Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

I'm impressed that director Bob Clark managed to get this 70's zombie flick made for only $60,000. But my admiration stops there. Actually, I found the film reasonably offensive. It concerns an eccentric (to say the least) director and his group of actors that he lures to a creepy island cemetery at night. All I can say is, these actors must have been desperate for work to sign on with this guy. As a joke (or is it?), he invokes satanic powers to raise the dead and create his own personal army of the living dead. Watching the ritual, I felt dirty at these displays of blatant satanism. After that, there's desecration of graves, and the director brings back to the cabin a corpse named Orville, and makes it the brunt of his sadistic sense of humor. The film goes out of its way with a half-assed attempt at humor, but its not funny. Despite it all, it does maintain an appropriately creepy atmosphere that kept it from being boring, though the ending is far too much like Night of the Living Dead. Steer clear, it's just not worth it.