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Zombies of Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

FilmUndeadSorcery1968 to 1999

A theatre director performs a ritual from a grimoire in an island cemetery, and the dead rise. The film is a post-Romero zombie picture that puts the cause back in black magic. It later became a cult classic.1

Battle it
First appeared
1972
Released 1972
Source work
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
Bob Clark
Made in
USA
What causes it
Sorcery
A theatre director reads a necromantic ritual from a grimoire in an island cemetery.
How you become one
Buried bodies are raised by the ritual.

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today1972

Released 1972

field notes

What the sources say

1

A counter-spell sends them away only briefly, because a dug-up corpse was never returned to its grave1

2

Shot in 14 days for about 50,000 dollars with the director's college friends1

3

Special effects are attributed to Alan Ormsby1

4

First shown in 1972 on a double bill with The Dunwich Horror1

Sources

  1. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things - Wikipedia

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