Who, or what, is Dolly?
Featuring a glassy eyed, vacant faced monster at a loss at how to care properly for her babies might sound like a synopsis for a childcare documentary about Meghan Markle. Instead Dolly is a horror film, the title character of which is a mentally deranged person in a china doll mask living in a dilapidated mansion in the middle of the woods with a man chained up in the basement, so it could still be about Megan Markle.
Dolly does death!
But Dolly is played by wrestler Max the Impaler – we’re guessing that’s not his real name – a hulking strongman who litters the surrounding woods with children’s doll like a Blair Witch inspired tribute act which young couple Macy (Fabienne Therese) and Chase (Seann William Scott) wander. Chase intends to propose but Macy harbours her own reservations that she’s yet to reconcile. And though she gets along fine with his daughter she’s not sure whether r she wants to be a step-mum. It’s a theme that will see the situation reversed for her when Dolly stumbles across them directly and what results in an actual face off with Chase and pre-figures the level of horror to expect before kidnapping Macy, dragging her back to the house, dressing her in a dolly dress and treating her like a baby that sees her suffer a number of baby based indignities before she fights back.
And so…..
Directed and co-written by Rod Blackhurst the horror here is a gnarly grindhouse gore fest in a 70’s throwback kind of way and owes much to the grimy feel of Texas Chainsaw Massacre not just in the, at times, scenes to make you wince but the brutalized woman in extreme peril. Split into chapters (yet another film to adopt the gimmick) and there’s no doubt that the central character is a hoped for horror icon to appear in intended sequels and its worth hanging around for the credits with its quirky song and an end credits scene.
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Here’s the Dolly trailer…..
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