The sadistic knife wielding 'Barbie-ish' girly dolls are a good example of this. This is how the film works well in my opinion, they don't hold right back with the action, yeah sure most of it is kinda silly, almost cute, but there are some slightly nasty moments where they have successfully tweaked the hairs on the back of your neck.

You would think how can a toy injure me, but give these little guys a big knife or nail gun and all of a sudden you've got a problem. Its not scary and its not bloody of course but there is a nice undercurrent of evil that lurks within these toy soldiers. Had this been made back in the day it probably would have been pretty dark, but lets give credit where credits due, this film is also quite dark. Miller even plays a similar type of role to his 'Gremlins' character, direct homage to the genre right there if you ask me. Everything is very cliched and pretty stereotypical of small town America, the film is actually a very good little homage to those classic 80's teen flicks that involved monsters/aliens/the supernatural etc.Hell they even cast classic 80's stars Wendy Schaal and Dick Miller, who of course has starred in some perfect examples of typical 80's trashy horror comedies, including 'Gremlins' (that's not trashy by the way). The whole premise is pretty much the same albeit in a lighter tone of course, replace monsters with killer toys. One set of toys are the good guys and one set are supposedly the bad guys, one group has been programmed to destroy the other and the local family is slap bang in the middle.īasically this is a modern remake of 'Gremlins' and I never even twigged back in the day. The shop is run by a humble man who has a slightly rebellious son, naturally this lad gets into some small fry high jinx (that builds) with these toys as they break loose and run amok.

Set in small town USA two sets of brand spanking new hi-tec toys are due for release but a small batch get an early chance of sales in a local toy shop. Surprise surprise on a re-watch I have done a 180 and now do appreciate the film a whole lot more, I guess I didn't quite get the tone first time round. *Cough!* sorry!.anyway I didn't really like it as I recall, it was hyped up pretty strongly but didn't really live it up to it. I saw this when it first came out in the cinema way way back in good old 1998, the air was cleaner back then.

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