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 The cute title is somewhat misleading. There are no children in this movie, just some adults acting like children. Nevertheless, they do play with dead things. Normally, the focus of horror movies is the monster(s) terrorizing and killing people left and right, but with "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things", the emphasis is playing with dead corpses rather than the dead attacking the living. Indeed, the corpses become animate only after 70+ minutes of occult spellcasting and borderline necrophilia. After that, it's a redux of George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" with zombies surrounding and soon crowding a boarded-up house. The dark atmosphere in a remote Florida graveyard is a strong point, however. Also, the weird soundtrack is refreshingly different and compliments the general feel of the movie very well, though they sometimes overdo it with the UFO-like sounds from the synthesizers. The acting is on the hammy side, but it's good for a laugh or two. Also good for a laugh is the amusingly tacky early-70's attire: striped bellbottoms and garishly colored shirts! An interesting fact: Alan Ormsby, who plays a snooty yet impish film director in this film, is a writer/director in real life, and some of his work--"My Bodyguard" and "Cat People"--is actually pretty good. He's also the writer for this movie, though. While the script is certainly not the worst among horror movies, it tries too hard to be funny by cramming in as many wisecracks and snappy comebacks as possible, and it does not spend nearly enough time with the zombies. Overall, this schlocky movie is mildly entertaining, but it would have been much better if the zombies get more than 15 minutes of screen time. |
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** NOTE: The more dots on the domino, the higher the rating. 12 is the highest rating while no dots is the abyssmal worst. ** |
    
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