Dolly Dearest (1991)
The crux of our discourse centers on the cinematic endeavor titled "Dolly Dearest," a film that has failed to meet our expectations and left us in a state of profound disappointment. As we delve into the narrative, we uncover a tale revolving around a malevolent doll, yet find ourselves beleaguered by the film's lackluster execution and uninspired performances. Despite the potential for a gripping horror narrative, the film's dialogue and overall delivery emerge as significant detriments to its success. We reflect upon the unfortunate trend of horror films that focus on artificial tension rather than genuine suspense, leaving us yearning for a more cohesive and engaging experience. Join us as we meticulously dissect this cinematic misstep, sharing our insights and critiques in earnest pursuit of understanding what went awry.
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Speaker B:What did you think about it, jj?
Speaker A:It was booty cheeks, dude.
Speaker A:Week two of unwashed booty, dude.
Speaker A:Like it was just bad.
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Speaker A:Two of our movies featuring creepy ass dolls and.
Speaker B:Not a fan this month, jj.
Speaker A:It only.
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Speaker A:All right, let's get into week two of movies featuring creepy dolls.
Speaker A:We're doing Dolly Dearest.
Speaker A: ,: Speaker A:It was written by Maria Elise, Rod Nave and Peter Sutcliffe.
Speaker A:It's directed by Maria Lease.
Speaker A:It stars Denise Crosby, Sam Bottoms, Rip Torn, Chris Da Metro, Candice Hudson, Lupe Ontiveros, Enrique Ronaldo, and Alma Martinez.
Speaker A:It's about a toy manufacturer who buys the Dolly Deeres factory in Mexico.
Speaker A:Or the malevolent spirit of Sanzia.
Speaker A:A devil child has taken refuge in one of the porcelain dolls and eventually takes control of his daughter.
Speaker A:Sure, I.
Speaker A:That's, I guess, as good a synopsis as you're gonna get.
Speaker A:Yeah, I feel like they're messing up the whole Sansia thing as that was more the people and this was like the legend that they had of that these people worship.
Speaker A:Anyway, I got kind of confused about that whole thing as I was watching.
Speaker A:But anyway, it's your movie.
Speaker A:I don't want to take you.
Speaker A:Thunder.
Speaker A:Tell me why you picked this one.
Speaker B:Throwing spaghetti at the wall.
Speaker B:There was no way I was winning.
Speaker B:So I went online, I googled creepy ass doll movies and this one popped up.
Speaker B:And I'm, I'm coming to a realization week two into this, that it seems like at least older doll movies are made entirely to traumatized children who watch it at a young age and then it stays with them for their entire lives.
Speaker B:I was unbothered by this movie at all.
Speaker B:And similar to last week, I was disappointed and it could be because it was from the 90s, but I had four different people tell me that this was like a ridiculously scary movie.
Speaker B:Know that stayed with them for a long time, that they watched when they were a kid and then like contributed to their fear of dolls.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker B:Really.
Speaker B:One of them was my wife.
Speaker B:She said this movie is terrifying.
Speaker B:But of course she watched it when she was four.
Speaker A:Sure, that's fair.
Speaker A:That's fair.
Speaker B:So yes, as a four year old who played with dolls.
Speaker B:Yes, yes.
Speaker B:And that, that will stick with you.
Speaker B:I'm still traumatized from wizard of Oz when I was, you know, growing up.
Speaker B:But watching this for the first time, now 32 years old, I was very disappointed because it fell flat in a lot of ways.
Speaker B:And once again, similar to Last week, I think you had a good kind of mix.
Speaker B:And the little girl acting phenomenal.
Speaker B:She.
Speaker B:I could easily believe she was a demon or possessed by one.
Speaker B:She did such a great job.
Speaker B:And I would have loved to see her more with the housekeeper or whoever was in charge the house grounds and the priest.
Speaker B:Like, give me more of that.
Speaker B:Because that first scene where the priest is blessing the house and they come in the car and she, like, starts screaming was beautiful.
Speaker B:Give me more of that and less of the brother.
Speaker B:Yeah, he drove me nuts.
Speaker B:So stupid being there.
Speaker B:And it.
Speaker B:It felt like a little bit like what Sinister did.
Speaker A:Mm.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:We watch Sinister.
Speaker B:Like, you have this almost distraction McGuffin.
Speaker B:Whatever.
Speaker B:An older brother, but I don't need him.
Speaker B:Just move him away and give me more of the demonic possessed child.
Speaker B:Those.
Speaker B:That's the only time you're gonna hear me say that sentence.
Speaker B:Yeah, but that is because she was so good at playing this absolutely unhinged, demonic individual.
Speaker B:Like, give me more of that.
Speaker B:Because that was what made this movie semi watchable.
Speaker B:Everything else was pretty bad.
Speaker B:Yeah, but what'd you think about it, jj?
Speaker A:It was booty cheeks, dude.
Speaker A:Week two of unwashed booty, dude.
Speaker A:Like, it was just bad.
Speaker B:And I.
Speaker A:Listen, I wasn't even remotely.
Speaker A:I don't even like dolls, and I don't like creepy kids.
Speaker A:And you're right.
Speaker A:Outside of the little girl, when she was acting all, like, on the verge of head spinning like that, I was.
Speaker A:I'm like, it just wasn't.
Speaker A:And then it's kind of funny because, I mean, we're next week, we're doing a movie where if.
Speaker A:If you haven't already watched it, you'll probably feel like there's some similarities there.
Speaker A:When we get near the end of this movie where I'm like, which one of these came out first?
Speaker B:I can tell you which one came out first.
Speaker A:Yeah, because, like, I was like, God, that feels really familiar.
Speaker A:Our little active, talking, moving doll there at the end.
Speaker A:I was like, yeah, that.
Speaker A:That's interesting.
Speaker A:But, yeah, it was bad.
Speaker A:Like, the kid was super.
Speaker A:The son was super distracting.
Speaker A:I. I also saw the mom.
Speaker A:Oh, God.
Speaker A:I just read that Denise Crosby, and all I could think of was, like, pet cemetery.
Speaker A:And then as I'm watching it, I'm like, so this is pet cemetery without the pets.
Speaker A:With dolls instead of pets.
Speaker A:And without, like, little kids coming back.
Speaker A:It's just a demon living in dolls for now.
Speaker A:It just.
Speaker A:I'm like, she obviously just lived for these really shitty horror movies, but, like, this was, like, really Bad.
Speaker A:And I, I found no interest in it.
Speaker A:And then I'm like, what the is Rip Torn doing in this movie?
Speaker A:Yeah, because that's, that's an actor that I look at and I go, I really like Rip Torn.
Speaker A:He's in a lot of good.
Speaker A:He's a really good actor.
Speaker A:But that's fair.
Speaker A:Rip.
Speaker B:Rip.
Speaker A:But what the.
Speaker A:What is he doing?
Speaker A:Why is he in this?
Speaker A:And his part is so terrible.
Speaker A:Terrible when he's walking through and like, I'm like, you're.
Speaker A:Wait a minute.
Speaker A:I'm gonna remove the earth by hand.
Speaker A:Huh?
Speaker A:Stop trying to act like an archaeologist because you're it up.
Speaker A:Whoever wrote the dialogue for him.
Speaker A:Well, whoever wrote the dialogue in this movie in general before, because that was the first thing I noticed is like five minutes in, I'm like, I can't, I can't be scared in this movie because it feels like someone's holding a cue card for every single one of these actors.
Speaker A:Except the little girl.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:It just sounded so wooden and shitty and the, the sun was having a great time.
Speaker A:But I'm like, are we watching a different movie?
Speaker A:Because this feels more like.
Speaker A:Like, what's that?
Speaker A:God damn it.
Speaker A:It was an old cartoon anyway, with the blond headed kid that's kind of a little asshole.
Speaker B:Oh, Dennis the Menace.
Speaker A:Yeah, I feel like I'm watching Dennis the Menace right now in live action in the middle of a horror movie.
Speaker A:Like, it was like, he just took me out of the movie.
Speaker A:And then you get this weird doll manufacturing plant with the.
Speaker A:Who was the one guy was really funny until he put a saw through his hand.
Speaker A:Like, I'm like, what is going on right now?
Speaker A:But this movie was all over the place.
Speaker A:And I just was like, I can't with this movie.
Speaker A:It really was.
Speaker B:And I could see what they're trying to do, right?
Speaker B:Which is try and create that tension move off screen, make you feel all kinda okay, relaxed, and we're good now.
Speaker B:And then bring it back.
Speaker B:But it was just far too choppy.
Speaker B:There was too much happening.
Speaker B:And really just.
Speaker B:If you would just put the camera on a little girl for two hours and had her go through the progression that she went through to the movie, it'd be perfect because she, she is the only reason why this movie is watchable in any way, shape or form.
Speaker B:She did a phenomenal job.
Speaker B:And by the end I'm going, did they just like actually possess her, like, for the fun?
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Because it's, it's incredibly believable.
Speaker B:And at the time she's what, like eight?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:At best.
Speaker B:Being able to play this role as well as she did was phenomenal.
Speaker B:And then you're looking at everybody else in this movie and going like, well, what's your problem?
Speaker B:Like, why?
Speaker B:Why are you so bad at what you do?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I. I swear, like the last 10 minutes where you have kind of like the big wrap up.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Replay it.
Speaker B:But put yakty sax on in the background.
Speaker B:Vastly improves the viewing experience.
Speaker A:Now I gotta try it.
Speaker B:Because it's just the most random, ridiculous kind of process to, you know, blow up the factory and defeat all the dolls.
Speaker B:And it's just going back and forth and when they're tripping over each other and it's just unnecessary.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And doesn't have the tension.
Speaker B:Whereas, like ending the movie or keeping up the pressure you have where the doll's waiting for him outside and you have this conversation with the mom and the doll being like, oh, no, she's mine now.
Speaker B:Type of a thing.
Speaker B:Like, that's creepy.
Speaker B:More of that makes a lot more sense.
Speaker A:Mm.
Speaker B:And you could even have some fun because, like, the only time that I was really, really invested.
Speaker A:Mm.
Speaker B:Is when mom grabs a shotgun.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker B:And she starts going around and locking all the doors.
Speaker B:Everything's.
Speaker B:When she put the shotgun down.
Speaker B:I was like, what are you doing?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like if.
Speaker B:If you had put in something where now the shotguns not there anymore.
Speaker B:Oh, I'm all in.
Speaker B:Because it's like.
Speaker B:Wait a minute.
Speaker B:Because it's.
Speaker B:It's like just that whole thing of that's your.
Speaker B:That's your only go to.
Speaker B:And you put that down.
Speaker B:Don't do that.
Speaker A:Sorry.
Speaker A:I just had this vision of that doll shooting a shotgun.
Speaker B:I wouldn't have gone that far.
Speaker B:I just take the shotgun away.
Speaker B:But you have.
Speaker B:It would have been funny.
Speaker B:But you have the opportunity to really ramp up the tension and go for it.
Speaker B:And that's your moment.
Speaker B:Then you wipe it away kind of.
Speaker B:What last week did you wipe it all away in the last little bit?
Speaker B:And you have, you know, just the comedy duo throwing dynamite with 14 hour fuses on it.
Speaker A:So bad.
Speaker B:Like I was.
Speaker B:I was chuckling at how nonchalantly these guys are like, yeah.
Speaker B:Just tossing dynamite.
Speaker B:Like there's actually this guy who does videos.
Speaker B:I think it's TikTok, maybe on Facebook where he does a little shorts.
Speaker B:He's got like this big old cannon.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:And he throws black powder down into it.
Speaker B:But lit fuse.
Speaker B:And then he like takes his time dropping propane tanks down to blast them off.
Speaker B:And so of course, comments are filled with this because this dude's just like talking and shooting the breeze.
Speaker B:And he'll stop and he'll point out stuff that's happening around or like, oh, look at that bird go by while there's like ten pounds of black powder right by his foot.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:With the lit fuse burning down.
Speaker B:Yeah, obviously he knows what he's doing.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:But sure, that's the.
Speaker B:That's where my mind went when I was watching this.
Speaker B:I was like, oh, it's just instead of actually having fun while you're doing it, you're just, you know, that's just how they were taking care of the killer dolls.
Speaker B:It's just.
Speaker B:Yeah, toss this down there.
Speaker B:Oh, hey, do you got any more of that dynamite?
Speaker A:Yeah, just like, toss me another one.
Speaker B:Yeah, like it was just a walk in the park.
Speaker B:And so you have this very high tension sequence.
Speaker B:That's really good.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:If you just separate it from everything else that's around it and you ruin it by having this bit at the end as being like your wrap up finale.
Speaker B:It's like, no, you got.
Speaker B:You gotta reverse that around or you gotta have something go really, really wrong with the whole dynamite thing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:But it didn't.
Speaker B:So it's just like, again, I was disappointed getting to the end going, oh, cool.
Speaker A:Yeah, fine.
Speaker A:You know what got me really bad?
Speaker A:The son, when he picks up the shotgun.
Speaker A:Catch this or play with whatever he said.
Speaker A:Play with this.
Speaker A:I'm like, what?
Speaker B:Yeah, doesn't fit.
Speaker A:It just didn't work.
Speaker A:I'm like, you're not.
Speaker A:This movie has not been funny at all.
Speaker A:Except for the one dude like Luis or whatever his name was.
Speaker A:He was funny, but other than that, the rest of it's dumb.
Speaker A:And the kid was not funny.
Speaker A:Even though he was trying real hard to be funny.
Speaker A:He wasn't funny.
Speaker A:And I'm like, and.
Speaker A:And let's just talk.
Speaker A:Okay, Listen.
Speaker A:It's a movie.
Speaker A:And I'm a full believer in the suspension of disbelief.
Speaker A:What the are these parents doing?
Speaker A:Like, what are we doing?
Speaker A:Like, you, you have a dilapid factory.
Speaker A:Kids are running around like it's their playground.
Speaker A:You have next door to that a archaeological dig.
Speaker A:And I'm.
Speaker A:I'm air quoting for those only listening.
Speaker A:Yeah, that had an accident recently.
Speaker A:Multiple times.
Speaker A:This.
Speaker A:Some gets in there without any problem.
Speaker A:So this is bad parenting across the board.
Speaker A:And then you.
Speaker A:And then like the movie started off terrible for me.
Speaker A:Like in the whole car ride where mom and dad are talking about the new.
Speaker A:This is Gonna be our new business.
Speaker A:And we're gonna make millions on little girls wanting dolls.
Speaker A:And I'm like, no, you're not.
Speaker A:It's just.
Speaker A:No, you're not.
Speaker A:Like, no, no.
Speaker A:If you're not girl.
Speaker A:And if you're not Barbie, you're.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It ain't happening.
Speaker A:Maybe Labu boos at this point, but, like, that's what I'm waiting for is a movie about a haunted Labubu.
Speaker A:Because that would be freaky, as it would.
Speaker B:But that would also probably do really well.
Speaker A:Probably.
Speaker A:Probably.
Speaker A:Because then you could play it off as a comedy anyway.
Speaker A:Yeah, this.
Speaker A:Yeah, this movie had nothing going for it to begin with.
Speaker A:Like, bad acting, terrible story.
Speaker A:The dialogue.
Speaker A:I thought George Lucas maybe had written it, like.
Speaker A:Like, it was horrid.
Speaker A:And the delivery was just as bad as the dialogue, which I think is.
Speaker A:I mean, obviously you didn't get a list actors in this movie because you just don't usually in most horror.
Speaker A:But, like, this one was really bad and, you know, the dialogue was terrible.
Speaker A:So it's hard to deliver.
Speaker A:I'm sure, as an actor, good moments with bad dialogue, but there was just nothing redeeming about this movie.
Speaker A:And then, like I said, the blatant.
Speaker A:I think they took Chucky's face and threw it on his doll with a big long wig.
Speaker A:And because I'm telling you, when she's talking at the end and she's on full demon mode, I'm like, that looks a lot like Chucky.
Speaker A:So I think they took that face, manipulated it into being a girl doll this time.
Speaker A:But God damn.
Speaker A:And even the voice at one point, like, if I didn't know that what's his face from Chuck, like, did the voice of Chucky, I'd be like, they hired his ass again.
Speaker A:Because it sounded a lot like him too.
Speaker A:At times I was like.
Speaker A:And there were some moments like, that were.
Speaker A:Could have been creepy if I wasn't just out of this movie from day one, from minute one.
Speaker A:Like the whispering like that, like audio.
Speaker A:Okay, so we didn't talk about this last week, and I probably should have.
Speaker A:The one thing I did think that the boy did well was the play on some.
Speaker A:The quiet.
Speaker A:And I don't mean silence.
Speaker A:Like, when you think about, like a quiet place, that's like unnerving silence that goes with the.
Speaker A:The girl that's deaf.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:And so you get that and the fact that they have to be really quiet.
Speaker A:But anybody that knows anything about sitting in the room by yourself in the dark with nothing going on and it's real quiet.
Speaker A:Like, you know, there's noises, there's ambient sound that makes that calm quiet worse, right?
Speaker A:And this is.
Speaker A:The boy did pretty well in moments where it was really quiet because it was just her and that.
Speaker A:You hear this old house creaking and making noises and little whisper sounds.
Speaker A:This one, the little kid laughing like that the dolls do at some point.
Speaker A:And then there's, like, little whispers of, like, the demon voice that you can kind of hear in the background.
Speaker A:Like, there were moments that I was like, oh, that could have been creepy if I was worried about the rest of this movie.
Speaker A:But I have no buy in.
Speaker A:I'm not attached to how this movie's going.
Speaker A:So I'm like, okay, that's some good sound effects.
Speaker A:But I don't.
Speaker A:It doesn't do anything for me.
Speaker A:And I hate that because I think one of the most overlooked things in horror movies in general is good sound.
Speaker A:If you have good sound or lack thereof in moments, you can make a horror movie very scary because you're sitting there going, that sound is unnerving.
Speaker A:And I know something's coming.
Speaker A:And then you get to play with the jump scare.
Speaker A:You get to.
Speaker A:There was not a single jump scare in this movie that I was like, oh.
Speaker A:I was like, yeah.
Speaker A:Huh.
Speaker A:That didn't work.
Speaker A:So it just.
Speaker A:This movie just failed across the board to me.
Speaker A:Like, it was just, meh.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And, like, what you said, because there were parts that were like, oh, this is good.
Speaker B:If you bookended it with something better, right?
Speaker B:Like, I think I texted you because I had one where it was the scene where Jessica's going out to the dollhouse at night, right?
Speaker B:You got a really cool shot of, you know, her just kind of walking out barefoot or whatever with the doll going into the dollhouse.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:Like, good eerie theme.
Speaker B:And so I'd gotten up to go get a snack, right?
Speaker B:And I watched it on my Xbox, right?
Speaker B:YouTube.
Speaker B:And so, yeah, it starts fast forwarding or rewinding.
Speaker B:It starts rewinding.
Speaker B:And so, you know, I noticed at first because now there's no sound.
Speaker B:I turn around, it's rewind itself.
Speaker B:And I'm like, oh, great, here we go.
Speaker B:Can't catch a motherfucking break.
Speaker A:You have the worst luck with that shit, dude.
Speaker B:And so that put me on edge.
Speaker B:And if the movie keeps up, I'm on edge for the rest of the day.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:But it doesn't, because about two minutes after this scene, we get, brother, tell another stupid joke.
Speaker B:Yep, sleep back out.
Speaker B:And it's now it becomes an oh, haha moment of, you know, look at my rotten luck.
Speaker B:JJ versus the, you know, absolutely bone chilling, terrifying, you know, stuff that gets me, like, petrified in fear and not going to sleep for three weeks.
Speaker B:Like, that's typically where I go if anything like that happens.
Speaker B:And I have several stories of stupid like that happening all over the podcast with me.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:But it doesn't land because this movie doesn't keep it up.
Speaker B:And I think you say it before where your biggest beef, like Zack Snyder's moments.
Speaker A:Mm.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So this movie creates those moments that when looked under, you know, looked kind of in a vacuum.
Speaker B:You can see, oh, I see what you're doing there.
Speaker B:But the moment before and the moment after it is.
Speaker B:Are pretty much comedy bits.
Speaker B:Or they don't land.
Speaker B:They don't flow together.
Speaker B:And so now you're looking at it like, oh, cool.
Speaker B:So if I just zoom out a little bit, you.
Speaker B:You lost your moment, you lost me, and now it's not as scary anymore.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:That's the thing about horror and even suspense.
Speaker A:But horror for sure is you.
Speaker A:You can't.
Speaker A:Unless you're doing a horror comedy which works, but they don't play this as a horror comedy.
Speaker A:Like, this is meant to be full on scary movie.
Speaker A:And with scary movies, if you wanted to actually be scary, you can't let up.
Speaker A:Like when you.
Speaker A:When I think about the scariest movies that I've ever watched, like the.
Speaker A:The Amityville Horror, the Exorcist, things along those vein, these are movies that never let you breathe.
Speaker A:And the instant you think you can is when they hit you the worst.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And they put those in there specifically for this.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So every scene frame is all judged to get a reaction.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker B:And it even works to the sense now where, you know, people have figured it out that they can now put in decoys.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Where they do let you breathe.
Speaker B:And then they hit you harder on the next one because you're becoming used to it.
Speaker B:And so it's the.
Speaker B:It's the psychology behind it.
Speaker B:And this movie just does.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:No, into it.
Speaker B:It doesn't get it at all.
Speaker B:It said, hey, Chucky did really well.
Speaker B:Let's go ahead and.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Let's make some more movies about dolls.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Let's kick off a dolphin.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:It's gonna make us millions.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:That's what they were talking about in the car.
Speaker A:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It just was just poorly done.
Speaker A:And that's.
Speaker A:And that's what I. I love horror because of that, like, adrenaline rush.
Speaker A:Like I don't have the same level.
Speaker A:Very few things, like, make me scared.
Speaker A:Like, you get where you're like, paranoid about the rest of.
Speaker A:As you're going on.
Speaker A:Like, I'm.
Speaker A:I get nervous and uncomfortable in the moment.
Speaker A:But I love that because it gets my.
Speaker A:It's like jumping out of an airplane for some people.
Speaker A:Like, that level of adrenaline for me is.
Speaker A:Is just delicious.
Speaker A:And so when a movie does it well and I'm super uncomfortable, I'm like, yeah, but then when a movie like this does it and I'm like, I can see you trying to.
Speaker A:But it's like watching.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's like watching Charlie Brown trying to kick the football.
Speaker A:I know you this up already, so.
Speaker A:But it lacks the comedic effort too.
Speaker A:Like, there was very little.
Speaker A:I don't think there was anything other than Rip Torn trying to be serious.
Speaker A:That made me laugh.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So it was pretty rough.
Speaker A:Shortest episode ever, maybe pretty close to it.
Speaker B:I got nothing else.
Speaker A:I got nothing either.
Speaker A:There's nothing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So let's rate it, buddy.
Speaker A:You're.
Speaker A:You're first.
Speaker A:Let's hear it.
Speaker B:Zero.
Speaker B:And again, not because I'm a coward, sure, but because it's just.
Speaker B:I was disappointed again.
Speaker B:It wasn't what I was thinking it was gonna be so far, you know, creepy ass doll month not doing it for me.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's been kind of a bit of a letdown and it's my.
Speaker B:Entirely my fault once again.
Speaker B:Oh, no.
Speaker B:It's consequences of my own actions, but it's a zero.
Speaker B:I will never be watching this.
Speaker B:I. I can think of a much better way to spend an hour and a half on YouTube.
Speaker B:That's fair because that's the only place you can watch this movie.
Speaker A:Somewhere.
Speaker A:Somewhere.
Speaker A:We have increased the algorithm for this turd, but because both of us have watched it from start to finish on YouTube.
Speaker A:So we've.
Speaker A:We've.
Speaker B:You're welcome, world.
Speaker A:I'm with you.
Speaker A:I'm gonna give it a zero.
Speaker A:I don't give those often.
Speaker A:So when.
Speaker A:When you're on par with Moonfall and Swiss Army Man.
Speaker A:Swiss army man, you.
Speaker A:You've.
Speaker A:You've made it because.
Speaker A:Yeah, this was a steaming pile of dog.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:It was bad.
Speaker A:It wasn't.
Speaker A:It wasn't.
Speaker A:There's just not anything else to say.
Speaker A:It.
Speaker A:It missed the mark on every token except for the little girl, which should have been the.
Speaker A:The main piece of this movie, but somehow she was one of the smallest parts in this, so it was very unfortunate.
Speaker A:I too, will never watch this again.
Speaker A:I'm gonna try to forget that it was ever made and move on to next week where we watch a movie that did figure out one of the very first that figured out horror comedy in a great way.
Speaker A:So I'm excited to hear your take on that next week, but for this week let's just pretend it didn't happen.
Speaker A:But thanks for listening anyway.
Speaker A:And I like tell everybody where they can find us when we're not anywhere near doll factories and ancient It's a terrible place.
Speaker A:Not Mayan ruins.
Speaker B:Anyway, they really well whiffle waffled on that.
Speaker B:But best place to find us is on YouTube where you can see our faces as we discuss movies.
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