Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)

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Genres & Description

Action Comedy Fantasy Horror

5.5 / 10

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.

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Tenzin 68

Yup!! I'm with all you guys!! All of you who said this movie scared the shit out of you when you were kids.....Yeah watched this on regular t.v., can't remember what channel, but it wasn't a pay channel. I was about 10, scared the shit out of me also!! Then to find out it was made by the guy who directed my favorite Christmas movie(got a red ryder from my dad around 15 yrs. ago). Totally fucking twisted!!! - @Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:56 PM

Wade Carmen

Saw this on The Ghoul show when I was in junior high. - @Monday, February 26, 2018 2:34 AM

grosskopf2

Ive been looking for this movie for years and I finally found it. - @Sunday, November 26, 2017 1:51 AM

Adam B. Smith

The zombie at 2:00 running looks like Michael Keaton in "Beetlejuice." LOL I wonder if this was the inspiration for that movie. - @Friday, November 17, 2017 5:27 AM

Matthew Stark

Holy smokers! Saw this movie when it was new and I was nine. Scared the living crap outta me! Halfway through it I was routing for the zombies. The living people started to really made me feel PO'd. Not so many years after, had to go to the drive- in for Dawn of the Dead. Didn't rout for the zombies so much after that. Many many years later I started watching The Walking Dead up to the near end of the third season. It was then I started routing for the zombies again. - @Thursday, November 2, 2017 4:36 AM

Firstname Lastname

The zombies in this film look genuinely terrifying - @Friday, October 20, 2017 4:13 AM

SailfishSoundSystem

Somebody's on PCP with the spring reverb on this mofo. - @Sunday, September 24, 2017 2:15 AM

Andy Kelly

I'm not gonna lie, it looks pretty bad. - @Saturday, March 18, 2017 6:47 PM

Leonard-Ralph Lyons

You haven't seen a horror movie till you've seen this movie.I could watch it today,and i would still have hershey square's in my drawer's. - @Sunday, February 19, 2017 6:18 PM

Joe Hall

THATS DARTH VADER ,THEY ARE PLAYING WITH. PLUS IN THE MOVIE HE POPS OUT OF HIS GRAVE AT 1.05.02 - @Tuesday, January 31, 2017 11:12 PM

Manor

If you were ever creeped out by Santa in "A Christmas Story," there's a good reason for that. 0:05 "Jeffy" Gillen was Santa in the film for Bob Clark who directed this, ACS, and the horror classic Black Christmas. But Jeff Gillen was also a horror director himself having co-directed the 1974 horror nasty "Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile." - @Sunday, December 25, 2016 1:43 AM

N.F. Craig

the original 'Weekend at Bernies' hahaha - @Saturday, September 24, 2016 2:46 AM

Sheyla Stokes

no movie your page sucks - @Thursday, August 25, 2016 7:11 PM

TJ98

Damn, that trailer gave up the whole damn movie. That film was campy, but fun as hell to watch. Clark was a brilliant director. RIP. His latter horror films Deathdream and Black Christmas were masterpieces. - @Friday, June 17, 2016 11:24 PM

elastic ass

i remember watching this with my older brother when i was 8 or 9. holy shit i remember completely dreading having to go to bed that night. im now 45 and love these super cheesey zombie flicks! - @Thursday, June 9, 2016 10:41 PM

haveown25

This looks like Weekend At Bernie meets Dawn of The Dead!! GREAT movie! - @Saturday, May 28, 2016 12:26 AM

Soulus

The part where they shine the flashlight outside and all the dead are standing there watching them. One of the most terrifying scenes in a zombie movie EVER! - @Tuesday, March 8, 2016 12:03 PM

ambivalent ambiguity

ahhh, the Seventies - @Saturday, February 27, 2016 10:37 PM

Mike Stone

I remember being 8 years old and in the theater when this trailer was playing. I had to run into the lobby because I was so scared. My older brother who brought me to the theater, was laughing at me. We had gone to see the movies Scorpio & Theater of Blood. I'm now 50, but still remember that evening, like it was yesterday. - @Monday, August 10, 2015 1:56 AM

AESCULAPTORmark3

The zombie scenes and the zombies themselves were actually really well done. Only the shitty acting and half assed story line fucked it all up. When the zombies come out of he ground the music is crazy, it kinda reminded me Evil Dead. - @Tuesday, May 5, 2015 1:40 AM

KURTIS LUETH

CAPTURE AND RECAPTURE KSK MKULTRAMARINEGODCIAPERFECTBODYTEK KLEBER KLANGLEY KLATEX KNACK KISS KWK KINFOTEKXXX - @Friday, October 3, 2014 10:17 PM

misharyutubbee

When the commercial for this movie played on TV (1972) it was a short version of this trailer, and I only remember seeing it once. I think it started about the 1:50--2:00 point. It scared the doggy-doo out of me! I asked the lady at the movie house (only one in our town) if that movie was coming; she looked at me like I was a 12-year-old pervert! It never got there! - @Friday, May 2, 2014 6:22 PM

gspendlove

We want a remake. - @Tuesday, April 8, 2014 11:44 PM

Aldo Stevenson

I really liked this movie---me and all my buddies did when we saw it at the Drive-In in 1972 - @Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:43 AM

rayssonation

"CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS" In Capital COLOR!!! - @Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:02 PM

rayssonation

This was Rated "R"-Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian. Directed by the great Bob Clark,the same Bob Clark who directed the horror slasher "Black Christmas",and went on to direct two of the greatest movies of the 1980's...the runaway comedy classic "Porky's",and the classic "A Christmas Story" - @Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:01 PM

dennis ruley

this movie played on W o r new york station at three in the morning. Scared the holy hell outta me. - @Wednesday, December 11, 2013 4:27 AM

Kain Nosgoth

"Alan and Orville.interesting early reference to same sex marriage." So I guess they should have said that Children Shouldn't GAY With Dead Things? ;-) - @Monday, October 14, 2013 8:56 PM

chchlc2222 chchlc2222

Alan and Orville.interesting early reference to same sex marriage. Brilliant zombie flick. Ahead of its time. I remember it from my childhood. - @Thursday, August 15, 2013 9:02 AM

Dr. Death

This is a great zombie in its own right ... Sadly looked over. BLURAY come on ! - @Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:03 AM

Arini48

the cranberries people - @Saturday, July 27, 2013 12:09 PM

38chinadoll

So true. It's better to leave dead bodies buried. - @Monday, July 15, 2013 3:12 AM

Yusman Osman

If they got Don LaFontaine to do the trailer this would have been REALLY scary! - @Sunday, July 14, 2013 6:44 PM

Henry Wolfsburg

My favorite movie of all time. Things of the Dead. - @Saturday, July 6, 2013 7:31 PM

Eliakim Melo

cara eu queria saber onde eu posso ver esse filme legendado?????????? - @Wednesday, April 10, 2013 9:46 PM

Eagle of Death Metal

Also, this needs to be released on blu ray! - @Monday, March 4, 2013 12:31 AM

Eagle of Death Metal

I have the poster of this movie hanging on my wall! Classic zombie film! - @Monday, March 4, 2013 12:30 AM

Gina Holder

stupid - @Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:29 PM

torils65

70's Drive-in movie goodness!:-) - @Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:39 PM

Jóhann .Fönix

Hehe this narrator should do other trailers. F.x. Hostel or Human Centepide - @Friday, January 4, 2013 4:05 AM

BurnRoddy

Dead Snow? - @Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:09 AM

BurnRoddy

A comming out party? As in a homozombie comming out party? Oh! Diana Ross! What have they done to you! - @Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:07 AM

Amanda Culberson

My older sister made me stay up and watch this with her when I was three or four and I've been terrified of zombies my whole life. Watching the trailer now I can't help but laugh at how cheesy the movie really is :D - @Saturday, October 13, 2012 8:27 PM

Michael F

When I was growing up I lived right behind a cemetary. After I saw this movie I wouldnt go near my back yard. This and Phantasm ruined my early childhood...lol. - @Sunday, September 30, 2012 2:41 PM

coolskater187

No. There is a lot more frreaky stuff. Trust me! - @Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:08 AM

TheHomiNomi

1:15 - Horror film's first gay wedding. - @Saturday, September 1, 2012 9:44 PM

38chinadoll

What a title! I use it all the time. Heard that Jerry Garcia is going to star in the remake. - @Friday, August 17, 2012 3:24 AM

Mac man

@jad3948 yes, trailers did do that in the 1970's and this one is no exception. - @Friday, August 10, 2012 10:56 PM

Ian Finlay

THATS totaly diffeerent from this though. This flick is more like an old fashioned and creepy horror film, where's Zombieland is more of a contemporary action shoot'em up type flick. - @Monday, July 16, 2012 5:18 PM

Ian Finlay

Yes, and THAT particular fact does get acknowledged in this flick, when one character exclaims "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh GOD!!!!! They buried him without Rightguard!!!!!" ( best line in the whole movie in fact ). - @Monday, July 16, 2012 5:14 PM