Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker - 1991

 I just checked to see if this was filmed back to back with the last film Initiation, but it appears it was not.

I checked because this movie shares multiple actors from the last one of these films, and I have to say since Mirror Mirror did that, and Star Trek does that, it is something I do like.  Just call them something else and have them be a different character is all, and hay I enjoy that.  It also makes me feel good about the relationship between them and the filmmakers, like they were friends or whatever.

I suppose the connective tissue beyond the actors (and perhaps what brought over the actors) is that this is also written by and produced by Brian Yuzna.  This time, there is a string of toys that are coming alive and killing people, first with a weird round Santa toy, and then a cool badass larvae toy.  Little kid Derek is caught in the middle of all this, and somehow a old toy shop in town ran by Mickey Rooney is also involved.

One of my favorite tropes in the comedic horror movie is the fifth hand added to a sex scene.  Either by a third person who's entered the room, or by a rogue hand monster or whatever, I feel like this has been in a few movies and it hits every time.  The uninvited hand will usually play with the man's ass, who of course likes it so much as to comment on it; "Oh baby, you're frisky, playing with my ass?!" I love this stupid joke, it gets me every time, its done to just the right degree where it's not overused.  Just as an aside.

I was sitting here thinking that the plot and the turns in this could land this in your horror version of Pinocchio watch along with Pinocchio's Revenge and then I realized the character in this is named Pinno...They were going for that.  Geez.  Am I dumb.

The end of this is a awesome thrill ride, and the effects and the creep factor is also great.  I dunno dude, the latter two of this series are actually quite good!  This isn't quite as dark and good as the last one, but I'll give this a solid 4 and its a lot more like a slasher than any yet in the series.