Should you see it? Yes, unless you're easily offended (but then you're reading this blog).
Chester Turner's full-length version of the Night Gallery Trilogy of Terror segment where Karen Black gets attacked by a Zuni doll is not an improvement. In fact, it's regularly mentioned among the worst films ever made. "Helen Black" is very religious - as pointed out by a many minute pan of the religious knick-knacks in her house - and she buys a strange doll in a curio shop, where she's told it's found its way back four times. She has a nightmare about it but doesn't get rid of it, instead she waits for it to terrorize her. And rape her - In a very long detailed scene that will be burned into your brain. It then disappears, she has sex with two more men, she finds the doll back at the store, she buys it again (!!!!!!!) and it kills her. Shot on a camcorder on a budget in the tens of dollars, this is not as good as that suggests.
I don't know why I feel compelled to see this. I think that makes me a bad person... or a masochist.
ReplyDeleteI've been wanting (?) to see this, but I balk at its $30 price.
ReplyDeleteThe lesson of the film is: if the doll has a penis, it's going to be important to the plot at some point.
ReplyDeleteTrilogy of Terror had nothing to do with Night Gallery it was a tv movie originally aired in 1975. Rod Serling was not involved it was directed by Dan Curtis of Dark Shadows fame.
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