state your reasons why (here's mine)
1.he completly ripped off the monkey story from stephen king and without thanking him
2.this movie was made
3.the guy who played dumbledore in the harry potter movies should of played merlin cause it would of brung some redeeming features to this movie
those are my reason's why the director should burn in hell
I suppose your opinions do carry some merit. But tis is quite easily th funniest movie I have EVER seen. I know it's terrible, really! But c'mon, Merlin wandering around a cheap suburb of L.A. (I guess) showing a crappy sketch of toy monkey to passersby? And no one is creeped out by this! So much more entertaining than Citizen Kane! Honestly, I hope there's some sort of sequal with more Grampie Borgnine stories... this movie reminds me that my life is not quite as worthless as the director/producer/writer/editor's (yes, it's the same guy).
shareI literally hate this movie and yes I too want the director dead.
A director not content with making one sh!te movie he then goes on to make a 2nd sh!te movie and splice in half of his previous sh!te movie.
Burn in hell Kenneth J. Berton.
(Might contain spoilers)
My main problem with the film is that it seems to claim to be one type of film (innocent kid's fantasy) but is really something totally different; namely, horror. Now I am quite the horror fan myself, but if a movie's scary then it should be made clear.
I mean, just what audience was this made for, anyway? If it was in fact intended to be a horror movie, why give it such a deceptively family-friendly name and VHS box cover? (Look up the movie's name on wikipedia.) If it was intended to be a fantasy film for kids, why put so much horror into it? Before it was shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000, probably the only people who bought or rented it were parents who thought they were getting a harmless fantasy movie for their kids, only to get extremely pissed off after their kids were tramatized by it.
We have the film open with a woman who accidentally summons an evil spirit with her oja board which then kills her, a cat that turns into a monsterous, neck-chewing psycho feline and then gets roasted alive, a guy gets an unwelcome visit from Satan who is every bit as creepy and scary here as he's ever been in any movie, and the guy, who through using magic has now aged incredibly, approaching his wife grinning menacingly and cutting her arm with his now razor-sharp fingernail to draw blood. Then there's the second story, which features an evil toy monkey that causes plants, animals and people to die whenever it bangs it's symbas together. (Yes, I know it's the exact same premesis as the Stephen King short story. I guess maybe the film fell below his radar and that's why he never sued for plagerisim.)
Then at the end after the grandpa finishes his story, we see the young boy sleeping peacefully. I guess Kenneth Berton somehow thinks kids can't be scared by anything.
The stories remind me of the Brothers Grimm tales for kids before they were 'sanitized'. Bloody, horrible, creepy and disturbing. Designed to scare the crap outta kids. Did you know in the original Cinderella, the stepsisters cut part of their feet off to get them into that glass slipper? The Prince realized that they weren't the right girls when blood would start to seep out of the shoe. Seriously. And that's mild compared to some of them. So I guess this guy thinks he's the new Brother Grimm or something, kickin' it old school to scare the crud out of kids with his tales.
shareHe was actually a very nice guy that who whose full-time job was a secretary in a law firm. Sadly, he died (quite young) a few years ago.
shareConsider yourself lucky that he never made the project he was planning right after "The Devil's Gift". I read the treatment and it caused me to bleed from my eyes. The director may have been a decent guy, but as a filmmaker he was a master of pain.
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