| Pinocchio's Revenge | |
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| Directed by | Kevin Tenney |
| Produced by | Mark Amin |
| Written by | Kevin Tenney |
| Starring | Rosalind Allen Todd Allen Aaron Lustig Candace McKenzie Ron Canada Lewis Van Bergen Larry Cedar Brittany Alyse Smith Dick Beals (voice) |
| Music by | Dennis Michael Tenney |
| Cinematography | Eric Anderson |
| Editing by | Daniel Duncan |
| Distributed by | Trimark Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 14, 1996 |
| Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Pinocchio's Revenge is a 1996 Horror film about a mother who brings home a wooden puppet that was found buried with a boy supposedly killed by his father. Her little girl Zoe mistakenly finds the doll and takes it as her own. Soon accidents start happening and Jennifer struggles to find the cause as she begins to question her daughters well being and whether or not there may be something sinister to the doll.
Defense attorney Jennifer Garrick (Rosalind Allen) believes her client, an accused child murderer on death row, isn't guilty and is hiding the identity of the real killer. After he is executed, she accidentally brings a Pinocchio doll buried with her clients son home with her from the office, and her daughter Zoe (Brittany Alyse Smith) mistakes it for a birthday gift. She starts acting strangely as she develops a relationship with the puppet.
Soon, she even believes the doll to be real and talk with it, although this is not out of the ordinary as she held a similar relationship with her other dolls. Trouble takes off when a school mate of Zoe who bullied her is pushed in front of a bus, which Zoe blames on Pinocchio trying to protect her. Soon after, Jennifer's boyfriend David is knocked down the basement stairs while baby sitting Zoe, but is saved by Zoe calling 911. Later, Zoe is at one of her therapy sessions when her Psychiatrist has to leave the room, and Zoe begins talking with Pinocchio about who is to blame for Davids accident, with both placing blame on one another.
A surveillance video in the room is watched by the mother and the psychiatrist and it is revealed that Zoe is talking to herself. That night, Pinocchio convinces Zoe to set him free so that he can admit to David that he is to blame for his accident. Zoe makes him promise he will not do anything bad and cuts his strings, at which point Pinocchio hops up declaring his freedom and takes off down the dark streets with Zoe in pursuit. Through a first person perspective, we see an unknown person move through the hospital through crowds of people into Davids room and un plug one of his machines causing him to pass away.
Jennifer questions Zoe who claims she got lost as she and Pinocchio try to find the hospital and never went there which causes an angry and confused Jennifer to lock Pinocchio in the trunk of her car. That night, Zoe is left in the care of the babysitter Sophe, when Sophe reminds her that Zoe gave Pinocchio a conscience (a cricket caught earlier in the film). Zoe runs to her room to check on it and finds it smashed and begins screaming. Sophe runs to make sure she is okay where she is struck by a fire place poker from an unknown assailant until she is dead. Jennifer arrives home that night during a thunderstorm to find the babysitter dead and Zoe standing in a dark hallway quiet. When Jennifer tries to confront Zoe, she runs away in a panic. As Jennifer explores the house, she is struck by the poker and sees her daughter standing above her with it in her hand.
Her daughter explains that she just managed to get the poker away from Pinocchio but they must escape quickly, but before Jennifer can inquire further Zoe is gone. Jennifer stands up to see Pinocchio standing in the room, at which point he suddenly turns towards her and attacks her with a knife, following with a chase and battle through the house. Jennifer throws Pinocchio through a glass coffee table, and sees that her daughter is suddenly laying there in his place. The movie closes with a catatonic Zoe being committed, and Jennifer stating it wasn't her and that she won't give up until she gets better and can leave to which the psychiatrist states "I hope not, for your sake, I hope not."
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