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A Weekend to Dismember
Teens trapped on an island are haunted by a demon hidden inside...a pinata.
Survival Island
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Piñata, Piñata: Survival Island, Demon Island, Pinata - Dämoneninsel, A sziget neve: Túlélés (Túlélősziget), Pinata - L'isola del terrore, Pinata: A Ilha da Sobrevivência, 魔岛迷踪
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14 Jun 2002
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Good evening and welcome fellow Children of Chaos.
Watched for the Crap Movie Collective.
I KNOW somewhere I have this shit on DVd as Survival Island, and according to Arkham Knight Rider there is a version where the dude in a suit is replace with CGI. But practical supremacy I say!
So this is a "demonic pinata" movie even though. Not really. More like a soul jar that has a demon in it. When the pot is broken a dude in an actually pretty good looking costume runs around killing annoying "teens" off screen while Xander Harris and Tina Armstrong bicker like idots.
I heard evil Pinata movie and was ready for some weirdness, but the movie takes itself serious,…
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After a seven minute history lesson on the creation and care of evil-containing piñatas, a group of college "kids" crash the final resting place of the demoñata, ready for a scavenger hunt, youngster banter and the eventual unleashing of horrific ancient evil.
Demon Island, aka Piñata: Survival Island, doesn't waste much time (once the history lesson ends) getting to the main attraction: a little terra cotta terror looking to repeatedly thwack any soft humans nearby.
I don't know what possessed someone to make a movie about a rage-filled piñata brought to life by two stoned idiots with a rock, but there's something extremely amusing about having a concept that silly, coupled with reasonably good gore... and the obligatory abysmal 2002…
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College students on an island scavenger hunt awaken evil interned inside a centuries-old Aztec piñata. The possessed object might look diminutive but grows ever vicious by bludgeoning participants to gather souls. With rafts trashed, they'll have to find a way to survive the evolving curse.
This certainly takes its monster's origins seriously with a seven-minute flashback to its creation narrated by Joaquim de Almeida. Then it's frat humor until the ginger snap-skinned minotaur, designed by the Chiodo Brothers, emerges to beat on heads. Aesthetics of a Power Rangers episode make the tomato gore from its brutality surprising. Eventually computers turn the man-in-suit into a volcanic Transformer from Beast Wars and gut what charm Piñata had going. Jaime Pressly and generic Actor Guy co-star, who never come off as leads, are left running through Californian "jungle" and cribbing an Arnold classic to end the rampaging Bakugan. Watched via First Look's DVD. -
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Can you believe this movie has a full five minutes of credits?
I was going to write something snarky like "still a more cohesive plot than LOST", but this movie is too weird not to talk about.
I'm sure I'll see tons of reviews pointing out that this has Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but honestly, this is exactly the kind of movie that guy was supposed to end up in. I'm more shocked that Garrett Wang from Star Trek Voyager is in this. That guy deserves so much better. He was TV Guide's sexiest man for fuck's sake.
So, obviously this movie is terrible. Not funny enough to be a schlocky parody, not sexy enough to be the… -
So daft you've got to laugh.
Why is this clay fellow, filled with a villages badness and a pigs heart called a Pinata?
Check him out you'll laugh your socks off. I reckon his vision is influenced by Predator.
As mental as this movie is I liked that rubber dude.
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Killer piñata movie featuring premature CGI+Chiodo Bros suit opens with seven minutes of elaborate backstory. Just read that sentence over a couple of times.
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This movie is like an over the top 90's movie and while not good, it is fun and has a lot of cool ideas involving its monster.
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I bought this at Goodwill yesterday. It seemed like a dumb / fun movie. You know how it goes. I somehow didn't realize it was actually titled "Pinata: Survival Island." What a title! When I grabbed it, I thought it was just called Survival Island. "Pinata" is written in really small letters and isn't too noticable unless you're paying close attention. And what a difference that makes! Pinata: Survival Island is supremely different than regular old Survival Island. And in case you didn't realize, that means this movie is about a killer demonic pinata! Sometimes it's a guy in a suit, other times it's ridiculous CGI. The killer pinata man looks like the Olmec guy from Legends Of The Hidden…
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Definitely the first piñata-monster-based horror movie I’ve seen. There’s not much else to say about this amateurish production about a piñata full of bad vibes discovered on an island by a college frat & sorority scavenger hunt. It’s got a few familiar faces (Xander from Buffy and Jaime Pressly from My Name Is Earl), and a lame piñata monster. Just blah all around.
Would have been far better if it embraced its silly premise and went with a comedy (or at least tongue in cheek) angle. Instead, it plays it totally serious and doesn’t have the plot to back itself up. Just “college students” running away, separating themselves from the group, getting killed, rinse and repeat. Yawn.
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Pinata: Survival Island is rooted deep in lore and I wish that really mattered. I guess it does but it seemed like everything spun out of control and went into slasher mode. It is cool to understand where the killer pinata came from, even if it looks like a lava monster.
One huge disservice to Survival Island is the pinata lava monster's point-of-view shots. It looks like drunk goggles mixed with a magic 8-ball. Weird.
For all of its faults, this is a fun little movie. The characters are annoying but not enough for me to care about their fate. The special effects haven't aged well but I won't hold that against it. I am sure special effects from today's movies will look like crap in 5 to 20 years, too.
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This is probably the best anyone could do with a movie about a killer Piñata and I am fine with that.
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