This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Review by Ghoul Gruel Patron
This review may contain spoilers.
Ghoul Gruel’s review published on Letterboxd:
“Yeah, but are they anti-cues?!”
“…Anti-cues?”
“You know - valuable, old shit!”
This film is super homey and warm, and only an hour 10 between credits! The plot is a short, straight line. There’s no tricks or twists or red herrings or convoluted conflict, which makes it oddly soothing. Get in, introduce creepy dolls, get attacked by creepy dolls, turn into creepy dolls, get out. The effects are great too. I especially loved the wet, shrivelled, leathery insides of some of them, but the real standout was the Teddy fantasy about 6min in. That’s what made me sit up.
It’s a solid character set. We’ve got the most loving, soothing, witchy doll makers, the slightly creepy ‘young at heart’ man, bitchy 80s glam punks, and horrible parents. They draw a very clear divide between the nice people and the shitty fodder and they stick to it, making retribution so sweet.
This redeemed my faith in doll movies after Puppet Master.