This movie is
more of a joke than it is meant to be scary. All through the 77 minutes of the
film, I kept wondering, “Who in their right mind came up with a script that has
dolls facing off directly against humans?” The idea is just bull.
We’re all
familiar with Child’s Play (Chucky, 1988). In fact, some have become
too familiar with the genre. What made Child’s Play part one better
than a lot of other movies in the same genre is that Chucky was sneaking up on
people to kill them. You’ll also notice that the moment he decided to confront
them directly, he got killed. Here, the toys are going straight at the humans
and somehow manage to kill most of them. Well, give them credit—they were
numerous, while Chucky was just a single evil doll.
Stuart Gordon,
the man behind this film, tried to put you on the edge of your seat (emphasis
on the word tried). There were scenes where we get to see side glances
from the toys as they sat on their shelves (SMH).
Like most horror
movies that feature a kid acting as a go-between for the adults and the evil
creatures, the child is initially not believed and often silenced when they
share their views on the strange happenings. Some grownups even give logical
explanations to dismiss what the child is saying. The same happens here. The
people involved in this movie are passersby who are forced to stay in a
house-like hotel where the owners have a huge collection of dolls. And, as the
name of the movie implies, the dolls start killing the people.
There’s no other
way to look at it: any scene in the movie where the dolls walk toward the
person they want to kill will just give you, the viewer, enough ammunition to
ridicule the scene. You’ll keep wondering why, in heaven’s name, the person
didn’t do this or that to escape.
The movie’s
screenplay is a joke. Some of the scenes where the adults are attacked make it
look like they wanted it, as they did little to nothing to get away. The acting
is another problem in this movie—it was totally off, as if the casting crew
looked for the worst and cheapest actors available to make this film.
If you’ve never
heard of or seen Dolls, be grateful, I can’t get the time wasted seeing
this back.
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