Dolls
| Year: | 1987 |
| Director: | Stuart Gordon |
Not quite cheap and tatty enough to be cult, I think this film was destined for a big theatrical release, but went straight to video somewhat unfairly.
Don't get me wrong, it's not great, but it's professionally and slickly produced; the acting is good, the horror is bloodthirsty and the whole movie isn't winking over it's shoulder at you.
A collection of people converge on a huge house on a dark stormy night where the friendly old couple who live there make kids' dolls. But - as the tagline says and for seemingly no reason - they walk, they talk, they kill. And they do with malevolent glee, bumping off the inhabitants of the house one after the other in a variety of crazy and genuinely scary ways in order to punish each transgressor for the bad skeletons in their closet.
Had the guy who played cop Duffy in Robocop 2 who met a nasty end at the hands of Cain.
Don't get me wrong, it's not great, but it's professionally and slickly produced; the acting is good, the horror is bloodthirsty and the whole movie isn't winking over it's shoulder at you.
A collection of people converge on a huge house on a dark stormy night where the friendly old couple who live there make kids' dolls. But - as the tagline says and for seemingly no reason - they walk, they talk, they kill. And they do with malevolent glee, bumping off the inhabitants of the house one after the other in a variety of crazy and genuinely scary ways in order to punish each transgressor for the bad skeletons in their closet.
Had the guy who played cop Duffy in Robocop 2 who met a nasty end at the hands of Cain.