Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

zebratigre Not only is the plot idiotic and the racial stereotyping painful to watch, but the acting is putrid, the direction inept and the special effects ... well: they're "special" all right. Avoid this one like plague unless you either want to learn how NOT to make a film, or you're really toasted. There are also a few notable continuity issues. The lighting is awful (the background changes colours several times during several scenes). In a number of shots that are supposed to be scary, the camera is badly out of focus ... when it is not jiggling. It is really hard to believe that this thing was actually shot on film, because the resolution seems so bad, but that is probably the result of the combination of bad camera-work, bad lighting and using a photo kiosk in a car park somewhere to process the film.

trashgang Way before Chucky was born some guy made this flick. And immediately it became a cult one. Why, I can't tell but you must see this one, maybe that's the reason. First of all, it never had a wide release and it was only sold on VHS. Never appeared on DVD and will never see a proper release. So the hunt is on to catch a copy. If you catch a copy then you will see that it really is one of the lowest budgets ever. There is most of the time just one actor. Acting is just reading the lines from a paper or trying to remember them. There are no effects in it, if there are any than it is the video effects (freeze frames) to make it creepy. Only at the end you will notice some blood. They never used extra lights. The editing was made I don't know how but sometimes it isn't synchronized as is the sound. The credits on the beginning are way too long, almost 6 minutes and nothing to see, only a black background. The score used is always the same tune sometimes pitched up or down and is surely made on a Commodore 64. And the score sometimes overrules the voices so what they are saying is a big secret. And the way the sound is recorded is, to say the least, terrible, a lot of hiss. Anyway, the idea for the script is original. A puppet possessed by the devil makes your dreams come true but you have to pay a price for it. There were only black people involved in it and that's a reason that it became cult, remember Abby, much fuzz about that one too and also a bit OOP as this one. If you have the time and are really in exploitation or grindhouse then you must see this home made flick. Oh yeah, don't think Black Devil Doll made in 2007 is a remastered version of this flick, it's more a remake. So you see, it is a cult one....

HumanoidOfFlesh The plot of "Black Devil Doll from Hell" is fairly simple:a foul-mouthed ventriloquist dummy terrorizes a defenseless religious zealot.Helen Black,a prim and deeply religious woman,buys a strange doll in a curio shop.The shop's owner tells her that the doll has been purchased four different times,and each time it has found its way back to the shop.Soon the Helen is thrown into a nightmare as the doll begins to terrorize her...Wow,this piece of blacksploitation sleaze is completely abysmal.The acting is horrible,the score is incredibly awful and there is no gore.The special effects are some of the worst I have ever seen.Still the lengthy sex scene between Helen and a doll is hilarious.That sequence,with the puppet(obviously controlled by a guy shaking it off-screen)humping this plump but ecstatic Bible-thumper had me laughing so hard I was crying.The action drags tremendously,with most scenes going on for way too long and others being totally unnecessary.Overall,a must-see for fans of trash cinema.

imdb@stranko.com Brilliantly sincerely evil and naive. It could be compared to John Waters work in it's disregard for societal racial, drug and sexual taboos even tho I think they were going more for a PUPPET MASTER vibe. The plot is less convoluted than that of PUPPET MASTER (nice lady goes to open air market, buys cute rasta dummy/puppet, takes it home, puppet raises hell, smokes pot, is mean and gives her oral sex.) This movie is worth seeing - if you can find it. The soundtrack is Phillip Glass minimal and the sex scenes with the puppet are shockingly bad/funny. Beyond so bad it's good, so crinchingly terrible it's wonderful. Laugh your way through scenes never intended to be funny while you groove to the fumbled 2 finger synth sound track.