Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
About Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Six actors go to a graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ceremony works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972) is a comedy horror film directed by Bob Clark. Released in June 1972, it runs 86 minutes.
The film is filed under graveyard, living dead, zombie, and island.
Alan Ormsby stars as Alan, Valerie Mamches as Val, Jeff Gillen as Jeff, and Anya Ormsby as Anya. The screenplay is by Alan Ormsby and Bob Clark. In the United States it streams on Bloodstream, Eternal Family, and FlixFling.
Day of the Dead, Creepshow, and Michael Jackson's Thriller make useful companions to Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. TMDB voters put it at 5.3 out of 10 across 111 votes and it carries a PG rating.