The premise of The Secret Kindom (1997) is this: There’s a kingdom chafing under the grip of a totalitarian leader. This kingdom is under the sink of a house in New Orleans, and is discovered by three children while their parents are away.
Really? This got made? Seriously?
Nathan Shumate is the proprietor of Cold Fusion Video Reviews and the publisher of Cold Fusion Media.
#1 by lyzard on September 3rd, 2009
Well, Nathan, you can’t accuse me of not paying attention to your reviews: I read this one as far as Directed by David Schmoeller, Written by Benjamin Carr and shrieked with anticipatory horror.
#2 by lyzard on September 3rd, 2009
In other news, these people must clean their kitchen properly about as often as I do.
#3 by Nathan Shumate on September 3rd, 2009
Well, maybe. Like I said, there’s absolutely no discussion of how long the miniature nation has been there.
#4 by Jen S on September 8th, 2009
The premise of the movie is actually pretty good. It reminds me of an old Sylvia cartoon about setting up a miniature museum in your fridge or closet, or Joel’s sketch from Giant Gila monster, about having a malt shop in your laundry room.
#5 by Carl on September 9th, 2009
Was this, do you suppose, a conscious tribute to The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe with a magical, oppressed kingdom behind a cabinet door? Of course Lewis did it better, but it’s the same concept.
#6 by Nathan Shumate on September 9th, 2009
Conscious? No. Remember, this was made back-to-back with The Shrunken City, of which it is an oblique permutation, and every other Romanian-made Kushner-Locke kidvid which made use of shrunken people or alternate realities (that looked just like Bucharest) or both. They were in the habit of slopping any old half-baked fantasy concept onto a script and shoving it in from of the cameras.