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3	->''"You're invited to Orville's 'coming out' party... It'll be a scream... YOURS!"''
4	-->--'''{{Tagline}}'''
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6	''Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things'' is a 1972 American {{Horror}} comedy film directed by Creator/BobClark.
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8	A group of actors come together for their director's party. Said director is an odd duck, and proposes an unusual game: Dig up a corpse from the nearby cemetery and try to resurrect it with magic! They do so, but it seemingly fails. Unfortunately, it actually resurrects ''all'' the dead...
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11	!!This film contains examples of:
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13	* BloodMagic: The resurrection spell requires the blood of an aborted foetus.
14	* ChekhovsGunman: After the resurrection spell goes off, the corpse the group nicknames "Orville" is left to sit in a corner while they deal with the newly-animated dead. [[spoiler:Alan retreats into that room when he's the last one left. Turns out the spell ''did'' work on Orville after all, it just took a while to kick in.]]
15	* CollectiveDeathGlare: PlayedForLaughs. Near the end, as the zombies are closing on [[spoiler:Alan and Anya, Alan throws Anya to the zombies to save himself.]] Everyone - ''zombies included'' - shoot [[spoiler:Alan]] a look of disgust.
16	* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: It takes an hour for the zombies to show up.
17	* DirtyCoward: Alan, near the end.
18	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The zombies kill our main characters, and take a boat to the mainland to continue the madness.]]
19	* GoneHorriblyRight: Our heroes cast an AnimateDead spell on some corpse they dug up for funsies. Unfortunately, it resurrects '''every corpse on the island.'''
20	* GreaterScopeVillain: The zombies are resurrected by invoking {{Satan}} himself.
21	* JerkAss: Alan, the head of a theatre company who will fire anybody who questions his shenanigans.
22	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: These ones are your standard shambling type, resurrected by [[{{Satan}} the Dark Lord himself.]]
23	* PrimaDonnaDirector: Alan-- just another one of his stellar qualities.
24	* PushedAtTheMonster: [[spoiler: Alan throws Anya to the zombies as they close in on the pair.]]
25	* WorldOfSnark: Every makes jabs at each other, [[WorldOfHam often in the most over the top way they can.]] They ''are'' actors, after all.
26	* WhatTheHellHero: When [[spoiler:Alan throws Anya to the zombies]], everyone - ''including'' the zombies - gives [[spoiler:Alan]] a dirty look.

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