Devil Times Five

1974 "What Wendy just saw them do will make you sick to your stomach...if it doesn't make you faint first!"
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Released: 31 May 1974 Released
Producted By: Barrister Productions Inc.
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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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Rainey Dawn Come on, who wants to see a bunch of adults, who seemed mental themselves, talk dumb stuff that is totally unrelated to the film... I know they have to establish characters and they were going about their boring lives but all that bored me to tears!! OH and where in the film do they mention they are part of a mafia?!! Not one of them acted like they were mafia, not one of them even close to being mafia material - get real! Way too much time spent on this crap instead of with the kids who should have been creepy and they are NOT! Now as far as the kids - dumb! They are being transported from one institution to another apparently and they are in a van/bus crash, the driver dies and they escape. They end up in a village with stupid adults and they kill them. All the kids are trying too hard to be funny or cute minus the Nun kid (the only kid that I found barely creepy).Why didn't the film makers take the time to make the kids, minus the barely creepy nun, scary? Nun kid should have been even creepier - very scary in fact. I was hoping for another good creepy kid story not kids trying to be funny or cute! The film sucks in my opinion.1/10
artpf Five extremely disturbed, sociopath children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.Very 70s, complete with direction that looks like it's for TV, not the movies, weird whistling music that bares no understanding why it was chosen. And poor over dubbing of sound effects -- even simple stuff like cars driving.A main character is named Papa Doc. When they call him it sounds like Papa Duck! And believe it or not, Lief Garrett is in this flick! No wonder he turned into an addict!The movie is poorly acted the way many are, only it's not a fun ride the way some are.
HumanoidOfFlesh "Devil Times Five" predates "Children of the Corn" and "The Children of Ravensback" by several years and it's actually pretty smart and suitably nasty piece of horror.A quintet of extremely disturbed sociopathic kids who stumble into the luxurious winter retreat of a wealthy patriarch and his arrogant guests.Little do the 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.There are few creative death scenes including the one involving the piranhas attacking woman in the bathtub and the children scheme to kill adults,but the action drags and not much happens until the last 20 minutes or so.Overall,"People Toys" is not as scary and memorable as Serrador's "Who Can Kill a Child?".7 out of 10.
vegeta3986 Now i don't like to use juvenile terms when i review a movie, but honestly. i hated this movie. hated hated hated this movie. I know that's a childish thing to say (no pun intended) but there's no better word. This movie was stupid.Allrighty, i might as well tell you WHY. So let's jump into Movie number 22 on our Chilling Classics 50 movie pack.So it starts off with these little annoying kids who climb out of a bus that crashed apparently unharmed. It seems that they just escaped from a crazy house and they are just.... it isn't really clear what their motive it, they're just doing stuff. On the other side of the plot though an old guy who isn't much of a family man has a get together for the rest of his family. They all kind of yell at each other the whole time, so it really isn't that good of a reunion. Or then again, it's like EVERY reunion. Now it said on my DVD sleeve that these people were mafia. I don't know, they never mentioned it, and if this old guy were the head of a mafia you'd think he'd have guards or something, but you know what? i seriously question ever aspect of this movie anyway.So these kids show up and start killing off people one by one. And everyone thinks it's suicides. Because they're idiots. And then they lose their guns. because they're idiots. Then they start getting killed off one by one... because, well something tells me you could figure out why.I am going to spoil the ending here for one specific reason. So you know what happens and you have no cause or reason to see this movie. EVER. The only guy left's girlfriend gets killed by the kids, so he goes out to get his revenge. FINALLY! oh. wait. then he falls in some bear traps and dies..... God i hate this movie.Look. There's something people who make movies need to understand. Just because you have a child in a movie, that does not make them invincible. If a child/ group of children are killers, it does not mean that they can get away scott free and that we think that would be chilling or a role reversal. No. IT'S STUPID. it doesn't frighten or disturb you, it INCREDIBLY ANNOYS YOU. if that was their attempt, then great job, but something tells me they're not that smart to think of something like that. If you have 5 main evil kids, AT LEAST 2 have to die if you're going to make some live. you CANNOT have all of them live. That is BEYOND retarded. Now i know that sort of thing in the role reversal is terrible like Jason Voorehees pretty much won't ever be seen killing a kid, but on the other hand, if 5 kids are slaughtering everybody around them, i think they need to pull out the punches and start lopping off some annoying kid heads.Now i normally don't review in this way, but this movie made me angry at it. So much so that if it were not part of a collection, and "passenger of bali" (which is also on the same disc) not being somewhat entertaining, i would have thrown this stupid thing out.Devil times five gets 1 terrible EVERYTHING out of 10.