Saw a trailer for this one a couple of months back & have to say I was looking forward to it. It was sinister, gritty & reminded of the Child's Play films! I thought it looked great & the highlights were added in the trailer which is why it probably looked better than what it was, which sadly, was the truth!
The film starts with an archaeologist in Mexico who pulls down a door to a crypt inside, harbouring a 900-Year-Old spirit who worshipped Satan. The spirit gets unleashed & attaches itself to the conveniently placed dolls in the conveniently place factory adjacent to the mine shaft, where the crypt is situated. The spirits possess the dolls & an American family move to Mexico with the father of the family wanting to start up the production line of "Dolly Dearest" Dolls back up again! Uh oh!
Now, although in 1991, the story was already clichéd, it's not something that bothered me that much. In fact, it was a slight difference from how Child's Play in '89 started. The sequels that followed, were also good until after Child's Plat 3 came out in the same year as this film here, that the next 3 sequels which came out years later sucked arse, but, that's another rant.
Anyway, the film is 90 minutes too long, or should I say too long generally & is the main problem with the film, well the first problem which could've been corrected had it not been for the second problem which would've left none had the film not been so slow to start & drag on with story-line. In other words, the film lacked action & with only 2-3 deaths it was pretty tame & boring. Not to mention the lack of gore & violence which was also another extending factory which let this film down. Like I said, the length of the film wouldn't have bothered me as much had it had more deaths & action in it! It would've made the film seem shorter had it done that! The kills weren't all that great, OK, but not anything to brag about! Tame...!
I also found the film to plod along too slowly for my tastes & again lacked action & kills in so many places! I mean, Child's Play 1, 2 & 3 were better than this! Especially 3, which somehow got negatively received, but so did this so...
The only few good things I could say about this film is that the doll was pretty creepy, the premise was different & ended differently, if not a bit too simply & quickly. It ended & the dolls were killed! They were killed for good, which made me more happy as it's a change from these clichéd films which something always happens near the end to suggest a sequel/prequel taking place! So that was good I guess!
Furthermore, I found the execution style of the dolls to be unique & humorous with the oh Sh...BOOM! That was funny! Along with the young lad, a wannabe archaeologist who stuck his nose where it wasn't wanted, who said: "Play with this, B!tch!" That was humorous too, though I would've liked this film better had it been shorter, or at least with a higher body count as after all, Child's Play was more upbeat & kept you on suspense, while this lost you at parts & had too much story-line & not enough deaths/kills/highlights in it, for it to be a great film! It was a bit weak in a lot of areas & the slow opening of 28-30 minutes didn't help too much either.
I overall give this film a 4/10. It could've been a lot better had it had more deaths in it like the Child's Play films which delivered no problem & had kills & deaths throughout the story-line. Plus the deaths themselves could've been better & more gorier & the film could've been more "with it" as it looked faded & not that upbeat!
The film starts with an archaeologist in Mexico who pulls down a door to a crypt inside, harbouring a 900-Year-Old spirit who worshipped Satan. The spirit gets unleashed & attaches itself to the conveniently placed dolls in the conveniently place factory adjacent to the mine shaft, where the crypt is situated. The spirits possess the dolls & an American family move to Mexico with the father of the family wanting to start up the production line of "Dolly Dearest" Dolls back up again! Uh oh!
Now, although in 1991, the story was already clichéd, it's not something that bothered me that much. In fact, it was a slight difference from how Child's Play in '89 started. The sequels that followed, were also good until after Child's Plat 3 came out in the same year as this film here, that the next 3 sequels which came out years later sucked arse, but, that's another rant.
Anyway, the film is 90 minutes too long, or should I say too long generally & is the main problem with the film, well the first problem which could've been corrected had it not been for the second problem which would've left none had the film not been so slow to start & drag on with story-line. In other words, the film lacked action & with only 2-3 deaths it was pretty tame & boring. Not to mention the lack of gore & violence which was also another extending factory which let this film down. Like I said, the length of the film wouldn't have bothered me as much had it had more deaths & action in it! It would've made the film seem shorter had it done that! The kills weren't all that great, OK, but not anything to brag about! Tame...!
I also found the film to plod along too slowly for my tastes & again lacked action & kills in so many places! I mean, Child's Play 1, 2 & 3 were better than this! Especially 3, which somehow got negatively received, but so did this so...
The only few good things I could say about this film is that the doll was pretty creepy, the premise was different & ended differently, if not a bit too simply & quickly. It ended & the dolls were killed! They were killed for good, which made me more happy as it's a change from these clichéd films which something always happens near the end to suggest a sequel/prequel taking place! So that was good I guess!
Furthermore, I found the execution style of the dolls to be unique & humorous with the oh Sh...BOOM! That was funny! Along with the young lad, a wannabe archaeologist who stuck his nose where it wasn't wanted, who said: "Play with this, B!tch!" That was humorous too, though I would've liked this film better had it been shorter, or at least with a higher body count as after all, Child's Play was more upbeat & kept you on suspense, while this lost you at parts & had too much story-line & not enough deaths/kills/highlights in it, for it to be a great film! It was a bit weak in a lot of areas & the slow opening of 28-30 minutes didn't help too much either.
I overall give this film a 4/10. It could've been a lot better had it had more deaths in it like the Child's Play films which delivered no problem & had kills & deaths throughout the story-line. Plus the deaths themselves could've been better & more gorier & the film could've been more "with it" as it looked faded & not that upbeat!