- Directed by: Rod Blackhurst
- Written by: Rod Blackhurst, Brandon Weavil
- Stars: Fabianne Therese, Seann William Scott, Ethan Suplee, Max the Impaler
- Run Time: 83 min
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XMij9dtg8s
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
When a couple goes hiking, the young woman of the duo is abducted by a crazy masked killer who wants her to be her living doll baby. It was filmed in 16mm and has a 70s grainy look to it and a vibe of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” but is in the modern day with smartphones. The gore is visceral with realistic shots that will make you cringe. We both thought it was really good.
Spoilery Synopsis
As the credits roll, we see a house full of dolls and what appears to be a crazy woman tending to a corpse in a bed.
Chapter 1: Mother
A couple of parents drop off their daughter to the babysitter’s house so they can have a day alone where Chase can propose to Macy. Macy’s not sure about the whole thing since Chase has a daughter, Evy. As soon as they get to the woods for their hike, we cut to the crazy old woman, now dismembering that corpse. The old woman then holds a funeral for the dead person, with many dolls as witnesses.
Macy noticed that there are dolls nailed to the trees in the woods. They think that’s pretty weird. As they reach the overlook, they hear a weird music box playing in the woods, and Chase goes to check it out. He soon comes across the old woman, who wears a red dress suit and a doll-face mask– maybe it’s not an old woman, since “Dolly” picks up Chase and strangles him, cuts his leg off, and then does even worse things.
Chapter 2: Daughter
Macy gets tired of waiting and goes looking for Chase. She finds Dolly and the headless corpse before she finds Chase. She runs, falls, and is knocked out.
When she wakes up, Dolly is there, and Maya stabs Dolly with a tiny pocketknife. Dolly knocks her out again and takes her home to his place.
Chapter 3: Home
Macy wakes up in a tiny crib in a child’s room. She talks through the wall to a man she can’t see. He tells her to play along with the dolls. Dolly comes in and wants Macy to wear a diaper and suck on a pacifier.
Somehow, out in the woods, what’s left of Chase wakes up. He’s a real mess. He doesn’t get very far, but he’s still alive.
Dolly finally notices the pocketknife stuck in her side, pulls it out, and starts spurting blood. Macy uses the opportunity to try to escape. That doesn’t last long before Dolly decides it’s time for Macy’s feeding. Clearly, Dolly wants Macy as a baby doll. When Macy refuses to drink milk from a bottle, it all gets pretty weird.
Macy makes it down to the basement, where she finds a doll shrine, including the head of Dolly’s mother. Dolly finds Macy and rips her ear off. Dolly then sews it back on, which is even worse.
Chapter 4: Father
In the morning, Macy wakes up and steals a key from the sleeping Dolly. She opens the locked door where the man’s voice was coming from, and she soon finds him inside, all chained up. She unchains him and then very soon regrets it. They’re family. He grabs Macy, holds a piece of glass to her throat, and calls for Dolly. He needs Dolly to unlock the back door and let him out. As soon as Dolly unlocks the door, her father goes off on her with the shovel. Macy and Dolly work together to take care of him. He’s not gonna be getting back up again.
Macy hears Chase calling her name outside and jumps through a window.
Chapter 5: Reunion
Macy tells Chase that she found his ring and that she loves him, but they have to get away. Dolly shows up and makes Chase’s problems even worse. Macy and Dolly fight it out in the woods, and Dolly loses part of her mask.
Chapter 6: FIght
Macy hides in Dolly’s mother’s grave. She gets the shovel away from Dolly and makes good use of it, but stops beating too soon.
Chapter 7: Goodbye
The park ranger literally runs into Macy, “Are you OK?” “NO!”
He calls on the radio, “Guys, we got another one.” Dolly then comes out of the woods and kills him. Macy starts the ranger’s truck and runs over Dolly. She takes back her engagement ring, gets back in the truck, and drives away to freedom…
Brian’s Commentary
There are a couple of really cringey gore shots that were painful to watch.
After the opening scenes, there’s not much dialogue, which makes it all the more creepy.
It’s pretty intense, never slows down, and has lots of good bits to it. I liked this one!
Kevin’s Commentary
The 16mm grindhouse 70s vibe was an interesting mash up with modern day technology and smartphones. I also liked the division into chapters.
It kind of surprised me how quickly they killed Chase off. And then I was even more surprised that he wasn’t dead yet in the condition the psycho left him in.
I said “ouchie!” more than once with some of the painful looking injuries that take place.
I thought it was really good.
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