Too naïve for his own good, an angel-faced boy named Derek ( William Thorne) answers and discovers a perfectly wrapped package on the front steps. It’s Christmas Eve, and there’s a knock at the door. In adulthood, I have come to appreciate the dysfunctional, splintered household, something I also experienced, and how one boy’s imagination is completely destroyed after witnessing the murder of his step-father. Naturally, as a then-five-year-old kid, I was far more hooked into the grisly violence when toys, seemingly innocent inanimate objects, came to life and killed. Kitrosser weaves themes of abuse and hunger for love into the fabric of the story through the use of the absolute fantastic as a framework. Issued on VHS in late 1991, The Toymaker, the screenplay for which was penned by Kitrosser and Brian Yuzna (the man behind Society, Bride of Re-Animator, The Dentist, and a slew of other schlocky ‘90s horror gems), adapts the magical Pinocchio fable into a perverse tale about childhood trauma.
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It’s certainly hard to imagine the fifth installment in any B-movie franchise having much to offer, but director Martin Kitrosser’s The Toymaker injected the series with a pinch of whimsy, a few drops of absurdity, and a whole fistful of mayhem that is just as terrifying today. It’s like a frigid winter chill you simply can’t shake, or that ominous sensation that descends at nightfall and seems to rattle among the shadows on your wall. When I think back to my childhood, it’s films like Tourist Trap, Poltergeist, and even Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker that left deep impressions.
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Whether your blood ran cold from the macabre family dinner in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre or you found yourself disturbed and nauseous while watching Regan’s head spin in The Exorcist, these terrible frights became the catalyst for a lifetime of loving horror. We all have those horror movies that scarred us for life. But, hopefully, within another year or so they’ll come out remastered.” “But we’ve been trying to do all that in between Beatles stuff, and that’s been put on a shelf for a while. “ We are doing a remastering and whole digital 4K thing and it looks great,” Jackson updates. So what’s the latest on all that? While out promoting his new project The Beatles: Get Back, Jackson just told Uproxx that the new restorations of his old horror films are coming soon!
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It’s actually a guy on the set filming us making the film. So there’s some pretty interesting stuff there and none of it has ever been out.” And it’s not just people talking to camera. “So I’ve got about an hour or two of us shooting Bad Taste, seven or eight hours of us shooting Meet the Feebles, 50 to 60 hours of us filming Braindead, and at least 70 hours of us doing Heavenly Creatures. “I’ve always had video diaries being shot,” Jackson also explained. “I’m pretty keen to actually just get them back out there again. That’s sort of my plan for now: to do a nice little box set - the early years! The naughty years!”
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“I’ve done some tests on Braindead (aka Dead Alive), where we took the 16mm negative and put it through our restoration pipeline - and shit, it looks fantastic!” Jackson told THR at the time. Despite being beloved by horror fans, neither film has to date been restored and re-released, but Jackson himself had revealed way back in 2018, you may recall, that 4K restorations were in the works.Īdditionally, he teased that Meet the Feeblesand Heavenly Creatureswere going to be restored in 4K by the WETA Digital VFX team as well, potentially for a big ole box set release. Before going mainstream with the Lord of the Rings films, Peter Jackson was a horror guy, kick-starting his career with the gory flicks Dead Alive and Bad Taste.