- Director
- Lawrence D. Foldes
- Year
- 1981
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 80 min
Also released as
- Sanctuary for Evil
- Curse of the Living Dead
- Nightstalker
- No vayas cerca del parque
- Pimeyden puisto
- La malédiction du fond des temps
- Der Fluch des ewigen Lebens
- La collina dei morti viventi
- Refugio de la maldad
- Não Te Aproximes do Parque
- El santuario del mal
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Don't Go Near the Park
Cursed cave dwellers from 12,000 BC eating people in modern Los Angeles. Incoherent throughout.
Cursed cave dwellers from 12,000 BC, immortality achieved by eating the young, and modern Los Angeles.
The plot is not summarisable in a way that would help. There is a prologue in prehistory, a curse, siblings who must consume people to stay alive, a daughter conceived for a purpose, and a magic amulet.
Lawrence Foldes was twenty-two and financed it partly through a tax shelter. Linnea Quigley is in it. It is incoherent from the first scene and never recovers, and the tonal register lurches without warning.
It has a following purely for the incoherence, which is a legitimate reason to watch a film once.
Listed and dropped. Still cut in the UK for a sexual-violence sequence.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · listed, then dropped
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