shanerittersbach Demonic Toys is a Full Moon Pictures production from 1992. It is also a great B-movie!SPOILERS AHEAD!Demonic Toys is one of the first films produced by Charles Bands Full Moon Productions. The film was directed by fellow director Peter Mooniagen. Mooniagen is known for directing Arena (1989) and Seed People (1993) for Charlie Band. Tracy Scoggins as Judith Gray, a detective on a deadly case. Then there is Bentley Mitchum as Mark Wayne, Judith's fiancée. And then there is Daniel Cerny as "The Kid", a demon in child form wreaking havoc on our main characters. Then we have the films titular baddies, Barry Lynch as Hesse, a fair-haired henchmen. Next there is Pete Schrum as Charneski, a grumbling security guard at a old toy factory. Next to the cast we have the films title characters, the Demonic Toys. First we have Baby Oopsie, the leader of the titular ghouls. Oopsie is a raunchy, mouthy toy baby that can do more then pee himself. His weapon of choice within the film is a dagger. Next we have Grizzly Teddy, a mutant-killer teddy bear with a hankering for raw flesh. There's even one scene in the film where the titular teddy grows twice his size and starts to mutilate and tear apart our main cast members. Then there's Jack Attack, a mutant jack-in-the-box. He pops out of his wind-up box and latches on to his victims, ripping their jugulars out. The last terror-toy is Mr. Static, a four inch remote-control robot toy that blasts electrical beams out of his bionic arms. All of the toys in the film were created by legendary makeup effects artist John Carl Beauchler. Beauchler is known in the horror community for his work on such cult classics as The Garbage Pail Kids, Ghoulies, From Beyond, and many more films in that genre. All, including Baby Oopsie, Grizzly Teddy, and Jack Attack were hand and rod puppets. The Only animatronic toy was Mr.Static, who was a completely radio- controlled puppet. Other great effects in the film include a ghastly demonic makeup for the films grown-up demon. Also there is a dead demon fetus, yeah, i know, that's dark. Then there is my personal favorite creature in the film, the large version of Teddy. The basic structure of the creature was foam laced on a spandex suit. Then it was covered in fake fur and to top it off ti possess's an articulated head with a full range of emotion and expressions.The film also features quite a few detailed stop-motion animation scenes provided by the late stop-motion maestro David Allen who is mostly known for his work for Stephen Spielberg on Young Sherlock Holmes and another film series for Charles Band, The Puppet master series. The overall product is a fun film to pop in on a Saturday night. Thats all it is. It's dumb fun, plain and simple. The film is filled with over-the-top puppets and gore. I believe the film is one of the highlights in the early Full Moon lineup. I really love this movie, right down to it's really cheesy parts. It's a great enjoyable film, oh, and how can you not love a film with a ticked off, flesh hungry teddy bear?Two-Foam Rubber Thumbs Up

TheCinephiliacs After recently revisiting the 1987 killer doll flick "Dolls" I had the urge to check out some other similar movies and while deciding which one to go for I came across this new Blu-ray release from 88 Films of the 1992 cult classic, Demonic Toys.Written by Stephen S. Goyer, who would go on to write the stories for the massively successful Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises and based on an original idea from Charles Band who was also a producer here. Band is well known for writing the Puppet Master movies as well as directing low budget cult fare like Evil Bong, Doll Graveyard, The Gingerdead Man and Trancers. Peter Manoogian (Arena, Enemy Territory) was behind the camera as director, and the trifecta of these three minds would create a horror film that has become a cult classic in the twenty two years since its release.Taking a great amount of inspiration and ideas from Puppet Master, which even plays on a television in the background of a scene in the film, Demonic Toys is a simple premise that is effective enough to drive its point home and provide an entertaining, though thoroughly clichéd, romp of bloody 90's silliness. The film opens with four characters meeting in a dark parking lot to buy and sell some illegal firearms, but two of the characters turn out to be undercover police officers and the deal turns sour, with one police officer being shot dead as the criminals escape into a nearby warehouse and the second police officer, Judith Gray (Tracy Scoggins), giving chase. The warehouse is where we spend most of the movie, which is pretty convenient considering the warehouse in question houses evil spirits and a butt-load of creepy looking toys. We are soon joined by some other characters in our story of malevolent plastic organisms. The lazy warehouse security guard, Charnetski (Peter Schrum), a fast-food delivery guy called Mark (Bently Mitchum) and a homeless runaway called Anne (Ellen Dunning). With one of the fleeing criminals wounded, and the other, Lincoln (Michael Russo) finally caught and handcuffed by Judith, the insanity finally begins. With possession, a creepy kid with a male adult voice, a sharp toothed bear doll and a Jack-in-a-box who will eat your face off while laughing, Demonic Toys isn't afraid to be absurd, and that's why it is still charming to watch.It isn't a ground breaking film, and it can be a little banal at times, but it is charming and the scenes in which the toys are attacking their human victims are fun, gory and humorous. They don't make films like this nowadays and so it is fun to go back and watch them. The music, drenched in synthesized keyboard sounds, is what you'd expect from a film like this at the time it was made, and the special effects, though fine, are nothing special and could have benefited from being crazier and more extreme. I didn't mind the fact that the film takes place, all but for a couple of scenes, in one place, but it would have been nice if there had been some diversity to the areas of the warehouse as a way to make it more interesting to look at. Still, Demonic Toys is what it is, a low budget and pedestrian horror film that, through its fun puppetry and stop-frame animation and silly scenes of evil doll attacks, is memorable and enjoyable.The look of the film on this specific Blu-ray edition from 88 Films is very nice. It's clear and the sound, though not perfect, is fine. The colours are as vibrant as they can be considering the black and grey setting and the cover-art, though not necessarily relevant to the film quality, is nice and eye catching, which should help it sell some copies to people who are unfamiliar with it. The special features are pretty damn poor, with only an original trailer and a featurette from the old VHS release being the only Demonic Toys specific features on the disc. A retrospective, a commentary or even an introduction from Band, or someone who worked on the film, would have been nice. Still, the film was enjoyable, but then again I do like these sorts of b-movies from the 80's and 90's. For those who aren't familiar with the genre and are expecting something fantastically exciting, perhaps this might not tick their boxes

BA_Harrison The front cover of my DVD for Demonic Toys (Film 2000 Shock Horror Collection) states that 'special effects wizard David Allen brings Toulon's killer puppets magically to life'. In reality, Allen's FX contribution is fairly negligible and Toulon (from the Puppetmaster series) has jack all to do with this particular movie.Similarly misleading is the one (mis)quote on the sleeve from roberthood.net (no, me neither), which describes Demonic Toys as boasting 'breast-focused nudity', which it doesn't really: there's a two second shot of a topless woman—hardly what you would call Russ Meyer/Andy Sidaris territory.Despite the distributor clearly feeling the need to deceive people into buying the film, Demonic Toys isn't all that awful; in fact, as trashy low-budget B-movie horrors go, this one is actually pretty entertaining, with a reasonable amount of invention (the script written by David S. Goyer of Batman Begins and Dark City fame), some marvellously shonky puppet-style monsters, and a fair amount of gratuitous gore (including plucked eyeballs and a decapitation).It's all incredibly silly, of course, with people trapped in a toy warehouse, terrorised by a demonic jack-in-the-box, a deadly doll called Oopsie Daisy, and a giant killer teddy bear (controlled by an evil spirit who wants to be reborn as a human), but not so bad that it didn't deserve a respectable DVD release with a more representative sleeve.5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

geminiredblue Charles Band just can't seem to escape movies featuring small stop-motion creations! First, there was LASERBLAST. Then there was PUPPET MASTERS. Between that and DEMONIC TOYS, he started PREHYSTERIA! And what's remarkable about all the ones I mentioned is even if the movies sucked, you were always guaranteed good special effects. Anyway, so the basic story of DEMONIC TOYS has an undercover cop, several cop-killing criminals and a few security guards trapped inside a giant toy factory. As night wears on, the toys come to life and start killing off the characters in creative ways. Personally, I found it to be kinda like PUPPET MASTER. It's got originality, I'll give it that, but a lot of the film feels like a retread of his earlier work. Acting is, on the whole, adequate. As expected, there are a few wooden actors. But in these types of films, we shouldn't expect to see any Oliviers! The real stars are the toys and special effects. And as usual, the filmmakers deliver on those promises. Dialogue is pretty witty too. One of the toys, a baby doll, has a number of memorable and hilarious killer quips. If nothing else, this movie started a series and would eventually lead to numerous VERSUS movies. So, watch and enjoy some mild and senseless entertainment!