Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)

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Reviews Counted:18

Fresh:8

Rotten:10

Average Rating:5.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: A movie director and his troupe of actor friends vacation on a remote island where they dig up a corpse and jokingly perform a ceremony to resurrect it. It works! Interesting, garishly-colored... [More]

Starring: Alan Ormsby, Anya Ormsby, Jane Daly, Jeff Gillen

Director: Benjamin Clark

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9/9/09

80%

Quote by michael h.

6/26/09

50%

Quote by HORRORmovieWATCHER

6/19/09

70%

At the age of 11 I remember waiting up till 2am to catch this movie on the late late show. One of... More

Quote by Paul W.

5/12/09

70%

Quote by Scar12

2/26/09

30%

Quote by Jerry T.

1/13/09

40%

Quote by Ralph A.

1/8/09

Quote by demilich

1/3/09

100%

Quote by Sebastian R.

12/19/08

50%

Quote by Ian B.

12/1/08

10%

Quote by protectyaneck13

11/3/08

60%

Quote by Vlayn18

10/7/08

80%

Quote by Daverat

7/19/08

40%

Quote by darthimmortal

7/5/08

70%

Quote by rvburchianti

6/1/07

70%

Quote by AbsurdRandomness

5/10/07

40%

A practical joke-loving, hippie film director (Ormsby) travels with his cast and crew to an... More

Quote by SteveMiller

1/3/07

10%

Alan (Alan Ormsby), a would be necromancer, gathers a couple of friends together and journeys to... More

Quote by thirdman

6/6/05

50%

Members of a weird hippie cult use witchcraft to resurrect freshly-buried corpses in a cemetery.... More

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