This is a film is an example of a story with all the elements of a good horror film, but because of the subject matter cannot be taken seriously. Pinocchio is a character that is tossed around from decade to decade as a cute and lovable character that he is truly not. Since the film has the true Pinocchio character, it is hard to imagine that the Disney character from the 40's is the same thing. There's that and the fact that the film tries to hard to be a psychological thriller using every cliché camera technique, motif, and story that's been around since the dawn of the psychological thriller.I would honestly only recommend this movie if you are an aspiring horror film maker who wants to know the elements of a great horror story, but the film's presentation (by it's direction, editing, and acting)kill the potential of being an okay horror film. If you are such a person, you just buy/rent/wait for it to appear on T.V., and get a pen and a piece a paper, a friend who is also an aspiring film maker, and the two of you watch and discuss the film together (and save about $40,000 a year going to a film school.) But honestly you can be saving even more money/ and time by just skipping this film all together and just going to Hollywood and pray to God you get in.

We've seen Santa Clause kill people in slasher movies as well as The Tooth Fairy and a wee little Leprecahun. I suppose there isn't any famous fictional character the slasher filmmakers would defile by portraying them as psychotic killers. All that aside... isn't it fun though!?! Kevin S. Tenney, arguably the best B-Rate director in the business, has helmed the Witchboard series as well as Witchtrap, but takes time out from directing hags with warts and tackles everyone's favorite little wooden boy; Pinocchio. With this title and box art you don't expect too much when you pick it up but Tenney, who also writes his films, has talent to spare. His scripts are always clever and witty, check out Witchtrap, and he knows how to give his characters substance, which very few screenwriters truly know how to do.This film follows a workaholic attorney, Rosalind Allen who believes the man that she is representing is taking a fall for someone in the death of his own son. She can't get the man off the hook and he gets electrocuted. In the man's possession was a wooden puppet of Pinocchio which Rosalind accidentally allows her impressionable daughter to cabbage onto the doll. When her daughter begins to behave unnaturally and sinister towards classmates, Rosalind must decipher whether her daughter is crazy or if her tales of Pinocchio causing mischief are actually true. Quite suspenseful.VIOLENCE: $$$$ (Violence and gore hounds won't be letdown as Pinocchio is one twisted dude in this flick. We get to see a man fall down a flight of stairs and watch as Rosalind gets chased around her house during a storm by a knife wielding puppet).NUDITY: $$$$$ (Candace McKenzie, an extremely beautiful woman, has a shower scene because Pinocchio was curious about girls. Let's just say, after watching Candace, he's no longer curious. Rosalind has a brief love scene with her real life husband Todd Allen who plays her boyfriend. Rosalind is stunning throughout this movie; the best she has ever looked. She is like an elegant love ballad; she beckons you in and entrances you).STORY: $$$$ (Like I previously mentioned, Tenney is a superior writer as he gives his characters far more depth then what you are accustomed to in a B-Rate film. Rosalind's character was multi-faceted and Tenney also squeezes out a fine performance from the little girl).ACTING: $$$ (This film is for Rosalind Allen fans as she receives plenty of screen time and she delivers. She masterfully portrays a career minded mother who must juggle her taxing work life with a deteriorating home life. The rest of the acting was standard as Todd Allen, who was a blast in Tenney's Witchboard, was basically just around to support his off screen wife Rosalind).

Pinocchio's revenge is not a good movie. Nor is it terrible.The acting was wooden at least on Pinocchio's part.The puppet had all of 2 expressions.As did most of the actors,except strangely enough...the secondary characters...most of them were enjoyable over the top.The special effects in this are pretty "B" and as I said earlier the puppet really blew.The 2 best scenes in the movie are the knife through the hand...looked pretty good,i think they spent about a 1/3 of the budget on that...and the shower scene...WOW...I think they must have spent the other 2/3rds of the budget on talking the actress who did that scene to do it.Outstanding.Seriously this is a slightly below average "b" horror puppet movie...rent Chucky if you have a urge to see puppets kill.The story had a few interesting idea's, enough to keep me watching it to the end.

I have never seen a B movie like this one... on the part that the nanny Sofia is being killed... a hand of a woman appears on the tape handling the stick... how bad is that??? LOL, I seriously laughed and wanted to stop seeing the movie, but I kept watching it to see if this movie could get worse...LOL...it is bad for itself... poor Pinocchio.. the only nice bit is the first time you see some special effects of Pinocchio's face moving... apart from that the whole movie is awful... it's not really worth your time if you don't really have much to spare! But if you have nothing to do... go on... treat yourself with some "Z" movie cos B-movie is still too good for this one...LOL