søndag den 3. juni 2018

Dolls


Stuart Gordon directed Re-Animator and then this. Also produced by Charles Band and Brian Yuzna. Not an amazing movie but quite entertaining and fun to watch.

A violent thunderstorm strands six people in the gothic English countryside: little Judy, who is travelling with her selfish, uncaring father, David Bower, and her callous, arrogant stepmother Rosemary. They are accompanied by Ralph, an amiable, mild-mannered businessman, who has given a ride to Isabel and Enid, two British punk rock girls who are hitchhiking. They all wind up at a mansion inhabited by Gabriel and Hilary Hartwicke, a kindly elderly couple who appear to be toy makers; their house literally abounds with dolls, puppets, and other beautifully detailed toys. They give Judy a new doll, Mr Punch after she had been forced to give up her old teddy bear by her cruel stepmother before they arrived at the house. The Hartwick invite the stranded travellers to join them for dinner and stay as guests until the storm ends.

One by one everyone (except Judy) gets attacked by killing dolls. The first one to get it is Isabel, whose death is, in the lack of a better word, hilarious. A grown ass woman gets dragged by tiny dolls, after getting smacked in the head by a wall...

Rosemary´s death is pretty hilarious too. The dolls try to saw her arm and leg and she doesn´t even blink. Strong fibre gal. Why didn´t she kicked them?




Enid was smarter, she kicked the shit of some, revealing they´re actually little people enclausered on dolls, before getting shot to death by toy soldiers.

The movie is cool, the stop-motion and the effects are pretty nice. I love Judy´s dad transformation into a doll and Isabel´s scene where she´s turning into one when Enid finds her. But the acting is not so nice and I cringed at the punk girl´s British accent.
Also, the ending was so rushed. The explanation Gabriel gave Judy for her parents being missing was so meh only a 7-year-old could believe it.

Nonetheless, an 80s classic. It´s kinda trashy but it´s good trashy. 



IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092906/?ref_=nv_sr_4

Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolls_(1987_film)