Meet a Thanatoid circa 1974--Dead of Night

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 09:58:15 CDT 2009


Hmm. How about "Jacob's Ladder"?

I remember seeing "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things" and
thinking it was an unintentionally funny Night of the Living Dead
ripoff.

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:50 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> film directed by Bob Clark (Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
> and Porky's--how's that for Thanatos and Eros for ya?)
>
> scary shit:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathdream
>
> A soldier returns from Vietnam and he just might be a zombie. w/o
> intending pbly, can't think of any movie that depicts the almost
> mystical and literal haunting that Vietnam represents to American
> culture. a genre film, folks
>
> see it
>
> aka Deathdream
>
> rich
>



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