I really do want to respect Charles Band. Back in the day he put his name on a number of decent B-movies and was one of the early innovators in the home video market, producing the type of movies I enjoyed watching during that period. It was certainly a long time ago and he has managed to put out a lot of real trash in the years that followed that I simply can't stand, the whole output using the "small stuff can be scary" genre being at the top of the list. I get nothing from these types of films except a sinking feeling in my stomach as I imagine what is going on n the heads of people who find this junk entertaining. The "toys" aren't scary and the gore and kill scenes are lame. No real nudity to pick things up and the plot, of course, is completely stupid. What really gets under my skin are the silly comments and attempts at humor the "toys" make that are not only inappropriate for a horror flick but inappropriate for a toy that was made in the 1400's or whatever. Why do filmmakers feel they need to do this? Do people like it? I guess, because they keep making "horror" movies with that sort of dumb dialogue in them, but I think it sucks. It was sort of funny when Freddy Kruger first did it and it quickly got old for me and that was decades ago. This is boring, lack-luster cinema at its worst, but it won't even put you to sleep--it just raises your blood pressure.
