Devil Times Five (1975)



David dresses up
 Five children are being driven in a minibus; it crashes and rolls over and over down a hillside. The driver is apparently dead but the children are unharmed. It emerges later that they are from an "acute" mental instituion. They make their way through the snow to a holiday chalet, where a group of dysfunctional adults are spending the weekend. When the generator fails, the telephone line is down, and the only car is disabled (and we are miles from the main road), we begin to wonder what is going to happen.

The children murder the adults one by one and the adults behave stupidly to one another and to the children, and do nothing to improve the situation. Two of the murders are by pointed stick. None of it is believable; the acting and direction are terrible. I didn't like it

For no reason connected with the plot, one of the children, David (Leif Garrett) comments on the fabric of one of the women's dresses, and much later we see him in makeup and wig and dangly earrings in front of the mirror. Nothing more is made of it however. Evidently crossdressing = psychotic murderer.

The film was also released under the titles Horrible House on the Hill, Tantrums and People Toys.

HF February 2011



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