Official Score = 2 Devils[/caption]When you are a kid one of the favorite things that kids like to do is to play with toys right? If you’re a boy, then oft times it would be to play with Action figures and video games of some sort (I don’t know what sort of toys are out there today, but when I was a kid it was all about Gi Joes and Transformers and the like.)
One of the things that I used to like to do when I was a kid was to watch TV Shows and Movies that were based on these Toys and Video Games that I used to like to play with when I was a kid, such TV shows as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (The animated TV series that was around in the 80s and the movies that were around in the early to mid 90’s) GI Joes (The 80s animated series), and others of the like…
The truth is though is that I found another type of movie that was based on toys when I was a kid that I also found to be rather interesting, and that is the horror movies that are based on toys!
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This killer doll from, 'Puppet Master' (1989) is one of the most famous killer toys in horror movie history![/caption]When I was a kid, I have to admit that I really didn't like these movies (scared the hell out of me), but I re-discovered them here in the last decade or so, and I have to admit that they are a source of some awesome good times! Such movies as:
1. Dolls (1987)
2. Puppet Master (1989)
3. Hellraiser (1987)
And of course there is the more famous and universally recognized horror movie that has to do with demonic toys and the lot, and that is Child’s Play (1988)
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Now I did like this movie, but I do have to admit that I thought the sequel was better and I will tell you why… The direction from Director Tom Holland (Fright Night) was great, and even thought that writing by Don Mancini (Cellar Dweller) was great, and heck even the acting from Alex Vincent (My Family Treasure), Chris Sarandon (Fright Night), Brad Dourif (Halloween) and even for the most part from Catherine Hicks (Turbulence) was fun…
It was just lacking something which we will get in to in just a second…
You see this movie which tells the story of how after nearly dying, a criminal puts his soul in to the body of a heavily sought after doll that ends up falling in to the hands of the, ‘Barclay Family’ who then decides to terrorize the family until he can get himself out of the body of the doll and in to the body of little Andy Barclay (Vincent) and can continue his reign of terror!
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When a toy is trying to transfer his soul in to your body, you got to ask yourself... 'How did I get here?'[/caption]Now the truth is, is that this movie was a fun one, but the formula was all wrong… What I mean by this, is that in Child’s Play 2 (1990) and Child’s Play 3 (1991) and began to get kind of convoluted for all of the future Child’s Play movies, is that the sequels all brought the element of more of the surrealistic slasher films that were so popular in the 80s, but Child’s Play felt more like it was a supernatural movie (which it really should not have been, and would have been better a surrealistic slasher flick!)
In the end, if you watch this movie you might find that you like it, but it is definitely not what you would expect!
http://youtu.be/p3zPevsovDE
