- Directed by William Butler
- Written by William Butler
- Stars Libbie Higgins, Joseph Huebner, Justin Armistead
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 10 Minutes
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvWdXRnA2yE
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
This was quite a trip of strange people and a very strange doll. There’s lots of dark humor and generous amounts of gore. Good soundtrack too. We call it a win.
Spoilery Synopsis
We open with Sybil Pittman working at her sewing machine. We see lots and lots of dolls all over her house. She turns on the camera and starts her recording. She has a show about reclaiming and restoring dolls. The doorbell rings, and Mitzy yells for her to get the door. Credits roll.
The postman is in love with Libby; the unicorn-scout girl selling cookies is not a fan. Sybil’s stepmother Mitzy is just horrible. Sybil opens her package, and it’s a really scary-looking old doll head with “Baby Oopsie” printed on the back. They rent out a room to Kristy, but Mitzy doesn’t like her either. Mitzy wonders if Sybil is still crazy.
Sybil gets to work restoring the ugly head. She improves it quite a bit, but it’s still hideous. She explains her love for dolls to Kristy, who is really very nice to her, telling her to stand up for herself.
Ray Ray comes over and gives Sybil a package left on his doorstep by mistake. She gets robbed by some kids shortly after; Oopsie is in her handbag and hears everything.
At work, Sybil receives a strange pentagram pendant in the mail. Her boss is condescending and mean and gets a final warning about being late.
She goes home that night and continues working on Oopsie. Ray Ray comes over and gives her a pep talk, but she doesn’t appreciate him. Later, Mitzy starts yelling about nonsense and Baby Oopsie’s eyes glow bright green.
Oopsie is supposed to be the highlight of her next show, but his voice doesn’t quite work yet. Sybil puts the funky pentagram gear inside the doll to fix it, and he works perfectly now– it laughs maniacally. We see it looking around as its eyes move. Sybil then goes to sleep.
Baby Oopsie runs around looking for a knife “The bitch is back,” she says, assaulting the other dolls. Oopsie then strangles Gator, one of the robbers from earlier, trash-talking him the whole time.
Oopsie then returns home to find Mitzy throwing away many of Sybil’s dolls. Things go very, very bad for Mitzy after knocking out Sybil. When she awakens, Kristy and Ray Ray are there, but there’s no blood and no body. She tells them about the killer doll, and they think she’s got a concussion.
Baby Oopsie confesses everything to Sybil, who starts doubting her sanity. She locks the doll in the trunk of her car. Oopsie needs to murder to stay animated. Worse, Sybil gets fired and her bank accounts are frozen.
Sybil thinks it over and decides that maybe Baby Oopsie was right all along. She goes home and dismembers Mitzy. Ray Ray helps her load the heavy garbage bags into the car. Baby Oopsie kills Karen, Sybil’s former boss, and it’s not pretty.
Baby Oopsie wants to kill the nice gardener, but Sybil likes him. They fight, so Sybil Googles “killer dolls” and learns all about “Demonic Toys.” Meanwhile, Oopsie kidnaps the Unicorn-Scout.
Sybil and Ray Ray go hunting in the basement while Oopsie attacks Kristy in the bath tub– with a toaster. Sybil gathers her tools and we get a “weapons montage” as she prepares for battle. After a quick battle, she throws plastic solvent on it and pulls out the magic gear.
Earl the mailman comes over and mentions that Ray Ray was the one sending all the doll parts. She goes over to Ray Ray’s house and finds him doing a Satanic ritual. His own army of dolls jumps on Sybil.
On the next episode of “Doll Whisperer,” Ray Ray guest stars, telling how to build your own “best friend…”
Commentary
Kevin says it’s “Gollum Meets Chucky.” Yeah, that’s about right, but a hundred times better than it sounds!
Produced by Charles Band, the man behind the “Puppet Master” and “Demonic Toys” series. The music and audio are excellent, one of the things that made those other series stand out.
I like how Sybil imagines killing her tormentors. She wouldn’t do it herself, so Oopsie was a dream come true (even if they’re covered in blood). The doll is a great prop, and it is horrendously ugly and surprisingly expressive.
It’s cheap. It’s low-budget. The acting isn’t great. That said— we loved it!