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A Child's Garden of Satan
10 years ago
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MST3K: MERLIN'S SHOP OF MYSTICAL WONDERS
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...../ref=pd_sim__2
Director Kenneth J. Berton, having nothing better to do with his 1984 turkey THE DEVIL'S GIFT, recycled it in this 1996 anthology film, probably the most inappropriate children's movie ever made. Ernest Borgnine plays a kindly old man who tells two nightmare-inducing bedtime stories to his grandson, both involving a modern-day Merlin. In the first, a pompous critic gets his comeuppance; in the second, which seems suspiciously similar to a 1980 Stephen King short story, a Satanic toy monkey targets a young boy and his family for death.
This tenth season classic never misses a beat in eviscerating a movie that should never have been released. The booze Borgnine's character must've been drinking is kept tastefully offscreen, and the disconnect between the grandson's outward cheerfulness and the alternating boredom and terror he must've been feeling is pure movie riffing gold.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...../ref=pd_sim__2
Director Kenneth J. Berton, having nothing better to do with his 1984 turkey THE DEVIL'S GIFT, recycled it in this 1996 anthology film, probably the most inappropriate children's movie ever made. Ernest Borgnine plays a kindly old man who tells two nightmare-inducing bedtime stories to his grandson, both involving a modern-day Merlin. In the first, a pompous critic gets his comeuppance; in the second, which seems suspiciously similar to a 1980 Stephen King short story, a Satanic toy monkey targets a young boy and his family for death.
This tenth season classic never misses a beat in eviscerating a movie that should never have been released. The booze Borgnine's character must've been drinking is kept tastefully offscreen, and the disconnect between the grandson's outward cheerfulness and the alternating boredom and terror he must've been feeling is pure movie riffing gold.
There was no alcohol involved in the character - the acting is (probably) just that bad.