Dollhouse (2025)

Premise: There’s this mom who gets very understandably traumatized when her super young daughter earns the hide-and-seek championship and dies inside a washing machine. Like, I’m not making a bad joke, she’s playing hide-and-seek with her friends and yeah. Anyway! As a way to process the trauma, she “adopts” this life-sized doll that is creepy as fuck, which is always a great idea that has no possible terrifying consequences if you, for some reason, then decide to have another kid that “replaces” the doll and…

Under 90 minutes? nooooo, no no.
Do they say the title? nope!

First thing I thought of:

really, if you bring one of those dolls home you’re on your own and you should accept all responsibility for all the megahauntings you’re going to get
Okay, more: Anyway, it was nice enough, a fun way to spend a train trip although there wasn’t a lot of groundbreaking stuff going on here. At times it borrows way too much from other very seminal j-horror movies (specially The Ring, yes) but it also has some very effective spooky scenes. All in all, as usual, this movie is a land of contrasts. I did like the kind of “wait, is this real or?” moments in the movie, though, so that’s definitely a plus. And I liked a lot when they involved Weird Rites To Cleanse Stuff and whatnot, so.

A simple way to improve it: Seriously, there should be a lot of moments in this movie where people go “gah!” at the horrible spooky doll, instead they do just like accept it as normal. In a perfect world we’d have people actually screaming when they saw the doll, every single time.

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