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![]() POSTED BY TERENCE NUZUM, October 6, 2014 Share ![]() ![]() Halloween season brings many fun traditions from pumpkin carving,costume making, parties to candy apples but one of my favorite traditions is watching as many horror movies as I can. Part of this for me every year is making a list of films for the month. Every year I do this I find that a lot of the same films pop up again every year. Dracula 1931, Halloween III, Night of the Living Dead, the list goes on. Sometimes Ill filter them out based on priorities but one film that never gets filtered out is Bob Clarke's Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things. Ever since I saw it one night at my friend Andrews I was hooked by its low budget, locations, and great atmosphere. There is just something about 1970's low budget films that works for me on every level. Bob Clarke is no stranger to horror having directed the stellar Black Christmas and equally effective Deathdream. But here is his first stab at the genre. Teaming up with Alan Ormsby who would also go on to be famous for directing Deranged,Popcorn, writing Deathdream and Cat People, as well as doing the makeup for Shock Waves, Clarke succeeds right out of the gate. The film tells the tale of a theater troupe who agrees to perform a seance on an island graveyard but things get out of hand when their malicious director desecrates a ![]() One of my all time favorite horror films and in my top 5 greatest zombie movies ever made just for the sheer originality of the premise. If you love low budget and effective horror from the 70's era this one is not to be missed for zombie fans. While it isn't as polished as Black Christmas or Deathdream it has enough of a good plot and gut munching to appease the gorehound, and for the patient horror fan who can get into a mood, and not expect early on nonstop action, it can be a undiscovered gem. "Ghastly Reflections" is ©2014 by Terence Nuzum. All contents of Crazed Fanboy are ©2014 by Nolan B. Canova and Terence Nuzum. |
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