Product Description

They're cute, they're cuddly...and they kill! From horror director Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) and screenwriter Ed Naha (Troll) comes this "fiendish nightmare" (The Hollywood Reporter) that combines the pint-sized playmates of childhood with bone-chilling fun, resulting in "a bloody bonbon you chew with relish" (Los Angeles Times)!A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens in their dark, haunted mansion. The old couple make and collect dolls that, when not sitting still like good little mannequins, creep around in the night, offing the guests one by one! You may laugh at first, but if they turn on you, you'll regret it...for the rest of your short life!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22492 in DVD
• Brand: WILLIAMS,IAN PATRIC
• Released on: 2005-09-20
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 77 minutes

Customer Reviews

Fantastic 80's horror
I was terrified of the video cover for Dolls when I was a boy, and never got round to watching it because of this until about 4 or 5 years ago, now a fully-grown horror-loving adult.

Well, it was worth the wait. Dolls is Stuart Gordon's tale about those porcelain dolls that always look so real, because they are.

Stuart Gordon was also responsible for directing the magnificent Re-Animator, but believe it or not I personally think Dolls has more of a charm about it than the film Gordon's perhaps more well-known for.

Dolls has fantastic stop-motion and puppetry special effects for its time, and blows the other killer doll film of that era, Puppet Master, clean out of the water.

This is highly recommended, especially at the usual MGM budget price.

"Toys are very loyal... and that's a fact"
I've always been a fan of "Dolls". It's a horror story and somewhat of
a kids story all rolled up into one.

When little Judy (Carrie Lorraine) and her nasty father and stepmother
(Ian Patrick Williams & Carolyn Purdy-Gordon) get stuck in the mud on a
little road in England during a horrific storm, they decide to hightail
it out of the car and stumble across a mansion owned by Gabriel &
Hilary (Guy Rolfe & Hilary Mason).

Gabriel is a doll maker whose house is filled room by room with his
creations. Soon they are joined by some other weather stranded folk:
punk rockers Isabel and Enid (Bunty Bailey & Cassie Stuart) and nice
childish Ralph (Stephen Lee) whose happened to pick up the stranded
girls as well.

So Gabriel puts them all up for the night. Isabel decides she is going
to loot the place, and immediately takes off looking for valuables. Of
course, Gabriels dolls don't exactly find this to be acceptable- and
soon take matters into their own hands.

One by one the Dolls take their revenge on the house intruders, and
only little Judy knows whats going on. Of course, being that she is a
child- know one believes her.

Except of course for Ralph, who after some disbelief realizes that
something "not quite right" is going on around them.

The killer dolls in "Dolls" are surprisingly creepy and effective,
which facial expressions and movements that are either bound to scare
you, make you laugh hysterically, or both.

The movie is quite well done overall- and remains a classic in this
reviewers book. Dolls is an underrated and under seen little gem, and
it's nice to see that it has finally made its way onto DVD for us
horror fans.

If you haven't seen it recently or have never even heard of it at all,
"Dolls" is worth a viewing or even a second viewing for sure.

Recommended!

"Toys are very loyal"
Out of the swarm of killer doll movies that came out of the late 80's, Stuart Gordon's Dolls is easily ranks as one of the better ones. After encountering car troubles, a couple and their daughter take refuge at a nearby mansion belonging to a kindly old doll maker and his wife. Little does this family and the other guests know that the dolls the old man creates come to life and claim the lives of the mean-spirited or those who commit wrong.

Dolls could be considered a light hearted horror movie. It uses a lot of comic relief and purposely over the top characters that creates and almost fairy tale-like feel. The horror aspect of Dolls seems to be based solely on the notion that dolls creep people out, and in that respect it succeeds with some very eerie looking dolls. The little ceramic faces twisting into evil grins and scowls make for some very memorable imagery. Good old fashioned special effects are put to great use here concerning the death scenes and the dolls in general. The kills are far and few between, but each one is unique and is sure to satisfy those in search of some gore.

At a mere 70 minutes or so long, Dolls really flies by. It's a fun movie with some likable characters, a great music score, and some unique special effects. Nothing groundbreaking, but it's solid 80's horror all the way through, and I much prefer it to the similar Puppet Master. Highly recommended for Stuart Gordon and killer doll movie fans alike.