Come dite? Le Iene di Quentin Tarantino?
Ma siamo impazziti?!?!
Io parlo di Demonic Toys di Peter Manoogian!
Una agente di polizia che si ritrova incinta del suo amato collega non trova momento migliore di dirglielo degli attimi precedenti l'arresto di alcuni trafficanti di armi. Purtroppo la loro copertura salta, e nella sparatoria che ne segue il futuro papà viene ucciso assieme ad un malavitoso.
La donna insegue il superstite in un vecchio magazzino pieno di orripilanti pupazzi satanici che - ahiloro - si animano a contatto col sangue.
Assieme al custode, all'uomo-pollo e ad una bimbetta fuggita di casa dovranno combattere i peluche per aver salva la vita!
Solo alla fine verrà loro svelato l'inquietante segreto dietro ai Giocattoli Infernali (che casualmente è pure il titolo italiano di questo filmone)!
Un'idea risibile, pupazzi animati un po' come marionette ed un po' in stop-motion ed una gran voglia di produrre il proprio filmaccio horror: è questo il vero cinema di serie B (se non C) che amiamo!
Si salva il grande pupazzo malvagio Baby Oopsy Daisy, cattivo e cinico al punto giusto.
A questa grande produzione hanno lavorato alcuni componenti della famiglia Band (figli e (pro-)nipoti di Albert Band), da sempre invischiati in simili B-movies; altra cosa da segnalare è l'improbabile cross-over con la serie iniziata con Dollman di quella purulenta pustola di Albert Pyun: Dollman vs. Demonic Toys (anche Giocattoli Assassini) contiene numerose scene rubate dai film precedenti e promette d'essere un vero gioiello del trash.
Voto: 3. Trashometro® 7/10:
Tags: horror, giocattoli, demonio, gravidanza, trash.
Demonic Toys (1992)
Giocattoli infernali
Regista: Peter Manoogian
Scrittore: David S. Goyer
Genere: Horror
Valutazione: 3.6/10 (335 voti)
Durata: 86 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Tracy Scoggins .... Judith Gray
- Bentley Mitchum .... Mark Wayne
- Daniel Cerny .... The Kid
- Michael Russo .... Lincoln
- Barry Lynch .... Hesse
- Ellen Dunning .... Anne
- Jeff Celentano .... Matt Cable (as Jeff Weston)
- Peter Schrum .... Charnetski
- William Thorne .... Fair-Haired Boy
- Richard Speight Jr. .... Andy
Trama:
A botched bust on a pair of arms dealers inadvertantly leads to the raising of a sixty-six-year-old demon with the power to bring toys to life as his personal minions. The demon is looking for a body to inhabit so he can increase his powers, and it just so happens that one of the police officers is pregnant with the ideal host. As the murderous toys close in on their victims, the officer must not only fight for her life, but for the soul of her unborn child.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Pyun, Albert
Nome di battesimo: Pyun, Albert F.
Ultimi lavori:
- Cool Air (2006) (V) .... [regista]
- Infection (2005) .... [regista]
- Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004) .... [regista]
- Final Examination (2003) (V) .... (producer) [produttore]
- More Mercy (2003) (V) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Ticker (2001) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Corrupt (1999) .... [regista]
- Urban Menace (1999) .... [regista]
- The Wrecking Crew (1999) .... [regista]
- Crazy Six (1998) .... [regista]
Biografia:
No other film director has been so much vituperated against as Albert Pyun. Frequently compared with Edward D. Wood Jr., they both share a fascination for the bizarre. Pyun has a feel for the stylistic and hypnotic, changing the conventions of fiction, and makes each of his movies extreme experiences.Unintentionally born in San Diego, he was later brought up in Hawaii, and his Hawaiian childhood was illuminated by an unending movie consumption that would turn him into a guest of the cinemas regularly used by the marines from the Kaneohe military base, where awful horror movies and tacky action films were massively projected. And at the age of nine, Pyun started shooting short films with an 8mm camera borrowed from his parents. At sixteen he embarked his mates into gang movies that he later revealed underground, while working at night as editor, sound technician or electrician for local laboratories.Following his graduation, at eighteen he traveled to Japan. Once there, supported by Toshirô Mifune, he succeeded in getting hired as a trainee of the great Akira Kurosawa. Back in the Estates, he shot over three hundred adverts. Taking advantage on the revival of the sword & sandal gender fostered by John Milius' Conan the Barbarian (1982), he obtained funding for The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982). Probably one of his less loathed films, a visual fest, extremely pulp, although with a touch of gore not suitable for all. Its unexpected success would raise the interest of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, the owners of Cannon Films, a flashy producing company.Under the Cannon seal, Pyum would complete some of his most widespread films such as Cyborg (1989), a vehicle for the up-and-coming martial arts actor Jean-Claude Van Damme, it was initially conceived as a heavy opera without dialogue, shot in granulated black and white, but the proposal encountered the refusal of producers, opposed to this kind of avant-garde displays.In 1993, Pyun made another movie on cyborgs, Nemesis (1993), where scenes of gunfests prevail over martial arts, compared to his previous movies. It has a great cast of brute actors (and actresses), and is pre-empting the cyberpunk aesthetics of later movies. Its success would give way for three sequels, progressively vast, jointly shot in a flicker with an imaginary budget.He usually has to overcome budget shortages, re-editing and other kind of damage caused by producers and distributors intendingto bury his authorship. The swiftness of his shooting of movies gives way for an avant-garde exploration, and Albert Pyun belongs to that lineage of film makers not appreciated as it should. To define Pyun, we could call him a sort of Jean-Luc Godard from the B (or Z) series. Albert Pyun has completed more than forty films over the worst circumstances.Pyun's creative restraints has frequently pushed him to shoot two films at once. While completing a project with a more or less assured budget (never generous though), he takes advantage from locations and technical teams to shoot undercover an "author's fancy", sometimes in just two or three days.Pyun has hardly ever controlled the final editing of his films, but he always shoots in scope format, with anamorphic and wide-angle lenses, in an attempt to emulate the shot compositions and usage of framing of his master, Sergio Leone. Re-edited by producers and re-framed to satisfy the television and video market requests, a large part of Pyun films magic has gone missing. Eager to preserve the originality of his work, Pyun created the production company Filmwerks in 1994, through which he will finance a handful of titles representing an illustrative summary of his unique and captivating art.Despite some reverses and bashes, Pyun has manage to complete Infection (2005), a film where he finally has been able to exert full control, and recovers his avant-garde impulse along with his hectic creativity. Once more, Pyun leaves the spectator in a shock following a display of his technical skill: this time, the focus is on the shooting of a definitively psychotronic plot in real time and on one sequence-shot.Albert Pyun is already working on new projects that he describes with his characteristic enthusiasm: "Cool Air", an adaptation of Lovecraft currently in an editing stage; a remake of Mean Guns on a Faustian tone; he is even considering the making of a surrealistic western, "Left for Dead", that he is to shoot simultaneously with "War Zone", a bellicose nightmare.
Trivia random: Writers trademark: The character 'Brick Bardo' was used by Pyun in 7 of his earlier films (Radioactive Dreams (1985), Alien from L.A. (1988), Deceit (1989), Cyborg (1989), Bloodmatch (1991), Dollman (1991) and Nemesis III: Prey Harder (1996) (V)), and also in his more recent film, Infection (2005). The character is played twice by Tim Thomerson, Scott Paulin and Christian Andrews, and once by Thom Mathews and Ralph Moeller.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys (1993) (V)
Giocattoli assassini
Regista: Charles Band
Scrittore: Charles Band, Jackson Barr
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Valutazione: 3.0/10 (222 voti)
Durata: USA:64 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Tim Thomerson .... Brick Bardo
- Melissa Behr .... Nurse Ginger rest of cast listed alphabetically: R.C. Bates
- Phil Brock .... Collins
- Willie C. Carpenter .... Police Officer
- Peter Chen .... Cab Driver
- Phil Fondacaro .... Ray Vernon
- Tracy Scoggins .... Judith Gray
- Frank Welker .... Baby Oopsy-Daisy (voice)
Trama:
The Demonic Toys are back, so policewoman Judith Grey seeks the help of 12 inch tall Dollman and his 12 inch tall girlfriend, Nurse Ginger. The Toys hole up in an evil deserted toy factory and it's up to Dollman to keep the Toys from summoning the powers of darkness to the Earth.
Trivia random: A large portion of the footage used is recycled from the films Dollman (1991) , Bad Channels (1992) , and Demonic Toys (1992) .
Citazione random: Brick Bardo: Pop goes the weasel.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Tarantino, Quentin
Nome di battesimo: Tarantino, Quentin Jerome
Data di nascita: 27 March 1963
Altezza: 6' 2½" (1.89 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- Grind House (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Hell Ride (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Hostel: Part II (2007) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Freedom's Fury (2006) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Inglorious Bastards (2006) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Killshot (2006) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Reservoir Dogs (2006) (VG) .... (screenplay) (story) [scrittore]
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005) (TV) .... (special thanks) [misc]
- Daltry Calhoun (2005) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Hostel (2005) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Biografia:
In January of 1991 a film titled Reservoir Dogs (1992) hit the Sundance Film festival. The writer-director was a first-timer by the name of Quentin Tarantino. The film garnered critical acclaim and the director became a legend in the England, UK and the cult film circuit. Three years later he followed up 'Dogs' with the film Pulp Fiction (1994). 'Pulp' premiered at the Cannes film festival, where it won the coveted 'Palme D'Or' the virtual equal of the Best Picture at the Academy Awards. At the '93 Academy Awards, 'Pulp' was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, in addition Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, among others. Tarantino and writing partner Roger Avary came away with the award only for Best Original Screenplay. (Where Roger uttered his now famous line, "I've gotta go pee".) In 1995, Tarantino directed one fourth of the Anthology Four Rooms (1995) with friends and fellow auteurs Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Allison Anders. That film was released on December 25th in the United States to very weak reviews. This is mainly due to the heavy cutting of the first two segments and the introduction which make much of the plotline unintelligible, and creates a complete mess out of the second segment, directed by Alexandre Rockwell. The best two segments of the film are Robert Rodriguez's and Tarantino's. Tarantino's next film was From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), a crime/vampire film which he wrote and co-starred with George Clooney. The film did fairly well theatrically.
Trivia random: Ranked #81 on Premiere's 2004 annual Power 100 List. He was unranked in 2003.
Citazione random: (at MTV Movie Awards 1994) as he won Best Picture for Pulp Fiction (1994)) "Pop quiz, hotshot: you go to the awards ceremonies all year long; you keep losing to Forrest Gump (1994)! It's really annoying the hell out of you - what do you do? You go to the MTV Awards!"
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Band, Albert
Nome di battesimo: Antonini, Alfredo
Data di nascita: 7 May 1924
Data di morte: 14 June 2002
Ultimi lavori:
- Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996) .... (co-producer) [produttore]
- Zarkorr! The Invader (1996) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Castle Freak (1995) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Dragonworld (1994) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Oblivion (1994) .... (co-producer) [produttore]
- Pet Shop (1994) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Prehysteria! 2 (1994) (V) .... [regista]
- Prehysteria! (1993) .... [regista]
- Remote (1993) (V) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Robot Wars (1993) .... [regista]
Biografia:
A veteran filmmaker, Albert Band is one of Hollywood's most prolific filmmakers who started his career in the early 50s. He began financing a number of motion pictures through the seventies and eighties and helped his son, Charles Band, bring together his own production company, 'Empire Pictures', in the early eighties. Upon the collapse of Empire Pictures in the early nineties, Band continued to work with his son and help bring a number of low-budget and medium budget films to the Hollywood screen and sopme direct to video releases. Albert Band died in June of 2002 of stomach and lung cancer. His other son, Richard Band, is a film music composer for a number of motion pictures.
Trivia random: Returned to the USA in the early 1970s.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Manoogian, Peter
Ultimi lavori:
- Good Time Max (2006) .... (co-producer) [produttore]
- Fool's Gold (2005) .... (line producer) [produttore]
- Piccadilly Cowboy (2005) .... (line producer) [produttore]
- From the Classroom to the Streets: The Making of 'Who's That Knocking at My Door' (2004) (V) .... (special thanks) [misc]
- The Painting (2001) .... [regista]
- Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back (2000) (TV) .... (line producer) [produttore]
- The Midas Touch (1997) .... [regista]
- Favorite Deadly Sins (1995) (TV) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women (1994) (TV) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Sex, Shock & Censorship (1993) (TV) .... (producer) [produttore]
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Dollman (1991)
Regista: Albert Pyun
Scrittore: Charles Band, David Pabian
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Crime, Thriller
Valutazione: 4.6/10 (295 voti)
Durata: UK:79 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Tim Thomerson .... Brick Bardo
- Jackie Earle Haley .... Braxton Red
- Kamala Lopez-Dawson .... Debi Alejandro
- Humberto Ortiz .... Kevin Alejandro
- Nicholas Guest .... Skyresh
- Judd Omen .... Mayor
- Michael Halsey .... Cally
- Frank Doubleday .... Cloy
- Frank Collison .... Sprug
- Vincent Klyn .... Hector
Trama:
Brick Bardo (Tim Thomerson) is a traveller from outer space who is forced to land on Earth. Though regular sized on his home planet, he is doll-sized here on Earth, as are the enemy forces who have landed as well. While Brick enlists the help of an impoverished girl and her son, the bad guys enlist the help of a local gang. When word leaks out as to his location, and all hell breaks loose. Brick is besieged by an onslaught of curious kids, angry gang members, and his own doll-sized enemies, and he must protect the family who has helped him and get off the planet alive. Citazione random: Brick: I hate fucking giants.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Cani da rapina
Regista: Quentin Tarantino
Scrittore: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Valutazione: 8.4/10 (92777 voti) [#61 nella top250]
Durata: 99 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Harvey Keitel .... Mr. White/Larry Dimmick
- Tim Roth .... Mr. Orange/Freddy Newandyke
- Michael Madsen .... Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega
- Chris Penn .... Nice Guy Eddie Cabot
- Steve Buscemi .... Mr. Pink
- Lawrence Tierney .... Joe Cabot
- Randy Brooks .... Holdaway
- Kirk Baltz .... Marvin Nash
- Edward Bunker .... Mr. Blue (as Eddie Bunker)
- Quentin Tarantino .... Mr. Brown
Trama:
Joe Cabot, a small-time crime boss, assembles five strangers with reputations as good thieves to steal a lot diamonds. When the police arrive at the scene before the burglars can even make their getaway, it becomes apparent that one of them is an undercover police officer.
Trivia random: A box of Fruit Brute cereal is visible in Mr. Orange's apartment. The box later appears in Pulp Fiction (1994).
Citazione random: Mr. White: If you shoot this man, you die next. Repeat. If you shoot this man, you die next.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
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