The Gingerdead Man
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Movie Reviews of The Gingerdead Man
Movie Review: "daddy, homicidal baked goods are chasing us"
Summary: 3 Stars
Let me highlight one thing that sums up this movie: the mother of the main female character is portrayed as an alcoholic. To subtly emphasise this, every single scene she appears in she is seen swigging copiously from a bottle of whiskey - indoors and out. That's what kind of film this is. I can't work out if it's deliberately bad or not...the actors seem to be playing it deadpan, but the plot and dialogue are beyond absurd. Another flaw is this film's seeming lack of awareness. When the "Gingerdead" man comes alive and starts killing people in the bakery, he comes equipped with some knock-out punchlines to add a bit of vile humour to proceedings...the only problem being that they're not remotely funny. For example one girl gets hit on the head with a frying pan, accompanied by the remark: "Ooh, that's gonna leave a mark."...where's the joke? Of course that would leave a mark. I basically can't be bothered to dissect the rest of this flimsy film suffice to say that co-star Alexia Aleman is mesmerisingly attractive and probably the only reason I carried on watching this total nonsense. She bumps it up to 3-stars, but in reality this bad film is a 0-star.Movie Review: A cookie version of Chucky
Summary: 3 Stars
Holy crap, this movie proves anyone in the world can make a movie but this takes the cake as the funniest,so-bad,it's good horror-comedy. Charles Band is pure genuis.
Gary Busey shoots up a diner and kills 3 and wounds one and then the wounded survivor works at a cookie factory and when she recieves gingerbread flour some idiot cuts his hand and some blood spills into the flour and mixes in and the flour happens to have Busey's soul into it and when two girls fight one pushes the other into a switch to the oven and that sets off the oven and it brings back the gingerbread man who is the killer,kills the people in the store.
The special fx and acting are AWFUL but for a film like this is isn't hard to understand why. The Gingerdead Man is basically a Chucky wannabe by cussing and killing in a gruesome fashion.
Not bad, Worth a rental.
PS: What was the budget for this film,anyone know?
Movie Review: I love it!!!
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie sucks on so many levels, but honestly, what else could you expect? It's so bad it's funny. It's the kind of thing you watch with your buddies to have a good laugh. I don't think a little kid would even be freaked out by this flick. It's fun and dumb. If you dig bad b-movies, this is for you.Movie Review: Kinda Crumb-Y
Summary: 2 Stars
The Gingerdead Man has an outrageous and fun sounding concept. Unfortunately that's all it has going for it. Charles Band continues his obsession with tiny terrors by shelving the killer dolls and puppets and making way for a killer gingerbread cookie. Sound fun? Sure it does, but is really isn't. Well, it has a few fleeting moments.
Gary Busey is a lunatic who goes on a killing spree in a bakery(Why? How the hell do we know?), leaving only two survivors, Robin Sydney and her mother. Busey is apprehended and sentenced to the chair. Sydney and her mother continue to run the bakery. Soon after Busey's execution a mysterious figure drops a package of gingerbread seasoning on the doorstep of the bakery. Guess what's in it? It's Busey's ashes! Through a series of ludicrous and totally illogical events, these ashes become the Gingerdead Man. Now he's out for revenge, terrorizing the few occupants of the bakery after business hours. It's pretty much the same concept as Child's Play or Jack Frost with a murderer being reborn as a seemingly harmless inanimate object.
First off, we never leave the bakery. The entire film is either shot inside the bakery or right out in front of it. This is kinda irritating, especially since there are numerous opportunities for the characters to simply leave the bakery, but they don't. Gotta keep within budget, ya know? Can't have another set for Pete's sake! Band seems so thrilled with his concept that he simply doesn't care how Busey goes from human killer to cookie killer just as long as it happens. I know logic must be somewhat ignored in a horror film, but a middle school kid coulda wrote a better series of events. Let me ask you all something: If you owned a bakery and an employee cut his hand, would you quickly move his hands over the cookie batter so he could bleed into it? And still bake the cookies???
Anyhow, also like Child's Play and Jack Frost, Busey shows up briefly in the beginning of the film and spends the remainder as the voice of the "monster". He spews profanities and terrible one liners, some of which actually are kinda funny. Busey is one of the more better known character actors of the last 20+ years, and I'm sure he's not exactly in dire straits. I wonder why he did this film. Maybe he liked it and did it for fun.
But as we all know, Full Moon has made some very cool little horror pictures throughout the 90s, but the quality of the films started becoming very questionable by the end of the decade. This film is a good example of those latter days and not so much an example of the Puppet Master days. I've certainly seen worse films from Full Moon. The Gingerdead Man isn't terribly good, but it isn't without a few moments of fun. But anyone familiar with Full Moon should know what to expect from this, so judge accordingly.
Movie Review: This is just bad, and not in a good way
Summary: 2 Stars
Let me preface this by saying I'm all for a good cheesy horror movie, especially ones that are entertainingly bad. And I've been a fan of Full Moon movies for a long time. That being said, this was just bad. When I heard the concept, and the fact that Gary Busey was in it, I was expecting it to be bad but in a fun way. But no, this was just bad.
For the record, the sequel is MUCH more entertaining, more like what I expected this one to be.