Maidgethma
Wonderfully offbeat film!
Softwing
Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
Rijndri
Load of rubbish!!
ChanFamous
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Steve Pulaski
Black Devil Doll is a nasty little picture, one with no apparent moral compass and the desire to mix the elements and aesthetics of blaxploitation films of the 1970's while loosely following the premise of the Child's Play series and making a priority out of including numerous scenes of doll-on-human sexual intercourse.The film is inspired by the 1984 film of the same name just with "from Hell" added to the end of the title so we know exactly where this absurd little character once resided. This film's director, Jonathan Louis Lewis, clearly has admiration and a love for the films of the blaxploitation genre, a genre which was largely responsible for hiring young and old black talent in the 1970's to headline such inane pictures as Blacula and Black Dynamite. Lewis, however, creates a film that, while easy to admire for its devotion to such a quirky chapter in cinema's history, is hard to watch and incredibly uncomfortable to sit through, even in its barely-cinematic state of sixty-three minutes.The main issue is with the approach Lewis chooses to take, which is seemingly to cater to the people who love to watch two foot tall wooden dolls have sex with full-grown women, with the camera, of course, focused on their voluptuous figures. This gets tedious really quickly, especially when the film's one-note joke isn't overplayed but severely underplayed once its intentions become clear. The film is a horror film, like many blaxploitation films were, but it takes so long to build to its horror elements and scenes of violence and gore that we've already laughed so much to even be ready for the horror elements. When they come, it's the most awkward "oh yeah" moment, after we just watched a black puppet have hardcore sex with several different women.The film's slender story involves Heather (Heather Murphy), a young teen with a bulging bust in a cleavage-bearing top, who is bored one day and decides to remedy her boredom by screwing about with an Ouija board. Heather's antics come back to bite her when the Ouija Board brings her doll to life in the form of a recently deceased serial killer who murdered fifteen Caucasian women before raping them. Now, Heather meets the "black devil doll," falls in love with it, has sex with it numerous times, and so forth.The second act takes a wee bit of a darker turn, with Heather inviting numerous friends over for an afternoon of fun and drinks but not before the doll can violently assault and have sex with each one.Films like Black Devil Doll take the very principles of what film criticism was erected off of and shred them so they're unrecognizable. How to rate a film like this effectively is a mystery to me. While the film technically does what it sets out to do, that doesn't mean I had a grand time watching it. The film is so bogged down in dirty-mindedness, gratuitous nudity, graphic, redundant scenes of puppet-on-human sex that do nothing but make one uncomfortable, and then gore and violence to conclude the picture that is tacked on in a way that makes it seem unsure of its own direction.As stated, Lewis clearly has a fondness for old school horror and the blaxploitation genre. Because of that, I hope he chooses to exercise it again at a later date. This is a picture that would've worked as a short rather than a medium-length film. Better yet, it would've worked best as a daydream.Starring: Heather Murphy. Voiced by: Martin Boone. Directed by: Jonathan Louis Lewis.
adam2008
Wow, what a fun movie! I would recommend this to anyone who is tired of the usual crap movies that are coming out of Hollywood. One of the most realistic movies that you will ever see, except for the possessed devil doll part. Rotten Cotton dot com is a great site to check for cool t-shirts. Hot girls, showing there titties how can you go wrong with such a movie, and don't forget to order a T-Shirt from Rottencotton.com as rotten cotton.com is the best place to order tshirts from. You won't get t-shirts that fade and are not worth a crap. There are lots of funny parts, like when the puppet is having having sex with girls out the back of Shaun's house. Too bad that Blackest HEart media is not around, otherwise you could watch lots of videos, easily orderable from there site.
homecoming8
With the death of a notorious criminal, his minds transfers into a doll (Child's Play anyone ?). He can now speak and wants more blood and.. pussy. "Black Devil Doll" is a very low-budget production that fails in every way. It is not a horror. It is not a comedy. It is not a porn. The greatest flaw is the so-called cast. The girls can't act at all and their characters are nothing more than annoying and unattractive sluts, certainly not good looking. The kind you see in very bad and very cheap porn movies (I'm sure that's exactly where they come from in the first place..) Hard to watch them really, even when they are naked. Yes, there is nudity but it is rather boring. Yes, there is some blood but it is done in a very cheap and unconvincing way. The throat-cutting scene at the end of the movie is the only thing worth watching, but also not great either. Is it funny ? Hell, no. The doll is just like the ladies, very annoying and dull. The story is stupid and everything in it does not make any sense at all. I really have no idea why people love this movie, it was just all bad from start to finish (running time is just over 1 hour, fortunately).
trashgang
The hype surrounding this flick was enormous. I was at a horror convention a few weeks ago and it was all about this title. Even here in our local DVD shop they sold this movie for only 8 euro's and full uncut. Be clear, this isn't a remake of Black Devil Doll From Hell. That one was also about a black doll possessed by some spirit and starts doing weird things. And don't think that it is in the tradition of Chucky in Child's Play. No it isn't. This is pure exploitation. Everything is included, blood, chicks and gratuitous nudity. And the last part is available in such a way that it is more erotic than exploitation. The acting is way below zero but don't be bothered, the director never made this flick to became a hit, but it surely will become a cult hit. The black doll walks around only to doing his stuff with the girls, afterwards he kill them or is doing necrophilia. let's say that the first part is all about naked chicks. All shown full frontal but how, they shown their tits to each other for no reason, just like, hey, you have beautiful ones, yes I know do you want to see them, yes okay, would you like to see mine. Big fun. The last part the red stuff starts flowing and in cheap effects but slightly gory. And then 10 minutes before the end the credits starts rolling, I thought, o no, not ten minutes of that crap, but keep watching, there is fun included. Anyway, never take this film seriously. Just watch it as it is, pure exploitation entertainment.