Ooga Booga

I love this movie... shower scene is the funniest thing I've ever seen. Sit back, put one in the air and enjoy.

Classic

So back in 1970 there was a tv movie called Triology of Terror staring Karen Black. The famous episode was the one where the doll comes to life and terrorizes her. So in this movie the doll comes back in a black neighborhood with a different story having nothing to do with the original movie. But the best part is Karen Black plays a eccentric old lady living in a trailer park with a great big doll collection. And when this doll that terrified her in the original movie gets in her trailer and hides among her doll collection when she see it she says (that's funny I don't remember this one.) Which is a great inside joke to the original film. I purchased this movie just for the fact of the homage it pays to the original movie and for that scene alone it was worth it to me. Plus the new setting and story was pretty good and funny like a bad acted b rate drive-in movie. Glad to have added to my collection.

Bought it for my girlfriend. we both love Full Moon Productions. I'm more for the Puppet master Series, but enjoy the classical animatronics that are so rarely seen in new movies of today. I think most people find this movie a bit too racy and vulgar (just read online reviews) but all in all it's more of a revenge type movie with plenty of T&A thrown in (just like most full moon productions). I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that is easily offended by racial stereotypes.

I was really looking forward to this movie. I usually love the 'so bad its good' type movie like The Room, and ThanksKilling, but this movie was kinda terrible. The preview to this movie is really misleading into making you think it'll be good for a few laughs, but please don't waste your time. The first 20 minutes are almost pointless about some drunk actor named Hambo, then we finally get to Devin's story. Devin is a young African American man who's about to go to Med School and has a beautiful girlfriend, but it's all taken away when he's at the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course, the police officers gun him down because of his race (Ferguson) and his soul is somehow transferred into a doll named Ooga Booga. (For some reason, he can't talk. He can just make bwahaha voices, like he's trying to be scary) Ooga and his girlfriend track down everyone involved in his death and gets revenge. I would not recommend OOGA BOOGA!!!

Good Movie, about a voodoo like doll with the spirit of a deseased mans spirit that reincarnated inside of it. Who get revenge for his murder, with the help of his girlfriend

I am absolutely flabbergasted that this movie could be made in this era even by Charles Band and Full Moon. I would have never known about this movie if a friend of mine, Patrick Holder, hadn't told me about it; he's a serious actor and has a minor part in it as the twitchier of the robbers, Zero. He does an excellent job with his small part, and from a purely acting point of view, that's the norm in this film: most of the performances are workmanlike and competent despite the material. The film stars Stacy Keach and Karen Black, and while they have both done much better things, they have both also turned in worse performances too. Side note: watch for the excellent Patrick Holder nasal trauma scene, but I'm getting ahead of myself.... The film opens with a long segment of Hambo the pig clown (Chance A. Rearden), who is both disgusting and has the worst doll collection in history. There is a dynamic that I find hard to fully grasp between Hambo and Devin (Wade F. Wilson), the ill-fated young doctor, who is decidedly in the wrong place at the wrong time, and is shot by racist cops while getting a rhubarb Slurpee. Stacy Keach is the corrupt judge who profits from drugs and prostitution and protects the murderous cops. Meanwhile Devin has now inhabited the hilarious doll with a bone through his nose, Ooga Booga, and is plotting his revenge. There are amusing scenes as Ooga Booga tries to convince the love of his life he's really Devin (there's even a shower scene which must be seen to be believed) and of course the bulk of the second half of the film focuses on doll vengeance. The film could be seen as a serious commentary on race, though I'm not sure Full Moon is especially interested in that; that the movie can be construed as offensive to some is beyond doubt, but nobody is forcing anyone to watch this at gunpoint. (I hope.) Ooga Booga finally gets his revenge (please note the highly unusual apple of death scene) and the film ends on a predictable note (if you've seen other Charles band films). I really have mixed feelings about "Ooga Booga". On one hand it raises the race card (the villains are all white, the heroes are largely black) for no good reason and with no good payoffs, but on the other hand it is more interesting than most of Band's other projects, like "The Evil Bong" series, and does have some disturbing (if sometimes hilarious) scenes of one very angry doll, itself a stereotype of the worst possible sort. I did enjoy the scene in which the robbers smoke the videotape from a surveillance camera in a bong. Was it an Evil Bong? Given the rest of the movie, I think it has to be. This is definitely an exploitation flick, but who does it exploit exactly? In the end, just about everybody.

Man this show was something else and with Karen Black in a surprising and quite unexpected role like that in the original film...