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The best Charles Band movie never made...


Maybe it's just me, but after watching it and spending some time thinking about it... This seems less like a Kevin Smith film and more like one of those fun, goofy, low-budget Charles Band Full Moon films. You know, like Puppet Master or Blood Dolls or Evil Bong or Gingerdead Man? The movies you pick up for a buck or two knowing they'll be stupid as heck, but will still enjoy them because they revel in how stupid and low-budget they are. And I think that's part of why I was able to enjoy it to an extent, as someone who grew up watching a lot of Charles Band productions.

This definitely does have shades of a lot of their work... tiny critters tormenting a small cast of characters with plenty of low-brow humor thrown in, while also being somewhat self-aware of the fact that it's not really "high art", but is just mindless entertainment.

I get the feeling Kevin Smith knew what he was doing and just wanted to make something fun and silly and stupid as sin. And I actually don't hate it. It's not good by any means, and a few too many jokes fall flat, but for something I saw for free on Netflix, I got a small kick out of it.

And FURTHERMORE, this is my signature! SERIOUSLY! Did you think I was still talking about my point?

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Ha ha! This is a very compelling point! I love Charles Band/ Full Moon movies!This movie was nuts, but it really didn't bother me. Though, I would argue that this i more like the later years of Charles' career, with stuff like Evil Bong and Ginger Dead Man. Those movies played up the comedy and the strangeness much more then the early Puppet Master and Demonic Toys movies. But yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to hear Kevin bring up Charles as an inspiration for these movies in an interview down the road.

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