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Sarah and her mom are struggling to stay in business
with their small bakery. The fact that Sarah's dad
and brother were shot in a robbery a couple of months
back doesn't exactly help either. And as if that
wasn't enough, Sarah has just baked a gingerbread
man which is determined to kill anyone that comes
in his way. Is there any way to stop this insanity
or is the bakery doomed?
What should have been a hilarious horror comedy ended
up in being absolutely terrible. William Butler was
originally meant to direct this movie but when Full
Moon Entertainment figured that they didn’t want
to spend a lot of money on it, Charles Band was
attached to the project as the director instead (not
much of a surprise there). So why didn't this movie
turn out to be as entertaining as we all expected
it to be? Well, for starters, the entire movie takes
place inside a bakery. I mean, seriously, it would
have helped if they had at least had two locations
were they filmed this as it feels as if the entire
movie was shot in one day. This might not be far
away from the truth however since the movie is only
54 minutes long if you exclude the opening and end
credits (something which has become very common for
recent Full Moon movies).
I really don't think that it's fair to try to pull
this off as a full length feature as 54 minutes is
hardly a full length movie in my eyes. Even the
Masters Of Horror episodes are longer than that.
Anyway, the directing is, as expected with Charles
Band, really awful. The light setting is terrible
(what is it with Full Moon and red and neon lights?)
and the photography is just impressively bad. The
acting is beyond abysmal and the gingerdead man is
quite pathetic. I didn't feel scared, I didn't feel
amused, I didn't feel entertained, I just felt like
having a cookie.
It's such a shame that such a funny concept went to
waste. I know many horror fans are going to check
this out just because of the concept but I really
would advice you not to. This is basically just
another one of Charles Bands awful killer puppet
movies, only this time, the puppet is a gingerbread
man (even though he barely looks like a cookie).
I am really disappointed and I think that Full Moon
has proved to me once and for all that they are
incapable of making good horror flicks.
We get a finger cut off and a knife in ones forehead.
Typical Full Moon crap, you know what I mean.
When I saw the teaser trailer for this a couple of
years back, I couldn't wait to see this flick. It's
such a shame that Full Moon screwed this up so badly
that it barely even turned out to be a full length
feature. It's cheap, it's bad, and it's far from as
funny as it should have been.
Review By: AnthroFred
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