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Demonic Toys [Blu-ray]
(Peter Manoogian, 1992)
Review by Gary Tooze
Production: Theatrical: Full Moon Entertainment Video: 88 Films
Disc: Region: FREE (as verified by the Oppo Blu-ray player) Runtime: 1:22:39.287 Disc Size: 23,581,135,866 bytes Feature Size: 20,328,302,592 bytes Video Bitrate: 24.99 Mbps Chapters: 12 Case: Standard Blu-ray case Release date: December 9th, 2013
Video: Aspect ratio: 1.78:1 Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio English 3784 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3784 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) DTS-HD Master Audio English 2078 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2078 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles: None
Extras: • Original VideoZone (7:38)• Original Trailer (1:19) • Trailers for The Pit and Pendulum, Castle Freak, Dollman, Puppet Master and Subspecies • Liner notes booklet - Calum Waddell • Reversible Sleeve incorporating original art
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Description: A botched bust on a pair of arms dealers inadvertently leads to the raising of a sixty year old demon with the power to bring toys to life as his personal minions. The demon is looking for a body to inhabit so he can increase his powers, and it just happens that one of the police officers, Judith Gray (Tracy Scoggins) is pregnant with the ideal host. As the murderous toys close in on their victims, the officer must not only fight for her life, but for the soul of her unborn child.
The Film: They're cute and cuddly by day, lethal demons by night. Ruthless killing machines come alive for just one purpose...death. And for five adults in an abandoned warehouse, every child's worst nightmare has become a deadly reality. While on a stakeout, Judith Gray (Tracy Scoggins), a beautiful, tough cop, is trapped inside a warehouse full of toys. But these are no ordinary playthings they have been awakened to murderous life by a strange child of darkness, "The Kid" (Daniel Cerny). Each toy feeds on blood: Jack Attack heads straight for the throat; Grizzly Teddy is not afraid to show its claws; and Baby Oopsie Daisy is truly to die for. Now it's up to Gray and a passing delivery boy, Mark Wayne (Bentley Mitchum), to stop the deadly, DEMONIC TOYS! Excerpt from Amazon.com located HEREDemonic Toys is an American film produced by Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment and released in 1992. The film features small, killer toys similar to those seen in Puppet Master, a film which Band produced in 1989. Like many other Full Moon releases, Demonic Toys never had a theatrical release and went straight-to-video in 1992. In the USA the film was given an "R" rating for violence, language, and brief nudity. Excerpt from Wikipedia located HERE
Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. Demonic Toys gets an acceptable 1080P transfer to Blu-ray from 88 Films. It is single-layered and I doubt the original video production looked significantly better than this. Detail seems adequate in the 1.78:1 frame - notable in a few close-ups. It's fairly clean but there is a bit of noise in the more poorly lit scenes. This Blu-ray appears to be a reasonable replication of the original which isn't saying a ton, but about as good as we can expect. Fans of this genre are usually less picky about appearances anyway.
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Audio :Two options a DTS-HD Master 5.1 at a healthy 3784 kbps or a similar encode at 2.0 channel stereo (I suspect is original). Sound is probably accurate to the limited production with some separations for some of the creepier effects. Richard Band, who has done titles in the genre like Re-Animator, The Pit and Pendulum, Puppet Master etc., did the score and its unremarkable but supports the film's dark moments pretty well. There are no subtitles and my Oppo has identified it as being a region FREE.
Extras : 88 Films include another VideoZone piece (running about 7-minutes), an original trailer - also trailers for The Pit and Pendulum, Castle Freak, Dollman, Puppet Master and Subspecies. The package as a liner notes booklet with an essay by Calum Waddell and there is a reversible sleeve incorporating 'original artwork'.
BOTTOM LINE: Gary Tooze December 8th, 2013
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