Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things 1972 123movies

Watch: Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things 1972 123movies, Full Movie Online – An acting troupe led by Alan Ormsby go to a graveyard on a remote island to perform a necromantic ritual. The ritual works too well and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh. The dwindling group of survivors struggle to escape..
Plot: Six actors go to a graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.
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Ratings:

	5.3/10 Votes: 4,598
	38% | RottenTomatoes
	47/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 77 Popularity: 7.54 | TMDB

Reviews:

Zombie Island
“I haven’t laughed this hard since granny got caught in the wringer,” says one of the potheads in this hilarious quasi-spoof of all those Val Lewton and George A. Romero walking-dead movies we have come to love (or loath, depending on your personal taste) through the years.

In this story, a young actor pair play a ghoulish prank on the rest of their troupe after, one spooky night, they visit a cemetery island. Their artistic director, Alan, pretends to bring the dead back to life by conducting a highly stylized ritual.

Way too much screen time is misspent; the amateur dialog includes lame witticisms, melodrama and other kinds of unnecessary filler commentaries (And can’t Alan stop that irritating laughter… way too much!). Once the action kicks in (which comes close to the end of this film), it’s worth the wait.

I saw this one on a late-night, local station television program that ran films very much like this one… only this one scared me at the age of 13… but then again, you might laugh your way through it, until the bitter end… …which is probably the reason, nowadays, why very few people still wear striped hip-huggers.

Funky 70’s low-budget cult favorite
A flaky theatrical group led by the arrogant and obnoxious Alan (deliciously essayed with lip-smacking hammy brio by co-writer Alan Ormsby) go to a small island. Alan inadvertently resurrects the moldy old corpses from a nearby cemetery after reciting a spell from a grimoire. Director/co-writer Bob Clark does a bang-up job of creating and sustaining a genuinely spooky and unsettling misty midnight-in-the-graveyard gloom-doom ooga booga atmosphere, further jazzes things up with a wickedly funny line in spot-on sardonic humor (the biting, barbed, insult-laden dialogue is often quite amusing and definitely keeps things buzzing throughout), and really pulls out all the stops with the supremely grisly and harrowing climax with the angry zombies attacking the group as a large seething mass. The remote island setting adds an extra unnerving feeling of vulnerability and isolation. The zombies are truly scary and hideous-looking. The game cast have a ball with their colorfully quirky parts: While Ormsby clearly dominates the whole show with his gloriously over-the-top scenery-chewing histrionics, he nonetheless receives sturdy support from Anya Ormsby as the kooky Anya, Jane Daly as the sweet, lovely Terry, Valerie Mamches as the sarcastic Val, Jeff Gillen as dim-witted lunk Jeff, Roy Engleman as the mincing, effeminate Roy, and Seth Sklarey as ghastly ghoul Orville Dunworth (there’s a nicely icky suggestion of necrophilia in the scenes between Alan and Orville). Both Jack McGowan’s rather rough and grainy, but still occasionally striking cinematography and Carl Zittrer’s odd, droning score are up to speed. Although a tad slow in spots and certainly ragged around the edges, this movie overall sizes up as essential viewing for devout fans of 70’s oddball horror cinema.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 27 min (87 min)
Budget 70000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Horror
Director Bob Clark
Writer Bob Clark, Alan Ormsby
Actors Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 IIC
Laboratory Capital Film Labs, Miami (FL), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm