Konterr Brilliant and touching

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

superfeature Another film with the gear and the cast but an under-developed script. The opening drops us into a lot of action but never explains what's going on; you must infer from what you're shown. The lead baddie at his computer monitor is never explained either. What are his goals? Who frees serial killers in order to watch them at work? You must make motivations clear to the audience. The young heroine needs money - but what is everyone else up to, and why? The first hour (!) is heavily padded with superfluous goings-on. A few jump scares don't make up for a lack of real tension either. This was a near miss - a sharper focus on its goals, with fewer shots of the killer in full daylight, and this could have been an effective little thriller. Here's hoping the follow-ups are better vetted. Worth watching for the extremely pretty Natasha Blasick, the nifty (but unexplained) mask on the killer, and - well, not much else.

kaihbr It's easy enough to criticize this movie, so I'll get to that in a minute. First I'd like to tell you about what I liked with the movie. It's going to be a short list: two pretty looking girls. It also had a kind of scary location - deep inside a forest. A place no one can get without having a car pumped full of gas - twice! Before you continue reading... I'm writing about a lot of the things that happen in the movie, so if you want to see it, don't read any further. It will spoil some of the "fantastic" surprises.A girl is left all alone in an apartment because her room mate has left her for some reason. We never get to know why. Desperate from not having any money, she accepts a job offer paying a lot of money. She leaves her apartment without bringing any luggage. No clean underwear, no tooth brush, no jacket... even though she knows she's going to be away for more than a month. Maybe her room mate took her toothbrush, who knows? She gets to this cabin. A psychopath is running inside the house but she doesn't notice him. He tries to grab her a couple of times, but she still doesn't notice he's there. All she does is dance, eat and drink alcohol. Probably in the job description...Suddenly a police officer arrives. He is all alone without any contact with other police officers. Not even as much as a system in case he goes missing in action. No no... this cop is on his own! The police officer hasn't eaten or had anything to drink for four days, staying out in the cold, being hunted and shot at. Even so, he's still ready to flirt. When the girl puts a grenade in the dryer (yes, she probably thought the grenade was too wet), the cop has to rush the grenade outside. He is now being shot at. The funny thing about this is that no one is actually aiming. They're just shooting. The other thing... no one is taking cover. They're just standing in the middle of open fields ready to get shot. Not really impressing for soldiers hired to protect the ground! The movie ended exactly where the budget did... and without any explanation. Add bad acting and a murderer that doesn't really murder and seems more like a really stupid version of Blane, you get an awful movie.I'd like to point out two more things... someone is always observing what is going on through cameras mounted everywhere. This is a millionaire supposed to be far away from the actual house where everything takes place. However... when things turn sour, he appears within three minutes. How does he do that? A girl is running through the forest. The murderer is walking. When the girl stops to catch her breath behind a tree, the murderer is there also. How did he do that? Sorry for the spoilers... avoid this movie!

tdrish I'm attracted to bad movies, not because I like to trash them, or disrespect them ( although sometimes I have to admit, I do get enjoyment out of that!), it's because I am not always convinced that the movie is really that bad. I think horror movies are very difficult to create in a "good" manner, and by that, I am saying that I feel it is very hard to create a good horror movie, simply because there is so much at stake. One of the added pressures to a horror movie, is that your audience is either eager to be scared, or they want to see some pretty decent gore effects. When both those elements go wrong, along with a weak script and terrible acting, and lots of boring sequences going on, we can safely assume the movie sucks, am I wrong? This is the case with Playing With Dolls. First of all, our viewer is going to be raged at the end of watching this, knowing by the time it is all over, that they were 100 percent mislead by the title and the cover art movie poster. See that scary looking guy on the DVD cover? Guess what? He's not that scary in the movie, simply because he isn't doing anything but a lot of walking. Is walking scary? I walk all the time, it's how I transport myself, did somebody find a way to make it bring chills down the spine? If they did, then the frightening aspects do not exist in Playing With Dolls! And, that's another thing, why was the movie called Playing With Dolls? It should have been called Playing With Cameras, because I saw more cameras then dolls! ( The only doll I saw was the Russian actress, oh, what a doll!) Our movie opens up with a pretty graphic kill right off the bat, within the first five minutes. We see a camera embedded in a tree ( what...the...puck?) We see a man viewing what goes on on the footage of the camera. HEY! It's Richard Tyson, remember this guy!? He was the bully in the 1987 classic Three O'Clock High. Wow! Have you climbed the ranks since then? In this dark, twisted, perverted, mind numbing , dumbfounded joke of a film? Why all this is happening, I don't know. I actually had more questions by the time the credits roll at the end, then when I started watching it. By the way, it's only an hour and twenty minutes, but it will feel like you were watching it for at least 2 hours, trust me. Boring, not entertaining, and if your not going to put some money into the production, why bother making a movie at all? Step up the game, folks, were getting just a bit fed up with the low budget, poorly executed montages you have the gall to call "movies."

richardhoughton Just suffered through possibly one of the worst 2015 horror movies ever. "Playing with Dolls" Whaetever it was about who knows? A woman went to a cabin in the woods after getting some call from a lady who gave her a key to a car and she drove there and was picked up and taken the rest of the way to the cabin, Then we watch for half hour as she eats, sleeps and dances around the house, unknown to her that there are camera's in the house watching her every move while some weirdo sits there watching her and a killer in the house.Let's just say the killer in the mask and rags is pathetic...he kills no one the whole movie, and the only kills were from the police themselves and all the scary masked killer does is walk around trying to be scary but fails badly.The characters I didn't care for or like and nothing happens this whole movie. Do not waste 1 hour 20 with this movie and the ending was bad enough as it comes finally and ends just like that!!Bad and a failure of a movie.....The producers of this movie and all people involves should be hanged for this shame of a movie! 1 out of 10