Dolls

As I watched this, I kept thinking about how it feels so much like the Full Moon movie Puppet Master. It has amazing special effects, and the camera work is fun, but the characters are dull and one-note. Other than the contrivance of how everyone came to the house, and the puppets looking more sinister and weapon-like than Dolls’, well, dolls, they’re similar in the way Asylum makes mock-busters like Transmorphers. But Dolls came first, so it can’t be a ripoff. Come to find out that it was produced and distributed by Charles Band, the man who would found Full Moon, and it all falls into place. It feels like Puppet Master because this is just a dry run for Puppet Master. Little details are different, but at the roots, this is just Puppet Master’s rough draft. And it shows, as the titular dolls aren’t nearly as menacing, and the plot even less developed. It’s easy to ignore and it’ll be easier to forget.