Production
The supporting cast includes Dey Young, Marc McClure, Scott Brady, Charles Lane, Beryl Te Wiata, Elizabeth Cheshire and Alma Woods. Screenwriter Bill Condon has a brief cameo as a teenager killed at the film's opening.
Though set in Illinois, the film was shot in Auckland, New Zealand.
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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