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.
We’ve had Pride and Prejudice and Zombies … I expected Jane Austen to rise as a Zombie to protest. :eek:
Would’ve worked better with Sigmund as the culprit. “Family hated me! And those creepy ginger kids!” 
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Was the Banana Splits song part of the soundtrack? (The Dickies punk song)
I never watched the original show, but I might just have to watch the movie. Definitely has a silly vibe to it!