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Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things | 
| Director: Bob Clark (iii)
Actors: Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen, Anya Ormsby, Paul Cronin
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 31138
Format: Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D8208D
UPC: 089859820823
EAN: 0089859820823
ASIN: B00000IO3R
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Delivery from the USA in 10-14 Days via Canada Post (Max 21 Days). Brand New and Factory Sealed Product.
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From Amazon.com
Though Bob (Benjamin) Clark made his mark on Hollywood with films as diverse as IPorky's/I and IA Christmas Story/I, he began his career with this imaginative zombie tale. Alan Ormsby (who also wrote Paul Schrader's remake of ICat People/I and directed the cult horror film IDeranged/I) 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 INight of the Living Dead/I compressed into a half-hour highlight reel. IChildren Shouldn't Play with Dead Things/I 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.p 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. I--Sean Axmaker/I
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 ne jouer pas avec les choses morte mes amis November 22, 2004
Bon on a acomplie un autre daube dans la collection de Zombie. Bon, film extremement long a commencer , beaucoup de parlage qui n'amene guere quelque chose d'interressant au film , bon on se demande si ce belle et bien un film de Zombie ou une veritable farce. un coup arrive a la fin ... on peut appercevoir les zombie sortir de leurs tombe, C'ETAIT TEMP !!! et cela ne dure pas tres longtemps , les acteurs se barricade dans la maison, on peut donc savoir de quelle film il est influancer (Night of the living dead) le final est pathetique une pseudo fin 'choc' qui ma fait rire plus que d'autre chose. aucun sang dans ce film , javoue que ca datte de '72 mais ils aurait pu ce forcer , Blood feast date de bien plus long. Bref film a voir une fois et vite oublier apres , je me demande serieusement pourquoi ce film a atteind le statut de culte.
 CHILDREN SHOULDNT PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS July 15, 2004
ALTHOUGH CONSIDERED A B-MOVIE, ITS A VERY GOOD ONE.THE MOOD OF THIS FILM IS INTENSE. THE ACTING IS OK AND THE SETTING IS PERFECT.THE ZOMBIES ARE GREAT IN THIS ONE! VERY CREEPY MOVIE YOU WONT FORGET.
So bad it is funny June 10, 2004
Leon (United States)
and not intentionally. A fun flick to watch at least 1 just for sheer idiocy reasons.
Good Low Budget Zombie Flick May 26, 2004
Kenneth Brittian (Indiana, USA)
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things is an oft-overlooked zombie classic from the early 1970's. Although it is a low budget effort and this sometimes shows with the effects and dialogue, it has plenty of creepy atmosphere to give anyone the chills. The plot involves a group of actors heading to an island (an island that contains a graveyard, of course) to raise the dead. At first, it seems as if nothing has happened until the dead really DO begin to rise to slaughter those who have intruded on their island. With some humor and quite a bit of atmospheric tension, this film is best enjoyed late at night in a darkened room preferably as a fog settles outside.
the most underrated zombie flick of all time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! May 22, 2004
creatureart (BOSTON MASS USA)
A TRUE ZOMBIE BLUEPRINT!!!!!!this movie stands side by side with the GREAT ONES like romero's "NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD" fulci's "ZOMBIE" its such a shame its not as recognized as the other 2 are!!!!????!!!!!THIS IS TRULY ONE OF MY VERY FAVORITE HORROR MOVIES!!!! YOU GET SOME DECENT ACTING/TRULY CREEPY WEIRD ATMOSPHERE STORYLINE(very original)/SUPERB DIRECTING(bob clark is the mannnnn!!!)/WAY MORE SCARY THAN BLOODY(like romero's MASTERPIECE N.O.T.L.D.)/ THE ZOMBIES LOOK TRULY SCARY REALISTIC FOR SUCH A LOW BUDGET!!!!!!/ the dvd comes out looking and sounding just fine for the budget date!!! bottom line if your a true horror or zombie fan you haven't caught this GEM of a TRUE horror flick then THIS ONES FOR YOU!!!!! SO TURN OUT THE LIGHTS,LOCK ALL THE DOORS,GET SOME POPCORN READY(somthing to keep reminding you that its just a movie),PLOP THE DVD IN,HOLD ON TIGHT E!!!!N!!!!J!!!!O!!!!Y!!!!
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