The Gingerdead Man

Plot synopsis:
In a Waco, Texas diner, Cadillac Jack's, crazed killer Millard Findlemeyer opens fire on the Leigh family, killing Jeremy and James, but leaving Sarah and her mother, Betty, alive. Findlemeyer is arrested and sentenced to die in the electric chair. After the execution, Findlemeyer is cremated, and his ashes are sent to his mother, a witch who mixes the ashes with a gingerbread spice mix.
The Bakery, a pastry shop run by the Leighs, is in dire straits, and Betty has been reduced to a shotgun-toting alcoholic; Sarah sends her home with Bakery employee Julia. Jimmy Dean attempts to buy Sarah out, so he can knock down The Bakery, which he bemoans as an eyesore. After exchanging hostilities with Dean's daughter Lorna, Sarah defers the decision.
Sarah and Brick Fields, another Bakery employee, find a mysterious gingerbread spice mix left at their doorstep by Findlemeyer's mother. They set to using the mix, but Brick cuts himself, allowing his blood to pollute the dough. Sarah permits him to leave early so he can pursue his amateur wrestling career as The Butcher-Baker at Wrestlepalooza. She makes a large gingerbread man with the contaminated dough and puts it in an industrial oven to bake.
Lorna has returned and planted a rat in The Bakery so the health department will shut them down, but is discovered by Sarah. A fight ensues, during which Lorna hits a switch that causes a surge of electricity into the oven where the gingerbread man is cooking, animating it.
Amos Cadbury, Lorna's boyfriend, who has gotten tired of waiting outside for her, arrives on the scene. Sarah removes the gingerbread man from the oven, at which point the newly dubbed "Gingerdead Man" leaps up, taunting them. They attempt to lock the living cookie in the freezer, and Sarah tries to call the police but the line is dead. Lorna calls her dad on Amos’s cell phone before the batteries go dead.
Betty comes back to look for her stash of alcohol, and Julia comes back looking for Betty. Betty loses a finger and is put into the oven, while Julia is knocked out by a frying pan, encased in frosting, decorated, and left in the freezer.
Amos returns to his car and retrieves a handgun. Jimmy Dean arrives to pick up Lorna. While he investigates Amos’s car, the Gingerdead Man takes Jimmy's car and, using a rolling pin to operate the accelerator and kills him by pinning him between the car and a wall.
Amos and Sarah discover and rescue Julia from the freezer. Sarah tells Amos that she thinks the killer cookie is Millard. Lorna waits outside for her father, but discovers only his body sprawled over the hood of his car. She steals his ring and heads back inside, where she triggers a tripwire that lodges a knife into her forehead, killing her.
Sarah and Amos find Betty and attempt to rescue her from the oven, but the Gingerdead Man locks Sarah in the oven and knocks Amos out with a hammer. Amos recovers, shoots the oven door's lock off, and saves Sarah. Brick returns. The Gingerdead Man gets Amos's pistol and opens fire. Julia and Brick manage to subdue him, and Brick eats the cookie's head. Brick is possessed by the Gingerdead Man. He is pushed into the oven and baked to death.
Several months later, Betty, Sarah, and Amos are having a bake sale to raise money for the hospital, with a little help from two nurses. Two kids ask if they have any gingerbread cookies, and one of the nurses tells them that an older lady stopped by and dropped some off. The nurse opens the box, revealing five gingerbread cookies, who open their eyes. One of the gingerbread cookies is bought by a woman, who also buys a box full of pastries and ships them to her sister in Los Angeles.

Tags: revenge, murder

Review:
this movie has WAY too much time with people, not enough with Gary Busey as killer pastry.
I bought it thinking I'd get some laughs, after all it's hard to not find the prospect of a Chucky-style killer in the form of a Gingerbread Man (voiced by Gary Busey himself) quite tempting as a truly fun bad movie.
But I didn't expect it to be this boring, this absolutely dreadful, so abysmally acted to the point where I wished my own bed-ridden Grandmother could walk on to the set and wipe the floor with these other "actors" with her own non-existent acting chops.Oh sure, Brand *tries* to put a story together, something close to it I suppose, involving a bakery called, um, "bakery", and how it is under threat from a Mondo Burger style competition of a new bakery across the street and how the workers cant seem to cope and, uh, work into the late hours of the night and then one of them cuts his finger and so conveniently blood drips into the flour and the electricity goes off on....
Brand probably does know how to put together a trailer for a movie - looking at the one for this and a couple other "Full Moon" productions on the DVD it looks like that is their real metee - but the actual film is um...
The only thing more stupid and ridiculous is how the poor little feller meets his/its end.I wish I could recommend this, I wish I could say this is the "shiznit" of killer-whatever movies that you can turn off your brain and enjoy as fun schlock.
As for Gary Busey, well, he was in the movie for a whopping 10 minutes.The plot itself was very bad because it never fully explains anything, nor does it explain where the batter came from and it was never really confirmed that it was Millard as the Gingerbread cookie.
If I were to delve into specifics, my first experience of a Charles Band production was the 'Gremlins'in disguise movie that Luca Bercovici directed 'Ghoulies' of course it was until I later watched 'Trancers' that I truly became a devotee of the great man's output.However that said, it comes as a grave disappointment to have to say, that with the fall of Empire pictures, and the lack of consistency with Full Moon Pictures, and all the other divisions within the same outfit, this latest movie, arrives as something of a major disappointment.I'll be honest, I have watched every movie good or bad, that has carried Charles Band's name on it.
I can always remember vividly, that to cut down on film costs, when Empire Pictures had they're studio in Rome, they used to film the movies using one set, such gems like 'Dolls' 'From Beyond' why even the mighty 'Celler Dweller' was a one set wonder.The same applies to this movie, yes it's set in a bakery, the movie itself takes place during a nigh-time shift.As the movie begins we witness the actions of Gary Busey crazed psycho going gun happy in a local Texan diner, then we flash forward to just another day down amongst the cream buns.I have to say, although the lack of budget was a major factor, the lack of any real acting talent and any real gusto to the script made me pay attention.I can only imagine, that whatever funds Charles Band raised for this movie, a small some went towards the special effects and the vast majority went straight into Gary Busey back pocket.I found it stranger that the writing partnership of William Butler and Domonic Muir should write this script using aliases, that being said, so too did Don Mancini when he also penned 'Celler Dweller' but looked which way Mancini's career went and by the looks of it the same can be said of Butler and Muir.The ending of this movie suggests a sequel, although I'm sure we will see the 'Gingerdead Man' doll long before we see such a dreaded beast as a follow up to this miserable exercise.My two stars are awarded basically for the presence of Band's name and that of Busey's.
and believe it or not, the killer cookie (looking very much like it's made of rubber) is the best part.I've become a fan of Gary Busey in his "is he insane?" recent years, so his presence either in live form or vocally as a cookie is really amusing.
I know these flicks are self-financed, and that's a great thing, but there wasn't much to work with.The movie clocks in at around 60 minutes, so for there to be so many slow spots (i.e., scenes sans cookie) it was difficult to watch.
But you don't go into movies about killer cookies looking for plot lines.Unfortunately, "The Gingerdead Man" doesn't have anything to offer.
Sure, there's Gary Busey in cookie form, and he's good for a few laughs, but the VAST majority of the movie is just filler.
The 60-minute running time (does that really qualify this as a real movie?) seems like 2 hours, because most of the movie is just people running around the bakery going "what is that thing", "I think it's Gary Busey", and "well, let's run away".
Except they don't run away, even if they could have easily just tore out of the bakery and ran to safety.Ultimately, the killer cookie plot can't save this dull, horrible movie that looked like it was made for $20.
It isn't even the low budget that does it in, it's the fact that the movie is just dull, it has no even somewhat cool kills and there's just not enough killer cookie goodness.
OK i bought this movie thinking OK its a bad movie but i have 3 friends coming and i got it foe 2 dollars at a garage sale so as we were watching i had to stop the movie and ask my friends is this really worth watching it looks like a chucky movie export its a gingerbread man they said no and the descent into hell began the acting OK i can teach a monkey how to act better the effects the gingerbread man looked OK but everything else was horrible my 5 year old cousin watched it with us yes im a horrible rolemodel he has to learn it from somewhere so he even said the film was garbage i would rather have my eyes gouged out then watch this garbage.
If poor writing, poor acting, poor character development, poor special effects, poor editing and poor directing add up to good film-making then wake me from this horrible nightmare.
The Gingerdead Man (2005) was very very bad, and not in a good way!!!I was looking forward to seeing this, maybe a return to form for full moon......
they haven't produced anything decent for years and "Doll Graveyard" was poor too but the trailer for this looked good so my optimism was high!!The story is about this serial killer called "Millard" who is played by Gary Busey, who one day kills this girls dad and brother in a diner, anyway she gives crucial evidence which leads to his execution by electric chair, after this he gets cremated and his ashes get sent home to his mother.To cut a long story short, Gary Busey comes back as a gingerbread man to seek revenge on the girl and her friends, he wants them all dead!!!Just like "Doll Graveyard" this film runs at 60 minutes with 10 slow minutes of ending credits, zzzzzzzzz!!
The film is boring too, the killer gingerbread man is rubbish looking and the characters cant act AT ALL, even by b-movie standards.The gingerdead man only kills 2 people in the whole movie, there's no nudity or anything!!
I simply expected a cheesy horror flick with bad acting and special effects that would be good for a laugh.
Sadly, it failed to deliver on even these low expectations.The plot of this movie is the fact that a killer's ashes were mixed into a gingerbread cookie mix by the killer's mother, and then sent to a bakery; the location of his crimes for which he was caught and executed.
There aren't even any deleted scenes on the DVD to explain why a cookie managed to come to life out of the oven with the soul of a deceased killer.The DVD box is far more entertaining than the actual movie, and does a better job of explaining the plot.
A psychopath (Gary Busey) who's been killed by the electric chair, returns from the dead in the form of a demonic gingerbread man to gain vengeance on the girl who had sent him there.
This movie is really bad, and not even in a funny way, because it feels like they are actually trying.At about one hour and ten minutes, I suppose you could suffer through it if you have absolutely nothing else to do with your time, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone..
Now for the bad, the film was terrible, the dialogue stank, the acting apart from Gary Busey was lousy.There was very little gore and was completely unscary, cant even call it a horror??Apart from this and the clincher, the film was so boring i cant believe i watched the whole thing.
With a title like that, and the premise being a walking/talking/killing cookie, I think most viewers will picture this movie being a (black) comedy.
They tried to be a little too serious at times with the love story and the attempt at humor, especially the one guy acting like a superhero-ninja wannabe, can be particularly painful to watch.I love Charles Band, his movies in the late 80's and early 90's have and still entertain me greatly, but this stuff coming out lately just ain't what it used to be..
Funny, creative, and an all around good time is what makes the Gingerdead Man a fun little movie.
Usually movies like this where they're SO divorced from reality, I usually bypass them, but when I saw the thumbnail photo with Gary Busey's face next to an evil gingerbread man, I started cracking up and HAD to watch!!!
Now, there's a school of thought which I call the 'Snakes-on-a-Plane' viewpoint – it's where a film's title tells you everything you need to know about the story and therefore, if you can't work out whether you like it or not from that, you don't really deserve to complain if the movie turns out to be not for you.
So, armed with my love of cheesy and 'so-bad-they're-good' films, mixed with my enjoyment of the horror genre stories and appreciation for Gary Busey, I figured that the low budget 'Gingerdead Man' would be right up my street.I think it's fair to say that I'm not 'spoiling' the film by letting on that Gary Busey plays (mainly be voicing) a killer who's murdered, but whose soul is sent to that of a gingerbread man (think 'Child's Play' but with pastry instead of a 'Good Guy' doll).
The way in which the killer is resurrected by the blood being dropped into the vat of dough and then being baked into the cookie itself is the start of this one's cheesiness as there's the oddball manner of it always coming up behind someone and taking them out in the back of the bakery or the manner of it attacking those around the bakery which are some of the greatest scenes in the film as these stalking scenes are quite fun.
As funny as it was supposed to be, here is our list of complaints that are so dumb that they are hilariously stupid like all the other Gingerdead Man movies.
Its running time is 70 minutes and 10 of them are end credits so it's more like a TV movie more than a feature film.
Who can take a talking gingerbread man seriously no matter how deadly?But looking at everything else is where this movie just doesn't work.
Again, I realize that this movie had a tiny budget and only Gary Busey as its star power but there are films out there that became successful with very little.
Highly entertaining and fun movie with serial killer Busey finishing off a family in a diner and then being killed by the state only to be reborn as a Gingerbread man - thanks to some ancient curse, a fairly hapless bakery and a drop of blood.
Especially with Gary Busey voicing the gingerbread man.But except for the first 4 minutes it was just boring and really lazily made in every aspect, the gingerdead man doesn't show up until 25 minutes in and it's a rubber sock puppet with someones hand in it moving it around that just looks lame, I'd prefer poor CGI than that tbh.The whole movie circulates inside and around the bakery where the gingerdead man was baked, most likely to keep the budget as low as possible and for a serial killing cookie he sure likes to take his sweet time to even attempt to get to killing leaving the other characters in the movie plenty of time to flirt with each other and discuss life in general while the movie is supposed to be the most exciting.It is pretty impressive how they managed to make it so dull though considering it's only 60 minutes long (if you exclude the credits).I would have considered giving it a 1 but I only give out 1's to movies that I really HATE and this is so utterly lackluster it can't even make me hate it..
If you watched The Gingerdead Man expecting a serious horror film then I am sorry...for you parents, as they may be something wrong with you.
Okay, maybe not, but if you really did think Gingerdead Man was going to be anything other than a silly B horror film then yes, this movie may suck for you.
With this one, I said "What the hell is this?" I couldn't imagine how this would work.The film starts at a diner where a killer named Millard Findlemeyer (Gary Busey) opens fire on the Leigh family and kills Jeremy (the brother), James (the father), and leaves Sarah (Robin Sydney) and the mother Betty (Maggie Blye).
A year later, Sarah is working at a bakery and while making a Gingerbread man, an employee drips blood into the dough and while baking a power surge makes the baked good come to life with Millard Findlemeyer's soul possessed into it.
I saw this movie advertised in Fangoria, and immediately found the concept of Gary Busey as a killer gingerbread man hilarious.
You have a killer cookie, the insane-as-hell Gary Busey and a bizarre cage-wrestling personality all in the same movie, and it is somehow STILL boring.
The only other victim of this so called terrifying ginger bread man is the tuff guy wannabe that eats the cookie, and is possessed by the soul and cooked in the oven.FACT: Most of this movie was filmed in a kitchen setting, which got old quick.
The Gingerdead Man is a film about a mass Murderer name Millard (Gary Busey) who one day robs a small restaurant and murders a family eating there except for the daughter, Sarah (Robin Sydney).
Gary Busey overacts for the entire 10 minutes that he's actually in the film as a grimacing, murdering maniac who returns from beyond the grave to possess a gingerbread man.From that moment on, the story revolves around the owners of a bakery trying to escape from the bakery while the gingerbusey tries to kill them while making lame Freddy Kreuger one-liners.
Sounds like a fan-fricking-tastic story that could be filled with so many plot twists it makes the mind become boggled, however the only brilliant twist that the writers could come up with was to make every single character in the movie a flipping retard, I mean seriously how hard is it to walk outside of a bakery that is completely unlocked, or to avoid a gingerbread man cutting you with a knife at hardly a foot tall, or to avoid a car that starts a good 10 feet away from you that a gingerbread man attempts to drive at going at no speeds above 5 mph.
This movie is called The Gingerdead Man and it features a bonkers Gary Busey voicing a sentient cookie trying to murder people.
The Gingerdead Man starts as armed robber & brutal killer Millard Findlemeyer (Gary Busey) kills diner owner James Leigh (Newell Alexander) & his son Jeremy (James Snyder), watching this happen is James daughter Sarah (Robin Sydney).
The acting isn't too bad actually & there's a couple of hot looking ladies here which helps while Oscar nominated actor Gary Busey has a small cameo at the start & voices the Gingerdead Man.The Gingerdead Man is a film with a bad reputation that is a spoof rip-off of Child's Play but one that I thought was fun, moved along at a good pace & had a charismatic central villain who has both the nastiness & cuteness factor in ample measure & I am sure Band was thinking about a possible range of toys.
Yes, he was under used, but if they used him any more than the movie would have REALLY sucked.Basically, if the prospect of a murderer played by Gary Busey getting turned into a homicidal gingerbread cookie interests you, then you should definitely give this movie a shot!
Last night, I had the dubious privilege of watching a truly awful little movie titled The Gingerdead Man. Its main claim to fame is that it's a crappy horror flick that features a real live Academy Award winner, namely Gary Busey.
Ah some more fine acting from the great Gary Busey (aka DC Cab, Rookie of the Year, etc.) but now starring in the role he was born to play, a killer reincarnated gingerbread man.
Said gingerbread cookie used to be a guy, Millard Findlemeyer (now THERE'S a name for you), played by Gary Busey, who really is in his element.