Complete credited cast: | |||
Sorrell Booke | ... | Harvey Beckman | |
Gene Evans | ... | Papa Doc | |
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Taylor Lacher | ... | Rick |
Joan McCall | ... | Julie | |
Shelley Morrison | ... | Ruth | |
Carolyn Stellar | ... | Lovely (as Carolyn Steller) | |
John Durren | ... | Ralph | |
Leif Garrett | ... | David | |
Gail Smale | ... | Sister Hannah | |
Dawn Lyn | ... | Moe | |
Tierre Turner | ... | Brian | |
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Tia Thompson | ... | Susan |
Henry Beckman | ... | Dr. Brown |
Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation. Written by Anonymous
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!