warped take on the pinocchio theme and and set during the christmas season ( . after the previous entry abandon tie to christmas ) have booby trap toy sent to murder a child ( . yet through this and other victim be accidentally harm in the process ) perhaps by a toy maker son . scream mad george be responsible for the killer toy ( . include a larva which enter a victim mouth and out his eye and another where soldier toy actually shoot real bullet at a babysitter after her boyfriend be practically strangle by a severed hand toy and operating from a remote control ) . the little target be a mute child name derek ( william thorne ) whose stepdad be murder by a red ball with extend arm that ensnare his face and cause him to land on a fireplace poker . mother sarah ( jane higginson ) worry about her son mental state and figure his reluctance towards open present or and more importantly and talk and derives from watch her husband horrific murder . derek real father and noah ( tracy fraim ) fear for his son not safety and and informs and reluctantly and his ex girlfriend sarah that the local toymaker and joe petto ( mickey rooney ) once be arrest for set trap in toy to harm kid due to the loss of an unborn child when his wife be kill in a car crash . kind of a retaliation in say that if he couldn not have a son and then others shouldn not either . still quite a heavy drinker ( . often see swig jack ) and petto seem to have set aside his feeling towards kid and but his creepy son pino ( brian bremer ) hasn not and derek he harbor angst towards . why . you will soon understand . pretty disappointing special effect and rather goofy premise . rooney name add an allure to the film and gain it a notoriety and but his histrionics can only help so much . attractive lead actress higginson ( slaughterhouse ) and fraim a the man who re enters her life aren not so bad and but the lame plot that develop be hard to take seriously . i be guess that the point and but rooney have no reason to be in such a film a this . he have no room to bring any personality to his toymaker other than rage and desperation and quite volatile and barely hold himself together a he explode in anger towards pino and when not down liquor . bremer be appropriately weird and robotic a pino and longing to have sarah a his mama . the practical effect use during the attack on victim be rather unconvincing . scream mad george work with savage steve holland be far more effective than what we see in this film . the sex everyone talk about isn not as gratuitous a many would have you believe ( . i can not even recall any nudity ) . probably the best of the numerous sequel greenlighted and but that not exactly an endorsement . i be pretty sure write on paper and this be an entertaining concept and the idea of spoof pinocchio use horror element and but the result doesn not exactly blow you away .