Really Surprised!

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

So i had the "Honor" of seeing this movie yesterday. And I'm so glad that i didn't waste my hard earned money on it, and saw it on Netflix.Plot and Writing: The plot is horrible, there is no originality to it. The writing is the worst part of it. All the characters makes bad decisions. The girl we are supposed to care about, is an idiot and i hated her every time she was on screen. They don't ask any questions, they just lives with it. The characters can teleport when they are needed in a scene. There is fake scares all over this movie. There is no character development, we don't learn anything about anyone. And i saw the ending coming after 30 minutes, of seeing this movie. The dialog was decent but it couldn't save the rest of the movie. All in all 4/10 stars.Direction and Editing: The movie is directed decent. You can see what is going on, it cuts when it needs to. It runs really smooth in that regards. All in all 6/10 stars.Acting: None of them is good. The girl is the worst part of it. Her acting is bad. The mother was decent. She showed some emotion, in some scenes. And i could see that she tried. But all the others were just bad, it didn't look like they tried. All in all 6/10 stars.Music: The music was by far the best part of the movie, but they played the same soundtrack over and over again, and it just got annoying after a while. All in all 6/10 stars. The overall score of the movie is 5/10 stars. Not a good movie. Its called Pinocchios Revenge, what and why is he avenging?

A recently divorced district attorney and her troubled daughter(..she has "repressed hostility" towards her father who left them)move to a new place to start over. Jennifer Garrick(..the lovely veteran of television and B-movie horror, Rosalind Allen)is worried about her daughter, Zoe(Brittany Alyse Smith), who has a hard time adjusting to any school she's been in which only adds weight to the heavy anvil of stress in a job often representing the lowest of criminals. Jennifer feels she has found a new love in landscaper David(Todd Allen)but their lives get a little complicated when she inherits the case of a convicted child murderer, Vincent Gotto(Lewis Van Bergen)who is on trial for the killing of his son. Unable to to rescue him from the electric chair, and truly believing he was innocent, Jennifer reluctantly "inherits" a Pinocchio doll, wood carved by Gotto's own hands. It's really supposed to be evidence filed away, but manages accidentally to make it into the arms of Zoe setting off a chain of dangerous events that will put many lives in jeopardy.The film seems like another in a long foray of killer doll movies where a puppet can move amongst the adults freely committing cruel and violent deeds because no one in their right mind would suspect an inanimate object of such things. But, instead, the films opens the possibility that Zoe herself could be harvesting a dark side urging her to commit foul play out of some sort of mixed up agenda to keep her mother from "leaving her like daddy did." The film even opens a possibility that Pinocchio is possessing Zoe, and perhaps did the same to Gotto's son. At any rate we actually "hear" the puppet's voice and director Kevin Tenney(Witchboard;Night of the Demons)has us seeing his "lips move", although Zoe's therapist records a session where she appears to be talking to herself after we had just witnessed a conversation between child and puppet(..the pivotal scene has Zoe confronting Pinocchio about his actions in a key character's death with the puppet questioning her on perhaps actually being the perpetrator behind the crime). The climax has Pinocchio killing another key character with a fireplace poker before chasing after Jennifer which might remind many of the Zuni doll attack in Dan Curtis' Trilogy of Terror. Candace McKenzie is Jennifer's hired help, Sophia, an Italian beauty who sees herself certain odd happenings around the house such as Zoe's dolls either damaged or thrown in the trash. I think many might find the puppet chasing after Jennifer with a butcher knife too wacky to be disturbing or scary, while, for some reason, the Chucky doll was able to escape such a pratfall. Many might be reminded of Child's Play while watching this. Perhaps a critical mistake by the filmmakers was featuring so little action at the start, only kicking in the "thrills" after about 45 minutes in(..the first real stunning attack has Pinocchio using the handle of a rake to trip a girl(..a bully to Zoe)from her bike and into the path of a moving school bus). And, David(..seen as a threat at "seperating mom from daughter")is not only attacked once, but twice. I think a major plus is that the characters are likable and the girl's position within the plot raising a question on who is behind the deeds that occur to innocents, is actually a fascinating psychological arc. I felt Tenney does what he can through technical means to enhance the thrills when victims are in danger, but while his 80's films had a degree of spunk and enthusiasm, Pinocchio's Revenge lacks those traits which often make his work such fun to sit through. In this film, Tenney's direction plays completely straight, without even a scent of the tongue-in-cheek attitude one recalls from time's past. Dick Beals provides the voice of Pinocchio, and none other than Verne Mini-Me Troyer portrays the puppet walking around in darkness after Zoe clips his strings enabling him to move around with freedom(..it seems the puppet strings limited his abilities to do whatever he so wished).

This isn't exactly a Child's Play rip-off (though it does borrow some ideas from those movie) but is just interesting enough to keep your attention throughout. The story revolves around divorced district attorney Jennifer Garrick (Rosalind Allen) and her troubled young daughter Zoe (Brittany Alyse Smith). During a birthday party Zoe mistakenly believes a wooden Pinocchio doll is one of her presents and instantly becomes attached to it. The doll is actually a piece of evidence in a criminal investigation and was buried alongside a body but Jennifer doesn't see any harm in letting her daughter keep the doll. However, strange and horrific things soon begin to happen. Zoe claims that the doll is responsible. The film never really reveals whether it is Zoe or the possessed doll responsible until the very end but the film manages to keep you entertained until you find out.The writing is decent, as is Tenney's direction. The special effects are average, but the acting is good enough to convince you. Allen is excellent in the lead, and Smith does a great job for a child actress. For the life of me I can't figure out why Candace McKenzie (who plays the live-in nanny to the family) didn't have much of a career after this film. Not only is she very attractive, but she also delivers a wonderfully appealing performance. Fans of Kevin Tenney's Witchboard will no doubt recognize Todd Allen in a supporting role. The current rating of 3.7 on here is far lower than this film deserves.

An accused child murderer has been arrested five years ago, his lawyer ( Rosalind Allen) believes he's innocence as he may think that the Pinocchio puppet he made for his son told him to kill other children. She couldn't stop his execution in time, however she accidentally brings home with her the Pinocchio doll from the office, her daughter Zoe ( Brittany Alyse Smith) is having a birthday party as she mistakes it as a gift. The new few days she seems to act strange as she begins to develop a relationship with the puppet as bizarre accidents occur, her mother begins to become concerned about her including to find out what is behind these accidents.Entertaining low budget psychological horror thriller that is a puzzle movie on who is the killer! is Pinocchio really alive and doing all the killing or was it the daughter who has became a schizophrenic? the acting is good and the puppet is quite a creepy one.Also recommended: "Magic" ( 1978), "Trilogy of Terror", " Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", "Halloween", "Dolls", " Child's Play series", " Se7en", "Devil Doll ( 1964)", "Dead of Night", " Pin", " Great Gabbo", " Puppet Master", " Tourist Trap", "Scream", " Terror Train", " Psycho ( 1960)", " American Psycho", "Dolly Dearest", "Poltergeist", "Evil Dead II", "Perfect Blue", "Silence of the Lambs", and "The Shining".