Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (10 reviews)

  • 38% want to see it
    (5,569 ratings)

In Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, an above average slasher/horror film, a group of amateurs decide to experiment with witchcraft with deadly results. This film has a small cult following, due to some extent to the fact that one of the lead characters is played by writer and makeup… More

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Genres
Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
VCI

Critic Reviews

  • Ian Berriman, SFX Magazine

    Like watching a George Romero rip-off, directed by Ed Wood, with a script scribbled by Joe Orton while he was ripped to the tits on poppers.

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    Clark accordingly avails himself of the best abysmal wisecracks, offhand surrealism, and decomposing mise-en-scène available

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    On a technical level, at least, it's great fun.

  • Jeremiah Kipp, Slant Magazine

    Clever title, insufferable movie!

  • Jeremiah Kipp, Slant Magazine

    Clark's first film is memorable only for its catchy title.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • vieras e


    **+ Better than what the first five minutes would lead you to believe, if you can get past the annoyingness of some of the characters.

  • Tim S


    A low budget campfest that actually manages to give me the creeps.

  • Wahida K


    I like this kind of Movies, the Idea of the Movie was nice. Trouble is when you just think it has began to turn creepy, you experience a disaster. lol

  • Ken S


    More interesting than entertaining, this Bob Clark film is like a mix of Evil Dead (minus the style) and Diary of the Dead. The acting is okay and the story is very uneven. It's hard to rate the cinematography because the DVD print currently in release is terrible.

  • Ed Fucking H


    Surprisingly a really, really entertaining satanic/witchcraft/zombie/horror/comedy. I usually don't like humour with my horror but I do make exceptions when the results are this fun. Recommended for fans of Evil Dead or Return of the Living Dead fer sure.

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