Dolly Review – Six-foot-tall mannequin terrorizes couple in gory horror full of tropes | film

HHorror cinema offers another compelling reason why you should never go camping, with this gory thriller that proves there’s no point in walking in the woods, looking for beautiful hilltop views, or communing with nature in any way.

The attractive but doomed couple who learned this lesson the hard way are Missy (upcoming scream queen Fabienne Therese) and Chase (Sean William Scott, forever Stifler from American Pie). When the story begins, Chase is planning to propose to Missy, intending to pop the question on top of the mountain after hiking, because he’s an idiot and has clearly never seen a horror movie before. But Missy has doubts about whether she’s ready to become a full-fledged stepmother to Chase’s daughter Evie (Eve Blackhurst, possibly related to the film’s writer-director Rod Blackhurst).

These concerns about motherhood are echoed in the chaos that later erupts, when the couple is attacked by a disoriented figure dressed in what appears to be a 6-foot-tall doll, with a blonde wig and a child-like faux ceramic head mask with only one fake blue eye. The other eye socket opened to reveal a black void from which a strange, childish moan could sometimes be heard. This character (played by non-binary wrestler Max the Impaler) doesn’t really speak, but their gestures and nonverbal displays indicate that they’re focusing on childhood games, and that they want to embrace Messi as their newest toy. Dolly has quite a few dolls already in the creepy, rundown house they dragged poor Macy into after incapacitating poor, hapless Chase.

The rest of the film is a long game of catch and shoot, as the characters evade each other, get caught again, attack each other with shovels and other dirty household items, undoubtedly carrying tetanus, and then escape again. As such, it’s a bit of an afternoon nap, but Therese is very good at channeling terror and distress; It really kicks off in these modes at the end in an extended tribute to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Although don’t all these types of films pay tribute to that in one way or another?