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Back to Podcast EpisodesThe Gingerdead Man Review and Interview with Charles Band
The Gingerdead Man is just one of Charles Band’s 69 directed films and 342 produced films. You’d be hard pressed to call The Gingerdead Man a good movie, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a real fun time. You get to enjoy Gary Busey’s unhinged performance and a hilarious gingerbread man puppet commit homicide. What’s not to love?
We also have the special treat to interview the legend himself, Charles Band, about his new memoire and about what it was like to work with Gary Busey (not great).
Synopsis
I think the best person to explain the Gingerdead Man is the director himself, Charles Band.
[The Gingerdead Man is a] tale of a deranged murderer who gets executed and is brought back to life when his witchy
mother mails enchanted dough to a bakery where—
—oh, you get it. A psychotic cookie comes to life and rampages. Okay?Charles Band – Confessions of a Puppetmaster
Well I guess that’s close enough. In the spoilers section we’ll talk about how wrong that actually is.
Review of The Gingerdead Man
The Gingerdead Man is representative of the highs and lows of exploitation horror films. If you’ve seen any Full Moon Feature, your expectations should be tempered, but if you are new to super low budget, straight to video horror films like this one, you might feel surprised at how shitty it is. If you are comparing it to anything that touches the theater, this movie is not going to compete on quality of writing, production quality, acting, directing, special effects, or anything related to the making of movies. However, what this movie and other Full Moon Features have is, every once in a while, there are some truly entertaining absurd, and even charming moments.
The Bad
Ok, so lets discuss the bad first. The writing and direction is borderline incomprehensible. Some of the very impor
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