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Great Film overall

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Sometimes you've just gotta watch a stinker, and this undoubtedly fits that bill. It's the brief (but not quite brief enough) saga of a cold-blooded killer who's put to death, then somehow returns to life as a stabbin', laughin', wise-crackin', foot-tall slab of holiday confectionery. As if that premise needed a little extra kick, this monstrous devil-cookie also happens to be voiced by Gary Busey. The concept itself is hilarious for all of ten minutes, but burns out quickly as the plot tries, courageously but hopelessly, to make us care about his victims. It's atrociously acted of course, the equivalent of D-grade porn stars who keep their clothes on, so those misguided storytelling efforts don't even have a fighting chance. A moment rarely passes without some manner of absurd stupidity. If it isn't a particularly bad pun, a wickedly awful special effect or a pathetic dash of vacant dialog, surely there's a glaringly obvious editing mistake in view. We're talking night-becomes-day-becomes-night, several times in the same scene. Removing a baking pan from the oven with bare hands, commenting on how its contents are freshly scorched, then casually setting it aside. Firing seventeen times from a six-shooter. Though it runs for just an hour and ten minutes, that seems about twice as long as it should've. I had almost as much fun glancing at the cover art as I did watching the entire thing.

Many of us genre fans are familiar with the horror premise in which an evil character "survives" the electric chair and subsequently continues to terrorize our hero(es). (Think "Shocker", "The Horror Show", etc., here crossed with the "little killer" idea of movies like "Child's Play" and "Puppet Master"). But none of them put this outlandishly silly a spin on the premise. Yup, meet the cinema's first walking & talkie cookie man killer! Said gingerbread cookie used to be a guy, Millard Findlemeyer (now THERE'S a name for you), played by Gary Busey, who really is in his element. Millard massacred patrons at a diner, and the testimony of the sole survivor, Sarah Leigh (Robin Sydney) had put him away. Well, Millard's mom got her revenge, by mixing psycho son's ashes in with a gingerbread recipe, and when a bakery employee bleeds into the mix, that's what it takes to bring Millard back. Now the bakery employees, a sleazy competitor, and the sleaze's trampy daughter are fair game for the homicidal dessert. Got milk? More like got beer, because this is exactly the kind of thing one watches with friends, with alcohol at the ready, because no person in their right mind would ever take such a thing seriously, no matter how perfectly the actors maintain their poker faces. In fact, the lovely Ms. Sydney gives a performance that is a little too *good* for this sort of thing, emoting quite effectively in a scene where she pours her heart out. Veterans in the cast include Margaret Blye ("The Entity") and Larry Cedar ("Twilight Zone: The Movie"), but mostly the actors are no-names who give this utter nonsense truly game efforts, especially Sydney and Ryan Locke who plays Amos. Unfortunately, folks hoping for a reasonable body count, decent gore, and any sort of nudity will be disappointed, although there are some good gags, and the delicious little demon's witticisms as he mocks and kills victims aren't as much lame fun as this viewer would have liked. "Well, it ain't the Pillsbury Dough Boy!" The movie gets an extra point just for casting Busey in this insane pair of roles, but it's just not as uproariously so-bad-it's-good as I would have liked. Give it credit for not going on too long, though: if it weren't for a protracted end credits sequence, this would run BARELY over one hour. Six out of 10.

Did Hollywood really need a killer Gingerbread Man? Hollywood got a killer Leprechaun, and plenty of killer dolls & puppets. Did they really need to try and make us afraid of one more thing affiliated with children? What's next, a f**king killer Easter bunny? Okay so here is the plot. An evil Gingerbread man comes to life with the soul of a convicted killer - this real life cookie monster wreaks havoc on the girl who sent the killer to the electric chair. That is just.......................bizarre. I mean it's not good, it is bad, but is mostly weird. No on to the acting. I honestly can't believe that Gary Busey agreed to star in this stinker. I mean he isn't bad in this picture, but he isn't good at all. And other than that, the acting completely stinks. The effects in this movie are freaking mind blowing in how awful they are. Yet again if you watch a full moon movie it is bound to have, crappy effects. The worst part is that there is actually a sequel to this awful film. I haven't scene it, and to be honest I don't want to.

I LOVED this movie! Don't get me wrong, 4/10 is a fair score, it doesn't deserve higher, but still, I loved this movie! And this movie is not terribly made - low-budget horror filmmakers should take note on the movies Full Moon releases, this is how you do it.The interesting thing is it has Gary Busey in it, which provides some star power. Then I started to wonder, how is Gary Busey a known actor? What do I know him from/what films he famous for? I couldn't think of an answer, and I'm too lazy to look here on IMDb, so I just don't care.Anyway, since he's completely totally nuts in real life, he fits his role here well. The actual 'Gingerdead man' running around, and killing people - sheer awesomeness!