Silent Night Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1992)
- written January 2004
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Joe Petto is a toy maker and his son Pino lives with him but Joe wants a real boy and Pino is getting jealous.
Overall: Do I have to really give you anymore of a plot? Gepetto and Pinocchio? And murder at X-mas? Pino gets jealous that Joe wants a real son and well you get the point. Utter blah on this end and how desperate is Mickey Rooney? The only good twist to the film is that Pino isn't jealous of the young kid, he wants the mom for some incestual action. What this film does for horror films is exactly what "Halloween 3" did - make a mockery of them. The film has no connections to parts 1 or 2. It does include Clint Howard reprising his role from part 4 as Ricky, but even then Clint is now a good guy. Huh? The film also hangs on to 2 other characters from part 4: Lonnie and Kim. And catch the excellent acting by Rich Gladstein - he appeared in the last 3 sequels and played a different character each film. The film is just bad and makes utterly no sense at all. Ugh! The film doesn't really take place at X-mas. The father dies at about x-mas time but the rest of the film takes place 2 weeks later - if it was x-mas before, then the storyline has them selling x-mas presents in January. If it wasn't x-mas at the dad's death then why would the kid open to the door for extremely early presents - and why wouldn't the dad be more suspicious? And who is dropping the terrible toys off? The "real" dad, Pino, or the kid? The mute thing was already done in Halloween 5 so you can eliminate an originality there. Comparison: Halloween 3 meets Snow White |
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