# "Banana Splits" Horror Movie?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2019, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497 "2019-08-11T07:21:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/21 "2019-08-12T09:03:38Z")
I think it has the potential to be a “So bad it’s good” kind of movie. I’ll watch when the drop it on Netflix in a couple of months. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/22 "2019-08-12T09:27:33Z")
We’ve had Pride and Prejudice and Zombies … I expected Jane Austen to rise as a Zombie to protest. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/23 "2019-08-12T10:40:37Z")
Would’ve worked better with Sigmund as the culprit. “Family hated me! And those creepy ginger kids!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/24 "2019-08-12T14:26:18Z")
I’d venture to guess the film makers watched this show as children and thought about ways to corrupt it as they got older, like the people behind _Robot Chicken_. They were probably prepared to use not-quite-similar characters to avoid copyright issues until somebody thought “let’s see if we can get their permission.” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/25 "2019-08-12T14:56:25Z")
I thought watching a clip of the old opening credits would spark some happy memories but it did quite the opposite.:o Logically I realize that the show is over 50 years old, but it looks ancient(and crappily done). I didn’t watch any clips of the show itself; I assume it wasn’t like that grainy film footage in the opening(?) Whatever, the look of it somehow really depressing. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/26 "2019-08-12T18:24:24Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I read that originally they wanted to do a _Five Nights at Freddy’s_ movie, but they couldn’t reach a deal. That’s what I heard too, and I’m not at all surprised. The first thing I thought of when I saw the trailer was FNAF’s. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/27 "2019-10-13T04:32:28Z")
I’m watching it right now on SYFY, _very_ disturbingly funny. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/28 "2019-10-13T11:49:50Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I’m watching it right now on SYFY, _very_ disturbingly funny. Ah. Comedy to horror comedy isn’t as big a jump, and makes more sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/29 "2019-10-14T14:59:07Z")
I watched it yesterday. It was…interesting. Kind of a “so bad it’s good” vibe for me. I liked the creepy Banana Splits and the cardboard characters, but I didn’t expect it to be as gory as it was. I think they could have accomplished what they were trying to do without cutting a guy in half with a magic trick and then having his guts hanging out in the breeze, or pulling another guy’s limbs off on a spinning wheel, complete with full, uninterrupted view of same in both cases. I think they couldn’t decide whether they wanted to be an edgy comedy or an ultra-gore-fest, and that hurt them in my opinion. I used to watch the show when I was a kid. I hated the puppets (thought they were creepy even then) but I liked the live-action sequences in between the stupid puppet stuff. They didn’t have those in the movie. It was more like “Mr. Spadowski’s Playhouse” on UHF. Oh–side comment: did anybody else think, when they were running the kids through the slime maze at the beginning, that that was a massive lawsuit waiting to happen? Have them go through stuff so slippery they couldn’t stand up, followed by climbing a ladder and standing on a platform several feet up? I know, it’s a silly movie, but…yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/30 "2019-10-14T17:20:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I’m watching it right now on SYFY, _very_ disturbingly funny. Was the [Banana Splits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK-_KlWqmjU) song part of the soundtrack? (The Dickies punk song) ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/31 "2019-10-14T18:50:25Z")
I never watched the original show, but I might just have to watch the movie. Definitely has a silly vibe to it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497.md?page=1)