Men and their dummies. The Unholy Three (1925), Dead of Night (1945), Devil Doll (1964), Magic (1978). The tug of war between self and what we create spans the generations and invites the question who are we and what is personality? Performance, illusion, trickery, how much is real and is reality itself a delusion? Frat House Party, Window, Devil Dolls, British Pub, Transfer Tom’s Soul, Mike As Hugo. “Mephistopeles goes uptown”, “Screwtape, take the next left will you?”, “Well I’m not talking till he talks.” “Goodbye credits. Thank you” or “And ladies and gentlemen, that is our story”?
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RIP Butt Lady
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This is a terrific film. There’s an effect I had to play back three times before I figured out how they did it.
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Chaney was slated by Browning to be Dracula, I think, which would’ve been amazing.
Devil Doll is severely hampered by its budget but is still one of the better classic MST3K riffed movies. The villain’s acting is quite good. The running gag with the window is solid if not ROFL.
The exploitation movies from this era tend to be charmlessly sleazy and this is no exception, and it suffers a lot from padding, though not as bad as numerous other MST3K flicks.
The “season arc”, while good on its own, suffers when you’re watching out of order.
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