Welcome to the first in a three-episode series on the early horror
films of Alan Ormsby and Bob Clark. The series-long co-host is
Mike White,
from
The Projection Booth Podcast, with
Heather Drain,
Chris Stachiw, and Samm Deighan joining us for one of the three episodes,
respectively. Also included in each episode is a portion of an interview with
Simon Fitzjohn,
who wrote I'm Going to Kill You, a
book on the films of Bob Clark. Simon also supplied the fun promotional "menu" for the player image of this
episode.
On this episode
Heather Drain
joins Mike and me to discuss
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, a low-budget horror/comedy inspired in part by Night of the Living Dead (1968). Bob Clark wrote and directed
the film, with script contributions from Alan Ormsby. Ormsby also designed and
created the make-up effects and plays Alan, the leader of a Miami theater
troupe.
Alan, an egomaniacal tyrant, takes the troupe to an island graveyard to
perform a Satanic ritual that will raise the dead, whom he wants to use as slaves.
But before the real ritual begins he scares the rest of the group with help from Roy
and Emerson, two other troupe members, hamming it up as ghouls. After everyone is
properly frightened, and pissed off at Alan, they return to their cabin with
an actual corpse named Orville. Has the summation of spirits really worked? Or is Alan just having more fun at everyone else's expense? Tune in
and find out.
Ormsby's signature on the poster:
Where to watch
•
IMDb listing
•
Wikipedia page
My two part chat with Simon about his quest to get
The Haunting of Julia restored and released:
