Looking back into my memories as a child, I remember this movie being the best of the Earnest series, which was often too absurd to warrant my full-full attention. Though I was perhaps three or four at the time, my tastes had already been refined by films like Beetlejuice and Peewee's big Top.
But what makes this film memorable, and perhaps all the films that I've listed, are their balanced transitions from funny to morbid-freaky. As for this film, I think the device of children being attacked by a leprechaunish troll, only to have their twisted faced immortalized in the wooden dolls they have now become.
Once collected, they rest, powering the Gothic tree, lovingly tree-housed by our goofy friend Earnest for all of his friends.
But what makes this film memorable, and perhaps all the films that I've listed, are their balanced transitions from funny to morbid-freaky. As for this film, I think the device of children being attacked by a leprechaunish troll, only to have their twisted faced immortalized in the wooden dolls they have now become.
Once collected, they rest, powering the Gothic tree, lovingly tree-housed by our goofy friend Earnest for all of his friends.