The greatest “Huh?” of 2019….

Oh, and are they trying to create a new genre “campy torture porn”? I wonder who they think the audience for that would be?

I agree with Eric H that is exposes the lunacy of the “established IP” thing. While I remember to this day the Banana Splits with some fondness, as do a statistical handful of others, as Eric notes why would they think we’d want something like this. It’s like when they made the gory dark Munsters series.

My kids were talking about this the other day. I must admit that I was only able to muster the energy for an eye roll without dismissing it out f hand. Maybe we need to figure out how to organize Jabootu acolyte watch parties for this sort of thing.

According to what I’ve read they originally wanted to do a FNaF movie, but couldn’t get the rights. So they went with the Banana Splits instead.

For the life of me I can’t get the reasoning behind that decision.

And hey, I got quoted on Jabootu. Does that make me ‘Net Famous’ now?

Yeah. How many people even remember this show. And how many of them wanted to see it get turned into ‘Hostel: The Animated Series’?

Yeah I know it’s not animated, though they had a lot of cartoons they showed during it. Guess it’s too much to expect that they’ll be showing ‘reimagined’ versions of them as well during the movie.

Well, Sigmund was clearly a Deep One.

Given how friendly he was with humans, he was a rather incompetent Deep One.

Yes you are now Internet Famous, aka Infamous.

Personally I’d never even heard of the show until either Ken or maybe it was the Plain Stallions website brought it up.

I think it’s that Hollywood can’t let anything remain innocent. It all must be corrupted. And the IP was probably pretty cheap.

The story I got was that the script was actually written for a Freddy’s movie, but that the creator of the franchise didn’t like the script and commissioned a second script. He was then approached for permission to use the original script for another movie and he gave the script to them.

I think my feelings on this may be summed up by a recent experience thanks to a load of VHS tapes I was gifted, several Scooby Doo movies among them. SCOOBY DOO ON ZOMBIE ISLAND, I was surprised to discover, was actually a legitimate horror movie rather than an all-out comedy. Oh, they didn’t have the zombies eating people or anything like that, but it was a lot rougher stuff than I ever expected. At first, I sort of admired the experimentation with the franchise. Then I watched SCOOBY DOO AND THE LEGEND OF THE VAMPIRE, which tried very hard to follow the lead of the old series. Not only was it written in the style of the original show, but it reunited the original voice cast and even duplicated the ‘walk cycle’ used on the TV show (they even used incidental music cues actually written for the original show). The results were so clean and fun that it made me realize just how little I cared for the more edgy updated frame of the zombie entry. It just reinforced a belief I’ve always held, which is that if you can write a good script, you don’t need to be edgy.

Well, look at that. My guess during my viewing of the trailer was dead-on, that being “Someone wanted to make a ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ movie, couldn’t get the rights, and somehow got the rights to the Banana Splits instead.” Go me!

Although it would be screamingly obvious to anyone who’s ever seen “FNaF.”

I only ever saw a couple of episodes of the Banana Splits in my adulthood, so I have no attachment to the show. However, nothing about that trailer made me remotely curious about it. I doubt I’ll ever watch it…unless that Jabootu watch party happens, I suppose.

That certainly seems to be the case where Hanna-Barbera’s stable is concerned. Some years ago before I canceled my satellite dish, I remember more or less all their characters were being defiled for the sort of edgy ‘adult comedy’ shows which eventually took over the Cartoon Network evening line-up. If it’s an actual policy decision from someone running the company now, I guess HB characters even being used for gory horror shouldn’t have been unexpected. Makes one a bit more tolerant to Disney’s maniacal control over their own properties (although I hear they’re departing pretty radically from their traditions lately).

Not to shamelessly self-promote, but it’s exactly that kind of thing that my new book is offered as the antidote to. I just want to make people smile. (Cartoon Cuties issue 1 is now on sale through Amazon, end of plug.)

I’ll always accept more! I’ll gladly take any you still have on your hands, Ken! I also finally got around to doing Beta. Finally got to see some essentials that had somehow eluded me for years, like TRON and BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS.

Wait, wait — someone made a Dalek porno? Dear sweet merciful Heaven.

I’ve seen some PG-13 photos of that but a porno film!?!

The idea that Daleks state everything before they do it makes it sound more like a comedy than a porno.

‘In-SERT PROBE’

The film was called ABDUCTED BY THE DALEKS, although it probably sounds more amusing than it is in actual execution. A car load of girls is, as the title indicates, abducted by daleks for experimentation. Now, one would think the film would then follow a basic pattern of the girls being studied by their captors until they could escape, but that actually doesn’t happen. Rather, the first half has the girls abducted, briefly menaced, and then killed off. Then there’s a second half where one of the daleks (I think) is somehow transformed into a human woman and then interrogated by a military unit. The whole affair is pretty dismal on both fronts, working neither as a sci-fi spoof or as an outlet for lingering at exposed female forms. The neatest thing about it is that they use some neat 60’s style dalek props, but even that aspect they fail to exploit very well. It was one of those “even I could do better than that if I were the sort to do something like that” episodes.

Wasn’t Secret Squirrel on there? They could do that one like “Archer”. But with a squirrel! We shouldn’t give them ideas…

Lucky you, wish I had.

I don’t think so, Secret Squirrel lead his won skein/program as I recall, like Magilla Gorilla. Arabian Knights, maybe?

Well, self-aware animatronics. So I guess ‘robots, but not using that word’.

Somewhere in the Multiverse Davros is weeping in despair.

My understanding is that the FNaF animatronics are possessed by the ghosts of murdered children out for revenge.

Similar thing with the Warners cartoon characters. Twenty years or so ago they were all showing up as scowling gangstas on t-shirts.

I believe the FNaF animatronics are possessed by the ghosts of murdered kids. I seem to recall that being said on Tv Tropes, at least.

Yep, and they somehow lived in a world where all bad guys looked like Indian Joe.

I understand that the game(s) manage to balance being scary and tasteful.

Just saw this movie. It’s not great but to be honest, why not…nothing much else you could do with these characetrs. They were in a garbage show and even look creepy, there’s no need for them anymore, so why not turn them into slashers and call it a day with them.