A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens in their dark, haunted mansion.
Practical Effects
Stop-motion dolls that still out-creep most CGI nightmares.
Direction
Gordon squeezes maximum mayhem into 77 tight minutes.
Production
Mansion set drips with fairytale-gone-wrong atmosphere.
Director
Stuart Gordon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Full Moon Features reused these doll designs for their Puppet Master franchise, essentially franchising Gordon's nightmare children.
Made during the Satanic Panic era when parents genuinely feared toys were demonic—Gordon weaponized that paranoia into slapstick slaughter.
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