Dolls
(1987)
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A group of travelers spend the night in the mansion of an elderly couple who are dollmakers. However, one of the travelers' children discovers that the dolls the couple makes are actually humans that the couple has miniaturized and turned into tools for their evil plans. |
A novel variation on the eighties “stalk and slash” movie, replacing the usual lone killer with knife-wielding mannequins. Director Stuart Gordon carved out something of a niche for himself as a gore fiend with such films as Re-Animator, but this film — about a disparate group of travellers holed up in a spooky mansion inhabited by an ageing couple who make homicidal puppets — is more restrained than usual and has a good, perverse sense of humour. There's also a degree of moralising: the dolls administer rough justice only to those who deserve it. You'll never look at your little sister's doll the same way again.