Moon Over Miami: Decadent Evil II

A film so bad that a man who almost never says 'No' to a role turned it down.  Good for you, Phil Fondacaro.  That's right- it's Full Moon again.  My love-hate relationship with the puppet-obsessed film company continues.  I don't hate them for trying to make Horror Movies.  I hate them for making almost-always-shit Horror Movies.  That make sense?  Today's film is Decadent Evil II, a film whose title still makes no sense.  I mean, is there a Principled Evil or Ethical Evil that I'm not aware of.  Is that when you molest Priests who got away with molesting their Altar Boys?  Is that when you lynch old White Supremacists?  I got a million of em!  If you want to know what happened in the original film, go here.  For those of you who are too lazy to click on the obvious link, I will give a brief summary below.  To find out if the second time is the opposite of the charm, read on...

Here's a rundown of what happened in the first film...

* There are Vampires.  They own Strip Clubs, since...boobs.
* Phil appears as a midget Vampire Hunter since...funny?
* He kills all of the Vampires, save for one, but dies in the process.
* The remaining Vampire turns good- since she's in love with a human- and plans to revive Phil.  This is the last time you'll actually see him.  Good for you.

Our pair are apparently following Phil's cross- acting as a divining rod- to find the Head Vampire.  They apparently need his blood to revive Phil, since...Plot Point.  This leads them to Arkansas, although I doubt that they actually shot there.

I actually have been to Hope, Arkansas (Bill Clinton's home town) and there were only like five vampires- tops!

It leads them to a Strip Club (naturally!), but they lose the cross.  Without it, they are able to pad the run-time out by having the pair work at the place.

Oh and Phil's dad- the Homunculus puppet- is along for the ride.  A Puppet in a Full Moon Film- shut the hell up!!!

This freaky Vampire dude- who looks like a cross between the villain in Slayer and The Asylum's random Devil vampire- is on the loose and apparently has to hit the exact number of 10,000 people killed to be *more* Immortal.

Sure- why not?

Seriously, why include this Puppet?  It adds nothing.  At all.

Over half-way through the film, they finally get some blood and revive Phil's character.  He's now played by...this guy.  No comment.

Oh and he acts justifiably-upset that they have revived him as a Vampire.  Can you imagine that happening to Van Helsing?

This all leads to a showdown at some big Ceremony.  The Vampire Lord- who turns out to be the Janitor in disguise, if you care- needs just one more sacrifice for the super-whatever-who-cares.

Not-Phil shows up and turns the tide with his ability to throw a stake with pin-point accuracy from about 40 yards.  In the last film, he had *literally* one trick, so...good for you.  You're still not Phil though.

The Vampire Lord and all but one of the bad guys are killed.  The day is saved, well, except for the fact that Not-Phil is now a Vampire and his dad is still a Homunculus.  Speaking of which...

The film ends on a *high* note by having the lone surviving Vampire girl being raped by the Homunculus.  Our heroes, ladies and gentlemen.  The End.

Man, this one was not good.  Sorry to any Full Moon fans out there, but I have to speak the truth.  The story- barely there.  The driving force is literally just 'find the head Vampire' and that's it.  The forward momentum is barely pushing the so-called Story.  The Acting- not that good.  Nobody is really bad per se, but nobody stands out.  Some people come off as a bit hammy though.  The Effects- so-so.  I will give them some credit for the practical effects.  I'm always a big fan of those, provided that they don't impede upon the action.  Good suits are only good if the creature looks real and can move in a remotely-normal way.  I will also say that there is a limited number of bad CG Effects here.  That's not because there are many good ones- it's just that there are so few CG Effects at all.  I'd look like a giant hypocrite to complain about a relative lack of CG, so I won't.  The big issue is the lack of action and excitement.  This film is like 80% build-up.  They try to pretend that more is happening by having a pair of random women get killed, but this adds nothing.  In the End, this is a pretty unnecessary Sequel to a film that wasn't that great before.  The fact that it took me so long to get around to this (as it was OOP and I bought it up cheap) should tell you something.  This film just leads to one place: the Toilet...

Next up, I begin a new (and short) Round of Project Terrible with Troma.  If it guarantees to be Demented, I'm in for 'a good time.'

Moon Over Miami: Decadent Evil

Vampires vs. Phil Fondacaro.  That's pretty much the gimmick here, although there is a little more on display. Yes, we also get a cliche love-story and some bizarre comedy involving a puppet.  A puppet in a Full Moon film?  Shocking- I know.  If you're looking for a normal vampire film, look elsewhere.  Actually, to be fair, you do get a pretty familiar vampire film in the beginning...but I'll get into that later.  On the plus side, Phil Fondacaro is in this movie and he's always awesome.  Can he raise this movie above the rest by the sheer power of his awesomeness?  Get out your recipe for chocolate evil as we prepare to make...

The film begins...with stock footage of Vampire Diaries.  No, really.  They waste ten minutes on this crap.  Why?  Well, it helps pad out the run-time for one.  For another, the villain is supposed to be one of the random vampire ladies from that film.  Is it the same actress?  Not as far as I could tell.  No, this is the slutty, Tina Fey lady from Blood Dolls.  Oh good, you're back.

The plot proper breaks down like this.  A lady is in love with a guy, but she's a vampire.  He doesn't know that until Phil Fondacaro shows up and tells him that.  He also tosses out some random dialog explaining that vampires come from different Clans and that vampire rules vary from group to group.  Case in point: these vampires aren't hurt by garlic, but they also can't smell it.  No, really.  The guy eventually discovers that his lady friend is a vampire and she agrees to leave with him.  However, the girl's 'sister' wants to use her leaving as leverage to make herself look good.  Oh yeah, the 'sister' also brings home a hooker, who appears to be played by a porn star.  Let's do an IMDB search and see, shall we?  Well, unless Big Tits in Sport 6 and Suck It Dry 7 (how can I watch them without seeing the rest of the story?!?) are something other than porn, I would say that I'm right.  There's also a puppet called Marvin the Homonculus.  Lame.

Finally, we get to see Phil in action as he takes on the vampire horde.  Actually, it's just the 'sister' at this point.  He seemingly puts up no fight, only to stab her with a tiny stake that he hides under his hat.  Yeah, how would that pierce her heart?  She dies, which is something that our lead heroine takes fairly-well.  Got over it, huh?  The evil lady vampire shows up and gloats about what she has done.  The Homunculus, you see, is the father of Phil, whom the woman transformed because she didn't like him anymore.  Phil tries to take her out with the same trick, but it doesn't work.  Wow- shocking.  Phil just kind of gives up until his father whispers a plan to him.  The dad puts some of his essence in Phil (no, it's not like that) and the guy gets bitten, which causes the vampire lady to turn into a female version of a cheap puppet.  The day is saved, thanks to happenstance and a half-hearted attempt at being clever.  Oh yeah, the couple is happy and together...until the sequel.  The End.

Wow, you barely tried here, huh?  The plot of this movie is alright, but really stretched thin.  I mean, the movie is 80 minutes long and they have to seriously try to make this work.  Yes, they do spend about 1/8th of the film just showing you stock footage from a film that barely fits into a different series (Subspecies).  On top of that, they follow this up by spending five minutes showing you this couple in a strip club.  The whole point- they eventually go to the vampire's house and get killed.  That's 1/4 of the run-time gone now.  Way to make this look hard!  Phil Fondacaro is good here, but supremely-wasted.  I was wondering why Phil didn't make an appearance in the sequel.  Now I know.  Thank you, Phil.  Your awesomeness is too good for this series.  When you're an off-shoot of the Subspecies series over seven years after the last one- which itself had a five-year gap between films, you're off to a bad start.  Good news- you didn't get any worse.  Of course, you also didn't get any better.  Mind you, I'm still going to see the sequel...

Next up, Random Forgotten Sequel Week begins with the second Species sequel.  Oh good, another film made for the Syfy Channel.  Stay tuned...
  

Full Moon's Repeat Offenders: Phil Fondacaro

For those people that haven't been with the site since the beginning, I used to try out a number of series' to see what would stick.  One of them was Repeat Offenders, which covered two different genre actors in it's history: Reb Brown and Sarah Douglas.

Well, it's back for more- Platinum Dunes-style.

Full Moon Studios makes use of the same pool of actors a lot.  I guess it saves on budgets, turn-around-time and a feel of familiarity.  I think it's time to look at some of this more in-depth.  First up: Phil Fondacaro.

To put it simply, Phil is a 'little person.'  That's gotten him many 'in-suit' roles for films like Return of the Jedi or parts where plays Leprechauns, gnomes, etc.  In Full Moon films though, all bets are off!

One of his first roles in a Band film came in Ghoulies II, a film that's decent.  It's not logical, but it's fun.

Next came a small role in Dollman vs. Demonic Toys.  He's in it because he's a 'little person' and nothing more.

In 1997, he got his best role in The Creeps.  He plays a tiny Dracula who actually has a personality.  Considering that every other monster grunts and drools, he stands out...

1999 brought him a small, but pivotal role in Blood Dolls.  I'm not a fan, but he does do a good job in his two-dimensional role.

His last real Full Moon role came in 2005 with Decadent Evil.  He's a midget vampire hunter- that's it.

He apparently turned down/wasn't available for the sequel, leading to the casting of a 'look-alike' in a fake beard.  He did, however, show up for a cameo in Evil Bong, alongside Tim Thomerson and others.  More on him later though...

Moon Over Miami: Blood Dolls

We're back with another Full Moon picture and one of the first of three killer doll films.  How hard is to recreate a massive, series success?  As they can tell you, very hard!  In 1999, this quirky little film was made that throws together about five or six different crazy ideas and attempts to make an 80 minute film.  How does it end up?  If you guessed 'whacked out beyond all belief,' you're smarter than you look (good thing).  This did not stop the people from trying though and this movie is...something to behold.  It has dolls, a clown and what appear to be Josie & the Pussycats.  This is...

The film begins with a woman and a young man showing up at a rich person's house.  She explains to this BJ Novak-looking guy that the man is a bit eccentric.  To that end, he has an all-female rock band in a cage, an eccentric butler and always wears a mask.  He is a bit confused by this until a man looking like Heath Ledger shows up at the door.  Inside, they are berated by the billionaire- who is wearing an Easter Island-style mask- for a monopoly lawsuit involving him making the papers.  The guy also talks in an exaggerated Southern accent for no good reason.  Could it be that Full Moon was trying to replicate the one used by Kenneth Branagh in Wild, Wild West (both came out in 1999)?  Would you put it past them?  Before discussing his plans, the man unveils his big secret: he has a tiny doll head!  The man reveals that the whole $1 billion loss on his part was actually set up by three former-business comrades.  He has a secret weapon to use against them- killer dolls!  He kills the man via process of elimination (he picked the wrong chair) and turns the woman into a four-armed Chinese doll...after stripping her to her black underwear.  Is her doll in that outfit?  Nope.  That makes the whole T&A aspect- entirely pointless.

The first two people actually go down pretty easily.  The big guy (character actor Nicholas Worth) goes down after the power is cut to his house and the dolls break in.  The woman goes down when she tries to flee, but gets killed in her service elevator.  By the way, thanks for not showing us how it happened, movie!  Unfortunately, there is a lot more going on than our hero/villain thinks.  You see, the wife of the key man behind the theft is actually the person in charge.  The guy is apparently a schmuck who lets his wife tie him up and talk bad about him.  The woman- who looks like a slutty Tina Fey- plans for every fail-safe, including putting knee high flamethrowers on the lawn to take out the dolls.  She figures out the truth about the dolls by way of a still shot on a video camera.  I see dolls and immediately think 'oh, the guy has put human souls into them and made them killing machines!'  The movie likes to take time away from its non-plot for bizarre moments.  Case in point: our hero/villain's sidekick midget (everyone's favorite midget- Phil Fondacaro) taunts and tortures the rock band into playing.  It's interesting one or two times.  When you have at least six scenes of this, you're pushing it!

The film gets a bit complicated when the woman puts on an act of innocence to trick our hero/villain into underestimating her.  The dolls stow away in her trunk and get in the house, killing the 'human puppet' while the woman watches.  Off-screen, she captures the dolls and uses them as leverage.  With his killers caught and evidence piled against him, what will our hero/villain do?  The woman plays her hand too aggressively though and gives herself over to the man as part of a long-term plan to control him.  She convinces him to marry her and the ceremony goes off without out a hitch.  He unveils his true face to her and she has a minor freak-out.  The dolls attack her and tie her down.  The crazy man decides to end his life since he knows that he will never experience love (or some bullshit) & will take everyone with him.  The rock band is let loose by the dolls, the midget gets sent sailing across the room via a guitar shot (screw you, physics!) and they escape.  The End....

...actually, the clown-faced butler/priest (don't ask) explains that they actually shot two endings and that he prefers the other one.  In it, the band breaks off their escape attempt and the crazy people get married, dooming civilization in the process.  Now is it The End?  Okay.

This movie is pretty damn weird and it's also not that good.  Don't get me wrong, it is somewhat entertaining.  However, the film doesn't really know what to do with itself.  It's obsessed with its weird and random ideas (the band, the midget, the clown, etc) & not its plot.  Here's a thought: make a revenge film with more people to get killed.  When you only have two, the story has to bide its time on other things, such as a failed romance angle and some crazy, non sequitur.  The film ends up running about an hour and ten minutes & still struggles there.  You know who did the crazy, revenge film right?  The Abominable Doctor Phibes!  No matter how hard you try, you will not top that movie.  Stick to either making your usual crap or something completely different.  When you try to have your cake and eat it too, you end with something this odd and one-note.  Take 3, maybe?

Next up, a more recent example of Full Moon trying to make the killer doll film.  This time, we get a retread of Castle Freak...but with dolls.  Stay tuned...

Moon Over Miami: Ghoulies II

We're back again with another film about killer puppets. Mind you, I don't mean that literally, since Full Moon has done at least 8 films about that! This is the second film in the Ghoulies quadrilogy, a pair of words that sounds really strange together! After the creative misfire that lead to the original film being retitled and shot by different people, the Bands got their shit together and made this movie in 1987. So, how did they up the ante? For starters, we got more ghoulies and the effects work is better...which means that it is merely sub-par. The story goes off in a new direction, although there are definitely some issues. In spite of that, I can say that this is directed by Charles Band himself, which is a big deal...if he did not direct 80% of the Full Moon catalog. They got a couple of new stars involved this time, however, so there is hope. Let's find out just how much of it there is in...

Ghoulies II

The film begins with a truck making a stop at a gas station in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, they are not alone there. You see, someone has trapped the ghoulies in some cans and plans to kill them. Unfortunately, he gets distracted by the arrival and the things escape. They dump his body in the container full of acid that he planned to dump them in! By the way, where did he get that from? Is he best friends with a Bond villain or something? Anyhow, the arrivals fail to notice the monsters or the smell of melted flesh made some five minutes earlier. The monsters get on board the back of their truck and head to their new home- a circus sideshow. As it turns out, this portion of the show is not doing well, as people are neither scared nor entertained. This really puts off their head midget (Phil Fondacaro from Troll and The Creeps), especially considering that the guy who is threatening to close them down in the old boss' son. Don't you just love that cliche? You would think that a guy who ran a circus for his whole life would have a kid who felt the same, wouldn't you?

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As things go on, the ghoulies settle into the Haunted House while the staff figures out what to do. They come up with the idea of updating their House with some real scares to get the kids to come in. Unfortunately, a real scare shows up in the form of the ghoulies, who kill the old, drunken magician. The monsters hide the body, however, a skill that they got...somehow. Maybe there is a Ghoulies 1.5 film that explains stuff like that, how they got captured and where the new ones came from. Oh right, this is Full Moon- they just make shit up like that. Because this movie loves cliches, we also get a blooming romance between our two young leads, but that does not really matter. The only potentially-progressive idea is having Phil be obsessed with literature. Of course, he already did that same roll in Troll a year earlier! The show actually begins to draw people in, although the ghoulies use this as an opportunity to kill more people. Somewhere during all of this, Phil is forced to dress up as a gorilla. Charles Band- progressive filmmaker.

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Eventually, our hero figures out that something is up and unites the forces of the circus to take them down. If you ever wanted to see a circus strongman battle a flying puppet, this is your movie. The whole thing becomes very chaotic as scared extras flee from the nearly non-existent threats. Only one solution presents itself: summon a giant ghoulie to kill them. Yeah, this logic has worked well with cane toads! Things only get worse, however, as the giant ghoulie turns on them. I think we're going to need a bigger circus! We get a climactic chase involving our young heroine facing her fear of heights to get the magic book they need. They also use Phil as bait, since he is tiny and tastes like chicken...or so I'm told. Ultimately, the day is saved, although one of the ghoulies is left around. He pops out of a toilet as our heroes go on with their lives, finally giving us payoff to both movies' posters. Better late than never, guys! The End.

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This movie is not bad, but it is not great either. The setting they use is a good one and is certainly better than the giant house from Part 1. The acting is pretty average across the board, although Fondacaro has the same kind of unexplainable presence that he's always had. I seriously don't understand what it is, but he has it. The special effects are better, but still not that great. If you like 80s films with a semi-comic tone, you can certainly do worse. A lot of the times, the balance is extremely out of whack, leading to films that are neither funny or scary. In this film's case, it is a pretty safe film with silly monsters that neither scare nor offend. Like I said, you can do worse. For example, there is always Troll 2!

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Next up, you're probably expecting me to do Ghoulies III. Sadly, it is out-of-print, so you will just have to make due with Part IV. On the plus side, it is an actual sequel...sort of. Stay tuned...

Moon Over Miami: The Creeps

You know that old expression 'buyer beware?' Well, it should be expanded to include 'renter,' because I have gotten at least slightly burned in the course of trying to find strange and obscure films. How about when I tried to rent the 80s action film Cyclone and got the Italian film about a plane crashed into the ocean called Cyclone? Or there was the time when I tried to get the lost Vincent Price film A Night with Edgar Allen Poe, only to get some low-budget collection of plays titled the same way. The other thing I must learn to watch out for is films by bad/sub-par studios. Today's film was rented out of sheer morbid curiosity, only to learn that it was by Full Moon Studios. I guess I should have realized when the run time was listed as an hour and fifteen minutes. Damn you, Charles Band and your relatives! Oh well, let's just get through this- Lord knows that it will be short. It is...

The Creeps

Our film begins with a man going to a library- dun dun dun! He goes through a long and belabored process to view an original transcript of a book that the library has in stock. That book- Frankenstein! He switches the book with a fake while the young lady is put down by her boss for letting anyone see it. Nice library, huh? He returns the book and leaves, after which her lady boss hits on her by inviting her to a Gloria Steinem reading. Too subtle, movie! Later on, she goes to read the book and discovers the problem. One stupid wipe later and we cut to a video store, where a private detective has his offices in the back. Ha, ha, ha! There's no need for jokes with this set-up! Kill me now. She hires him because he works for cheap and they engage in terrible banter- even to the point where they address the fact that they are making banter. Meanwhile, the fat bad guy plots and plans in his warehouse lair. Despite finding out the man's name, the lady fires our hero for two weeks of no results. That night, the man comes back to view Bram Stoker's Dracula. She holds him hostage with some scissors, but he knocks her out and kidnaps her with the aid of what looks like a dildo/stun gun.

He has her back in his lair and, after more terrible banter, explains that he is going to use his Archetype Machine to bring back Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy and Adam (aka Frankenstein's monster)! How does this work? Um...it just does! You got a problem with that?!? Faster than you can say 'convenient,' our hero runs in, knocks out the man, saves the girl and takes back the books. All is not well, however, as the monsters emerge from their chambers...as midgets. No, really. We get an Hispanic version of Dracula that is 3 foot tall and has Gerry-Curl Hair, plus a goatee. The others are close to their material, albeit silly-looking. Also, Dracula is the only one that speaks, but honestly has some screen presence. It makes you wish that he had more lines than, oh, everyone else! It takes a while to explain to him what he is, why he's small and what they need to do to fix it. Basically, they need the original girl back. This is made easier after she refuses to pay our hero and he stops hanging around her. The monsters go to the library, but find her boss there instead. They insist on trying the experiment with her- despite 600 complaints by the scientist- which goes, um, oddly. They strip her down to her g-string (the sole nudity of the film) and open a portal behind her. This causes her to disappear and reappear as...a Valkyrie. I'm not making this shit up, people! Time to try again, I guess!

In a long sequence, the pair (Adam and Mummy) chase our heroine around the library, while the others chase the man. He, naturally, leads them right to the woman. The only problem: the others found her already. What was the point of that?!? Also pointless is the bit where the woman steps on some glass, so, naturally, takes off her shirt and wraps it around the wound. If you ever wanted to see midgets in bad make-up chase a woman in her bra, you are in luck! The duo are captured and prepared for the experiment. I should point out that the scientist again says that the woman must be naked (he made an exception for the g-string before, I guess). Of course, the woman takes off nothing, which does not bother the man. She must have signed that same deal that Sarah Jessica Parker had on Sex & the City. Anyhow, they break loose and put the bad guy in front of the portal. The Valkyrie re-emerges and takes him with her. Okay then. The beasts (okay, just Dracula) ask to be returned to their own world, where they will live forever. We get a scene of our heroes making out, but not before our 'film-nerd' lead refers to Jesus Franco as 'Jess Franco.' The End.

Oy vey, that was bad. It was not the worst horror comedy out there (I'm looking at you, The Cottage). It just painfully low-budget and reliant about terribly-dull characters. Blond librarian and nerdy guy- yawn. The monsters look too good for this movie, which shows where what little money they had went. Another sign is in the credits when they have a '2nd 2nd Assistant Director.' Wow, when you cannot even get your credits right, what hope is there? You can do worse, but you would have to try. There is a certain charm to the monsters working together, but everyone else just kills it. BTW Dracula is played by the same midget guard from Dollman vs. Demonic Toys. Now you're making me think about that movie? Thanks a lot.

Blockbuster Trash enters in another entry. This time, it is a film about soldiers of fortune in Afghanistan. Plus, it has ghosts...sort of. Stay tuned...

Moon Over Miami: Dollman vs. Demonic Toys

Full Moon is like Troma, only they are actually adequate filmmakers. Their films tend to have silly, but less bizarre titles than the New Jersey competitors. Does Evil Bong really match up to Poultreygeist? Despite them making what I feel is one of the worst movies of all time (Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys), I still watch their movies. So what happens when not one, not two but THREE of their films sync up? Find out in my review of...

Dollman vs. Demonic Toys

The film begins by immediately tying into the first Dollman movie. Their lead- Brick Bardo- is wandering into a new town after the events of the first movie. Showing the kind of luck that has gotten him into all of his previous messes, he shows up in the town that birthed the Demonic Toys. What- you couldn't find Pleasant Valley? As luck would have it, he also runs into the diminutive nurse from Bad Channels. She is a cute lady, but plagued by people looking for a story. In yet another plot setup, the lady detective from Demonic Toys is convinced that the evil was not eliminated last time and will return. One bleeding hobo in a toy factory later and she is proven right.

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Naturally, all three of our heroes meet up and decide to do something. It doesn't help that our lady detective's comrades think that she is crazy when no evidence shows up. All of them go into the toy factory, but find a lot of resistance. For one thing, there are new Demonic Toys, including a giant toy soldier that comes after Xtro, but before Small Soldiers. Oh and they converted the factory's midget bodyguard into an agent of Satan. No, really. The battle gets intense and our lady character dies, apparently having too many other projects to work with. How will our heroes win now?

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Oh shit, we're almost done and I need this to be longer. I know, I'll do what the filmmakers did: pad it! Because the movie is a culmination of three films technically, they felt the need to explain all of them. You get Bardo explaining the whole plot of Dollman via film clips, followed a bit later by the Nurse explaining the entire plot of Bad Channels with clips of her own. Near the end, the Toys' leader gives us an explanation of their backstory through, wait for it, clips from the entire movie. Actually, I should not be negative. I was just saved the experience of having to watch three whole movies. I could just do reviews from these clips.

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No, I'm not going to.

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Fortunately, Dollman is very good at kicking ass, because his girlfriend's skill set appears to consist entirely of reacting, screaming and running. Thanks for nothing, honey. He takes out most of the major toys with his laser gun...which still has plenty of ammunition. He eventually gets captured and the giant Baby villain sets his plans in motion. He ties down the Nurse (who was re-captured for like the 8th time) and explains that his plans involve a little hanky-panky. Thanks to a magic spell, he is human. Naturally, the lady just kicks him in his newly real balls. He gets shot by Dollman and the threat is ended. Or is it?!? It stayed away for a while until...that movie that I hate. The threat of a new Demonic Toys movie is lingering on the horizon like a shark's fin as well.

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The movie is honestly not bad, but there is very little substance. You get roughly twenty minutes of character and story set-up, twenty minutes of rehashed footage and explanation & twenty-ish minutes of action. Yeah, the movie is barely over an hour long. Get used to this with Full Moon films. The entire Trancers series is the equivalent length of the first two Lord of the Rings movies...and not the Director's Cut versions. If you can accept that the film is short, pulpy and not all that deep, you can have a good time. It is by far the best film whose title includes the words 'Vs. Demonic Toys.'

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Let us combine two of our favorite things: vampires and space. Stay tuned...