Marronnier
Marronnier
| 01 January 2004 (USA)
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Marino is your average young Japanese lady. She likes hanging out with her friends, brushing her teeth and doting over her Marronnier doll. The doll, however, has been created by an evil genius that kidnaps women, uses a machine to turn them into wax and sculpts the wax into dolls in the deceased's likeness. But it doesn't end there. The mad doll-maker's assistant, Numai, is even freakier. He stalks Marino, kidnaps her (and her friends), fails to seduce her, gets rebuffed, laughs like a maniac and tries to melt them into wax! But that's before his other doll 'creations' come to life and attack him…

Reviews
Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
TheMightyBahamut WOW......... i can honestly say this is one of THE worst movies I've ever seen. the acting is pretty poor, the music is awful(I'm talking 80's B movie bad),and the script....um what exactly is going on here???? the concept looks good on paper... guy kills girls, turns girls into dolls, dolls come to life. so what went wrong??? its like the writer just put down the ideas as they came to mind and didn't actually bother to arrange them into anything linear and understandable. it starts with one storyline and then BAM! you're looking at new characters and a new storyline. just as you start to think you know whats going on BAM! new storyline.... add in a few bizarre flashbacks and you are seriously starting to wonder if you haven't fallen asleep watching a few times (i actually did... took 3 tries to get through it) next throw in some bizarre puppet show scenes, some naked doll bondage and some insect eating scenes and this film is like a really bad drug trip.SPOILER ALERTIF you manage to make it to the end, you will find yourself in a world of pain. The 2 main characters duke it out with the bad guy in one of THE worst scenes yet. a woods chase leads to the main character somehow getting hit by the bad guys Axe which seems to take an eternity to actually swing, and despite losing her arm, she manages to hit him in the eye with a pick Axe she pulls from....where???? it must be a ninja Axe that stayed invisible the whole scene and then is miraculously hanging UPSIDE DOWN somewhere in her dress.... flash to some creepy doll scenes and the fight is somehow taken to a room full of wedding dresses and flashing forward to a really stupid ending.
rehd_dusk This movie gets my 8/10 vote simply because the story was so utterly ridiculous and yet everyone was so serious about the entire situation. take, for example, the scene where Numai has Marino cornered in an alley and tries to give her a gift. As she's freaking out because he wants to give her a doll dress, he reaches into his back pocket. Anyone at that point would think 'Oh, mofo's gonna pull out a piece and STAB a bitch.' but no. He pulls out a toothbrush. And starts brushing his teeth at her. I kid you not, I am absolutely serious. He brushes his teeth, and she goes into a screaming fit. The whole movie was worth it for that one scene.
briansercus OK...you remember those movies in high school film classes? Remember the ones that tried really hard to be creepy and gory with ketchup and jump cuts? Those movies were TEN TIMES BETTER than this one. There is no telling what is going on at any point in the movie. This is for sure though: there's a girl, this guy kills girls and turns them into dolls, and the dolls come to life. I'm really disappointed, because being an avid horror fan who's always looking for a new and unique scare, I really thought this had potential. NO. The film work is juvenile at best, and the plot is so incoherent that it's difficult to even pay attention. You want a bottom line? Here's my advice: watch Puppetmaster.
Company_of_Wolves Before you condemn this film to video hell, it's worth noting that it WAS an amateur film, I'm pretty sure it was a student film, inspired by the works of legendary horror manga artist Junji Ito. He worked with the kids on the movie also, but not in a big way.I personally felt this film was quite enjoyable, and weird enough to be interesting.Basically if you enjoyed other bizarre Japanese horror movies, and in particular the other films based on the works of Junji Ito then you'll probably like this one. Just don't expect production values equal to that of Uzumaki etc...
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