuise=], Ami Dolenz, Creator/PeterDeLuise, Creator/AmiDolenz, and Creator/GarrettMorris.
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''Children of the Night'' is a 1991 {{Horror}} comedy film.

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''Children of the Night'' is a 1991 {{Horror}} comedy film.
film starring Creator/KarenBlack, Peter [=DeLuise=], Ami Dolenz, and Creator/GarrettMorris.
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Two friends accidentally awaken an ancient vampire, who proceeds to turn most of the nearby town into bloodsuckers. A priest and a schoolteacher tem up with the last remaining humans in town to stop the terror.

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Two friends accidentally awaken an ancient vampire, who proceeds to turn most of the nearby town into bloodsuckers. A priest and a schoolteacher tem team up with the last remaining humans in town to stop the terror.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Taking his preferred targets into equation Czakyr does give off a rather pedophile vibe. What happens to the victims he apprehends doesn't lessen that either.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Czakyr was trapped in a church crypt until soon after the start of the film.

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* SealedEvilInACan: Czakyr was trapped in a church crypt — which had since been flooded — until soon after the start of the film.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: These ones sleep in water [[BodyHorror with their lungs coming out of their mouths]] or in cocoons. Also, [[spoiler:killing Czakyr not only makes them human again, but brings back the ones who had been staked.]]

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Czakyr, by a giant cross attached to a truck, no less.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: Delivered hilariously by Mark to a vampire.
-->'''Mark:''' Let her go, you big, dumb, ugly FUCK!
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: These ones sleep in water [[BodyHorror with their lungs coming out of their mouths]] or in cocoons. Also, [[spoiler:killing Czakyr not only makes them human again, but brings back the ones who had been staked.staked, who end up having no memory of ever being turned.]]

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* TownWithADarkSecret: An ancient vampire turning a small country town.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: These ones sleep in water [[BodyHorror with their lungs coming out of their mouths]] or in cocoons.

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* TownWithADarkSecret: An ancient vampire turning a small country town.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: These ones sleep in water [[BodyHorror with their lungs coming out of their mouths]] or in cocoons. Also, [[spoiler:killing Czakyr not only makes them human again, but brings back the ones who had been staked.]]


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'''''Children of the Night''''' is a 1991 {{Horror}} comedy film.

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'''''Children ''Children of the Night''''' Night'' is a 1991 {{Horror}} comedy film.
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* HillbillyHorrors: An ancient vampire turning a small country town.

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* HillbillyHorrors: TownWithADarkSecret: An ancient vampire turning a small country town.
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-->''"Pray for dawn."''

'''''Children of the Night''''' is a 1991 {{Horror}} comedy film.

Two friends accidentally awaken an ancient vampire, who proceeds to turn most of the nearby town into bloodsuckers. A priest and a schoolteacher tem up with the last remaining humans in town to stop the terror.
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!!This film contains examples of:

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Czakyr keeps the children he killed alive so he can feed on them. They've been like this since the late 1930s.]]
* BigBad: Czakyr, head vampire of Allburg.
* {{Familiar}}: Czakyr manifests one in the form of a roughly 10-year-old boy. He's made of Czakyr's desires, and is a total perv.
* TheFundamentalist: We first see Mark tutoring a young girl whose mother is convinced that ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' is "blasphemous."
* HillbillyHorrors: An ancient vampire turning a small country town.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: These ones sleep in water [[BodyHorror with their lungs coming out of their mouths]] or in cocoons.
* SealedEvilInACan: Czakyr was trapped in a church crypt until soon after the start of the film.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: [[spoiler:The children Czakyr keeps to feed on.]]
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Hillary denies that Karen and Cindy are vampires and calls it "silly" without Mark mentioning it, indicating that she has been vamped herself.
* VirginPower: Apparently virgin blood is "pure," and thus delicious to vamps.
* TheXOfY
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