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Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301411677
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 6301411676
Label: Vid-America
Manufacturer: Vid-America
Publisher: Vid-America
Studio: Vid-America
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Editorial Review:
Though Bob (Benjamin) Clark made his mark on Hollywood with films as diverse as Porky's and A Christmas Story, he began his career with this imaginative zombie tale. Alan Ormsby (who also wrote Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People and directed the cult horror film Deranged) penned the script and stars as Alan, a flamboyant theater director who brings his company--whom he condescendingly refers to as his "children"--to a rotting graveyard on a fogbound island. There he begins a ceremony to raise the dead, but it's all an elaborate practical joke, just another mind game by the would-be demagogue... or so he thinks. As Alan continues his midnight games of manipulation and degradation, it turns out the joke's on him as the graveyard rises to life. The acting, though amateurish, is energetic and delivered with gusto, and the awkward, theatrical dialogue becomes oddly appropriate (if somewhat stiff) in the affected presence of preening Alan. The often-slow extended introduction pays off in a carnage-riddled zombie blowout, like Night of the Living Dead compressed into a half-hour highlight reel. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things is the work of ambitious beginners, but they deliver the goods when it counts with solid low-budget effects and a well-directed finale that turns the tense humor into unrelenting horror.
The DVD mastering is unaccountably sloppy: images jerk and intermittently slow down, the action hiccups, and in the second half red and blue flares rim the right side of the picture. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - One of Bob Clark's Earliest and Finest
There's nothing like watching a low-budget zombie flick from the 70s. While watching this one, I kept expecting a disco ball to lower from the trees and the zombies to start layin' down the moves to "Saturday Night Fever". I'm talking about the clothes these people used to wear back then, what were they thinking!? It's not like you can blame the costume designer, that's just the way people dressed in 1972, unfortunately for them. All 70s clothes aside, this movie was a very pleasant surprise. All ... Read More
Rating:  - FOR REAL ZOMBIE FANS ONLY!
This one is very dated. If you really love Zombie movies, you might enjoy this, but don't blame me if you don't.
Rating:  - BEST ZOMBIE COMEDY OF THE 2OTH CENTURY!
CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS is the heart warming story of a troupe of quasi-professional actors and their megalomanical director/producer Alan (Alan Ormsby) who decide it would be a nifty idea to go to a deserted island, perform a satanic ritual and raise the dead to serve Alan's every need. And why not? Its 1972. Having reached this conclusion Alan chooses an island that meets certain specific requirements and has the proper ambiance, to wit it has an old cemetary where the dead were ... Read More
Rating: - The Maginitude Of Your Simplitude Overwhelms Me
That's one of many awesome lines the main character Allen bite's back at the other characters with.
This movie is Awesome! Just look at how many people have taken the time to review this flick.
I rented this on an old 1977 rental VHS 8 years ago becuase my mother had seen this at the drive-in when it came out in 1972 and said it was the only movie that ever scared her.
What I saw I thought was awesome! It had a green film running over the movie I think due to ... Read More
Rating: - I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
I hadn't seen this movie since I was about 14 years old, so of course I purchased it with more than a bit of trepidation. After all, that was over two decades ago and tastes change with age. I feared it would turn out to be some horrible little film I wouldn't be able to stomach... I was wrong. It is still loads of fun, and I proudly say that to this day I enjoy this movie far more than Night Of The Living Dead.
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