Also known as People Toys, The Devil Times Five, and Tantrums.
Put on this multi-named horror while I was working and you know what? Actually didn't want to multi task or distract myself away from it! A good movie!
This is why people do this. I mean the whole Grindhouse cult thing, why people keep watching them, is to find hidden gems like this that are not obvious. We dig and dig, watch and watch, and eventually, statistically speaking, you will find one.
People Toys is low budget and flawed, sure, but it's always about what is done right. The movie has good actors, style, some deaths, nudity, and it's cozy as heck, filmed in the snow swept countryside somewhere.
A bunch of kids and a nun escape a bus crash early on, from there they roam around until they find a chalet where some people are staying. The kids are all a bit weird acting, but so are the people at the chalet, so we dismiss it, that is until we see the kids kill someone.
Numerous times, this movie uses a weird slow motion with bizarre sounds and effects, and in this case it adds to the strange feeling of this extremely odd movie. The tone is offbeat but not bad, and the plot moves quickly with a lot of characters and deaths to keep you going. Its got the feeling of a true sickness to it that I appreciated.
I was surprised! I'll give it 4 stars.
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