Jax
04-26-2009, 12:10 PM
A bizarre but fascinating and quite dark German horror fantasy drama thriller that is co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich as i believe this is his best movie yet as it's better then his later hollywood stuff except "The Patriot" as this comes all the way from Germany. It's kind of a modern fairy tale but with less-sugar coating as it's the story of a young 9 year old boy who lives in Virgina Beach City, he loves movies like "Star Wars" and "E.T." as he got some merchandise on them but his dad just kicked the bucket (i.e. died) and now lives with his mother. One night he gains psychic powers and telekinetic abilities that make his toys spring to life including his Star Wars toys and even communicate with his father on a toy phone. However at school he now becomes unpopular because they think he's insane for telling him his secret that they refuse to believe. One day he finds a creepy ventriloquist dummy in an abanoned mansion that belong to a famous magician as he takes it home with him, soon he finds out it's possessed by a demon with powers like Joey's only stronger as it terrorizes the young boy, it even threatens his mother his friends, teacher, enemies and city with demons from another dimension as the boy must stop this madness.
It's one of my favorite movies since i was in junior high, at first when i saw this movie in a theater in St. Louis back in 1986 at the age of 5 in the late summer of 1986 it scared the bejesus out of me. It's an endearing and sometimes dark fable that is influenced by the works of The Grimms Brothers, Lucas and Spielberg including "The Twilight Zone" TV show and 1945's "Dead of Night", he uses some of those references even to the Lucas movies in a playful kind of way instead of mean spirited or sarcastic. The boy in this movie is cleary a E.T. and Star Wars fanatic like some children of the 80's as his dream is to live like in those movies in his imaginary world, we all had a similar kind of dream as kids cause we all wanted to live our favorite movies. The movie is about childhood innocence, imagination and even offers a good message about learning to cope with death, the dummy in this movie is the scariest to hit the screen since Fats from "Magic".
The movie can be viewed on youtube with both the heavily cut and editied altered U.S. 1986 New World Pictures version "Making Contact" and of course the uncut extended German version with english subtitles "Joey" which is the better cut:
http://www.youtube.com/user/johnlindsey289
Make sure to watch the U.S. version first then later the German version to know the differences and mysteries of the film, it's a great cult classic and yes it's Emmerich's only cult movie that has a small following.
It's one of my favorite movies since i was in junior high, at first when i saw this movie in a theater in St. Louis back in 1986 at the age of 5 in the late summer of 1986 it scared the bejesus out of me. It's an endearing and sometimes dark fable that is influenced by the works of The Grimms Brothers, Lucas and Spielberg including "The Twilight Zone" TV show and 1945's "Dead of Night", he uses some of those references even to the Lucas movies in a playful kind of way instead of mean spirited or sarcastic. The boy in this movie is cleary a E.T. and Star Wars fanatic like some children of the 80's as his dream is to live like in those movies in his imaginary world, we all had a similar kind of dream as kids cause we all wanted to live our favorite movies. The movie is about childhood innocence, imagination and even offers a good message about learning to cope with death, the dummy in this movie is the scariest to hit the screen since Fats from "Magic".
The movie can be viewed on youtube with both the heavily cut and editied altered U.S. 1986 New World Pictures version "Making Contact" and of course the uncut extended German version with english subtitles "Joey" which is the better cut:
http://www.youtube.com/user/johnlindsey289
Make sure to watch the U.S. version first then later the German version to know the differences and mysteries of the film, it's a great cult classic and yes it's Emmerich's only cult movie that has a small following.