Budget: Unknown
Directed By: Danishka Esterhazy
Wow so who thought this would ever happen hey?
One banana, two banana, three banana, four. That's right that old Hanna-Barbera live action show with the people in big furry suits.
One of their first live action programs too, the splits were a fictional band. It ran in 1968 for 31 episodes.
This is a strange horror re-imagining of that program if it had lasted until today's time. Though it was revived in 2008 too, though very briefly.
It definitely has five nights at freddy's vibes as the splits are now, spoiler, robot Animatronics. I can't find any budget news on this either, only that it did poorly even in dvd/bluray sales.
I do believe it found a home on streaming services in some countries too.
It's not a long movie either but I have seen two different running times too, one coming in at 72 minutes and another at 89.
I can't find any reason why unless the comic-con version was shorter?
As with 90% of horror films ever made we join a family that is on the surface seemingly normal, though we quickly learn the Dad is a cheating ass hole. The Kid Harley, (played by Finlay) is a massive fan of the still popular splits program.
It's the boy's birthday and the dad pulls some strings to get him onto the set of the show while they do some filming. The whole family go including the older brother Austin and a reluctant class mate of Harley's Zoe, though she seems to think it odd that he still likes them at his age.
The four splits Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky are animatronic now, though they still have a human co-host called Stevie. We learn he hates the show and only does it for the money. He's bitter and resentful which makes him an asshole to everyone else. In the waiting line we are introduced to the rest of the cast, a blogger couple, A controlling father more interested in making his daughter a star than her feelings. Then there's the hostess Paige who Austin takes a liking to.
Just before the show airs Stevie learns from the new channel executive that he intends to cancel the banana splits show. Taunting the splits something seems to happen to their programming, as the show goes on they seem to get more and more violent.
Strangely the super fan kid Harley seems to notice first, then the body count starts to rise. His mom finds out about the cheating dad, he then gets amusingly run over by the mini car. The blogger couple boyfriend proposes to the girlfriend and promptly gets sawn in half. the gore effects are quite good as well as practical too. If your wondering why they don't call anyone they had their phones confiscated so as not to film or disturb the show while filming.
The splits kill the older folks and kidnap the kids so they can perform for them forever.
I won't spoil anymore as I enjoyed this and i think you will too, there's some interesting twists with some of the characters and the splits too with strong sequel baiting.
THN awards The Banana Splits Movie 2020 4 out 5 stars.
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