We all have those horror movies that scarred us for life. Whether your blood ran cold from the macabre family dinner in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre or you found yourself disturbed and nauseous while watching Regan’s head spin in The Exorcist, these terrible frights became the catalyst for a lifetime of loving horror. When I think back to my childhood, it’s films like Tourist Trap, Poltergeist, and even Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker that left deep impressions. It’s like a frigid winter chill you simply can’t shake, or that ominous sensation that descends at nightfall and seems to rattle among the shadows on your wall. It’s certainly hard to imagine the fifth installment in any B-movie franchise having much to offer, but director Martin Kitrosser’s The Toymaker injected the series with a pinch of whimsy, a few drops of absurdity, and...
- 12/15/2022
- by Bee Scott
- bloody-disgusting.com
Throughout the month of December, we will be highlighting a film a day that has some tie into the holiday somehow. Some titles will be obvious, others won’t be. Some films will be good and, again, others won’t be. However, we think all titles are worth your time whether to give you chills inside your home or to make you drink more eggnog until you puke laughing.
Late one night young Derek (William Thorne) awakes to someone knocking at the front door. A present left on the porch ends up strangling his dad. Derek has gone into shock and won’t speak. His mom Sarah (Jane Higginson) hopes maybe a toy will cheer him up. They go to the toy store owned by Joe Petto (Mickey Rooney) and his son Pino (Brian Bremer). Old Joe has got some weird toys, like Larry the Larvae. Noah (Tracy Fraim) has...
Late one night young Derek (William Thorne) awakes to someone knocking at the front door. A present left on the porch ends up strangling his dad. Derek has gone into shock and won’t speak. His mom Sarah (Jane Higginson) hopes maybe a toy will cheer him up. They go to the toy store owned by Joe Petto (Mickey Rooney) and his son Pino (Brian Bremer). Old Joe has got some weird toys, like Larry the Larvae. Noah (Tracy Fraim) has...
- 12/24/2014
- by Jeremy Jones
- Destroy the Brain
It’s officially Christmas Eve. That means that it’s officially the scariest damn night of the year. You should be afraid, but I suppose if the apocalypse didn’t get you what’s an obese man trying to fit down a chimney with a child labor law violation or two gonna do to you? Welcome to It Came From 1980x. We’ve been following the “evolution” of the Silent Night Deadly Night series starting with a review of the first two movies re-released as a double feature by Anchor Bay and then moving on to the later three sequels that really have jack and shit to do with the rest of the series. That doesn’t mean that we dislike them although my personal preference on the third installment have been documented interwebz wide. This is the final entry in the franchise prior to the reboot/reimaging/remake that...
- 12/24/2012
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
by Chris Wright, MoreHorror.com
A day before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except Larry the Larvae! “Silent Night Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker” was a pretty good small budget straight to video sequel. One cannot be too surprised that the forth and fifth sequel went with a different premise per movie. Trust me, if you watch the second and third sequel, you’ll beg them to change the subject!
I know many who do not like this movie for any number of reasons, but I consider this the second best made sequel of this five movie franchise. It’s generally well done plot with pretty solid acting. Brian Yuzna co-wrote as he did the forth (director of “The Dentist” and writer of “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”). It’s slow in some spots but I find it fun. Fun fact? Rooney protested...
A day before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except Larry the Larvae! “Silent Night Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker” was a pretty good small budget straight to video sequel. One cannot be too surprised that the forth and fifth sequel went with a different premise per movie. Trust me, if you watch the second and third sequel, you’ll beg them to change the subject!
I know many who do not like this movie for any number of reasons, but I consider this the second best made sequel of this five movie franchise. It’s generally well done plot with pretty solid acting. Brian Yuzna co-wrote as he did the forth (director of “The Dentist” and writer of “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”). It’s slow in some spots but I find it fun. Fun fact? Rooney protested...
- 12/24/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
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