Ladies and Gentlemen, The Trailer for the R-rated Banana Splits Horror Movie
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um, hmm ...
Is this trying to ride on the coattails of Five Nights at Freddy?
Is this trying to ride on the coattails of Five Nights at Freddy?
This touches my childhood in uncomfortable places.
I don't really remember the Kroffts shows as a kid other than Land of the Lost so they've always been a bit creepy to me seeing them later in life.
What the fuck did I just watch?
Banana splits was actually Hanna-Barbera.
Those of you saying you might check this out are you willing to buy a movie ticket or is it something you’d check out if it was on Netflix one day?
Isn't it a Syfy Channel thing?
It's an R-rated Warner Bros. direct-to-video release that's also airing on Universal's Syfy. I guess due to Hanna Barbera now being owned by Warner Bros. and The Banana Splits originally airing on NBC? *shrugs*
I think that’s exactly what this is.
The only way my childhood could be violated harder is if they wrote J. P. Patches as Pennywise.
ahh, I stand corrected and makes a bit more sense in a weird way as it's not too out there for Syfy schlock other than the inspired license.
Netflix. Or I can wait another five years for RiffTrax live to skewer it.
So let me get this straight: Baby Boomers and a handful of Gen-X'ers who liked these full size puppet shows in 1969 decided to look at an old video, got really terrified over the proceedings, and then decided to revamp the kid show as a horror flick?
It's almost the reverse of "The Brady Bunch" going from a serious show to a sardonic homage for Gen-X in 1995. I normally hate reboots, the only ones that worked for me were BSG and the aforementioned TBB, but this one I'll go see. It does, as Greg Cox above stated, look perversely funny - or it's the sort of absolutely warped thinking I either appreciate or commit.
And most importantly by far: Just imagine what other 60s/70s kid shows could be retooled like this... remember "H R Pufnstuf"? Well, instead of being on an marijuana trip, he's now the high is gone, he's got the munches, and now smokes up little children on the BBQ spit for dinner. You know that movie is simply BEGGING to happen.Unless Simpsons gets to it first in a Halloween MCMLXXI segment...
Sounds about right, those things are bizarre and truly horrific to watch. The Bugaloos definitely got away with material no kid show would do today. Or when Harry Hoodoo calls up a dating service and gets Butch Patrick to come over making under-the-radar comments that Charles Nelson Reiley took in great stride as a professional.
And, no, I'm not dating myself. I got married a long time ago and am timeless. 
It's almost the reverse of "The Brady Bunch" going from a serious show to a sardonic homage for Gen-X in 1995. I normally hate reboots, the only ones that worked for me were BSG and the aforementioned TBB, but this one I'll go see. It does, as Greg Cox above stated, look perversely funny - or it's the sort of absolutely warped thinking I either appreciate or commit.
And most importantly by far: Just imagine what other 60s/70s kid shows could be retooled like this... remember "H R Pufnstuf"? Well, instead of being on an marijuana trip, he's now the high is gone, he's got the munches, and now smokes up little children on the BBQ spit for dinner. You know that movie is simply BEGGING to happen.Unless Simpsons gets to it first in a Halloween MCMLXXI segment...
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