Zombie Movies » Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things http://zombiemovies.org Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:13:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things http://zombiemovies.org/children-shouldnt-play-with-dead-things.html http://zombiemovies.org/children-shouldnt-play-with-dead-things.html#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:51:57 +0000 Bub http://zombiemovies.org/?p=74 Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (also known as Revenge of the Living Dead, Things From the Dead, and Zreaks) is a 1972 horror film directed by Bob Clark. This low-budget zombie movie is the second film of director Bob Clark, famous for later directing the films Black Christmas, A Christmas Story, and Porky’s.

Trivia

  • Bob Clark revisited his zombie roots in Porky’s II: The Next Day when the boys from Angel Beach tried to set up a prank on Pee Wee, by having Steve (Rod Ball) dress as a ghoul and spring out at him in a cemetery prank.
  • According to Tom Savini (who served as FX artist), Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things played all through the filming of the drive-in theater scene in Bob Clark’s Deathdream.
  • Actor Bruce Solomon, who plays the ghoul named Winns also appears as Sgt. Raimi in another zombie movie titled Night of the Creeps.
  • Actor Jeff Gillen (Jeff) played the Santa Claus in Clarks Film, A Christmas Story.

DVD

  • Although previously available on VHS, a 35th anniversary special edition DVD was released in 2007 by VCI Entertainment.
  • It features the uncut version of the film, a photo gallery, and a cast commentary.
  • Briefly made available on VHS through Anchor Bay Entertainment.
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