BOB CLARK HORROR COLLECTION
Bob’s Kill House
This was Tom Savini’s first movie makeup job.
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1972-1974 | 18 | Blu-ray
▸Director Bob Clark
▸Cast Richard Backus, John Marley, Olivia Hussey, Alan Ormsby
Though he later received Golden Raspberry Award nominations for the likes of Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, director Bob Clark’s early work has seen its critical stock rise over the decades. This box set of his three horror films amply demonstrates why.
The spark for Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things came when Clark and pal Alan Ormsby went to see Night Of The Living Dead and, as Ormsby jokes, “decided to rip it off”. It’s a cut-and-shut of a movie, beginning as a warped black comedy, thick with waspish sniping, and descending into a zombie siege in its final third.