Back when I used to work at Blockbuster this box always caught my eye. Though I never got around to watching it back then, I made a point to put it on my list this year. For what it is, I’m not completely disappointed.
Demonic Toys is a movie about just that. The quick breakdown goes like this. A couple of cops are trying to break up a black market gun ring. The deal goes bad, and one of them gets shot and killed, the other chases one of the bad guys into a warehouse for surplus toys. Unknown to them this factory was built on the apparent grave of… I dunno… The devil himself. We learn through exposition that he [the devil] has waited sixty six years to try and come back to the land of the living. He chose this female cop because she was pregnant. Now the cop must stop him with the help of a fast food delivery driver.
This movie has all sorts of great stuff in it. Devils, guns, blood, tits, there’s even a kid fight. It really wasn’t all that bad, considering. I mean the worst part of the movie is that you can tell that the demonic “toys” are more like demonic puppets. My favorite part of the film is the one character that is introduced and killed all with in the span of about ten minuets. It was like they realized they had written themselves into a corner and needed to figure a way out. “Sure, yeah it makes sense there would be a run away living in the air ducts of a toy warehouse.” Also the scene where the dead demon baby fetus is given out as a “treat” on Halloween by the elderly couple in 1925 is rather funny as well.
After watching this one I found out there were a bunch of sequels as well as a few movies that merged a couple of other horror movies together. Weird. It’s not quite as bad as say, “Seed of Chucky” but it’s not as creepy scary as that clown under the bed in “Poltergeist” either. Not sure I can really recommend this one, however. It takes itself to serious to be campy, and isn’t enough of a train wreck to miss.
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