Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.
Jeff Gillen
- Jeff
- (as Jeffrey Gillen)
Bob Sherman
- Ghoul
- (as Robert Sherman)
William R. 'Bob' Smedley
- Tallest Dead Thing
- (as Robert Smedley)
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- Bob Clark
- Alan Ormsby(uncredited)
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- GoofsAlan claims the book of spells, etc. is in a direct line from the Druids, but the Druids never had a written language.
- Crazy creditsThe zombies get into the boat and sail to the city throughout the course of the film's closing credits.
- Alternate versionsAlthough the UK theatrical release of the film was uncut by the BBFC, the 2005 UK Anchor Bay Entertainment DVD release of it was missing about seven minutes of dialogue scenes for unknown reasons. The earlier Exploited Video DVD release of it, however, was completely uncut.
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"I haven't laughed this hard since granny got caught in the wringer," says one of the potheads in this hilarious quasi-spoof of all those Val Lewton and George A. Romero walking-dead movies we have come to love (or loath, depending on your personal taste) through the years.
In this story, a young actor pair play a ghoulish prank on the rest of their troupe after, one spooky night, they visit a cemetery island. Their artistic director, Alan, pretends to bring the dead back to life by conducting a highly stylized ritual.
Way too much screen time is misspent; the amateur dialog includes lame witticisms, melodrama and other kinds of unnecessary filler commentaries (And can't Alan stop that irritating laughter... way too much!). Once the action kicks in (which comes close to the end of this film), it's worth the wait.
I saw this one on a late-night, local station television program that ran films very much like this one... only this one scared me at the age of 13... but then again, you might laugh your way through it, until the bitter end... ...which is probably the reason, nowadays, why very few people still wear striped hip-huggers.
In this story, a young actor pair play a ghoulish prank on the rest of their troupe after, one spooky night, they visit a cemetery island. Their artistic director, Alan, pretends to bring the dead back to life by conducting a highly stylized ritual.
Way too much screen time is misspent; the amateur dialog includes lame witticisms, melodrama and other kinds of unnecessary filler commentaries (And can't Alan stop that irritating laughter... way too much!). Once the action kicks in (which comes close to the end of this film), it's worth the wait.
I saw this one on a late-night, local station television program that ran films very much like this one... only this one scared me at the age of 13... but then again, you might laugh your way through it, until the bitter end... ...which is probably the reason, nowadays, why very few people still wear striped hip-huggers.
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By what name was Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972) officially released in India in English?
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