The Gingerdead Man (2005)

User Rating:

3.1/10   

Director:

Charles Band

Writers:

William Butler (story)
August White (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

Out of the oven... and into your heart!

Plot:

An evil yet adorable 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. |

Plot Keywords:

Killer | Gingerbread | Gingerbread Man | Gingerdead | First Of Trilogy

Cast

Gary Busey	...	Millard Findlemeyer
Robin Sydney	...	Sarah Leigh
Ryan Locke	...	Amos Cadbury
Larry Cedar	...	Jimmy Dean
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alexia Aleman	...	Lorna Dean
Newell Alexander	...	James Leigh
Harlan Band	...	Bake Sale Customer
Jacquelyn Band	...	Bake Sale Customer
Zalman Band	...	Bake Sale Customer
E. Dee Biddlecome	...	Millard's Mom
Margaret Blye	...	Betty Leigh
Jonathan Chase	...	Brick Fields
Lisa Cohen	...	Diner Patrons
Diane Collins	...	Bake Sale Customer
Joe Dain	...	Bake Sale Customer
Dana K. Harrloe	...	Bake Sale Customer
Coy Koehler	...	Diner Patrons
Debra Mayer	...	Nurse #1
Kim McWilliams	...	Diner Patrons
Daniela Melgoza	...	Julia
Emily Owen	...	Diner Patrons
Tom Paliferro	...	Diner Patrons
Jethro Rothe-Kushel	...	Bake Sale Customer
Kaycee Shank	...	Nurse #2
James Snyder	...	Jeremy Leigh

Runtime:

70 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

UK:15

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Shoot Productions

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: After the gingerdead cuts the power off, electricity is still being used; there are lights, ovens, appliances on and working.

Quotes:

Amos Cadbury: Now wait a minute, you mean to tell me that that...
Sarah Leigh: I know it sounds crazy. Amos, I don't know how it happen. Its only thing that makes sense even if it is Twilight Zone kind of sense.
Amos Cadbury: The guy that. . Killed Jeremy and your daddy.? That you helped send to the electric chair? Millard Findlemeyer? Has come back from the dead.... to get revenge on you... inside a cookie?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Benchwarmers (2006)

Soundtrack:

I Can't Help This

A movie about a killer gingerbread cookie should be awesome, but in this case, it isn't.

"The Gingerdead Man" has a promising plot, and thinking that it would be similar to such gems as "Jack Frost", I decided to rent it from Netflix. My rental would have been better used elsewhere.

So, here's the plot. Gary Busey, playing a psychotic killer guy, gets sent to the electric chair because of one girl's testimony. See, this girl's brother and father were killed by Psycho Busey, and because Busey didn't kill her, the girl testified against her.

Well, one night, the said girl is making a gingerbread cookie in her little bakery (that looks so rundown from the front that you wonder why anyone would ever go in there) and somehow the cookie comes to life. Now if you read the plot line on the Netflix sleeve, it says that Psycho Busey's ashes found their way into the cookie. Apparently if you cook ashes in an oven, they come back to life in the form of whatever they're in. But you don't go into movies about killer cookies looking for plot lines.

Unfortunately, "The Gingerdead Man" doesn't have anything to offer. Sure, there's Gary Busey in cookie form, and he's good for a few laughs, but the VAST majority of the movie is just filler. The 60-minute running time (does that really qualify this as a real movie?) seems like 2 hours, because most of the movie is just people running around the bakery going "what is that thing", "I think it's Gary Busey", and "well, let's run away". Except they don't run away, even if they could have easily just tore out of the bakery and ran to safety.

Ultimately, the killer cookie plot can't save this dull, horrible movie that looked like it was made for $20. Seriously, I could make this movie. It isn't even the low budget that does it in, it's the fact that the movie is just dull, it has no even somewhat cool kills and there's just not enough killer cookie goodness. I was expecting a "so bad it's good" movie, but I just got a really, really bad movie that wasn't even unintentionally funny. Disappointment.