dwuksta

I think if anyone has seen the original must be thankful for David Soul 70s style womanising aspect of the story finally removed. I read the book as a kid and enjoyed the TV movie, thought it was reasonably scary with decent vampires. Buffy should be shot for what was done to the vampire industry, totally destroyed it. This new version did seem rushed, but there were too many unnecessary sub plots in the original anyway. I liked the way the movie charged ahead and got to the meat of the story fast. I thought the vampires were terrifying, very good efx and make up, the glowing eyes were very cool. I was worried at the outset but I warmed to the actors eventually.

I was hoping for a much better film, what I got was a rehashed derivative of every doll movie made, but this was even more cringey and absurd.

Allison Williams role as Gemma was flat and lifeless, I think she had two expressions, whiney and..., ah no sorry one. Apparently this young woman in her 20s she went from creating a fluffy little basic remote doll that looked like a troll and was run by an ipad, to a fully autonomous AI type doll that enacted murderous revenge, only took a couple of weeks in her garage. The premise was contrived and just done so badly. The back story of Gemma taking in her niece almost seemed pointless, Gemma was a crappy care giver, unable to deal with Cady, showed little to no social support, this attitude was never retracted during the film either. You definitely felt a cold indigence as a viewer, no connection to the characters. Gemma also talked like a teenager, slurred her words, or was even indecipherable at times, yet apparently was this amazing brilliant engineer, really terrible directing not to improve on some of her line deliveries, felt like I was at McDonalds ordering to a 13 year old mumbling. Her boss, Ronny Chieng went to a similar acting school, hidden at the back of walmart, just embarrassing, lame boring writing didn't help. I think the doll was very good, could have based that premise on a much better movie because the special effects were quite good, the story around it didn't support.

Was expecting a much better script and more interesting characters. No real back story and you have to accept the fact that Gerry just manifests this idea out of nowhere and his wife is immediately on board. It just seemed ridiculous from the start although it's supposed to be a true story, it plays out very weak and disjointed in the film. Marg is a strange character, little too obliging and happy for her age group, and the story is very predictable and plays out like a b grade Disney film. It wasn't horrible, but I can't recommend it will hold your interest till the end. Few sight gags along the way, but few and far between.