Mamos Review: Dolly Dearest

What I learned from this movie:

Ancient evil spirits like to hang out in giant doll houses.

Review:

This movie was all about missed potential. Ancient evil spirit and an unearthed tomb? check. Very creepy looking doll that is turning someone’s daughter to a bad guy? check. Not just one evil doll, but many of the same doll running around causing trouble? check.

This all sounds like a recipe for a good scary movie, or at least a comically bad and entertaining scary movie, but sadly neither of these is the case. The movie feels like it is constantly building up to something, but it never gets there.  By the end of the movie nothing has really happened. Only two people have been killed by the dolls! These are supposed to be evil ancient spirits, but they would rather play hide and seek in a warehouse and look creepy then do anything really evil. I guess the evil industry has grown by leaps and bounds while these spirits were locked up and they just need to relearn the trade.

Best Monster Kill: None. Only two people die in this one and both the deaths were not very impressive. One person dies from a sewing machine getting him in the hand. That doesn’t even make sense.

Best Scene:

My favorite scene is definitely in the climax of the movie where the dolls and the man characters (including a young Rip Torn) face off in the warehouse. It is very confusing with people throwing dynamite all over and the dolls trying to put them out. You have to see it to truely try and understand what is going on, and even then, it is very confusing. You think the heroes would blow themselves up, also being in the warehouse, but they survive, and get a classic run out of the place while it blows up in the background scene.

Rating:

I was expecting a lot from a B-movie from the 90s, a decade full of amazing bad movies. This one greatly disappointed.

0/5 Happy Mamos’