Beware! Children at Play

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Beware! Children at Play
Directed by	Mik Cribben
Produced by	Michael Koslow Lawrence Littler Linda Sanford Ellen Wedner
Written by	Fred Scharkey
Starring	Michael Robertson Rich Hamilton Robin Lilly Lori Tirgrath Jamie Krause
Music by	Hershel Dwellingham
Cinematography	Mik Cribben
Editing by	Mik Cribben
Distributed by	Troma Entertainment
Release date(s)	1989
Running time	94 minutes
Language	English
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Beware! Children at Play is a 1989 horror film directed by Mik Cribben and distributed by Troma Entertainment. The film follows the inhabitants of a small rural town whose children are disappearing at an alarming rate and whose adults are simutaneously being killed in a ritualistic fashion. It is revealed early on that the kids are being inducted into a group of cannibalistic zombie children who live in the woods.

The film is one of Troma's most controversial titles due to its gruesome finale, a ten-minute sequence where 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.

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