Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

1972 "You're Invited To Orville's "Coming-Out" Party...It'll Be A Scream...YOURS!!!"
5.2| 1h26m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 09 June 1972 Released
Producted By: Geneni Film Distributors
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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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.

Genre

Horror, Comedy

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Director

Bob Clark

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Geneni Film Distributors

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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things Audience Reviews

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Alicia I love this movie so much
Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
IndridC0ld After seeing this film, and then immediately watching Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video, it is plain to see that Landis lifted his entire graveyard scene, and most of his zombies directly from this movie. Children Shouldn't play With Dead things was the first film to feature a mass rising of the dead from a cemetery. If you watch both sequences side by side, without sound, you will know that the earlier one was STOLEN from the other.
Johan Louwet Judging by its title I was not going to expect any award winning movie but seriously this is surely one of the worst horror movies I have seen. I thought it was going to be at least a bit funny or entertaining but not it was a bore and a drag from start to end. The only reason I kept watching was because it was part of a Challenge I'm participating in. The 1 point I'm giving it is for the nice make-up of the zombies and the sequence where they come out of their graves that was cool. For the rest the movie is basically one hour of nonsense of how a group of young hippie people will wake up the dead which is supposed to be funny. The lame jokes didn't even give me chuckle. Than we get less than half an hour of zombie invading the cabin which looks like a bad parody of Night of the Living Dead. Not scary, not funny, not entertaining. At least those losers did what they deserved in the end but it's a long long wait. Puzzling that this one still rates above 5 on average. I'm amazed they almost filled 1 and an half hour of film for such a lame story. Erotic horror parodies are surely more entertaining to watch than this one. Maybe some nudity would have helped this one, but I sincerely doubt it. Maybe a very trimmed version of it would have worked as an episode of a comedy horror show.
Barry Douglass I have given this film a 10 as its' an extremely difficult production to rate due to its very nature. I enjoyed it as it made me question my sanity at staying up until 4:30am to watch it. I became hypnotised by the dialogue that went nowhere and the often comical 'scared' face the young lady keeps pulling for no apparent reason, yet the camera zooms in on her (you will see). Also loved the 'here come the dead, lets stay calm and when they go to eat us we will throw ourselves on them' like its an everyday occurrence. This film is a must watch, especially for the ending as you actually don't expect that to happen, no really, its not something you will expect but NO SPOILERS. Watch it. Its fun.
Neil Welch A group of unpleasant young people, having (eventually) carried out a mock Satanic ritual, are discomfited when the dead come back to life and start killing them.I am sometimes bemused at the reactions I see towards certain movies at the IMDb, and this is one such film. We are all entitled to our own opinions, and none is any more or less valid than another. Even so, I do wonder whether some of the effusive praise for this film is coming from blind and deaf people. It is slow, the script is lame, the makeup is awful, the acting is shockingly bad, and the film looks even cheaper than it actually is. Which is clearly cheap. It isn't even good at being the type of film it purports to be: it aims to be a low-budget horror comedy, and succeeds only in being low-budget.Definitely one to avoid.