A run-of-the-mill cable TV-level horror film. It had a few interesting features. It also had gigantic plot holes, and some really bad acting from the child actors. Yes, I know, it's hard to find children who can act, but this film really needed some. The main redeeming feature was a semi-gratuitous nude scene from Candace McKenzie, who was total eye candy.
Pinocchio's Revenge
1996
Fantasy / Horror / Mystery
Pinocchio's Revenge
1996
Fantasy / Horror / Mystery
Plot summary
Defense attorney Jennifer Garrick acquires a Pinocchio puppet from a condemned serial killer. Her pre-teen daughter, Zoe, mistakes the puppet as a birthday present and grows attached to her new friend. Suddenly, accidents begin to happen to those who cross Zoe. Zoe claims it's her Pinocchio doll but her therapist thinks otherwise. Pinocchio promises he'll behave if Zoe will cut his strings...
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Carl the Critic: Pinocchio's Revenge
This is a film is an example of a story with all the elements of a good horror film, but because of the subject matter cannot be taken seriously. Pinocchio is a character that is tossed around from decade to decade as a cute and lovable character that he is truly not. Since the film has the true Pinocchio character, it is hard to imagine that the Disney character from the 40's is the same thing. There's that and the fact that the film tries to hard to be a psychological thriller using every cliché camera technique, motif, and story that's been around since the dawn of the psychological thriller.
I would honestly only recommend this movie if you are an aspiring horror film maker who wants to know the elements of a great horror story, but the film's presentation (by it's direction, editing, and acting)kill the potential of being an okay horror film. If you are such a person, you just buy/rent/wait for it to appear on T.V., and get a pen and a piece a paper, a friend who is also an aspiring film maker, and the two of you watch and discuss the film together (and save about $40,000 a year going to a film school.)
But honestly you can be saving even more money/ and time by just skipping this film all together and just going to Hollywood and pray to God you get in.
A great shower scene buried in this silly story.
Pinocchio's revenge is not a good movie. Nor is it terrible.
The acting was wooden at least on Pinocchio's part.The puppet had all of 2 expressions.As did most of the actors,except strangely enough...the secondary characters...most of them were enjoyable over the top.
The special effects in this are pretty "B" and as I said earlier the puppet really blew.
The 2 best scenes in the movie are the knife through the hand...looked pretty good,i think they spent about a 1/3 of the budget on that...and the shower scene...WOW...I think they must have spent the other 2/3rds of the budget on talking the actress who did that scene to do it.Outstanding.
Seriously this is a slightly below average "b" horror puppet movie...rent Chucky if you have a urge to see puppets kill.
The story had a few interesting idea's, enough to keep me watching it to the end.