Dolls Movie Review

Dolls is a 1987 horror movie directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Ian Patrick Williams, Carolyn Purdy Gordon and Guy Rolfe.

A couple, David(Williams) and his wife Rosemary(Gordon) are travelling through the countryside with David's daughter, Judy. They get stuck in the mud and they have to walk and look for shelter.
They discover a house. It looks as if there is nobody there, so they get in through the back. The owners are there and they tell them to come in. They are Gabriel(Rolfe) and his wife, Hilary(Hilary Mason). Gabriel is a toymaker. He gives Judy a Punch doll. A man called Ralph(Stephen Lee) shows up at the house. He has two girls with him- Isabel(Bunty Bailey) and Enid(Cassie Stuart). They got stuck in the storm and found the house. Gabriel invites all of them to stay the night. Isabel and Enid want to rob the couple. Gabriel shows Ralph and Judy his toy workshop. Ralph still likes toys, even though he is an adult. The girls look for things to rob. The dolls are watching Isabel. They drag her away and they attack her. Judy sees her being dragged away. She tells her dad, but he thinks that she has imagined it. Judy tells Ralph. He spots blood on her slippers, so he believes her. They look around and they see blood on the floor. It leads all the way up to the attic.They go up, but Ralph falls down the stairs, waking everyone. Ralph tells everyone what has happened. Enid thinks that Ralph did it.

David gets angry with Judy and she runs off. He threatens to rip Punch apart. It bites him. He tries to burn it. Ralph talks to Gabriel about the blood. Gabriel tells him that it was paint. The dolls attack Rosemary and she dies. Enid looks for Isabel. She sees Hilary walking around with an old pram. Enid wanders up into the attic and there is Isabel. She has been changed into a doll. Enid falls foul of the dolls and she gets attacked and shot by the toy soldiers. Ralph and Judy are looking around the house and they visit the storeroom where there are lots of dolls. The dolls want to attack Ralph, but Judy convinces them not to as he is her friend. They are not sure what to do with him. David disocvers Rosemary dead and he thinks that Ralph did it. He is going to kill him. The dolls let Judy and Ralph go. David chases Ralph. Punch attacks him. David begins to destroy the dolls. He kills Punch. Gabriel and Hilary see it and they turn him into a doll as they had magical powers. They let people stay in their house and the good ones can leave but the bad ones are changed into dolls. Ralph and Judy are allowed to leave. The film ends with another family arriving at the house....

I liked this film. The story was interesting and the cast were good too. The dolls were creepy with their beady eyes following everyone! This was produced by Charles Band, who we all know from the Puppetmaster series and it stars Guy Rolfe who played Andre Toulon in those films too!! Overall, this was a lot of fun and I would certainly recommend it to fans of doll movies and 80's horror. I will give it a 6/10.