I totally agree that the movie is not a comedy and not for children. I can't think of a darker film.
I saw this as a child and have vividly horrible memories of the scene where he gets his wig yanked off in the soccer game. All the imagery taps into a child's deepest fears. Even the gooey quality of the peanut butter itself and spreading it all over your head. And the orphanage / sweatshop where they starve the children. I had nightmares of being trapped in there.It's just so wrong.
It would probably seem campy to watch now, but the original impact my psyche is irreversible. It's so funny that literally everyone in the forums had the same experience. I've never seen such unanimity in on IMDb.
The Peanut Butter Solution
1985
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Horror
The Peanut Butter Solution
1985
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Horror
Plot summary
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit hairy.
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Simply terrifying for children
Comedy? yikes
I just was cleaning out our basement and came across our old betamax movie collection.
Aahh memories....
Anyways one of the movies was Peanut Butter Solution...it immediately brought back forgotten memories, but sadly, since we no longer own a beta machine, I cant watch it.
Now, I haven't seen this movie since I was a (young) kid, but one thing I do remember about this movie was that it FREAKED ME THE HELL OUT! (Along with another movie we has on Beta, ET, but thats another story)
I'm reading here its a comedy? I don't remember the complete story, except for the fact that the peanut butter stuff grew hair (sounds funny) but I don't remember laughing at all, I remember my sister loving this movie but I hated it cause it scared the hell out of me, and creeped me out big time, I really am looking forward to finding this somewhere and watching it now that I'm older....And although ET still freaks me out to the point of not being able to watch it, maybe this will be different.
bizarre, horrible, incredible, and surreal
This film is awful, let's get that out of the way immediately, but for anyone that likes bad movies, this one's perfect. The plot is confusing and all over the place, the acting is terrible, and the dialogue is remarkably strange. I love this movie because of how bad it is but it is only enjoyable because of that. Kids could very easily be scared by this one so I recommend not showing it to them but if you want a fun night making fun of a terrible movie then this is the one to watch.