If you follow this blog, or any of my others, chances are you know that I’m a sucker for very strange – some would even say “effed up” - movies. Any new readers will soon understand this as well.
I was so intrigued with this one, that I did something I’ve never done before: rented it on DVD at a local Blockbuster. Usually we just buy DVDs when they come out, but I could not find this for sale in Blockbuster’s used bins, so renting it was the only option I had.
Here’s the premise: Millard Findlemeyer (the not-quite-stable Gary Busey) shoots and kills two members of the Leigh family but fails to fatally shoot the daughter, Sarah, at a diner. Millard is arrested, tried, convicted and sent to the electric chair, all because Sarah lives to testify.
Mama Findlemeyer (whom we only see as a cloaked figure) hauls Millard’s cremated ashes home and mixes them in with some ginger spice. She then leaves this mixture on the doorstep of the Leigh bakery (now managed by Sarah and her alcoholic mother, who was not in the diner at the time of the killings).
One of Sarah’s employees, Brick, uses the mixture as a base for making a rather big gingerbread cookie. During the preparation, Brick cuts his arm and carelessly, apparently unknowingly, bleeds into the cookie mix. The blood acts as a rejuvenator and viola!, we have a very pissed off Millard, in gingerbread form, starting another murder spree. Yes, folks, he is a serial killing cookie!
A couple of mutilations, a few deaths and Millard’s attempt to turn a girl into a giant cookie (with stemmed cherries where her nipples would be) later, we have a showdown between Brick (a wanna-be wrestler) and Millard. Through a detail that I don’ t want to ruin for you here, Brick becomes possessed by Millard’s spirit and has to be dealt with in an unfortunate way.
Even though there are big errors in this movie, I guess that if one can accept a murderous cookie who manages not to get stomped back into ground powder, there’s no sense in asking yourself “why weren’t the police….” Or any one of a dozen other questions you might have.
How the actors managed to keep a straight face through this whole thing is beyond me. Therein, however, is the “charm” of this whole movie. No matter how absurd the script was, everyone in the film treats it seriously. My hat is off to all the actors.
This is one of these movies that if one is not “impaired” when they begin to watch it, they will probably feel stoned after it is over. If you have children who watch this, they will probably roll their eyes and complain that “this movie is dumb”. Can’t argue that, but it IS fun!
Short running time – just about 62 minutes (not including end credits).
I was so intrigued with this one, that I did something I’ve never done before: rented it on DVD at a local Blockbuster. Usually we just buy DVDs when they come out, but I could not find this for sale in Blockbuster’s used bins, so renting it was the only option I had.
Here’s the premise: Millard Findlemeyer (the not-quite-stable Gary Busey) shoots and kills two members of the Leigh family but fails to fatally shoot the daughter, Sarah, at a diner. Millard is arrested, tried, convicted and sent to the electric chair, all because Sarah lives to testify.
Mama Findlemeyer (whom we only see as a cloaked figure) hauls Millard’s cremated ashes home and mixes them in with some ginger spice. She then leaves this mixture on the doorstep of the Leigh bakery (now managed by Sarah and her alcoholic mother, who was not in the diner at the time of the killings).
One of Sarah’s employees, Brick, uses the mixture as a base for making a rather big gingerbread cookie. During the preparation, Brick cuts his arm and carelessly, apparently unknowingly, bleeds into the cookie mix. The blood acts as a rejuvenator and viola!, we have a very pissed off Millard, in gingerbread form, starting another murder spree. Yes, folks, he is a serial killing cookie!
A couple of mutilations, a few deaths and Millard’s attempt to turn a girl into a giant cookie (with stemmed cherries where her nipples would be) later, we have a showdown between Brick (a wanna-be wrestler) and Millard. Through a detail that I don’ t want to ruin for you here, Brick becomes possessed by Millard’s spirit and has to be dealt with in an unfortunate way.
Even though there are big errors in this movie, I guess that if one can accept a murderous cookie who manages not to get stomped back into ground powder, there’s no sense in asking yourself “why weren’t the police….” Or any one of a dozen other questions you might have.
How the actors managed to keep a straight face through this whole thing is beyond me. Therein, however, is the “charm” of this whole movie. No matter how absurd the script was, everyone in the film treats it seriously. My hat is off to all the actors.
This is one of these movies that if one is not “impaired” when they begin to watch it, they will probably feel stoned after it is over. If you have children who watch this, they will probably roll their eyes and complain that “this movie is dumb”. Can’t argue that, but it IS fun!
Short running time – just about 62 minutes (not including end credits).
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