Plot: An evil Gingerbread man comes to life with the soul of a convicted killer, then the real life cookie monster wreaks havoc on the girl who sent the killer to the electric chair.
Gary Busey. Yep, I mean it, Gary fucking Busey is in this. Better still, he is the Gingerdead man himself. After getting zapped in the electric chair for murdering some folks, Gary's ashes end up in the cookie dough of the murdered peoples daughter!!! Jesus, tough luck. This, of course, results in the gingerbread man becoming the evil incarnate of Gary the killer and hey presto, you have a 6" cookie killer from the planet evil.
Pretty cute huh?
From here it's simply a tale of the little bastard getting revenge on the daughter who testified against him by killing all those people around her. Why don't they just eat him? Or stamp on him? or just set a dog on him? I don't know, but luckily for us they don't and we get to watch the fresh baked bastard go on a mental killing spree.
It's a puppet!
All this sounds great, and some of it is. The Gingerdead man is brilliant. The effects are pretty good and he does come across as a nasty bit of biscuit but the actual killings are quite lame and the film almost becomes boring. The additional cast are all pretty useless.
The cakey theme runs through the whole movie.
All in all, the killer cake himself is brilliant but the rest of the cast are pretty poor and deserve to die at the yummy hands of a tiny teeny jaffa cake thing. Could of been brilliant, I hear the sequel, Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust, is better and hope to view it soon. I'll let ya know, so you don't have to.
Summary:
Great because:
- Gingerdead man looks great
- Original
- Gary Busey
Crap because:
- Acting is poor
- Deaths scenes all have a cake theme
- Why on earth don't they just pick him up and eat him?
Hamster Rating: 2
Gore: 2
Scares: 0 it's a cake
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