Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972)

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View on IMDb ↗CastAlan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen, Anya Ormsby, Paul Cronin, Jane Daly, Roy Engleman, Robert Philip, Bruce Solomon, Alecs Baird
Review
"Many people have written this film off as, like I mentioned above, campy, but there's something deliberate in the tone that the director crafted for this film. He loaded the script with silly lines and inside jokes that you would traditionally hear when in close quarters with a theatrical group such as this one, yet offsets that harmless scenario with the hauntingly macabre idea of a group of kids desecrating a cemetery and then walking off with one of it's inhabitants to just goof off with it. I think the combination is both fun and demented and I enjoy those ingredients each and every time I view this film. The characters are so off the wall and have such different personalities that you just enjoy listening to the ridiculous things that come out of their mouths. There's enough one liners and quotable lines in this one that it's hard to get bored and that's not including the hauntingly vibrant soundtrack." - Jay Shatzer, The Lucid Nightmare