Dead Kids (1981)

Anecdotes

Strange Behavior is a 1981 slasher film written, directed and co-produced by Michael Laughlin, co-written with Bill Condon, and starring Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher and Dan Shor. Its plot follows a series of bizarre murders being perpetrated against teenagers in a small Midwestern town, at the same time that the local university is engaging in covert mind control experiments on the youth.

Production

In the 70s, Bill Condon was living in Los Angeles while attending UCLA film school. Before qualification for his residency elapsed, he took a job at Avco Embassy Pictures working for then head Robert Rehme. Condon continued to write articles for film magazines while working at his full time position.

USA, the film was shot in Auckland, New Zealand, and filmed under the title Dead Kids.

The Encyclopedia of Horror designates the film as a New Zealand film. It lists several of the similar productions of its Australian producer Antony I Ginnane and frequent collaborator David Hemmings, who is Executive Producer of this film through the Hemdale Film Corporation. The book opines that "Dead Kids must count as one of their most professional efforts."

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