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GINGERDEADMAN

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4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(11)

 

 

This week we decided to give you our thoughts on The Gingerdead Man staring Gary Busey. This is the prototypical B movie ladies and gentlemen. It had it all! Awful acting, special effects that could have been topped by a third grade art class, ridiculous dialouge, and for an added bonus: rednecks!

Gary Busey plays a killer who kills all but one in the family who owns and opperates a diner in Anytown, U.S.A. The daughter who remains alive, now runs the place. She has since testified against Busey, who is executed and cremated. Now, Busey's mother is heartbroken, so she does what any good Mom would do: she dumps her son's ashes into the gingerbread dough at the diner in order to exact revenge. At this point, all she needs is a little blood to drip into the dough, and that's it, instant horror B! It's that easy, folks. Anyway, the blood is provided by the idiot boyfriend who pretends to be a wrestler. He gets cut while trying to give himself a sharpshooter.

It's here that Busey comes alive as the Gingerdead man and starts the body count rolling. A bright spot is that the Miz was among the first to go. So, he obviously is stopped. But, they leave this one open for a sequel. Sid can only hope that Full Moon will stay with the Celebrity Fit Club routine and get Screech to star in Bearded Gingerdead Man 2. Maybe the gingerdead man can come back as the keyboard player in Zack Attack. Just the fact that Sid considered this while watching the movie tells you how B it was.

Note an added star was added due to an accidental appearance by a stagehand hiding behind a ladder. Good work Full Moon! Just when we thought you disappeared off the face of the earth, you totally redeem yourself gaining a star below the one and only DEATH RING. So, once again, we definitely recommend The Gingerdead Man if you're in the mood for a good old-fashioned B-horror. A hands down recipient of the Sid the Elf seal of approval.

Oh man what can I say about this movie that hasn't already been said. I discovered it from a site called Crack and looked it up on Youtube because I had to see it to believe it. I'll try to explain the overall set up as best I can.

Let me see, we start out with the worse bank robber in the world who takes no money, but shoot people in this cafe. One of the 3 people in there Jeremy decides he ain't taking! This dude pulls out his knife and decides to give this robber a fight he'll never forget. He gets up and walks his way over to the robber and surprisingly doesn't get too far before he shot. MAN! I didn't see that coming! I had faith that Jeremy could kick some ass, but once again guns beat knives. Too bad. Next Jeremy's son is killed, but even killers have standards and decides to spare her (Sarah/Jeremy's daughter)...for some reason. The robber is caught, electrocuted, and then cremated, with his ashes sent to his mother. Skip ahead later and we find Sarah working in the family bakery with a boy named Brick. There's a knock on the door and Sarah answers it to find a box of gingerbread seasoning and the back of a retreating figure in a black robe. Not suspicions at all she assumes the person leaving this ONE box of gingerbread seasoning is the delivery man despite no papers having to be signed or anything. She and Brick proceed to prepare gingerbread mix. Brick somehow cuts his damn arm opening a box and instead of looking at the cut somewhere away from the dish their preparing, Brick hovers his bleeding arm over the bowl with the seasoning in it and blood drips into it without them seeing it. Somewhere a health inspector is crying. The oven malfunctions and out pops a killer cookie. You hear me right! We have killer dolls, killer animals, killer plants, and now kill pastries that throw out baking puns.

This is definitely a movie you have to not take seriously to enjoy. It actually made me hungry for some cake and cookies so if you smoke weed this is the movie for you. I think the makers were high on brownies when they decided to make a horror movie about a killer cookie. I'm waiting for Attack of the Killer Toulet now. Just like The Room this is definitely worth watching for the LOL's. Heck watch it to know it actually exist. All I have to say about the ending of the movie is "Got Milk".

THE GINGERDEAD MAN

I am a huge B movie fan and a fan of Charles Band and his Full Moon Pictures love the low budget style they bring. This one is one of those that you have to go into this knowing what you are getting and accept it. Gary Busey is indeed the Gingerdead Man; yes a gingerbread cookie with a killer attitude. This is absolutely not a classic and is absolutely pure low budget greatness, I love it. Plus I like the fact that the film is set in Waco Texas which is like little over an hour away from me.

The Leigh family is killed in a robbery by a madman played by Busey except the little girl of the family. She sends him to jail with her testimony at court and he eventually goes to the chair. His mother says she will get revenge and after receives her son's ashes her plan takes place. She takes them to the bakery that Sarah Leigh owns and works at and gets it mixed into the gingerbread mix. Once the cookies are cut [this one in particular is bigger for some reason] and baked the fun begins as does the killing.

Let me say from jump that the special effects for this film are as funny as the idea of this movie. The Gingerdead man looks cool and Busey is absolutely brilliant as the cookie, the writing favors him a lot. Writers August White and William Butler came up with a crazy idea some horrible dialogue and some funny one liners for the baked good. Charles Band is a producer and director for this one and while nowhere near earlier classics it is kinda funny.

As for acting every one other Busey and his voice over and lead Robin Sydney need some work, some pretty bad stuff. Our lead shows that she can carry herself for the entire film but that is about it, also that one guy she hooks up seems like he is older than the character he plays. But overall the deaths are ok but are really funny because of how bad the film kinda is. I thought this film was funny and did not regret buying it, in fact part 2 [passion of the crust] here I come.

In 1989 the world was intorduced to Charles Bands' super low budget horror company know as Full Moon Productions. The company became popular off of it's cult favored Puppet Master in 1989 and has been pumping out a variety of a films over the years. They all tend to be extremely low budget but that's really their claim to fame. The company doesn't try to be something it's not and that's why I enjoy their films. Yes the acting, special effects, and storylines are really bad. But they are really fun to watch in that so good it's bad way. The Gingerdeadman stays on the border of watchable and promises to provide some laughs if nothing else. Hey they even got Gary Busey to show up straight from his celebrity rehab session. However after a couple days of shooting he probably checked back in for an extended stay.

We start off with crazed killer Millard Findlemeyer (Gary Busey) after he wipes out a family at a diner except for one girl. This girl winds up sending him away to be charged up by the electric chair and somehow his remains get into a box of gingerbread batter. This batter is then delivered to the bakery she works at and the laughs insue. A drop of blood winds up going in the batter forcing the spirit of Millard to come to life as a gingerbread man. For a 2 ft bakery item this is one tough cookie. It is just hilarious to watch these terrible actors running around as if there is no script to be found trying to hide from the wrath of the Gingerdead man.

The only way possible to enjoy this movie is if you're a huge fan of extreme low grade b horror. In no way is The Gingerdead Man a good movie for the serious watcher. It's really geared towards those who are looking to get a good laugh, not a scare. For those people who have any question if Gary Busey has completely lost it all you have to do is pop this one in. You will certainly have your answer.

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.

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.

Seeing this hilariously titled DVD I picked it up for rental knowing full well that it has no possibility of being good. I needed a good laugh and I got some. Like another viewer said, why would the girl use baking ingredients left mysteriously in alley that were just in a box, no seal, no plastic wrap.....When they were dropped off, how did that person know the idiot bakers would add blood to it and deliver lightning bolts to the oven to activate it? Dumb. Also, all the characters knew of the dangerous gingerbread man in the bakery but they never left to get help, it was as easy as opening the door and leaving, but no...can't do that. Poor plot, script, acting, everything was poor. This movie is obviously just for chuckles and nothing more.

Well...is this movie supposed to be funny, make you laugh, then make you scream too ? It said: COMEDY / HORROR....well...I wonder why I was laughing only in ONE scene where the Butcher Baker was eating the Gingerdead Man, then said "Got Milk ?"....

Somehow I can't get the feeling that I am in the movie...it's like you watch everything then...blank....you don't know what's happening, I just can't feel the INTENSE of the actors/actresses when they were scared...

To be honest..., I have never made any reviews to the movies before, even when it didn't entertain me much....but this movie is just so boring...., and I am so dissapointed.

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?

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.