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After five deranged children are involved in a bus wreck they start killing people at the lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.After five deranged children are involved in a bus wreck they start killing people at the lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.After five deranged children are involved in a bus wreck they start killing people at the lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.
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- Sean MacGregor
- David Sheldon(uncredited)
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- TriviaOriginal director Sean MacGregor was fired from the production after a few weeks of difficult filming and most of the footage he had directed was deemed unusable. Much of the final version of the film had to be re-shot under the direction of David Sheldon several weeks later.
- GoofsThe characters are supposedly stuck in the house because they are snowed in. However, the height of the snow outside keeps changing dramatically throughout the film. It is extremely snowy in the beginning when everyone arrives, almost snow-free when Papa Doc runs outside in an attempt to save his wife and finally, modestly snowy again at the end.
- Crazy credits[caption used in place of "THE END", as the five young killers depart from the lodge after setting up their victims' bodies in eerily lifelike poses] THE BEGINNING
- ConnectionsFeatured in 42nd Street Forever, Volume 3: Exploitation Explosion (2008)
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Grim and quirky
This is one of them seventies horror films your grandfather would tell you about while settling you down to sleep when you were a toddler. Five crazy kids escape from a mental institution and play the scared kid card at the house of Papa Doc, who is currently playing host to all sorts of unlikeable adults, so, basically, you can tell where this is heading. What got me about the Devil Times Five is the way that the first hour passes almost lightheartedly, before heading for Grimsville. When the kids start wasting the cast, a kind of darkness settles on the film and never let's up. I don't know if it's just the playful way the kids massacre people (hence the title: Peopletoys), but I was left with a bizarre bad taste in my mouth after watching this. I guess that's the whole point though. You don't really get that from watching modern splatterfests. This is seventies horror in a nutshell, this film.
Plus, for UK viewers, check the name of one of the producers of this film (the IMDb won't let me use his second name here). I bet he's glad he didn't go to school in Glasgow!
Plus, for UK viewers, check the name of one of the producers of this film (the IMDb won't let me use his second name here). I bet he's glad he didn't go to school in Glasgow!
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