Did anyone else ever see "Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things" if!


Question: i liked the movie


Answers: i liked the movie

I was just thinking about that movie the other day! I was wondering why no one showed it around Halloween or why it wasn't mentioned on film lists, chiding myself because I hadn't done that.

It's a movie that seems to be going nowhere then~POW!~it gets to you! It used to be slammed as being so slow to get to the point, but the suspense being built by the back-and-forth cuts in scenes is remarkable. Yes, I very much liked this extremely low-budget film. I think that worked for it, the grainy quality.

I saw it just once and definitely would watch it again. This time around, I would tape it. This would be a good film to run with "Carnival of the Dead" and "Night of the Living Dead".

I just popped out to look up some facts about it. I knew I was fairly young when this was released and played at drive-ins~1972~though I didn't see it then. It had one of those bad reps like "Last House on the Left" and "Don't Look in the Basement". Only the most courageous dared go see these. That seems funny now, that they attempted a ban on some of these films, including "Night of the Living Dead". Anyhoo... BOB CLARK directed and co-wrote it! That's the same Bob Clark who directed the "Porky's" series, Baby Geniuses (1999) (Now, THAT is a horror film!), Turk 182! (1985), Murder by Decree (1979), Black Christmas (1974) (considered the seminal stalker/slasher movie in which numerous victims are pursued), and~~Tadaaaaa!~~A Christmas Story (1983)! Of course, he's descending back into the horror realm with~*shiver*~SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) and The Karate Dog (2004)!

This is notable for being director/makeup artist/actor Alan Ormsby's first film. He co-wrote and starred in this one.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0650276/

information about the film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068370/
IMDB summary:
"Actors led by Alan Ormsby go to graveyard on remote island to act out necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh."

Why is it that, when a big-name or influential director "borrows" from another film, it's called an homage, but, when Alan Ormsby and Bob Clark borrow from "Night of the Living Dead", it's plagiarized? Hmmmm...

...I couldn't have covered any additional information, regarding "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things", any more thoroughly than "MystMoon"; this lady definitely is a cult horror film lover, after my own heart...

...however, just for the sake of an additional tidbit or two, even though it won't exactly get me the points, you might like to know that Bob Clark's next project, which he was going to executive produce, right before he and his 22 year old son were tragically taken out by a drunk driver, this past April, was going to be a contemporary remake of :"Children..."; I went to the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors in Burbank, CA, in the month of May 2006, and had the pleasure of meeting Bob Clark, and partook in a talk session (...I sorta embarrassed him, when I brought up a little-known early independent piece of work of his, called "She-Man), regarding the then upcoming remake of his "Black Christmas". He also displayed conceptual drawings, which he had helped to design for a proposed remake of "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things"; I can only hope that someone worthy of taking on the task, takes whatever inspiration the late Bob Clark can provide, in perhaps seeing this remake come to fruitrition...if at the very least, as a loving homage to one of the greatest and beloved lower-rung commercial filmakers of the '70's & '80's...



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