2005 Shoot Productions/Full Moon Entertainment
Serial killer Millard Findlemeyer (Gary Busey) has been executed for killing most of Sarah’s (Robin Sydney) family. She testified against him in 
court, but he swears revenge and comes back as a killer gingerbread man bent on murdering her and all that stand in his way.
This film is so bad and cheesy it’s hard to believe it ever got made. Everything is just so contrived and awful that it makes you feel kind of sorry for the people in it. Did they know they were going to be acting opposite a gingerbread man puppet? I have to admit though, it is kind of fun to watch because of the fact that it’s such a train wreck of a film. It really highlights how far in quality Full Moon movies have fallen and how crazy Gary Busey is.
Silvia St. Croix and August White wrote the screenplay for this and I have got to give them some credit for having an imagination. Then again they were probably smoking something when they decided that a horror film about a serial killer possessed gingerbread man would turn out really well. There are so many things that don’t make sense in this film that it would take me the rest of the year to list them all. I would like to mention the nasty fact that Sarah allows the gingerbread dough to go into the mixer even after Brick (Jonathan Chase) cuts himself and gets a bunch of blood in it. Okay, they had to think of a way to get the gingerbread man to come to life, but that it beyond gross! Then there is the part in which they close the walk in fridge door while the gingerbread man is pigging out, and somehow he escapes. How the hell does that happen? Lastly, there is a scene in which Sarah and Amos (Ryan Locke) are making out while poor Julia (Daniela Melgoza) is lying on the floor covered in frosting and going into shock! I know that while a friend is dying there is nothing better than wanting to make out, let me tell you! There is some really choice dialogue
in this such as ‘Ever try a lady finger?’ while the gingerbread man cuts a chick’s finger off. Also, ‘It sure ain’t the Pillsbury dough boy!’ is pretty damn funny!
The Gingerdead Man is directed by Charles Band with no great skill or real originality. Gone are his glory days of Subspecies, Castle Freak and Puppet Master. It pretty much looks like the same quality as a bad Syfy original film if that tells you anything. One of the huge problems with the production is that the gingerbread man is a damn hand puppet. That’s right, he’s a hand puppet! His transformation from a baked good to a a harbinger of death is pretty badly done with just some red lighting and pulsating dough to tell us what is going on. I don’t know if Dance thinks that we are going to be scared by this, but my goodness it looks so cheesy that Bloofer Lady can’t help but laugh when she watches it! During one part of the film the electricity is supposed to be off in the whole building, but he cuts to an outside shot of it and the lights are on. It’s bad acts of editing and continuity like that which really help to bring this film down.
Have you ever once in your life thought that Gary Bussey would make a good serial killer who turns into a gingerbread man? I sure didn’t! He must have been on meds when he agreed to be in this because I can’t come up with another explanation than that as to why he is in this film. Technically he is only in the first ten minutes of the film, shooting up a diner, and then he voices the gingerbread man through the rest of it. I have to say that his laughter is quite disturbing and watching a hand puppet with his voice coming out of it is quite something to see! This film is supposed to take place in Waco Texas but the accents that the actors try to do are so bad that you wouldn’t know it! Once in a while one of them will throw out a twang or two and then they sound like they are in California once again. I really can’t say anything positive about their 
performances, but then again they poor things didn’t write this film. I wonder if they ever tell people that they are in this?
Bloofer Lady thinks that The Gingerdead Man is pretty darn awful, and yet like a dead body under a sheet she finds herself compelled to look at it. Watch it for the laughs, but be warned you may never look at gingerbread men the same way ever again!
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