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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 0089859820823
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: VCI Entertainment
Languages:
Manufacturer: VCI Entertainment
MPN: D8208D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: VCI Entertainment
Release Date: June 22, 1999
Running Time: 87 minutes
Studio: VCI Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
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The SET-UP: Five young kinky actors and their artistic director come to a desolate and nearly forgotten burial island, complete with a morbid history of MURDER, RAPE, CURSES and DEMONS. Alan (Alan Ormsby), the brilliant but bizarre Director of the company, has brought them to this foreboding place to dabble in witchcraft; specifically to dig up a fresh corpse and use it in a ritual ceremony which is supposed to raise the dead from their graves.The PAY-OFF: It seems as though Alan has really gathered his "children" here, only to play a practical joke on them and then to party the rest of the night away. However, the joke's on Alan. His bizarre ritual ceremony really does raise the dead from their graves...only they're in no mood to party! NOTE: "BENJAMIN" CLARK is really "BOB" CLARK, the creative director behind the hit films PORKY'S, BLACK CHRISTMAS and A CHRISTMAS STORY among others. ALAN ORMSBY, though he turned in what has been described as "...one of the most obnoxious screen performances in history!", has actually made a mark for himself as the screenwriter for such memorable films as MY BODYGUARD, CAT PEOPLE, KARATE KID 3 and PORKY'S 2. Bonus Features: Scene Selection| Original Theatrical Trailer| Photo Gallery| Actor Bios. Specs: DVD5; Dolby Digital Mono; 87 minutes; Color; 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - PG; Year - 1972; SRP - $9.99.
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- an oldie but a goody. I got this DVD as a gift to my husband from my son. He loved it and wanted a better copy for his collection. He was very pleased with it.
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- Gives B movies a bad name....I really like B movies. Bloodsucking Pharoes in Pittsburg is one of my all time favorites. This movie though. This movie made Frogs seem fantastic. It is horrible. Save your cash and your time!!
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- Oh So 70's !!!!A VERY dated movie that SCREAMS 70's DISCO fashion!!! The acting is pretty bad,the pace is slow, but the story is decent overall. It would be 1000 times better if it were remade with some decent actors, better special effects, and a little more action.
Overall, it is entertaining, but if you can rent it on netflix instead of buying..... DO SO!
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- One of Bob Clark's Earliest and FinestThere'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. Legendary ... Read More
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- 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.
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