Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things - The Inzomniac's Movie Madness Review.


	Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things USA 1972. Director: Bob Clark Cast: Alan Ormsby, Anya Ormsby, Jane Daly, Jeffrey Gillen A director and his hippie crew, whom he calls his "children" (thus the title), arrives to a cemetary located on a deserted island in order to shoot a zombie flick. The director (Alan Ormsby) decides to dig up a real corpse, Orville, and give him a party. He also arrange a stupid ceremony for his movie. Bad idea. The ceremony is successful and the rest of the movie is basically classic Night of the Living Dead stuff, only in glorious color. Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things is a rough almost amateurish little $25.000 oddity, strangely enough from the future director of Porkys. If it had read "Troma presents" above its title no one would be surprised. The overacting Alan Ormsby is almost unendurable in the lead (legend has it he was not acting) and he has the trousers to match, scarier than any ghoul. Still the film is sort of entertaining in a peculiar way, especially if one has a weak spot for bad acting and weird dialogue ("Decomposition does strange things to a man"). The atmosphere is murky and dark and grainy but it's also wonderfully effective, as are the cheap make-up effects, and the frisky zombie attacks during the last reel are a real treat well worth waiting for. And the final shot, with all the zombies taking the boat back to mainland, almost beat the ending of Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 as the best ending ever in a zombie flick. © The Inzomniac's Movie Madness Review.