Dolly Dearest Review – Dave of the Dead

We decided to take a trip down memory lane to the early 1990’s. Im sure you remember the Childs Play movies about a homicidal doll. Well before he had adventures at military camp and then got married Chucky was actually pretty scary. Still, I dont see the reason Hollywood decided to run with the whole demonic doll idea.

Dolly Dearest sounds great on paper. Seriously. If I told you we were going to watch a movie about an ancient evil spirit, set it in Mexico, threw in some archeology and a demon goat baby, would you not be intrigued? Of course you would be. Somehow they still managed to fuck it all up. They even had Rip Torn in the mix! How the hell did this go so wrong?

I dont even know where to begin. None of the plot really made sense. Were just told that an American family moves to Mexico so that the father can buy an abandoned doll factory and then his daughters doll becomes infected by an evil spirit. I cant even give you a favorite kill because the doll doesnt really even kill anybody. Halfway through there are now multiple evil dolls with no explanation as to why! The movie ends when they blow up the doll factory, but are we supposed to believe that the evil is now purged? How would that help anything! This was just plain bad, and not in the good way.

1/5 Malibu Stacy dolls