I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Blistering performances.

I do love a great eighties horror film. They're so bad they're good. Therefore, I was delighted when I found 'Rumpelstiltskin' on Netflix and wondered how I managed to miss this one during the eighties. Then, about halfway through, I realised (with a little help from the internet) that it was actually made in the nineties. I don't really know why I feel the need to mention that so early – perhaps because the film simply feels like it was made in the eighties. That and because I couldn't get the Terminator out of my head.Rumpelstiltskin is a – sort of – modern take on the fairy tale about the little man who tries to steal babies unless you can guess his name. He was happily kiddie-snatching all those hundreds of years ago when a crafty old witch only caught him in the act and banished him into a statue. Then, in the eighties (yes, I still refuse to believe that this was filmed in the nineties) he's thawed out, yadder, yadder, yadder and now he's after another mum with another baby.And, in my opinion, it kind of felt like the original Terminator film. There was an unstoppable creature hunting down a helpless woman with a man to protect her. Okay, so Sarah Connor was lucky enough to have Kyle Reece to help her out. Here, the female protagonist has a sleezy chat-show host to generally get in the way and wind her up. He's definitely no Kyle Reece, but he is pretty amusing.Rumpelstiltskin could just be another monster B-movie, but it's basically saved by the titular monster's performance. He's just so delightfully nasty. He's impervious to pain and knows it. Therefore, he likes to take his time as he stalks and terrorises all those who get in his way.The film knows what it is and doesn't ever try and take itself seriously. If you like slightly tongue in cheek films with a thoroughly evil little man at the centre of it all then give this horror classic a go (especially if you can catch it on Netflix for free!).

Like it says in the title, that's all there is to talk about. This movie only has 2 very descent scenes in it. The epic Car Chase & The Go-Kart scene. The rest was dragging on and on. I do like the Rumpelstiltskin character, he's like the Leprechaun in every way. Funny jokes, they dress up funny, and there sense of humor. Another problem, they barely even show Rumpelstiltskin. It feels like to me that he is only in for like 20 minutes total??? Maybe it's just me. When they aren't showing Rumpelstiltskin. The main woman is either bragging to the cops or complaining about her baby keep on missing. Not very good. After watching this movie I just wanna watch Leprechaun movies again.4.5/10

This film is ridiculous on so many levels! I don't understand why they have to take every single fairy tale character, and make them a killer. Now, I realize that The Brothers Grimm sort of did that, but come on! You are afraid of a being that is half your size?!! Really?!! The whole film goes like this, "Oh no Rumplestiltskin is after my baby! What do we do? What do we do?" Here's an idea...move to Alaska! Jeez! I just don't understand why people are so afraid of midgets in horror movies. Yes they have powers, yes they are creepy, and yes they can be annoying, but come on! You want my advice. I will make this short. Beware of this film's stupidity!

Everyone's favourite Passions star (IVY CRANE!!!!) lights up the screen in this horrifically bad schlock horror. (By 'schlock' I mean horror so bad that it isn't even funny!) Now I love bad horror...But this was beyond the joke.A woman, whose police-officer husband has just been shot to death in a car jacking, buys a strange relic in an antique store. Despite the warnings of the badly-dressed witch running the store (who looks suspiciously like Stevie Nicks), she buys the lump of stone that looks like it belongs in the bowl of a public toilet.While she cries at home and wishes to have her husband back just one last time, her tear hits the 'turd rock' and her prayers are answered. Her husband returns and they go at it like rabbits in 7 seconds of tacky, mild sex.After waking, 'Ivy Crane' finds a strange dwarf in her shower with annoyingly squinty eyes and really bad dentures. He demands her first-born child and she refuses.From here, the movie involves 'Ivy' running from the little gremlin and causing the deaths of friends and by-standers along the way.The horror is bland. The supporting cast are probably now in rehab. The one-liners are cornier than creamed corn smeared on a cob of the vegetable of the same name.I now realise why this movie looks so 80s, despite being released in 1996. It was so bad that every major studio turned it down over a period of 16 years. AVOID!