OOGA BOOGA (2013)

OOGA BOOGA (2013)

Okay there are a few Charles Band titles I follow. KILLJOY and PUPPET MASTER probably being the most well-known. SO when I found out he directed this, I decided to give it a shot (turns out that was pretty unfortunate). In this movie we have a jerk of a kids show host who dresses as a hog who is promptly fired after basically being too drunk to perform. He then decides to go into the “I am a freakin racist” doll business but not before he gives his only friend Devin (who is African American which is just one of many oddities about this thing) a larger doll named “OOGA BOOGA”. Devin (played by Wade F Wilson a Hollywood newcomer) then goes to a store that winds up being robbed and winds up getting killed by a racist cop. Apparently bad slurpee machines have a way of helping you get into a doll and becoming a vengeful 16 inch killing machine.

While there are some interesting concepts in this movie overall it’s pretty flat out odd. One thing that is touted about the film is that OOGA BOOGA is so outspoken in a comical way, only in the DVD copy I watched he doesn’t talk at all? I am not sure it would have helped, and it is even more strange that since OOGA BOOGA is Devin, why do they not act at all the same other than both wanting Donna (played by Ciarra Carter which was actually a great casting decision)? 

Personally growing up in basically a ghetto situation and having mostly black friends, the racist elements in this were just hard to watch. Sure everyone gets their due, but it just reminds me that this crap still goes on (only in real life OOGA BOOGA isn’t poking your eyes out with a tiny spear).

Sidenote : Karen Black must like being in movies with tiny killers. She also appeared in 1975’s TRILOGY OF TERROR one of the great horror flicks of the past 50 years (also one of the spookiest ending scenes like freakin ever).

I give this movie a 3 out of 7.

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