Black Devil Doll

The hype surrounding this flick was enormous. I was at a horror convention a few weeks ago and it was all about this title. Even here in our local DVD shop they sold this movie for only 8 euro's and full uncut. Be clear, this isn't a remake of Black Devil Doll From Hell. That one was also about a black doll possessed by some spirit and starts doing weird things. And don't think that it is in the tradition of Chucky in Child's Play. No it isn't. This is pure exploitation. Everything is included, blood, chicks and gratuitous nudity. And the last part is available in such a way that it is more erotic than exploitation. The acting is way below zero but don't be bothered, the director never made this flick to became a hit, but it surely will become a cult hit. The black doll walks around only to doing his stuff with the girls, afterwards he kill them or is doing necrophilia. let's say that the first part is all about naked chicks. All shown full frontal but how, they shown their tits to each other for no reason, just like, hey, you have beautiful ones, yes I know do you want to see them, yes okay, would you like to see mine. Big fun. The last part the red stuff starts flowing and in cheap effects but slightly gory. And then 10 minutes before the end the credits starts rolling, I thought, o no, not ten minutes of that crap, but keep watching, there is fun included. Anyway, never take this film seriously. Just watch it as it is, pure exploitation entertainment.

Worst "film" ever made. Unless you're on a self-torturing adventure to watch the crappiest "movies" ever made, (which in this case would take the cake), please, please spare yourself the torment.

Basically, this is a crappy blacksploitation rip-off of Child's Play. Only, instead of the classic horror character of Chucky, this film is centered around a racist, black womanizing doll who has a sick, twisted compulsion to have sex with the nastiest looking white chicks, before killing them.

An episode of Barney the Dinosaur has more genius to its writing than this crapfest. The "comedy" is bottom of the barrel, racist nonsense. It's repetitiveness is more painful than drilling through your own head. The "acting" is the worst I've ever seen. You'd be more likely to find better actors simply asking random people on the street to read the lines from the script. The camera-work sucks, the "directing" is awful, and the "special effects" stink. Everything about this "movie" sucks.

I don't care how small this "film's" budget was. There's simply no excuse for such mediocrity. Clerks, Eraserhead, and Paranormal Activity are three films that were made with roughly equal budgets. And those can actually be called films, unlike this pile of garbage.

It kills me that I have to even give this a 1 out of 10, because a 1 is a far too-generous rating for this crap.

Black Devil Doll is a nasty little picture, one with no apparent moral compass and the desire to mix the elements and aesthetics of blaxploitation films of the 1970's while loosely following the premise of the Child's Play series and making a priority out of including numerous scenes of doll-on-human sexual intercourse.

The film is inspired by the 1984 film of the same name just with "from Hell" added to the end of the title so we know exactly where this absurd little character once resided. This film's director, Jonathan Louis Lewis, clearly has admiration and a love for the films of the blaxploitation genre, a genre which was largely responsible for hiring young and old black talent in the 1970's to headline such inane pictures as Blacula and Black Dynamite. Lewis, however, creates a film that, while easy to admire for its devotion to such a quirky chapter in cinema's history, is hard to watch and incredibly uncomfortable to sit through, even in its barely-cinematic state of sixty-three minutes.

The main issue is with the approach Lewis chooses to take, which is seemingly to cater to the people who love to watch two foot tall wooden dolls have sex with full-grown women, with the camera, of course, focused on their voluptuous figures. This gets tedious really quickly, especially when the film's one-note joke isn't overplayed but severely underplayed once its intentions become clear. The film is a horror film, like many blaxploitation films were, but it takes so long to build to its horror elements and scenes of violence and gore that we've already laughed so much to even be ready for the horror elements. When they come, it's the most awkward "oh yeah" moment, after we just watched a black puppet have hardcore sex with several different women.

The film's slender story involves Heather (Heather Murphy), a young teen with a bulging bust in a cleavage-bearing top, who is bored one day and decides to remedy her boredom by screwing about with an Ouija board. Heather's antics come back to bite her when the Ouija Board brings her doll to life in the form of a recently deceased serial killer who murdered fifteen Caucasian women before raping them. Now, Heather meets the "black devil doll," falls in love with it, has sex with it numerous times, and so forth.

The second act takes a wee bit of a darker turn, with Heather inviting numerous friends over for an afternoon of fun and drinks but not before the doll can violently assault and have sex with each one.

Films like Black Devil Doll take the very principles of what film criticism was erected off of and shred them so they're unrecognizable. How to rate a film like this effectively is a mystery to me. While the film technically does what it sets out to do, that doesn't mean I had a grand time watching it. The film is so bogged down in dirty-mindedness, gratuitous nudity, graphic, redundant scenes of puppet-on-human sex that do nothing but make one uncomfortable, and then gore and violence to conclude the picture that is tacked on in a way that makes it seem unsure of its own direction.

As stated, Lewis clearly has a fondness for old school horror and the blaxploitation genre. Because of that, I hope he chooses to exercise it again at a later date. This is a picture that would've worked as a short rather than a medium-length film. Better yet, it would've worked best as a daydream.

Starring: Heather Murphy. Voiced by: Martin Boone. Directed by: Jonathan Louis Lewis.

I have been seeing promos and clips of this film for months, so you can imagine how excited I was to finally get to see it. This was going to be way better than all those Chucky movies.

This movie is the very definition of blaxploitation. Every stereotype you can imagine is in here.

In addition every sexual act that you can imagine is in here too. I won't list them, but your perversion has to be included.

The blood flows freely after Devil Doll is through with the women, and in one case, with the man.

The bulk of the blood and all the gore was saved for the ending, which was so over the top I watched with my mouth wide open.

This is one of the most original and perfect exploitation films ever made.

Black rapist of multiple white chicks is executed and comes back as a black Jerry Mahonny puppet.

Isn't that enough?

OMG! This movie is one original and funny 75 minutes.

Clearly X rated, but so good. And Refreshing.

Our dead and resurrected black puppet goes through a plethora of white hos before meeting his end.

Puh-lenty of topless babes.

So funny