About to give birth, a pregnant woman gifts herself a special doll from a curio shop to help out with her situation, but as her friends start to disappear around her comes to find the cursed doll might be alive and sets out to find a way of stopping its potentially deadly plans.
This was a decent enough if somewhat problematic genre effort. Among the better elements found here is the simple enough setup that provides a way for this one to incorporate the creepy doll as often as it does. The simple enough story provides this with a chance to get plenty of screen time as the early arrival at the store and bringing it home to help out as a gift for her during her pregnancy makes this one get a lot of mileage out of the appropriately creepy and unnerving figure lurking around the house. As this all comes together to help force out the idea of the whole thing helping to drive her insane with the constant phone calls after the fact and the incessant doubt over the situation due to her pregnancy, so that she could potentially be going insane, so that everything here makes for a solid enough time. The secondary setpieces help to expand this with the encounters involving the doll coming to life and committing the attacks; it does offer a solid enough series of attacks focused on the human-sized figure going around killing in some intriguing elements. That said, there are some problematic aspects to this one. The main drawback to be had with the film is the generally sluggish and bland pacing on display, which makes the film run far longer than it really should. Since it paints the first half full of lame factors including the purchase of the doll, the relationship with her mother and sister, and the pregnancy nerves getting to her that comes together to start everything rather nicely yet also struggles to get the clown out and about during this point, the film takes a while to get to the point of the point. It takes the whole third of the film before the first kill hits which is far too long to handle this kind of simplistic story where it tries to bring something more psychological than expected with whether or not she's going crazy or if the doll is alive and by going this route it takes a lot of the action out of the film to go this way. As well, there are some issues to be had with the budgetary restraints, where it's quite plainly low-budget and not all that expensive-looking, which keeps bringing itself to the forefront and doesn't hide that at all, making for the few issues that hold it back.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.
