Playing with Dolls (2015) Reviews

• NOTHING happens!!!

  gothic-fiction2015-03-26

  This movie right here is without a doubt one of the weakest I have ever seen, and I've seen many!! Believe me when I tell you this: nothing happens!! OK, read carefully and don't you dare to double check me cause that will mean watching it for yourself, so please, please let me do you this one favor and steer you in another direction. At first I couldn't believe how many shots were pretty much for nothing, just to fill some time, but as the movie progressed I discovered that it actually has almost nothing to show. Two kills, not all made by the killer, close to no plot, no gore, little nudity, a good killer mask and a laughable soundtrack. The killer has almost no action whatsoever, which is quite amazing for a horror, the main actor is shown the entire movie, as she eats, dances, sleeps and so on and then when the ending comes, it just comes. A few "action" scenes and the end! Playing with dolls should be named Playing with your nerves! Don't do it. Very weak production! Cheers!

• Rather have shards of glass in my eyes

  kaihbr2016-04-01

  It's easy enough to criticize this movie, so I'll get to that in a minute. First I'd like to tell you about what I liked with the movie. It's going to be a short list: two pretty looking girls. It also had a kind of scary location - deep inside a forest. A place no one can get without having a car pumped full of gas - twice! Before you continue reading... I'm writing about a lot of the things that happen in the movie, so if you want to see it, don't read any further. It will spoil some of the "fantastic" surprises. A girl is left all alone in an apartment because her room mate has left her for some reason. We never get to know why. Desperate from not having any money, she accepts a job offer paying a lot of money. She leaves her apartment without bringing any luggage. No clean underwear, no tooth brush, no jacket... even though she knows she's going to be away for more than a month. Maybe her room mate took her toothbrush, who knows? She gets to this cabin. A psychopath is running inside the house but she doesn't notice him. He tries to grab her a couple of times, but she still doesn't notice he's there. All she does is dance, eat and drink alcohol. Probably in the job description... Suddenly a police officer arrives. He is all alone without any contact with other police officers. Not even as much as a system in case he goes missing in action. No no... this cop is on his own! The police officer hasn't eaten or had anything to drink for four days, staying out in the cold, being hunted and shot at. Even so, he's still ready to flirt. When the girl puts a grenade in the dryer (yes, she probably thought the grenade was too wet), the cop has to rush the grenade outside. He is now being shot at. The funny thing about this is that no one is actually aiming. They're just shooting. The other thing... no one is taking cover. They're just standing in the middle of open fields ready to get shot. Not really impressing for soldiers hired to protect the ground! The movie ended exactly where the budget did... and without any explanation. Add bad acting and a murderer that doesn't really murder and seems more like a really stupid version of Blane, you get an awful movie. I'd like to point out two more things... someone is always observing what is going on through cameras mounted everywhere. This is a millionaire supposed to be far away from the actual house where everything takes place. However... when things turn sour, he appears within three minutes. How does he do that? A girl is running through the forest. The murderer is walking. When the girl stops to catch her breath behind a tree, the murderer is there also. How did he do that? Sorry for the spoilers... avoid this movie!

• Waste of Time Movie

  richardhoughton2015-04-02

  Just suffered through possibly one of the worst 2015 horror movies ever. "Playing with Dolls" Whaetever it was about who knows? A woman went to a cabin in the woods after getting some call from a lady who gave her a key to a car and she drove there and was picked up and taken the rest of the way to the cabin, Then we watch for half hour as she eats, sleeps and dances around the house, unknown to her that there are camera's in the house watching her every move while some weirdo sits there watching her and a killer in the house. Let's just say the killer in the mask and rags is pathetic...he kills no one the whole movie, and the only kills were from the police themselves and all the scary masked killer does is walk around trying to be scary but fails badly. The characters I didn't care for or like and nothing happens this whole movie. Do not waste 1 hour 20 with this movie and the ending was bad enough as it comes finally and ends just like that!! Bad and a failure of a movie.....The producers of this movie and all people involves should be hanged for this shame of a movie! 1 out of 10

• I'm not sure what I just watched...was that a movie???

  tdrish2016-02-09

  I'm attracted to bad movies, not because I like to trash them, or disrespect them ( although sometimes I have to admit, I do get enjoyment out of that!), it's because I am not always convinced that the movie is really that bad. I think horror movies are very difficult to create in a "good" manner, and by that, I am saying that I feel it is very hard to create a good horror movie, simply because there is so much at stake. One of the added pressures to a horror movie, is that your audience is either eager to be scared, or they want to see some pretty decent gore effects. When both those elements go wrong, along with a weak script and terrible acting, and lots of boring sequences going on, we can safely assume the movie sucks, am I wrong? This is the case with Playing With Dolls. First of all, our viewer is going to be raged at the end of watching this, knowing by the time it is all over, that they were 100 percent mislead by the title and the cover art movie poster. See that scary looking guy on the DVD cover? Guess what? He's not that scary in the movie, simply because he isn't doing anything but a lot of walking. Is walking scary? I walk all the time, it's how I transport myself, did somebody find a way to make it bring chills down the spine? If they did, then the frightening aspects do not exist in Playing With Dolls! And, that's another thing, why was the movie called Playing With Dolls? It should have been called Playing With Cameras, because I saw more cameras then dolls! ( The only doll I saw was the Russian actress, oh, what a doll!) Our movie opens up with a pretty graphic kill right off the bat, within the first five minutes. We see a camera embedded in a tree ( what...the...puck?) We see a man viewing what goes on on the footage of the camera. HEY! It's Richard Tyson, remember this guy!? He was the bully in the 1987 classic Three O'Clock High. Wow! Have you climbed the ranks since then? In this dark, twisted, perverted, mind numbing , dumbfounded joke of a film? Why all this is happening, I don't know. I actually had more questions by the time the credits roll at the end, then when I started watching it. By the way, it's only an hour and twenty minutes, but it will feel like you were watching it for at least 2 hours, trust me. Boring, not entertaining, and if your not going to put some money into the production, why bother making a movie at all? Step up the game, folks, were getting just a bit fed up with the low budget, poorly executed montages you have the gall to call "movies."

• Playing With Dolls

  a_baron2017-10-09

  An attractive young girl down on her luck is saved from skid row by one of those offers that validate the saying if it looks too good to be true, it is. Certainly most of the time, and absolutely certainly in this case. She is lured out into the middle of nowheresville to housesit and apparently to await the arrival of an elderly man to whom she will presumably act nanny. Except that other people turn up first, including our mystery psychopathic killer, a reincarnation of Leatherface, Michael Myers, or somewhere in between. Needless to say, she is not the first intended victim, at least two girls have been despatched before she arrives, one of them graphically. The psycho in the mask is not the only sicko on the loose, he has actually been brought in to provide the entertainment for the real villain, the type who never gets his own hands dirty. What more do you need to know? Well, the year before this was released, our damsel Natasha Blasick gave an interview in which she claimed to have had sex with a ghost. This one is not so much supernatural sex as necrophilia; its one saving grace is a superior soundtrack, one which deserved to be married to a film worth watching.