Demonic Toys

I am a big fan of tacky sounding horror films and thus when I saw this on DVD on the cheap I thought I had to buy it, so I did.

The plot is simple two cops are trying to catch two criminals outside of a toy warehouse. The plan doesn't go as they expected and one of the cops is killed, the two criminals get inside the warehouse although one is injured. The policewoman (Scoggins) follows them in. She catches one but the other manages to get away from her but he stumbles across a Satanic symbol which he manages to 'awaken'. Then you get the kid (Cerny) and a bunch of possessed toys. Oh and a security guard, a delivery boy and a teen runaway in a factory of evil toys.

Strangely for this type of film the acting isn't all that bad I thought Scoggins was pretty good as Judith Gray. The kid of course being a demon disguised as a weirdly bright-eyed boy isn't scaring anyone any time soon. The effects are a little out-dated as the film is over 10 years old now. The film in all is actually quite entertaining you have a bad-ass foul mouthed doll called Baby oopsie-daisy, the weirdest looking bad guy and the phrase 'do the nasty' uttered several times by said weird looking bad guy.

If you want a top-quality award-deserving horror film of course, you could guess by the title, this isn't for you but if you just want a little entertainment and probably a good few laughs then this is for you.

My personal rating 8/10.

As a fan of Full Moon pictures, this movie could have been a little better. Although it is a fun movie to watch. The characters are so cheesy this movie can't possibly be dissapointing. The toys look ridiculous but are funny none the less. I like the line uttered my Oopsie dasiy baby when kicked in the face. "Bummer!" If you like cheesy movies, then get this movie, cuz it can't get any more cheesier.

Demonic Toys tells the story of an abandoned warehouse that is the resting place for a demon that was buried under its soil 66 years ago on the night of its birth. Though born dead, this demon comes back to life in the form of a very menacing 12 year old boy (daniel cerny). With his limited evil powers, he animates several toys from the warehouse to do his bidding. He wants to be born again through a human child. That is were policewoman Judith Grey comes in. Preganant with her first child, she and her boyfriend are attempting to make a deal with 2 illegal gun salemen, undercover. The plan back fires, and her boyfriend is left dead. Juidth chases the men into the warehouse and that is when the carnage starts....check this movie out...it doesn't have the greateset special effects, but they are pretty good. the story is a little goofy,but different. And yes, watch for the pull string as the young delivery guy is thrown backwards by a monster...it is very evident....

A botched bust on a pair of arms dealers inadvertantly leads to the raising of a sixty-six-year-old demon with the power to bring toys to life as his personal minions. The demon is looking for a body to inhabit so he can increase his powers, and it just so happens that one of the police officers is pregnant with the ideal host. As the murderous toys close in on their victims, the officer must not only fight for her life, but for the soul of her unborn child. "demonic toys" is a very entertaining horror gem! The special effects and toys look quite creepy (I love oppsie daisies and the jack-in-the-box) and it has a good sense of (unintentional, most of the time)humor. Highest recommendations!

The front cover of my DVD for Demonic Toys (Film 2000 Shock Horror Collection) states that 'special effects wizard David Allen brings Toulon's killer puppets magically to life'. In reality, Allen's FX contribution is fairly negligible and Toulon (from the Puppetmaster series) has jack all to do with this particular movie.

Similarly misleading is the one (mis)quote on the sleeve from roberthood.net (no, me neither), which describes Demonic Toys as boasting 'breast-focused nudity', which it doesn't really: there's a two second shot of a topless woman—hardly what you would call Russ Meyer/Andy Sidaris territory.

Despite the distributor clearly feeling the need to deceive people into buying the film, Demonic Toys isn't all that awful; in fact, as trashy low-budget B-movie horrors go, this one is actually pretty entertaining, with a reasonable amount of invention (the script written by David S. Goyer of Batman Begins and Dark City fame), some marvellously shonky puppet-style monsters, and a fair amount of gratuitous gore (including plucked eyeballs and a decapitation).

It's all incredibly silly, of course, with people trapped in a toy warehouse, terrorised by a demonic jack-in-the-box, a deadly doll called Oopsie Daisy, and a giant killer teddy bear (controlled by an evil spirit who wants to be reborn as a human), but not so bad that it didn't deserve a respectable DVD release with a more representative sleeve.

5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.