Demonic Toys
(Demon\Toy)                6******skulls

* Blood* *Strong Language* *No Sexual Situations* *Nudity* *Violent* *Very Gory *

1991/Color/86 Min./Paramount & Blue Moon Entertainment/Rated R

Director.........Peter Manoogian (The Dungeon Masters, Seed People)
Screenplay.......David S. Goyer
Music............Richard Band
Producer.........Anne Kelly
Executive Producer.....Charles Band (The Alchemist, Meridian)
Special Creature Effects and Make-Up Effects by Magical Media Industries, Inc.
Based on an original idea by Charles Band

Dramatis Personae
Chanetski......Pete Schrum
Not Available..Tracy Scoggins (Alien Intruder, Time Bomb, Watchers II)
               Bentley Mitchum (Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde)
               Michael Russo (Nitti: The Enforcer)
               Jeff Weston
               Daniel Cerny
               Ellen Dunning
               Barry Lynch  (Infested)
               William Thorne
               Robert Stoeckle
               Larry Cedar
               Richard Speight, Jr.

Critique: Excellent camera work  Baby Upsidaisy Featured Songs by Joker Although this film is obviously in direct lineage from the "Child's Play" series and the puppet master series, it has its own consistency. The acting wasn't particularly striking, but it was largely professional. Actress   as Jude was particularly unscintillating. Still, the film is quite watchable. Richard Band's music is as always splendid.

Plot Summary: Jude has been having dreams of children playing cards with a brooding mother. Jude brings up marriage to Matt. She's pregnant. They get out of the car for a weapon buying deal. The bust goes bad as Matt is gunned down. Jude follows the smugglers into a warehouse. Chanetski works in the warehouse as a security guard. One of the smugglers is dying on the floor and calls out hopelessly for help. Suddenly a light appears from above. He crawls to its center. For some reason his dying blood dripping on the strange glow awakens the toys stored all around. The wounded smuggler is soon attacked by a jack-in-the-box and then a toy bear. A ten year old with a man's voice informs the smuggler that he'd been waiting a long time for someone just like him to wake him. He says they're going to raise hell. Jude and one of the smugglers get caught in a storage room. Chanetski and the chicken delivery man let them out momentarily, but when Chanetski goes for backup, he has a confrontation with a doll. The sarcasm gets pretty biting. A runaway girl who's been sleeping in the warehouse joins the others in the storage room. Chanetski's body is dragged into the light and the head doll draws a line around it. The runaway is most aware of what's going on. A ghost possesses the handcuffed smuggler and tells them he needs their flesh and blood. Jude says it was the little boy she's been dreaming about. The runaway hypothesizes that a satanic ritual must be behind it. She and the chicken slinger crawl through the ductwork in an attempt to get out. The smuggler pulls out a pen knife and frees himself. Jude is conjured into a doll's house. The kid tells her that it's where he lives: part of the astral plane. He admits to being an evil spirit. He feeds off pain and death. He wants a real body now. He has built up strength for sixty six years. We get a flashback to satanic worshipers and a still birth of a demon. The worshipers give the dead demon body to some trick or treaters, telling them to bury the demon body to where it can be born. He has designs on Jude's baby. The Anne and the delivery boy in the ductwork have a nasty run-in toys. Jude wakes up in the storage room with the smuggler freed from his handcuffs. After an attack of toys, the bear turns into a full sized monster. It begins to appear that the other boy from the dream is a player as well as a wooden soldier bids her follow him. However, a blinded image of Matt intervenes and she is pulled into a pentagram and readied to deliver a demon child. The delivery boy, Mark, has troubles of his own with the bear monster. Can he or the blond child from the dream keep the rape and demon birth from occurring?