Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust (2008) poster
2008 · horror · comedy

Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust

Directed by Silvia St. Croix, Pieter Christian Colson1h 12m2008
ElsewhereIMDb4.02k
  • kinetic
  • inventive
  • cold
  • intimate
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Neutral, breathless, measured horror / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The horrifying yet delicious and chewy Gingerdead Man causes murder and mayhem on the set of a horrible low budget movie set. It will take the determination of the studio's young new owner to save both his company and well as the lives of his young new friends. Including a terminally ill young boy whose final wish it was to meet the studios stars - The Tiny Terrors.

Our read · Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust (2008) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal horror · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want silly low-budget killer cookie slasher mayhem on a movie set.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 1/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditygoregraphic violencecringe humiliation

Skip it tonightYou dislike crude sex jokes, gore, or ultra-cheesy horror comedy.

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(you hate Christmas horror puns)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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