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Evil Toons
by amid
February 25, 2009 1:44 pm


EvilToons

Director Fred Olen Ray:

“So I’m sitting in this movie theater one day and I’m watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit and I see Jessica Rabbit come on and all the guys are going, ‘Va-va-va-voom, I’d have sex with that,’ and I said, ‘You know, I bet that somebody’d pay money to see a cartoon character rip a girl’s clothes off.’”

And with that bit of insight, Ray produced the adult live-action/animated feature, Evil Toons, a 1992 production that I’d never heard of until yesterday when I read about it on Richard O’Connor’s blog. Interesting note for animation fans: the animation in the film was created by none other than Oscar-nominated John Dilworth (creator of Courage the Cowardly Dog and the director of Dirdy Birdy).

Here’s the trailer to whet your appetite:

And an 11-minute commentary from the director offering insights into how he created movie magic:

02/25/09  1:51pm

Ah, the stuff that really BAD movies are made of.

02/25/09  1:54pm
Victor says:

Dude! I have this movie and I watched it a loooooong time ago! Crazy!

02/25/09  2:11pm
Nicole says:

I remember seeing this on the Animation Bottom 100 List on IMDB … I think it hovering around #7 at the moment http://www.imdb.com/chart/animation

02/25/09  2:19pm

Oh, yeah! I’m looking for this one on E-Mule Baby!! XD

02/25/09  2:22pm
Belgian says:

Wow, it even has Dick Miller

02/25/09  2:29pm

hah! hilarious. at least he seems to be very aware of how terrible and cheesy a film it is.

02/25/09  2:37pm

This makes “Cool World” look like “The Godfather”.

02/25/09  2:51pm
Emil says:

And live action is considered more glamorous than animation WHY?

02/25/09  3:29pm
Marc Baker says:

I remember seeing this in the video store, and thought of it as just another ‘Roger Rabbit’ cash grab. (Which it probably was.) I had no idea that ‘Courage’ creator, John Dilworth worked on this. After watching the trailer, the wolf character looks like he stepped right out of the show based on his designs.

02/25/09  3:32pm

No film with Dick Miller is 100% bad.

02/25/09  3:33pm
Austin "oppo" Papageorge says:

Not only John Dilworth, but:

Mario J. Menjivar: (the Lion King, Tarzan, Looney Tunes Back In Action)

Miguel Martinez-Joffre: (Doug, The Venture Bros)

Mark Heller: (Courage The Courardly Dog)

Levi Louis: (Bebe’s Kids, Blooper Bunny)

02/25/09  3:39pm
Kris says:

Oh my goodness, I’ve known about this movie for several years now because the local video store stocked an old VHS copy of it. I read the box copy and said, “Holy crap, I need to see this!”

When I finally watched it, I was disappointed to find out that there was only one evil toon, and even he didn’t stay a toon for long. The movie’s still baffling and kind of hilarious, though.

02/25/09  5:27pm
Brian O. says:

At least this guy made a movie rather than sitting back passing judgment on other people’s work.

02/25/09  5:38pm
Gobo says:

I found a copy of this on DVD for a buck a few years ago. Unfortunately there’s all of 30 seconds of animation in the film, tops, and the rest is godawful.

02/25/09  9:33pm
Liesje Kraai says:

Amid, if you haven’t seen it yet you’re welcome to borrow my copy (that’s how Richard saw it). Although, it’s on VHS and requires that you fast-forward through a screener of ‘Millions’ staring Billy Zane (unless you REALLY want to watch that too).

02/25/09  11:09pm
rhinotonight says:

i remember my parents renting this one night in.. god something like 92.

i only remember one part where a girl is in her panties and the toon is on the screen.
they wouldn’t let me watch it.

although i did recognize the cover immediately.

02/25/09  11:56pm
BT says:

Man, I was so disappointed when I rented this as a teenager. It seems like such a funny idea but as Gobo says there’s barely any animation in it (not sure if it’s really only 30 seconds, but it wasn’t more than a couple minutes). I can’t remember if the evil toon turned invisible or if he possessed a live action person or what, but most of it is typical Fred Olen Ray low budget cheesiness.

02/26/09  1:00am
jordan reichek says:

OMG…. i didn’t just see david carradine deliver a pizza in this film, did i?

wow, i raise my chalice to you, Fred Olen Ray!

02/26/09  3:15am

Man, the longer that guy talks, the more moral boundaries he seems to have gleefully crossed.

“So i’m in the movie theater and see these guys lusting after this cartoon girl, so I immediately make the natural progressive leap, that people will pay money to watch a cartoon character rape a real live girl, and thats how I got the idea for Deviantart…”

02/26/09  4:46am
gaastra says:

“Man, I was so disappointed when I rented this as a teenager. It seems like such a funny idea but as Gobo says there’s barely any animation in it (not sure if it’s really only 30 seconds, but it wasn’t more than a couple minutes). I can’t remember if the evil toon turned invisible or if he possessed a live action person or what, but most of it is typical Fred Olen Ray low budget cheesiness”

He takes over the girl you see in the poster. The rest of the film is her killing people. Like everyone else i was let down that the movie only had two cartoon parts and thats it. This used to air on hbo in the 90s.

02/26/09  7:53am
Steve Gattuso says:

Oh spiffy… American hentai. :P

02/26/09  9:36am
Kevin says:

Evil Toons tagline:
Come for the almost non-existent use of animation … Stay for girls in various states of undress.

02/26/09  11:02am
BWARG! says:

wow…..
just wow….
that cartoon dog is molesting that woman….
You can tell they cast the girls for their acting talent…….
and they got Carradine.
Am I seeing this right?

02/26/09  3:22pm
Ryan says:

Ick, I used to always want to see this when they had it at the video shop, but I was never allowed to see it because it was an 18, and I was ten years too young. I’ll see it one day…

02/26/09  7:31pm
Nate says:

The nadir of the film careers of both David Carradine and Arte Johnson.

02/28/09  5:30pm

Saw it at the 1995 San Diego Comic Con. Even for a movie at 3:00 am, it wasn’t good.

03/5/09  7:58pm
KarmaRocketX says:

See? Now, compared to bottom barrel garbage shit like this, Cool World wasn’t very bad at all, was it? :P

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