2019
Director- Danishka Esterhazy
Cast- Dani Kind, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Celina
Martin, Sara Canning, Steve Lund, Maria Nash, Naledi Majola, Romeo Carere, Richard
White, Kiroshan Naidoo, Lia Sachs, Eric Bauza
Older
readers may remember the Banana Splits, a Hanna-Barbera produced kids show
featuring giant silly looking animals. They were a kind of Sid and Marty Croft
meet the Monkees, I think. This movie takes those characters and puts them in
an insane horror setting.
Harley
is a kid who really loves The Banana Splits, even though the other kids his age
have outgrown it. He has an older half-brother and mom who love him and a jerk
father that cheats on his mom. For his birthday he’s being taken to a live
taping of the show. The Splits, rather than being portrayed as actors in suits
or animimatronics are presented as advanced robots, programmed to act for the
show.
On the
same day that show gets cancelled, the robots go crazy. Their programming tells
them the show must go on! They torture and kill all of the adults and hold the
children captive, forcing them to watch so that the show can go on.
When it
comes to victims in a horror movie, you can put everyone in to two categories;
likable, empathetic characters we root for and annoying douchebags that we hope
die horribly. The biggest problem with this movie is that are too many of the
latter; cheating husband, uncaring boss, abusive co-worker, over bearing
parent, annoying millennial.
The
movie has some interesting gore scenes. I know people that were old enough to
remember the show when it aired and they were looking forward to seeing this
movie. Not being old enough, it didn’t have the same effect on me. Although it
superficially sounds like something akin to Meet
the Feebles, it’s not nearly as gory, funny or risky. I suspect this movie
will find fans in one of two categories; the aforementioned older viewers and
young college kids who can get high and trip on the wild visuals, like a giant
cartoon dog with a Terminator endoskeleton ripping someone in half.
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