The Day I Died

""I can't be dead! I'm only seventeen! I have a date tonight!""

A creepy synthesizer score underlines the melodramatic horror of this cautionary mini-drama. It's a "great day for the beach" when our handsome, likable California surfer-blond hero runs into some pals. Unused to alcohol, he gets very high on buddy Joe's vodka (stashed in a 7-Up bottle), leaving him ill-equipped to drive the car he's just brought home. Things get ever more ghoulish as he witnesses the bleak and tearful events that follow his tragic demise. One assumes many a classroom was left either giggling or traumatized (or both) as he screams his final pleas to God as he's being buried. That's edutainment!

Release Date

January 1, 1977

Status

Released

Original Title

The Day I Died

Runtime

14min

Budget

Revenue

Language

English

Production Companies

Gordon-Kerckhoff Productions