i think we as a society need to watch the gingerdead man every year as a mandatory viewing. is it good? no. is it even like. enjoyable? no. no it is not. but!
i've been rewatching A LOT of corny horror movies lately and.. omg, seeing the gingerdead man again gave me flashbacks to how he used to traumatize me when i had seen the movie at an absurdly young age a long ass time ago. needless to say the movies fucking suck but in an oddly enjoyable way. (even though the series fell off after the second movie imo) but, like,
this nigga has his own song ... and it actually kinda slaps??? 💀
I watched the Gingerdead Man trilogy yesterday. I have a lot of thoughts and I'm on a bit of a tight schedule rn, but I want to give some very brief thoughts.
The first movie has aged like milk. Visually, it's the worst by leaps and bounds. It looks like it was shot on one of these.
That said, it's got the most plot. It's basically just Child's Play with a cookie instead of a doll.
The second film, Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust, is by far the best. A self aware parody of Full Moon Features' other films, like Puppet Master, Demonic Toys and Ghoulies.
Also, this film has the best design for The Gingerdead Man
It did elicit a bit of a chuckle when people looked at this thing and recognized it as a gingerbread cookie, while I could only sit there thinking "that is a wretched homunculus. It looks like Pennywise at the end of IT chapter 2. Vile. Horrid."
Somehow it looks worse in the third film. Considerably worse.
This film also features a Hannibal Lector parody, a time travel plot line, and a roller disco Carrie subplot. The ending of this film has to be seen to be believed, but let's just say: "Gingerdead Man, meet... Adolf Hitler!"
All things considered, the Gingerdead movies prove to be entertaining schlock, and exist in the same universe as the Evil Bong films. Let's see how Gingy looks over there.
Oh... Oh no...
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The series also has a theme song... Inexplicably set to the tune of Bad Reputation. I don't know how I should feel about this.