Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver

The first two Gingerdead Man (or Gingy for short) movies were very very silly but this takes the franchise to the next level of silliness. In a bizarre but admittedly quite fun way this starts off as a parody of "Silence of the Lambs" with Gingy being the Hannibal Lector character inside his supermax prison cell. He escapes and is transported via a time machine to a roller skating disco in 1976! Unfortunately this is where the rest of the story stays, the endless shots of people skating around and around soon becomes very boring. Gingy himself gets another new look, this time part CGI, plus a new voice, of the first 3 movies this in my opinion is his worst incarnation. Later on the bucket of blood scene from "Carrie" is parodied. The only thing saving me from scoring this 1/10 is the fact that there are a few very gory kills, carried out with a meat cleaver, though the CGI effects look very cheap. This is the worst of the Gingerdead trilogy, part 1 felt lacking, part 2 offered a bit more but part 3 was just painfully bad.

Gingerdead Man 3 is a very strange movie even when compared to the previous movies. It feels too mean spirited at times to be likeable and it doesn't work when it tries to parody scenes from other movies. Also the effects (practical and visual effects) are much worse than they are in the first two movies which didn't have great effects either.

Gingerdead Man 3 is a bizarre chaotic experience but I don't think I would say it's one I liked overall

Grade: C.

Having watched both Gingerdead Man films in the series, and found less interest in the second film.

This third instalment once again features a different voice actor for the Gingerdead Man, as well as a new cast of characters. Now this film is better than the second film. It has a more fun and a silly entertainment factor. The look of the gingerbread looks more realistic at times and he seems to show more range.

Still this movie is quite cringe and off putting at times. Some gruesome kills by him with overloads of cgi. The ending was bizarre and made little sense, yet they seemed to make it as over the top as possible.

Noting that this film was ultimately the final film of the series (although there is a crossover film with the Evil Bong released after), we wonder if this third film was meant to end of the franchise.

I have watched the 2005 movie "The Gingerdead Man" and actually found it to be a fair enough movie for the campy, goofy movie it was. But I haven't seen the movies that came after the first one. But I had the opportunity to watch the 2011 movie "Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver" here in 2025, and opted to do so, even without having watched part two.

The storyline in this third movie wasn't particularly great, and the writers tried to incorporate spoofing other movies into the narrative as well.

I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. And while the acting performances in the movie were fair, then the lack of Gary Busey as the voice of the Gingerdead Man was a massive loss for the movie.

The effects in the movie were adequate; low-key and low budget, but actually fair enough, adding to the overall campy feel of the movie.

My rating of William Butler's 2011 movie "Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

After escaping from jail, The Gingerdead Man finds himself in a time machine destined for killing and roller disco.

Opening with a highly amusing Silence of the Lambs paradox including a muffin throwing his cream over Clarissa Darling stating he can smell her Muff-in, you know what in for - or do you? The previous Gingerdead instalments were B-average at best and this is no exception.

Once Ginger goes back to the 70's it's a series of some Porky's gags mixed with scene on scenes of roller skating linked by some t & a and few and far between kill scenes including gun play, acid attack and a nail gun assault. By the end it all crumbles apart with annoying kids and time travelling history figures cameos.

While no one expects Oscar material from Full Moon you always hope for some-kind of return to former glory. You could spend 80 minutes watching Puppet Master or Blood Dolls but if your a fan of Gingerdead and 1976 this one will roller Boogie you to death.