The Gingerdead Man
by Charles Band
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Actor: Alexia Aleman, Gary Busey, Larry Cedar, Robin Sydney, Ryan LockeDirector: Charles Band
Brand: Music Video Dist
Producer: Charles Band
Writer: William Butler
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Wizard Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Gingerdead Man
Movie Review: The best movie about a killer pastry ever produced
Summary: 5 Stars
Very occasionally an ensemble of young actors, an unknown director and a seasoned veteran can come together to produce movie magic. Movies that combine this motley blend of talent launch careers and inspire film makers and audiences alike.
The Ginerdead Man is not such a movie.
The plot of the movie is as follows: A cold-blooded murderer (Gary Busey) kills everyone in an innocent young girl's family, except, of course, for the innocent young girl. He's repaid for his mercy with her damning testimony and is sentenced to death by electrocution. Did I mention that his mother is an evil gypsy witch? That turns out to be important. She takes his ashes and delivers him in the form of ginger-dough to the innocent young girl's bakery.
I should mention some side details. Gary Busey actually kills the protagonist in the first scene of the movie. In the next scene she is no longer dead. This makes for a bit of a continuity error.
Also, the bakery belongs to the innocent young girl's mother, a drunkard who shoots down a competing bakery's banner in the dead of night. Apparently, two bakeries on the same street is a little much--can't over saturate the market. The competing bakery is owned by a bad guy with no respect for little businesses or their belligerently drunken proprietors.
One look at the bakery and it's not too difficult to deduce why they are going out of business. The innocent young girl seriously considers selling the business for 50K, it has an employee who goes by the alias "butcher-baker", and they make twelve inch gingerbread men one at a time.
The Gingerdead Man comes to life and starts killing people. Actually, he kills two people, the competing baker/real-estate moguls daughter (who we learn was awarded the auspicious title "Ms. Pretty-Face of Waico") and the competing baker/real-estate mogul. The audience won't miss them.
The Gingerdead Man himself looks frighteningly like a terd with a face. He's strong though, strong enough to put a Rambo-style survival knife right through the front of someone's cranium. He's also a bit of a cynic, but never once laments that his lot in life is to be a vengeful pastry.
The scene of the Ginerdead Man is at the innocent young girl's bakery. No attempt is made to isolate the Gingerdead Man's victims from the outside world. At any time they could simply walk out of the bakery. In "Jaws" the victims are on a capsizing boat in the middle of the ocean, in "2001 A Space Odyssey" the astronauts are stuck in deep space with a killer-computer. In "The Gingerdead Man" the victims have their cars parked outside and are at the scene of repulsive horror at their own volition.
These blatant contradictions and ridiculous plot inventions are exactly what makes "The Gingerdead Man" such an entertaining movie. The dialogue even has deliberately self-depreciating asides, making characters re-hash the previous events in a manner that highlights just how retarded the central theme is. In fact, on the blooper-reel you can actually see how many takes it took for a character to summarize the plot without laughing.
Is "The Gingerdead Man" a satire on bad B-movie horrors? Yes, but not in the slapstick vein of the "Scary Movie" series. The movie makes all of the pitfalls of bad B-movies, points out that it is making those pitfalls, and then makes no attempt to apologize for them, and that is a recipe for comedic genius. We laugh at the fact that they could leave the bakery at any time, but then notice that a shot of the window reveals cars driving up and down the street outside. The director knows the characters can leave, he even subtly points it out. The joke is on the audience, and it's a funny one.
Ms. Pretty Face of Waico laments the death of her father for about fifteen seconds, steals the ring right off his finger, and then gets stabbed in the face. The Gingerdead man fires a revolver thirty-seven times without reloading. The butcher-baker tears the head off the Gingerdead Man and gasps "Got milk?" The hits just keep on coming.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. I think the world is ready for a sequel.
Summary of The Gingerdead Man
In a quiet, small-town diner a deranged patron, Millard Findlemeyer (Gary Busey), opens fire on the Leigh family. , killing all but the daughter, Sarah Leigh (Robin Sydney). During the trial, Sara's testimony sends Millard to the electric chair and his ashes are sent to his mother. In a vow of revenge, Millard's mother mixes her son's ashes with a secret gingerbread cookie mix, which makes its way into Sarah Leigh's bakery. When one of the bakery employees, Brick Fields (Jonathan Chase) cuts his arm and accidentally bleeds into the mixture, an old curse spawns a deadly 12â? walking, talking, killing gingerbread cookie and wrecks havoc on anything standing in his way!Similar DVD Movies
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