Diagonaldi Very well executed

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Scarecrow-88 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).

dechha1981 (This review contains a huge spoiler, but I don't know how to explain how cool it is without giving it away) I saw "pinoccio's Revenge" a while ago.Now, you might think it's just a rip-off of Child's play. Indeed there are similarities.However, Chucky was a possessed doll who works independently of the kid. It is POSSIBLE that Pinoccio is possessed with a demon or cursed or something. however, the puppet itself is actually completely inanimate. The KID is insane, and THE KID is the one killing people! Everyone, including the audience, the survivors and the Kid herself thinks it's the doll. But it's the KID.The nudity is almost a pity, because otherwise I could tell everyone to see it, because it really is an interesting horror movie.

stormruston Pinocchio's revenge is not a good movie. Nor is it terrible.The acting was wooden at least on Pinocchio's part.The puppet had all of 2 expressions.As did most of the actors,except strangely enough...the secondary characters...most of them were enjoyable over the top.The special effects in this are pretty "B" and as I said earlier the puppet really blew.The 2 best scenes in the movie are the knife through the hand...looked pretty good,i think they spent about a 1/3 of the budget on that...and the shower scene...WOW...I think they must have spent the other 2/3rds of the budget on talking the actress who did that scene to do it.Outstanding.Seriously this is a slightly below average "b" horror puppet movie...rent Chucky if you have a urge to see puppets kill.The story had a few interesting idea's, enough to keep me watching it to the end.

uk20de I have never seen a B movie like this one... on the part that the nanny Sofia is being killed... a hand of a woman appears on the tape handling the stick... how bad is that??? LOL, I seriously laughed and wanted to stop seeing the movie, but I kept watching it to see if this movie could get worse...LOL...it is bad for itself... poor Pinocchio.. the only nice bit is the first time you see some special effects of Pinocchio's face moving... apart from that the whole movie is awful... it's not really worth your time if you don't really have much to spare! But if you have nothing to do... go on... treat yourself with some "Z" movie cos B-movie is still too good for this one...LOL