Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver (2011) User Reviews

Unfortunately the Worst of the 3

[meaningbird · 5/10 · 5 August 2021]

Gingerdead Man 3 is a very strange movie even when compared to the previous movies. It feels too mean spirited at times to be likeable and it doesn't work when it tries to parody scenes from other movies. Also the effects (practical and visual effects) are much worse than they are in the first two movies which didn't have great effects either.

Gingerdead Man 3 is a bizarre chaotic experience but I don't think I would say it's one I liked overall

Grade: C.

Bizarre conclusion to the franchise

[Floated2 · 3/10 · 22 June 2023]

Having watched both Gingerdead Man films in the series, and found less interest in the second film.

This third instalment once again features a different voice actor for the Gingerdead Man, as well as a new cast of characters. Now this film is better than the second film. It has a more fun and a silly entertainment factor. The look of the gingerbread looks more realistic at times and he seems to show more range.

Still this movie is quite cringe and off putting at times. Some gruesome kills by him with overloads of cgi. The ending was bizarre and made little sense, yet they seemed to make it as over the top as possible.

Noting that this film was ultimately the final film of the series (although there is a crossover film with the Evil Bong released after), we wonder if this third film was meant to end of the franchise.

I caused Pearl Harbor.

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 23 March 2018]

The film opens at "The Institute for Study of Homicidal Baked Goods." Here our villain is freed. He escapes in a time machine to 1976. The film spoofs, "Carrie", "Silence of the Lambs", and "Porkey's." It had some good characters, but seemed mostly like an opportunity wasted. When the film wasn't being a spoof it was lame.

Guide: F-word. Sex. Brief nudity.

Another new low for FULL MOON

[HEFILM · 1/10 · 22 January 2018]

The idea of rude humor and purposefully sexist comedy is fine--but you have to actually be funny. And you have to make something that holds together as a movie--I mean to sit through a feature length mess is not a good time.

The standards for this series as far as something that looks like a movie are low but this one is a new low. A Lousy sound job with obvious and much post production dubbing of voices is probably the shoddiest element. The sound dubbing is no bad it almost sounds like a commentary track playing over the actual film sound--and mostly sounds are just missing.

Director Butler doesn't show an understanding of how to shoot a movie it almost looks like it's shot and edited live--frequently the shots jump from one to another from a real location to poor sets.

The editing struggles to cut from one camera angle to another without it looking like each show was done at a different location. The original footage is badly shot so I'll give the editor a bit of a break--one of these "you can't make chicken soup from chicken sh**, still there is no pace to the movie.

The movie boast out of focus shots right in the first couple of minutes during a shoddy Silence of the Lambs parody--the kind of bad sketch comedy that would be editing out of any other movie.

There are also ,crappy Digital and practical effects and acting that is elementary school talent show rejection level. Most of this can be blamed on Butler and, I'm sure, a super short shooting schedule. Then again this was made in Los Angeles where there are more actors than anywhere else on the planet so why you'd pick these people? Even for no money there are so many to choose from.

Only possible note is that unlike the totally lazy films that Charlie Band directs himself, Butler actually has some ambition--to actually shoot in a real roller rink for a day or two and actually have some digital effects.

If you liked the previous films I guess you can add one star to my review but still not something worth your time.

Full Moon films seem stuck in many ways to what wasn't so great in the 1990's. Only back then they had, per film, budgets that now represent an entire years worth of movies. Sad.

Series of some Porky's gags and roller skating

[amesmonde · 28 January 2012]

After escaping from jail, The Gingerdead Man finds himself in a time machine destined for killing and roller disco.

Opening with a highly amusing Silence of the Lambs paradox including a muffin throwing his cream over Clarissa Darling stating he can smell her Muff-in, you know what in for - or do you? The previous Gingerdead instalments were B-average at best and this is no exception.

Once Ginger goes back to the 70's it's a series of some Porky's gags mixed with scene on scenes of roller skating linked by some t & a and few and far between kill scenes including gun play, acid attack and a nail gun assault. By the end it all crumbles apart with annoying kids and time travelling history figures cameos.

While no one expects Oscar material from Full Moon you always hope for some-kind of return to former glory. You could spend 80 minutes watching Puppet Master or Blood Dolls but if your a fan of Gingerdead and 1976 this one will roller Boogie you to death.

This cookie's gone stale

[movieman_kev · 1/10 · 17 May 2012]

After the gingerdead man is freed from a mental institution for criminally insane food by the candy liberation front, he goes back in time to the mid-1970's because naturally that what one does. These roller disco freaks are just begging to be killed, if the IRS doesn't close the rink down before these particular cannons can be foddered that is.

I had vaguely somewhat bigger expectations for this, as the second Gingerdead film was far more enjoyable than it had any right being, however even that dubious optimism was shredded (if not completely obliterated) by jokes that are far past their expiration date and no nudity (one girl actually goes to length to keep her nipples covered) So yeah in summation this is far below "the passion of the crust" and I even prefer the sub-par original film over this one.

My Grade: F

A production is all that it is

[breakdownthatfilm-blogspot-com · 2/10 · 29 April 2014]

It's weird how film concepts get lost in translation. When the The Gingerdead Man (2005) was released, it had a certain level of groundwork that it needed to cover. Unfortunately, it only covered enough to make the practically hour long movie far from anything worth more than one watch - even with its minimal strengths. Then came Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust (2008) which was even less of an entertaining installment. The continuity was loose, the characters were even less likable and the whole motivation behind the killer cookie was dropped. Now we have this movie, which quite honestly is baffling for several reasons. Nothing makes sense here.

The movie starts off with an actress knock-off look alike of Clarice from Silence of the Lambs (1991) looking to interview the gingerdead man. But wait, didn't the gingerdead man get burnt to a crisp in the last film? And before that wasn't he burnt to a crisp then too? How does he keep coming back? One word - continuity. Also, the place where the gingerdead man is staying is at a psychiatric ward of homicidal baked goods. So the writers mean to say that Millard Findlemeyer wasn't the only serial killer who had a mother who knew witchcraft in homemade pastries? This is really poor writing. Why does William Butler, a person who has exceptional credentials allow an at least potentially fun franchise go down the wrong path of a good production.

A few minutes in, the gingerdead man escapes and happens to find two scientists completing a time machine. So what does Mr. Findlemeyer do? He jumps in of course a decides to use it to help him evade the authorities. The end result is seeing him land in the middle of a discotech in 1976. This ends up pissing the evil (and stupid) cookie off, but he ends up finding a way to cope. How? By killing various people of course. Don't get to excited though because it takes an awfully long time for anything to get going. At least in the first movie it only focused on a small group of people. Here, the audience is introduced to a ton new individuals that don't excel or help move what little plot there already is.

The main focus is given to a character named Cherry, a parody of Stephen King's Carrie (1976), the difference being that it takes place at a discotech instead of a prom. Other than that, no other actor makes their characters stand out among the rest. In fact, this movie loves to show a lot of scenes of nothing - specifically scenes of girls giggling and screaming for really silly things. It's just annoying. There was one scene that viewers may enjoy but that's it. The only other thing that helps boost the quality of this picture is the CGI but even then it's too late in some cases. Specifically during the kill scenes, instead of using practical effects, they were replaced with CGI and it looks bad. Topping it off is the fact of adding a ridiculous idea of time travel to an already ridiculously silly (although potentially entertaining) concept of a possessed cookie.

It may make viewers laugh in a scene or two,...maybe. This better than average low budget production still has practically no plot, transparent characters and poorly executed kill scenes.

so many things wrong with this movie

[Treyblowski · 1/10 · 2 October 2012]

1.for starters it supposed to be set in 1976, why the heck are there so many modern looking arcade games, Including the simpsons arcade game(considering it was released in the 90s and the show did not even debut until the late 80s), little to no real effort was made to make this a period piece for the 70s, save for clearly costume style clothing and a disco ball, they were too freaking lazy to unplug everything and move it somewhere else for their shots.

2. the gingerdead man himself never resembled how he looked in the poster from the first or second film, ironically now the puppet is modeled (at least up close) to look like the one from the posters but now they use a different puppet for the poster for this one

3. it has lost all of the seriousity(or seriousness) the first one had I have not seen the second one but judging by the trailer there was more effort, this is just garbage, straight up rotten month old garbage mixed with the stench of dead animals and fecal matter

4. no explanation for anything in this film why does a maximum security prison have a time machine? how did the gingerdead man end up there? why does he share a cell with other killer baked goods and pastries? where did they come from? why would you keep acid at a roller skating rink? why didn't they even try to take this seriously? you can make this concept work and make it sort of scary, but they didn't they went the route that made this a bad movie, its not even a so bad its good kind of movie, its terrible, this could compete with oogieloves or return of the killer tomatoes(that was so bad I quit watching halfway through)

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone save for someone on That guy with the glasses or channel awesome. I had to leave a lot of stuff out for due to the 1000 word limit final verdict: atrocious

Ginger-Dead on Arrival

[baileycrawly · 1/10 · 8 June 2022]

The Gingerdead Man is back once again! This time, he's in jail (insert terrible Silence of the Lambs parody here), he manages to break out, only to conveniently find a time machine to take him back to a 70s skating rink (cue terrible Carrie parody here). And those aren't even spoilers; that's the very beginning of the movie. With another terrible cover/parody of Bad Reputation to add cringe to the crap.

Gingerdead Man 1 was mediocre, offering little of value or interest to the viewer. Gingerdead Man 2 was a massive improvement, honing in on the comedy with jokes that worked well. Gingerdead Man 3 undoes everything that happened between the first two. This is a shallow shell of a franchise that wasn't all that much to begin with.

The humour of this film falls completely flat. This is the Leprechaun: Origins or Halloween: Resurrection of the series; it's just terrible. The jokes aren't funny, the Gingerdead Man isn't charismatic in the slightest, and the movie fails to maintain anything of interest. For the longest film of the trilogy (albeit not by much), it's by far the weakest and the biggest disappointment as a follow-up to the second one, which was just so much fun.

Consensus: If you watch one Gingerdead film in your entire life, watch PASSION OF THE CRUST. Give this one a big, fat, triple-sugar-dipped SKIP. Don't give this stale cookie your time.

This is probably the worst of the first three movies but not a complete waste of time if you enjoy bad horror pictures.

[kevin_robbins · 4/10 · 15 May 2021]

Gingerbread Man 3 (2011) and the entire series is currently available on Tubi for free. This movie is similar to the previous storyline but instead of focusing on the Gingerbread Man on a movie set it focuses on the Gingerbread Man in a roller rink that is about to go bankrupt. Somehow, they also work in a high school storyline that oddly resembles Carrie. This movie is directed by William Butler (Dead Voices, Deadly Dolla and Demonic Toys 2) and stars Carrie Lazar (Preacher), Mike Manning (Teen Wolf), Robin Sydney (Corona Zombies) and Kimberly Dawn Guerrero (Anchorman). The storyline is as bad as it sounds but the entertainment value is better than it sounds. This is probably the worst of the first three movies but not a complete waste of time if you enjoy bad horror pictures. There's some clever lines that's a good laugh here and there but the kill scenes rely too much on CGI. Overall I'd give this movie a 3.5/10.

Another trashy Ginger Dead Man movie the worst of the franchise now I'm thinking about it why is this franchise even exist

[vorkgabe · 1/10 · 16 September 2023]

This is the worst movie ever made in my opinion there is nothing good about it it has a lot of nudity a lot of sex barely any Gore how is this Even a horror movie this is feels like a romance movie and how did Ginger dead man go back in time this makes no sense and this movie was not good at all the scenes didn't really weren't really good at all and somehow The Simpsons existed in the seventies in this movie this movie is bad don't watch it this is the worst movie ever made never watch it in your life this made it really terrible no matter what when I watch this movie even if I watch it with friends it's still bad negative Infinity out of 100.

An All Around Fun Sequel!!!

[johnny-48-825880 · 10/10 · 8 May 2011]

It's very rare that a horror series improves with every sequel, but in the case of the Gingerdead Man series it's true! If you're a fan of Full Moon and cheesy slasher flicks, you've probably seen Gingerdead Man and Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust. If that's the case and you enjoyed them (even just a little), the 3rd film Saturday Night Cleaver will definitely leave you wanting more. I loved all 3 of them, each sequel a little more than the one before.

This film is a spoof of a few different movies from the past, including Silence of the Lambs, Carrie, and Roller Boogie. John Carl Buechler takes over as the voice of the maniacal Gingerdead Man, and boy does he do a great job. I'm not a fan of CGI really at all BUT...There's a ton more CGI in this film than the previous 2, and it's done quite well. Even when it's not, it doesn't pull me out of the film. It's just a fun ride start to finish.

The story involves time travel back to the year 1976, where the Gingerdead Man invades a Roller Boogie. That's pretty much it! From there, he just maims and murders. If you're looking for anything more than that from this flick, look elsewhere. But, if you're a fan of getting together with your friends and just being entertained by a Full Moon flick-LOOK NO FURTHER!

Gingerdead Men Love to Boogie!!!

[Pumpkin_Man · 6/10 · 3 November 2011]

I received this in the mail on Halloween, just in time. It's still better than the original, but very silly. It spoofs Saturday Night Fever, Silence of the Lambs, Carrie, Porky's, Tootsie, and more. The little Gingerdead man is back and more brutal and foul-mouthed than ever. When he's sent back to 1976, he decides to kill the contestants of a roller-disco contest. Cherry Wright (Carrie spoof) is the new girl that everyone picks on, but she's given a makeover and becomes more popular. She falls in love, but tries to kill the evil Gingerdead man before time runs out. This will probably be the last in the trilogy. If you want a silly horror flick, you might enjoy GINGERDEAD MAN 3: Saturday NIGHT CLEAVER!!!

Not original (formula)

[kosmasp · 4/10 · 11 April 2023]

No pun intended - the movie starts off with a nod to ... well Silence of the lambs ... instead of lambs ... I mean humans (prisoners) we get ... well puppets of sorts. Clarice (or whatever her name is) is not holding a candle to the real one ... but I reckon if you like the joke you may not care.

This is not the only nod to other classic movies we get here. You either think this is hillarious ... or you'll have issues with it ... and find it annoying. This has a better (bigger) budget than the original ... and it has a really cringeworthy love scene ... and there are many things that you may find offensive ... but that is what you get with a movie like that ... I am almost surprised they didn't do another one (if you do not count the crossover with Evil Bong - not seen that one yet) ... be aware of what this is ... and if it is something you want to watch.

Another one bites the Crust!

[SmakethDown638 · 8/10 · 30 September 2011]

Gingerdead Man with Gary Busey was solid fun. Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust was a riot. Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver follows a similar formula that GDM 2 had and is yet another entertaining entry in the on-going series. A fun movie with a tremendously well done opening scene! Lots of dirty humor again and lots of deaths. I also get killed in this movie (I wear #80 in the background on some scenes and get electrocuted). Only gripes with this film are the CGI was a little bad at times, and I don't remember it acknowledging the first 2. However, those don't factor into the overall movie too much as this is another fun film. Long live the Gingerdead Man and I hope there is a part 4!

Surprisingly Fun

[gavin6942 · 23 September 2011]

This film shocked me. I am usually criticizing Bill Butler for his awful directing, but this may just be his best film... despite being a low budget Full Moon picture, and the third in a series, it was legitimately funny and a well-made film. (Unlike "Evil Bong 3", which is a waste of time.)

Without Gary Busey, you need a good voice to be the homicidal gingerbread man. John Carl Buechler? Good choice. We also have Robin Sydney here (in a very small role) and some great parodies of "Silence of the Lambs" and "Carrie".

I will not say this is a "great" film, but it is a fun film. I enjoyed it more than I expected, and I was not even drunk. It looks like a part four may be coming sooner or later, but that might not be the worst thing if done right...

Too Funny!!

[jcromwell66762 · 7/10 · 24 May 2014]

This movie was terrible, but not in the "awful" sense. Filled with puns, plays on words, and enough disco nomenclature to satisfy even the most die hard. I just happened on this film, and thought, "What the Hell?". It was worth it. Its silly, its campy, and horribly lame, but a totally delightful romp with the Ginger Dead man. This movie promises nothing, and it delivers in spades!! I watched it 4 times back to back, just because I was laughing so hard. This movie is worth a watch if you just want to laugh at out of date humor, or if you are one of the 8 people who remained sober through the '70's and just want to take a, "roll" down memory lane. I saw there are other "Ginger Dead" movies, I am going to have to hunt them down!! KEEP ON TRUCKIN'!!!

Fabulous, Campy, and Chock Full of Great Gags!

[drterryascott · 10/10 · 26 October 2013]

Having never even heard of this movie series, this movies was suggested to me on Netflix. When I first saw it, I passed it by thinking it would be ridiculous. I decided to try it, and guess what...it is ridiculous...in a great way! I don't plan to write much, but I will say that if you like campy movies, you will love this one. I honestly think those folks who review it badly do not appreciate or understand camp. Here's the first sentence from Wikipedia describing camp: "Camp is an aesthetic sensibility that regards something as appealing or humorous because of its ridiculousness to the viewer."

It seems like a bad movie, but everyone involved in it knows it is larger than life. I read the actors resumes, and they are legit actors; they've done some impressive work. Having seen this movie makes me want to see them all. So I shall.

This is the way a cookie should crumble

[pinheadmother77 · 7/10 · 6 September 2013]

I have seen all the Gingerdead man movies and thought this one kicked some serious ass. Maybe it was not as good as part two, but it delivered on what is promised. The homicidal cookie goes knife on a bunch of 70s roller-skating junkies. That's right this one involves time-travel. TIME TRAVEL! That is what the first two were missing. Plus Hitler saves the day at the end. Its so right, but so right. I also think that Gary Busy, that beautiful SOB needs to come back as the cookie monster. Full Moon does it again with the best series since the Puppet Master series. Can you image a Gingerdead Man Vs. Puppet Master movie. Now their would be something to see.

Great sequel to a camp movie classic.

[rcvsecret · 10/10 · 26 July 2011]

Gingerdead Man III delivers the B movie goods. Combine the following movies:

Carrie Car Wash Saturday Night Fever Child's Play Puppemaster Silence of the Lambs

Add one part camp, one part horror, and one part delicious B-Movie fun. Now you have the proper recipe for a killer cookie movie.

Director William Butler has assembled an instant cult classic. The casting is spot-on, as well as the 1970s sensibilities. Great roller skating, great good old fashioned drive-in fun.

The cast is great. Loved Muffy Bolding. Hilariously perfect in this bizarro 1970s alternate universe. Look for cameos from other well known Fullmoon favorites including one Robin Sydney.

Put on your leisure suit, grab a bottle of your favorite alcoholic refreshment, turn down the lights, snap on the lava lamp, flick on the black light, and put in the DVD.

Lets Roller Boogie!

[Aggie2016 · 7/10 · 31 May 2012]

after browsing netflix and coming across this title I thought "ah what the heck". My expectations were really low but what i saw was actually enjoyable. Our favorite killer cookie escapes from an asylum in a silence of the lambs spoof and ends up in 1976 at a roller boogie where everyone is involved in a whole another spoof, this one being Carrie. As the story unfolds i found myself being less interested in the gingerdead man who wasn't at the forefront of the story like a expected and instead began caring about what happened to the characters. at the end of it all i absolutely did not see the climax coming. two children find gingys remote and accidentally travel forward and backward in time until finally getting back with Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, and several other evil historical figures in tow. overall its a decent B movie with good amount of comedy and drama thats good for a Saturday night with popcorn and your boyfriend/girlfriend. 7/10

Side-splitting and cheesy effort

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 9/10 · 5 October 2016]

Escaping capture and traveling through time, the dangerous killer cookie finds himself stranded at a 1970's roller disco about to close and gets up to his old tricks which puts their final dance contest in jeopardy and forces them to battle him off in order to escape the night.

This one was quite easily the funniest and goofiest entry in the series. This starts almost immediately here with the cheesy antics as the film goes for that atmosphere here with the manner of how the creature gets free and the manner of it going through makes for a great goofy start that continues throughout the film. By going for the time-travel route and setting the entire film in the roller- disco it creates an atmosphere of sheer utter cheese with the film getting the opportunity to showcase all the rather over-the-top dancing routines set to blaring disco songs with their garish colors and fun-filled times here with the way this one focuses on these scenes generating all the fantastic cheese it can provide. Beyond this setting, it continues that fun with the backstage drama following up on the queen of the dance and all the backstabbing going on that leaves this one with plenty of melodrama that gives this one the type of atmosphere here with the works these here into the depraved way it spoofs the main film around that time with the similar name, powers and storyline that plays right into the actions of the finale which is so cheesy and so much fun inverting the expectations into being for good rather than destruction as it was in the original. All of this goofy action gives the film the type of set-up here for some great action scenes here with some rather fun and over-the-top killings to go alongside these set-ups, with the first assault on the car-washers who spray themselves with acid instead of water, the nail-gun massacre in the supply closet and the exceptionally gruesome sequence in the bathroom where the last victim gets slashed up in a long, gruesome death. Alongside the great make- up effects displayed whenever the creature-puppet is on- screen, there's a lot of great points here to like over the few minor flaws here. The biggest facet to overcome here is the cheese which might come at the expense of this one on the whole not being enjoyable as there's so much present here that it does hold a big part against this one. Still, while that might be an individual part the one other facet to overcome is the weak CGI which looks quite cheap and distracting which is used for such things as the bloodshed and scenes of the killer in action rather than letting the puppet get centerstage. Otherwise, there's not a lot to dislike here.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, a sex scene and drug use.