Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver

Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver

Year: 2011

Runtime: 78 mins

Language: English

Director: Silvia St. Croix

HorrorComedy

The gingerdead man travels back in time to 1976 and carries out an epic disco killing spree.

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1

Clarissa confronts Gingerdead Man at the Institute

An FBI agent, Clarissa Darling, intends to kill the Gingerdead Man believing he houses her brother's soul. The situation spirals when animal rights activists break in, overpower Clarissa, and release the Gingerdead Man along with the other baked inmates. The scene sets off a chain of chaotic events inside the Scientific Research Institute for the Study of Homicidal Baked Goods.

Scientific Research Institute for the Study of Homicidal Baked Goods
2

Gingerdead Man is sent back in time

After a violent confrontation, the Gingerdead Man shoots Dr. Acula and his partner and is sent back through time as Security closes in. The escape marks the creature’s first leap across eras. The timeline abruptly shifts from a lab to a different era altogether.

Scientific Research Institute for the Study of Homicidal Baked Goods
3

Arrival at a 1976 Roller Disco Beauty Pageant

The Gingerdead Man materializes at a Roller Disco Beauty Pageant in 1976 and discovers that the remote used to return him is not functioning. With escape possible only through chaos, he resolves to unleash mayhem rather than return home. The era and venue set a campy, explosive stage for his reign of terror.

1976 Roller Disco Beauty Pageant, 1976
4

Trixie reveals financial troubles and club closure

Roller Disco’s owner Trixie laments looming tax issues and announces plans to close the club. The looming financial pressure adds to the fragile environment that the Gingerdead Man can exploit. Tension in the club increases as the night unfolds.

1976 Roller Disco
5

Gingerdead Man murders three car-washing women

The killer uses a hose attached to a tank of hydrochloric acid to melt three car-washing women, Doreen, Connie, and Sandy. The brutal act demonstrates the villain’s lethal creativity and brutal efficiency. The carnage escalates the chaos surrounding the pageant night.

1976 Roller Disco
6

Cherry joins the Pageant and meets Randy

Trixie’s telekinetic niece Cherry earns a spot as a Pageant finalist and begins complicating the club’s dynamic. She meets Randy, a staff member, and shares a moment of skating against Trixie’s wishes. Cherry’s presence introduces new tension into the competition.

1976 Roller Disco
7

Ingrid Harshman encounters the Gingerdead Man

The Gingerdead Man targets Ingrid Harshman, who tries to engage with him through a misunderstanding but ultimately refuses and exits. This encounter adds a layer of personal danger amid the broader massacre. Ingrid’s early escape marks one of the many near-misses of the night.

1976 Roller Disco
8

Bugsby and the drugged teens are silenced

The Gingerdead Man discovers Bugsby, the janitor, in a compromising scene with two drugged teens, and eliminates them with a nail gun. The brutal execution underscores the indiscriminate savagery of the killer. The club’s interior becomes a backdrop for fear and chaos.

1976 Roller Disco
9

Tammy Pimento’s pageant jeopardy and a blood plan

Cherry earns finalist status, while Tammy Pimento’s past and popularity create a volatile dynamic. Wheels Epstein manipulates the scene with a plan involving a bucket of pig blood to drench Cherry during the ceremony. The scheme heightens the stakes for the pageant night.

1976 Roller Disco
10

Leroy and DJ chaos heighten the mayhem

The Gingerdead Man kills shoe clerk Leroy with a meat cleaver in the bathroom and sabotages the DJ Angel’s cocaine by mixing it with a cleaning product, seizing control of the night’s music. The misused music amplifies the chaos and cements the killer’s control over the club’s atmosphere. The venue descends further into pandemonium.

1976 Roller Disco
11

Time travelers trigger a new wave of arrivals

Two kids, Pickles and Tina, discover the remote and activate it, sending themselves and a new wave of time travelers into different eras. Their actions shift the balance of power and introduce fresh interference into the ongoing massacre. The timeline becomes even more tangled as new travelers arrive.

1976 Roller Disco
12

Tammy’s crew is slaughtered and chaos peaks

The Gingerdead Man’s rampage escalates when pig blood drenches Tammy instead of Cherry, and he slashes Tammy’s crew—Coco, Yoko, and P.J.—dead. The body count climbs rapidly as the pageant devolves into a killing field. The survivors face a collapsing structure of fear and desperation.

1976 Roller Disco
13

The beam of fear is locked down and a final standoff begins

The Gingerdead Man shoots Trixie in the shoulder, and Cherry uses telekinesis to lock doors and drop the disco ball, electrocuting most of the attackers. Only a few—Trixie, Ingrid Harshman, Randy, and the Gingerdead Man himself—remain in the line of danger. The moment stabilizes into a tense standoff as security closes in.

1976 Roller Disco
14

Time travelers overpower the cookie

Pickles and Tina return with Clarissa Darling and Security, along with infamous historical figures Hitler, Manson, Dahmer, and Lizzie Borden. The six travelers combine to overpower the Gingerdead Man and seal him away inside a cookie jar-magic lamp. The club’s doom seems to be averted as order reasserts itself for a moment.

1976 Roller Disco
15

Lottery numbers and a paradox revealed

Pickles and Tina reveal the winning lottery numbers to their aunt, ensuring the club’s future stability. They disclose that because they warned the FBI agent, the entire attack never happened and the dead are brought back to life. The time travelers return to their own eras, including the aunt who briefly travels back to try to prevent Pearl Harbor—creating a paradox that undercuts the night’s horrors.

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