Dolly Dearest (1991)

What a waste of my time!!!

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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

And I Just re-watch Dolly Dearest 1991I had only seen it once before, it thought i liked but I could remember how it's ended, I liked how the plot started and the movie made some tense moments, I loved Mirror scenes, where get to see doll standing and again she was gone.The doll it's self was very creepy and I thought kill scenes were really well done, it still work these days .But felt some of script was bit weak in some parts of the movie, made it's feel a bit outdated and I found the ending a little rushed.I would not mind if this movie gets remake but it's not of best killer doll movies, well it was not as fun as Chucky or even The Dolls, were fun watch, I didn't really find this movie that funThe acting was decent. 6 out of 10

SPOILY SPOILERS The Read's/Rade's/Wade's (they are referred to all three names during the movie) move to Mexico from L.A, cutesy Jessica is not too happy so to compensate her, her parents put all her weird behavior including (but not limited to) speaking a dead Mexican Satanist language, speaking in a voice normally reserved for demons on cable exorcisim shows, being rude to the maid, cutting her own hair, drawing pictures of hellbeasts, having screaming fits in the car and turning into a dark eyed, pasty, non-verbal problem child who sneaks around with pointy weapon, down to the move and definitely not to the ugly doll her father gave her from the abandoned factory he was tricked into buying.It's fine as a movie, couple of creepy moments (where the doll is in the chair, Denise Crosby hears clippy clacky steps, looks up and sees the chair rocking on it's own) but as scary as a loaf of bread and similar in other ways too, like it's plain, in need of something else to give it flavor and bloodless.No reason you should avoid it if you like cheesy horror and if you are reading a review on it you obviously do.Special mention of Candy Hutson, she was very good in this and it's a pity we don't see more of her

"Dolly Dearest" (1991) is a poor imitation of "Dolls" (1987) and "Child's Play" (1988)--certainly its only financial hope being to cash in on the others' success. The cinematography is pedestrian, the story predictable. I saw the preview for "Dolly Dearest" on the "Servants of Twilight" (1991) video--both straight-to-video releases. The preview, I must say, was quite frightening, giving the impression that "Dolly Dearest" would be more like the straightforward plot of "Child's Play." But "Dolly Dearest" posits a Mayan devil-child taking over the bodies of some Mexican dolls. (Why dolls? Why not!) However the children of Satan apparently can be easily killed with a shotgun and some dynamite. Not much to worry about here.Comparing "Dolly Dearest" and "Dolls" shows the absolute need for 1) a modicum of imagination from the director, and 2) a smidgen of creativity from the cinematographer. The plot of "Dolls" is rather ordinary, although it does have an E.C.-revenge logic to it. But "Dolls" just plain looks better. If you're going to sit through an hour-and-a-half of dumbness, at least make the dumbness look good. The cinematography of "Dolly Dearest" is usually plain, sometimes plain ugly. Also, the camera does absolutely nothing to increase the tension. The director apparently felt that a grimacing girly doll would be scary enough.

"Dolly Dearest" is a very boring, extremely redundant and almost intolerably gore-free imitation of Tom Holland's unexpectedly successful shocker "Child's Play"; starring Brad Dourif as the voice of a toy doll possessed with the spirit of a psychopathic killer. This knock-off, released approximately at the same time as the second sequel to "Child's Play", replaces the one male doll with multiple female ones and the murderer's vengeful spirit with a 900-year-old Satanic curse, but pretty much all the other elements in the script are identical. The dolls aim to possess the body of an innocent young girl, the parents are initially blind for the horrific events destroying their family happiness and the killer dolls even shout out supposedly witty but dumb one-liners near the end of the film. The story takes place somewhere in Mexico, where the ambitious American businessman Elliot Reid bought a ramshackle doll factory with the intention of distributing beautiful and handmade dolls all over the planet. But the factory is located next to old mines where an archaeologist accidentally set free the ghost of the Sanzian Devil Child. The ghost seeks refuge in several dollies, one of them belonging to Elliot's cherubic 7-year-old daughter Jessica. The dolls actually look menacing, especially in their "normal" state, but the film is very slow-paced and uninteresting. The first doll-attack is reasonably exciting, but it comes too far into the film and around a time when most die-hard horror fanatics have already given up all hopes to seeing a good film. The character drawings are bland and unsympathetic and the acting performances (with the exception of Rip Torn as a grumpy university's archaeologist) are horridly miserable. Writer/director Maria Lease – previously an exploitation actress – thought up a couple of potentially great aspects, like for example the old factory setting and the mines, but stupidly only uses a small percentage of them. Doll parts, most notably broken and/or ancient, form some of the creepiest horror scenery imaginable, but the film only offers a bit of eerie doll-graveyard footage. Simply everything about "Dolly Dearest" is mediocre and unmemorable, including Mark Snow's dull music and the evil grimaces on dolly's rubber face. Usually rip-offs and imitations are far more exploitative (meaning gorier, sleazier and more demented) than the originals they're based on, but "Dolly Dearest" is a rare exception to this unwritten rule… It's "Child's Play" for actual child audiences.