This is one of the most infamous no-budget shot-on-video
horror movies of the ‘80s. Like many
videotaped wonders, it contains slipshod editing, amateurish performances, and
poor audio and picture quality (the latter adds to the overall feel of the
film). The music is pretty good though.
A lonely God-fearing woman goes into an antique store and
buys a ventriloquist dummy. The puppet (who
looks like Lester from Willie Tyler and Lester with dreadlocks) watches her
shower and rapes her. She starts to like
it though (she even calls him “Mr. Wonderful”) and soon she becomes a
sex-starved trollop.
Much of Black Devil Doll from Hell is slow and excruciating. The dialogue scenes are so long and boring
that the camera starts wandering around the room filming walls and knickknacks
instead of the performers. If you can
get past these long scenes (which take up the bulk of the movie), you’ll be
treated to some jaw-dropping antics.
The money shots of the puppet humping are hilarious. (“How do you like that bitch?”) They do tend to go on too long. You have to wonder if the director had some
kind of puppet sex fetish. These scenes,
long as they are, are worth the price of admission.
It’s those non-puppet scenes that are a problem. The running time is 90 minutes, but it
could’ve easily been cut down to 75.
Okay, 45. I mean the long disco
dancing scene could’ve been excised completely and no one would’ve known the
difference. I would recommend it, but
you’re probably better off just watching the puppet fucking highlights and
forgetting the rest of it. If you do
decide to watch it in its entirety… well… you were warned.
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