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
Don't Go Near the Park is a 1981 American witchcraft horror film directed by Lawrence D. Foldes. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, later dropped without a successful prosecution.
Cursed cave dwellers from 12,000 BC eating people in modern Los Angeles. Incoherent throughout.
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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. Passed 18 uncut in 2006.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · listed, then dropped
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