Beware! Children at Play

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beware! Children at Play
BEWARE CHILDREN AT PLAY poster.jpg
Promotional release poster
Directed byMik Cribben
Written byFred Scharkey
Produced by
  • Michael Koslow
  • Lawrence Littler
  • Linda Sanford
  • Ellen Wedner
Starring
CinematographyMik Cribben
Edited byMik Cribben
Music byHershel Dwellingham
Production
company
Troma Entertainment
Distributed byTroma Entertainment
Release date
  • November 24, 1989 (1989-11-24)
[1]
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Beware! Children at Play (also known as Goblins, Caution! Kids Are Playing, Warning! Children and Attention! Enfants and originally styled as Beware: Children at Play) is a 1989 American independent horror film directed by Mik Cribben and distributed by Troma Entertainment.

Plot[]

The film follows the inhabitants of a small rural town in New Jersey whose children are disappearing at an alarming rate and whose adults are simultaneously being killed in a ritualistic fashion. It is revealed early on that the kids are being inducted into a cannibalistic cult that live in the woods.[2] The cult is somehow inspired or influenced by the legendary tales from the Old English epic poem Beowulf.[3]

Cast[]

  • Michael Robertson as John DeWolfe
  • Rich Hamilton as Ross Carr
  • Robin Lilly as Cleo Carr
  • Lori Romero as Julia DeWolfe (credited as Lori Tilgrath)
  • Jamie Krause as Kara DeWolfe
  • Mik Cribben as Isac Braun

Reception[]

The film is one of Troma's most controversial titles due to its gruesome finale, a sequence in which the townspeople brutally murder each of the cannibalistic children using firearms, pitchforks, and other assorted weapons. According to Lloyd Kaufman, when the film's trailer played at the Cannes Film Festival before a screening of Tromeo and Juliet, nearly half of the theatre walked out in protest.[4]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Beware: Children at Play (1989)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
  2. ^ "Uncle Bob Martin: Suffer the Little Children". Dread Central. October 30, 2009. Archived from the original on September 26, 2012. Retrieved October 30, 2009.
  3. ^ Vespe, Eric "Quint" (October 2, 2009). "Horror Movie A Day: Beware! Children at Play (1989)". Ain't It Cool News. Archived from the original on October 6, 2009. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
  4. ^ Kaufman, Lloyd; Gunn, James (1998). All I Needed To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger. New York, USA: Troma Entertainment Inc. p. 198. ISBN 9781456399368.

External links[]


Stub icon

This article about a 1980s horror film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

  • v
  • t
Retrieved from ""