Taking its cues from '50s shockers like Village of the Damned and The Bad Seed with a more explicit '70s twist, the cult video favorite Devil Times Five aka Peopletoys aka The Horrible House on the Hill charts the havoc unleashed when a small bus load of psychologically unbalanced children en route to an institution crashes in the snow, leaving the twisted tots free to roam the countryside at will. Accompanied by a slightly older psycho in nun drag, Hannah (Gail Smale), they find refuge at a nearby cabin where some twisted adults are busy getting drunk and acting out psychosexual parlor games of their own. Soon the kids -- including wannabe child actor David (future singer and tabloid fodder Leif Garrett) and firebug Susan (Tia Thompson) -- have wormed their way into the grown ups' confidence and can murder at will with any tools they find handy, never raising suspicion until it seems too late. - Text courtesy of Mondo Digital
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