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Overview

User Rating:
5.0/10   326 votes
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Director:
Sean MacGregor
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Writers:
Sandra Lee Blowitz (co-writer)
John Durren (writer)
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Contact:
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Release Date:
June 1974 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror more
Tagline:
What Wendy just saw them do will make you sick to your stomach...if it doesn't make you faint first! more
Plot:
Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken... more | add synopsis
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NewsDesk:
Fantastic Fest 09: Fear The Children
 (From Fangoria. 5 October 2009, 9:24 AM, PDT)
User Reviews:
Disturbing. more (26 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Sorrell Booke ... Harvey Beckman
Gene Evans ... Papa Doc
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
Tia Thompson ... Susan
Henry Beckman ... Dr. Brown
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Devil Times Five (USA) (reissue title)
Tantrums (UK) (video title)
The Horrible House on the Hill (USA) (reissue title)
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Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parents
Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:R | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA more
Company:
Barrister Productions Inc. more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Unknown actress Gail Smale ("Sister Hannah") was alleged to be original director Sean MacGregor's under-aged girlfriend at the time of production, and her character's Nun's Habit costume with rose colored glasses was partly an attempt to conceal her natural albinism. "Peopletoys" remains her only known screen credit. more
Quotes:
David: [screaming] My face! Look what you did to my beautiful face! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Looking Back at 'The Hills Have Eyes' (2003) (V) more

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16 out of 23 people found the following review useful.
Disturbing., 16 July 2001
Author: luvtiger from Joplin, MO

I found this movie disturbing. Young girl putting a piranha in a woman's bathtub, while the others hold her down. The sheer frustration of the triumph of evil over good. The hopelessness of fighting an evil that outsmarts you every turn, with no weapons either. I had to stay up a while after seeing this movie. I just found it disturbing.

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