The Wednesday Children (1973)
The Wednesday Children follows the plight of a young boy named Scotty (Tom Kelly) whose father and step-mother (Donald E. Murray and Marji Dodrill) are kind of grouchy and don’t have much time for him. Tommy and his friends fall in with a creepy church janitor, who instructs them on how to rid the world of grown-ups.
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Powerful
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
I saw this low-budget regional horror flick for the first time in September 2010.The plot of "The Wednesday Children" centers around eleven year old blonde boy Scott Miller(Tom Kelly).The boy feels alienated and unloved because his parents are uncaring.His father is more interested in his job and his collection of plane models;his hysterical mother enjoys her wig too much.It's up to eccentric Mister Fenton(Al Miskell)to save Scott and the group of local children from their self-absorbed parents.The film was shot in Wadsworth,Ohio and directed by Robert D.West,who was local Wadsworth preacher.It plays like Christian version of "Children of the Corn",so it obviously lacks nudity,gore and profanity.Still it's a charming and very pleasant horror drama.6 disappearing parents out of 10.