About This Film
Festival Year: 1988
Run Time: 105 Minutes
Film Type: Feature
Animated: No
Countr(ies): United Kingdom
English Subtitles: No
Captions: None
Film Overview
A lush, unconventional story of a young woman's sexuality, this “adult fairytale” is adapted from one of Angela Carter's most successful novels. When her parents are killed in an accident, melanie is thrust from her comfortable suburban home into the eerie world of her uncle's enchanted toyshop. Here the cold and sadistic toymaker manipulates his family for his own cruel amusement. A lavish Freudian tale, THE MAGIC TOYSHOP mixes the realistic with the surreal and the innocent with the sexual in conveying the perils of the oncoming adult world and the mysteries of puberty.