Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

  • Horror
  • Comedy
6/9/1972
86
PG

You're Invited To Orville's "Coming-Out" Party...It'll Be A Scream...YOURS!!!

Six actors go to a graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.

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$70,000

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  • Wuchak

    A cabin in the woods on an island with a book of spells and a graveyard

    A theatre troupe is misled by their crackpot leader (Alan Ormsby) to spend the night on an infamous isle off the coast of Miami known for its cemetery of outcast criminals. There he tries his hand at raising the dead using a grimoire.

    "Children Shouldnt Play with Dead Things (1972) is a horror indie by Bob Clark (director/writer) & Ormsby (writer) inspired by Night of the Living Dead (1968). It only cost $70,000 (about $45,000 less than Night), but the spooky atmosphere is effective (with eerie sounds for the soundtrack rather than conventional music), the zombie make-up is well done and the amusing characters were written & performed with personality and sp...

    May 5, 2022

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