Baby Oopsie

Plot

A doll enthusiast restores a baby doll that springs to life and embarks on a murder spree.

Cast

Made by Full Moon veteran William Butler and starring a bunch of folks I'm unfamiliar with.

Verdict

Full Moon movies have a certain charm about them, however they tend to come under one of two headings, namely enjoyable for the novelty or just plain awful! Recently they've consistently been the latter so going into this Demonic Toys spinoff I assumed the worst especially as the Jack Attack spinoff was dreadful! Seeing that Baby Oopsie got a trilogy as well, I was surprised yet curious to see how this universe would be contributed to.

The plot, isn't actually terrible and that surprised me. The poor quality literally everything else however really didn't. If you're expecting comedy, expect it to be camp. If you're expecting great kills, just don't.

Baby Oopsie is a bit of mess and yet somehow someway it's still managed to be better than I expected it to be. It's dumb, it's goofy, it's very Full Moon and that's not entirely a bad thing. And on to the other 2 I suppose!

Rants

The review section here frustrates the life out of me, taste is subjective but come on! A host of 1/10's, admitting they turned the movie off after minutes but behaving like they still have a write to review the movie. The same people behaving as if such movies shouldn't exist, believing all movies should be 200 million blockbusters. And then on the flipside you have your offensively daft 10/10 reviews suggesting it's the best movie ever, positively legendary acting and brilliant visual effects.

The Good

Better than you'd expect overall

The Bad

Mostly annoying characters Senselessly crass in places As tacky and dumb as you'd expect.

When I saw a new Demonic Toys film was coming out, I had very low expectations. Full Moon hasn't had a decent movie in years, with the dreadful Evil Bong series and even their bread maker series, Puppet Master has had several interminable entries as of late.

Baby Oopsie Chapter 1 seems then to be the start of a new chapter for the company. Immediately viewers will notice production value has improved, with the film having multiple locations and a decent sized cast - something sorely lacking from the single-set talk-fests of the previous batch of Full Moon movies (or the recycled footage assemblies he's been dumping out).

The next positive comes with the doll design. While still a far cry from the 90's mechanical designs, it looks wayyy better than the cheap designs they've been giving us.

While Baby Oopsie is a long way away from being an actually good film, it is a huge step forward for the company. Full Moon fans will find enough here to enjoy. But if your killer doll genre experience stops with Chucky or Annabelle, it's best to leave Baby Oopsie in the box.

PS when will that Puppet Master videogame ever be released??

Okokok hear me out. The story is meh, the characters could use some work, everything could use a little tlc but overall i surprisingly kinda liked it. I know full moon hasnt been really doing well with films as of late but this seems like a pretty good improvement. The cast is pretty decent, not great but not really that bad either. Although some of the scenes were cringy and very laughable, its weirdly cringy enough to be likeable. This seems like a cheap budget horror movie from around the 90s-00's but in a good way. It feels very vintage and like it would've came back around that time period.

'Baby Oopsie' does its best to be a tongue-in-cheek with its horror, making it clear from the outset that this isn't a film meant to be taken too seriously. Its lighthearted tone, while can be kind of funny sometimes, results in a lack of genuine scares or impactful gore.

It's about a lonely woman who repairs dolls for her internet podcast, but gets more than she bargained for when she receives a - pretty damn hideous - broken doll in the mail. Naturally, death and destruction follows.

If you're in the mood for low-brow horror fun, it's harmless enough, but don't expect too much. The film suffers from a script that doesn't deliver enough clever or sharp humor to make it genuinely funny, nor does it lean into horror elements enough to deliver any real horrific thrills. The effects are on the cheaper side and the titular killer doll doesn't even make its full appearance until about half an hour in, leaving the early portion feeling slow.

Despite these shortcomings, 'Baby Oopsie' has a few nice touches (plus I quite liked its ending!) and so does have a certain charm. It's not a standout in the genre, but it's serviceable if you stumble across it while browsing a streaming service. For those with tempered expectations, it's worth a casual watch.

Baby Oopsie (2021) is currently available on Tubi. The storyline for this picture follows an obese doll collector who is verbally abused by her mom and coworkers and physically abused by kids in the neighborhood occasionally. One day she gets a unique doll that she takes apart, fixes and then it springs to life. The doll presses it's owner to stick up for herself and helps her in the process.

This movie is directed by William Butler (Demonic Toys 2) and stars Libbie Higgins (Weedjies: Halloweed Night), Marilyn Bass (Bernadette) and Lynne Acton McPherson (Mayberry Man).

The storyline for this is actually pretty creative and well throughout. Higgins was solid as the main character. The scenes with her visions to start the movie were great. Baby Oopsie was a bit annoying, especially the laugh, but definitely had some good kill and vomit scenes. These movies aren't great but are definitely entertaining and worth a viewing. I would score this a 6/10 and strongly recommend it.