Villian(s)  Voodoo, zombies

Actor(s):  Alan Ormsby, Jane Daly, Anya Ormsby, Jeffrey Gillen

Brief Description  Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972) is a low-budget, comedic horror cult classic directed by Bob Clark, who later directed Black Christmas and A Christmas Story. Shot in 14 days on a shoestring budget of roughly $50,000 using Clark's college friends, the film blends counter-culture dark humor with graphic zombie horror.

Plot:
A sadistic and incredibly arrogant theater director named Alan travels by boat to a remote burial island off the coast of Miami with his troupe of five actors. Alan treats the actors like his "children" and intentionally tells them unsettling stories about the island's history as a cemetery for violent criminals. Alan forces the troupe to break into the island's caretaker cottage, dig up a fresh corpse named Orville, and bring it back to a graveyard. Alan conducts a mock, voodoo-inspired Satanic ritual using a spell book to resurrect the dead as a theatrical prank to mock his troupe. Initially, nothing happens. Alan uses the failure to further humiliate his actors, bringing Orville's body back to the caretaker's cottage to use as a macabre prop for a twisted party. Unbeknownst to the troupe, the necromantic spell actually worked but required time to take effect. The island's buried criminals slowly animate, break out of their unmarked graves, and surround the cottage. The reanimated corpses launch a brutal siege on the cottage. The actors are picked off one by one by the aggressive undead until only Alan remains. In a final twist of irony, the zombies corner Alan, and his prized corpse prop, Orville, awakens to exact revenge. The movie ends with the zombies boarding the troupe's boat to head toward the mainland.