EDITOR’S NOTE: Children of the Night was on the CBS Late Movie on July 8, 1988.

“Don’t hide what you feel inside
Don’t let anybody stand in your way
Just let the music take you higher
Now are you ready to rock
Children of the night?”

Yes, that may be a Whitesnake song, but this TV movie prefers “Hell Is for Children.”

Kathleen Quinlan plays Dr. Lois Lee, the founder of Children of the Night, a non-profit organization that works to support youth who were involved in prostitution. She started as a college student who started to take sex workers into her home for protection and in the film, she runs into pimp Roy Spanish (Mario Van Peebles)  and they battle over one of his girls,  Valerie (Lar Park-Lincoln in her first movie).

Director Robert Markowitz made plenty of TV movies that played the CBS Late Movie, including the Maximilian Schell-starring The Phantom of the Opera. It was written by William Wood, whose career stretched back to the early 60s, Vickie Park and producer Robert Guenette, who directed some of my favorite BS movies, such as The Mysterious Monsters, The Man Who Saw Tomorrow and The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena.

Some of the girls in this include Marta Kober (Rad, Friday the 13th Part 2, Neon Maniacs), Sherri Stoner (who went on to write Animaniacs episodes), Helene Udy (My Bloody Valentine, The Incubus), Zoe Trilling (Night of the Demons 2, Amityville: The Evil Escapes) and Valerie Richards (Hard Rock Nightmare).

You can watch this on YouTube.