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After five deranged children are involved in a bus wreck they start killing people at the lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.After five deranged children are involved in a bus wreck they start killing people at the lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.After five deranged children are involved in a bus wreck they start killing people at the lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.
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- Sean MacGregor
- David Sheldon(uncredited)
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- TriviaOriginal director Sean MacGregor was fired from the production after a few weeks of difficult filming and most of the footage he had directed was deemed unusable. Much of the final version of the film had to be re-shot under the direction of David Sheldon several weeks later.
- GoofsThe characters are supposedly stuck in the house because they are snowed in. However, the height of the snow outside keeps changing dramatically throughout the film. It is extremely snowy in the beginning when everyone arrives, almost snow-free when Papa Doc runs outside in an attempt to save his wife and finally, modestly snowy again at the end.
- Crazy credits[caption used in place of "THE END", as the five young killers depart from the lodge after setting up their victims' bodies in eerily lifelike poses] THE BEGINNING
- ConnectionsFeatured in 42nd Street Forever, Volume 3: Exploitation Explosion (2008)
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Creepy Kids in the Hall!
Over the years, many writers as well as filmmakers discovered that seemly innocent and cherubic looking children make extra-creepy horror villains! Demonic kids almost form an entire sub genre of horror by themselves! There usually is an explanation for their abnormal and murderous behavior, though. Either it's the influence of a satanic cult ("Children of the Corn"), a nuclear meltdown ("The Children of Ravensbeck"), a temporary blackout caused by a comet ("Village of the Damned") or even an ordinary solar eclipse on the day of their birth ("Bloody Birthday"). The youthful maniacs in this film have no real excuse for what they do. They were just born evil. And when their bus to the mental institute crashes down atop some snowy mountains, they become youthful maniacs AT LARGE! They make it to a holiday resort where some wannabe godfather Corleone runs his crime syndicate and they start killing all the residents. "Devil Times Five" is not a very good movie, but that's mainly due to a lack of budget and a shortage of talented cast & crew members. There's very little going on in the first hour, apart from a spectacular bus crash and THE longest murder of an institute employee (filmed in slow-motion). When approaching the last third of the film, the creepy moments and gory murders begin to follow each other at fast pace and the atmosphere really gets morbid. The adults are all pitiful and uninteresting characters but the five kids have quite interesting backgrounds. The oldest girl pretends to be a young convent sister, another girl is obsessed with fire and the funny black kid constantly acts like he's in the army. Their incontrollable urge to slaughter unknown people is a bit difficult to believe at times, but overall these young actors do a terrific job. "Devil Times Five" is recommended 70's exploitation, with a fairly high cult-value and several unforgettable murder scenes (piranhas in the bathtub!!)
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