Devil Times Five

May. 31, 1974

01:28:00

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Genres: Horror

Overview:

Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.

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This quirky psychological thriller involves a quintet of weird kids who stumble into the luxurious winter retreat of a wealthy patriarch (Gene Evans) and his arrogant guests. Little do the effete vacationers realize that the children are escapees from an asylum for the criminally insane -- a fact they realize only after their doom has been sealed. The only known film from director Sean MacGregor (released theatrically as People Toys), this is a seldom-seen but thoroughly satisfying horror sleeper with a sardonic sense of morality, taking great delight in knocking off Evans' circle of decadent snobs in graphic and innovative ways (one guest is joined in the bath by piranhas; another is pummeled with chains in a creepy still-photo montage). Known also to some drive-in venues as The Horrible House on the Hill, no doubt as part of a double-bill with Wes Craven's Last House on the Left.

Director: Sean MacGregor

Writer: John Durren Dylan Jones Sandra Lee Blowitz

Cast: Gene Evans Sorrell Booke John Durren Shelley Morrison Joan McCall Leif Garrett Dawn Lyn Henry Beckman Taylor Lacher Tierre Turner Carolyn Stellar Gail Smale Tia Thompson

Genres: Horror

Riivatut, Tantrums, The Horrible House on the Hill, Cinq fois la mort, Kleine Teufel, Devil Times Five, Peopletoys (original title)