Buying Cheap Horror Flicks :)

[kybearfuzz]

There is nothing like buying a cheap, beyond-discount horror movie. While I was back home for Thanksgiving, I bought a DVD collection of vampire movies at Sam Goody's. It was on sale for a little over $5 and had five 1960-70's horror flicks in it. Naturally, I purchased it, but didn't get around to watching any of them until tonight.

One of the movies is a Canadian zombie movie called Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972). The movie is funny because it is so cheap, so overacted, and they are wearing 1970's striped pants and clothes that are so bad. I watched this movie for the first time when I was a teenager in the 1980's. I swear I think I rented it, but it could have been on USA "Up All Night." Who remembers...

The movie centers around a troupe of bad actors who go to a cemetery island by boat. The troupe leader, an ass named Alan, with goatee, neckerchief, and horrible striped pants, has set up a nice dramatic ritual spell casting, which at first does nothing. Naturally, it eventually raises the dead or else the movie would be over. The special effects and makeup are poor, but there is a bit of atmosphere to it that makes it enjoyable, if not really scary. Sadly, the one cute guy in the movie gets killed early before we get to see him shirtless and Alan shows his true colors by basically hiding behind a girl and pushing her into the zombie crowd. The latter is a play on the "it's not that I have to outrun the zombies, I just have to outrun you" idea. So bad that it's entertaining.

I did some looking on the IMDB and found that the guy who wrote it also wrote Porky's and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, the latter of which is more of a true horror. And believe it or not, he's remaking Children Shouldn't Play... for release in 2006. You just know I'll have to watch it.

Comments

[rixtur.livejournal.com]

I remember that movie "Children shouldn't play...." when I was a young teen late at night. I remember it being scary then, im sure its very dated now. I also remember seeing "Motel Hell" and "Zombie" very young too, gave me night mares. There was also a movie in the late 80's that freaked me out called "From Beyond", I cant seem to find it on DVD or even VHS. Im sure that would seem dated if watched today.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I think Motel Hell was one of those freaky movies. The movie had a young John Ratzenberger from "Cheers" as one of the bikers that they bury in the garden up to their necks.

As for From Beyond, I had not seen that one. There is a listing for a movie with that title on the Internet Movie DataBase (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091083/) where it states the movie is available on VHS. :)