Baby Oopsie

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??

A woman, who gets picked on by everyone in her life, escapes reality by expressing her passion for dolls in a popular doll-oriented youtube series.

She often fantasizes about reaping vengeance on those who wrong her...but never takes action on those fantasies.

However, she get's a guardian angel in the form of a hideous doll- Baby Oopsie- which she restores, and gives a new body.

Sent to her by one of her fans, she keeps incorporating new mechanics into the doll, upon the arrival of each new package, from her mysterious benefactor.

Thus bringing Baby Oopsie to life...though, perhaps, with a few behavioural problems...

This is the first in a series of short films, released by full moon features, and produced by doll-centric horror director Charles Band.

The whole thing is made purposefully cheesy.

But that's part of it's allure.

The special effects are legitimately horrible...aside from the doll itself.

Plastic weapons; strawberry jam used as blood; and CGI so bad it's pretty clear they didn't even try.

So don't go in expecting a masterpiece or anything.

But prepare to be entertained.

Gets (much needed) bonus points for playing Subspecies on the TV.

4 out of 10.

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.

Full Moon movies are generally hit or miss -- mostly miss, so I wasn't expecting much. But this film isn't all that bad.

It's got a bit of Chucky in it, but the story line is different.

It's about a down trodden nut-bag named Sybil who collects and is obsessed with dolls. She has some sort of local show where she acts out scene with the dolls. For some unexplained reason, she gets mailed a messed up doll head which she refurbishes.

Somewhere along the line the doll gets possessed and all hell breaks loose.

Suddenly people who were mean to the morbidly obese doll collector are turning up dead at the hands of Baby Oopsie.

The movie works because the acting is pretty decent and it's infused with humor throughout. The characters are all kinda kookie in a John Waters sort of way.

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.