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Price $9.98
Starring:
Jack Maturin,
Debra Mayer,
William Paul Burns,
Warren Draper,
Nicholas Worth,
Directed By:
Charles Band,
Rated: R (Restricted)
Release Date: 1999
Studio: FULL MOON
Format:
Color,
DVD-Video,
Full Screen,
Widescreen,
NTSC,
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Customer Reviews for
Blood Dolls
Full Moon fan
I am a fan of Full Moon pictures and Charles Bands' work. I own lots of their films that I think are fun horror to watch...but this...What in the TARnation is this?? I am truly disappointed. It looks like a slapstick tart freakshow done biker style with a bunch of cheap props and makeup. Not any horror involved whatsoever for those that like the coverart.
I mean they keep this female rock band locked in a cage and order a midget to shock them if they don't play and sing everytime he presses a button; They stand there and curse him out until he shocks them, then they hop around grabbing guitars and stuff and start singing, this is several times throughout the movie. The script is like some parody of an old Charlie's Angels episode with an atmosphere of that old Gong Show or something like that I dunno how else to even describe it.
Too silly to even be funny. Thumbs down.Blood Dolls
Another Full Moon Extravaganza Of Weirdness...
BLOOD DOLLS is my kind of movie! Charles Band has fashioned another masterpiece! This one's right up there w/ PUPPET MASTER, HEAD OF THE FAMILY, and HIDEOUS! in my book! Ultra-eccentric, masked billionaire, Virgil Travis (Jack Maturin) loses big money, and simply must have revenge against those who've tried to destroy him and his empire. With the aid of his trusty servant / henchman / spiritual advisor, Mr. Mascaro (William Paul Burns, in three-piece suit and full clown make-up), Travis sends a trio of killer dolls (shrunken versions of his former enemies) to assassinate his rivals. All goes well until the wife of Virgil's chief nemesis, a brilliant dominatrix named Moira (Debra Mayer) gives Travis fits! She ouwits him and even earns his respect and affection. Of course, this is all according to Moira's wicked plan for world domination! Is Travis doomed, or will twisted love prevail? BD offers nonstop lunacy, a caged girl-rock band, an evil dwarf (Phil Fondacaro w/ eye-patch), gore, BDSM, mad science, and humor. This could well be the ultimate movie! Watch for the "drill-murder" and "death-by-piano-wire-rack" sequences! Mistress Moira must inherit the earth...Blood Dolls
Great guilty pleasure movie
I'm not big into guilty pleasure movies. In fact of the 300 or so movies I own I think I have 3. Make it 4 now. After the first 20 minutes I was ready to turn the movie off. But I decided to watch on. And boy am I glad I did. It grew on me. It's so unique. It never takes itself too seriously while at the same time not taking itself lightly either. Great mix of horror/humor, and a fun movie I can see myself watching over and over. It ranks right up in my guilty pleasure department with Killer Klowns from Outer Space. All the characters are enjoyable and they all fit very well into the plot. It's just a fun watch. You get creepy, funny, serious, complex, simple all rolled into one. One of the few B movies that is enjoyable and gets better with each view. How can you fit 3 killer dolls, a shrunken head billionaire, a butler who wears clown make-up 24/7, a midget guard, a girl rock band electrocuted into playing songs of choice, a dominatrix female with superior intelligence and Type-A ambition, and a guy getting drilled in the heart with a drill bit all in one movie? Answer: Blood Dolls. Sometimes the stars just align perfectly. Thanks for the ride.Blood Dolls
Outrageous; Beyond the common Limits of Human Intelligence
"Blood Dolls" is a confounding freakfest about which little of worth can be said... It begins with a quite literal indictment of corporate ethics as a pair of unscrupulous complicitors in an unethical business enterprise enter the world of a business "genius" who wears a long-discarded X-Files prop (literally copied from the episode "Grotesque") as a mask, has a morose clown for a butler, and keeps a dwarf around for no apparent reason other than to keep the general sideshow aura amped to an extreme level. This dwarf routinely tortures his encaged, all-female rock band, who, beside being surprisingly technically adept, do little more than provide nudity. Shortly into the proceedings, the cornball bloodletting starts, the billionaire reveals the disproportionately small head beneath the mask, and one of the complicitous nobodies is transformed into a "blood doll." These must be parodies of "Puppet Master," but since that film might as well have been a parody itself, that isn't saying much. The film exudes an air of sadism amid the camp, and occassionally meanders into utterly senseless philosophical musings culled pretty much directly from the sources they cite. The acting is awful; the characters and story, absurd. However, it's also pretty damn funny, in an Ed Wood-let's take this seriously even as it becomes increasingly absurd to-kind of way. Worth a rent for a camp conoisseur, but little else.Blood Dolls
a great horror/humor combo
This one went surprisingly deep on the philosophical banter between the protagonist and antagonist. But it was no mere head-to-head talkie. The music was astonishingly good, the suspenseful action lent a continuing air of suspension and tension that gave you the creeps, and the script was a twist if Nietzsche meets the Twilight Zone. The babes were hot and sassy and the relationships complicated like the taste a well aged wine. If you don't like this movie, you probably don't like to have fun with horror and should seek your thrills in more somber chillers. The clown! William Burns brought levels of sophistication to his role. His character was a spiritual man, you see. The story's message might offend the devoutly religious. Too bad. Hidden talent showed up in this yarn. The girl band coulda been a contender. The lead actress in the movie leaves you begging for more. Literally.Blood Dolls
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