1987 film by Stuart Gordon
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3 days ago - Dolls is a 1987 American horror film directed by Stuart Gordon, written by Ed Naha, and starring Stephen Lee, Guy Rolfe, Hilary Mason, Ian Patrick Williams, and Bunty Bailey. Its plot follows six people who seek shelter during a storm in the mansion of an elderly doll maker and his wife, only ...
IMDb
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Dolls (1986) ⭐ 6.3 | Horror
May 29, 1987 - A dysfunctional family of three stop by a mansion during a storm -- father, stepmother, and child. The child discovers that the elderly owners are magical toy makers and have a haunted collection of dolls.
Release date May 29, 1987
Duration 01:17:00
Dolls (1987)
for me it's one of the movies that proves that Stuart Gordon was a master, because the setting, the story and title are so bland, yet the movie is so good, and the acting so awesome, it's a very funny movie. i'm still sadden by his death, he was a great director. More on reddit.com
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November 26, 2020Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) is a glorious f***ing movie
What did Siskel think of it? Edit: Looked it up myself. He panned it, insulted the screenwriter (his future partner) and wrote a retrospective about his review in 1993 in which he wondered if he really hated the movie that much. He watched it again and said it was worse than he thought. https://ew.com/article/1993/05/21/beyond-valley-dolls/ God I miss these guys. More on reddit.com
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August 16, 2022[TOMT][MOVIE][2000s] animated kids ?christmas? movie about dolls who got separated from their owner in the airport
I think I found it! The Forgotten Toys (1997-1999) [Series]
And your description was very helpful, since that was the plot of EP 02: “Annie and Teddy take shelter in a church and befriend an owl who lives there. But Keef and Kath the burglars break in to steal two candlesticks.”
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January 11, 2023Videos
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Rotten Tomatoes
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3/4 Perfect for Halloween time, Dolls (1987) is campy but underrated. It genuinely is a creepy film, & definitely worth watching during spooky season. ... Très bon film des années 80 avec une animation Stop motion les poupées est un film vieillot mais regardable à fond ... ICONIC amazing horror film!!! ... If you're looking for a creepy, fun, 80's movie with great practical effects, this is it.
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November 26, 2020 -
Re-visited this quite recently for the first time in a few years and forgot how much I love this film. I think this is probably my favorite film of Stuart Gordon (R.I.P.), great as some of his other efforts like Re-Animator and From Beyond are. Besides the outstanding puppetry and stop-motion which I feel are flawless (and in this era of so much CGI is so refreshing to see), I also love the atmosphere of this which feels immersive and it's low-key yet powerful with the mood it sets. One thing about this film that stands out is how it's essentially a dark fantasy/fairy tale type of a story within the context of a Horror film, and it helps make it more unique and distinctive from other films of the time and era. I'm not sure why it's not a film I don't rewatch more often given that it's actually quite rewatchable and with it's scant running time an easy watch for any occasion. The cast are all very good too, with the standouts being Carrie Lorraine as the daughter (such a shame she never acted more), Ian Patrick Williams and Carolyn Purdy as the hateful and uncaring father and stepmother respectively, the two teen goth punk rock girls, and the late great Stephen Lee and Guy Rolfe as the lovable Ralph and the mysterious yet kindly Gabriel, respectively.
Amidst all of the eerieness and some surprisingly high levels of gore, the film actually manages to be quite charming, which is strange for a Horror film but it makes this one all the more unique in the pantheon of 80s Horror. This side of the Child's Play and Puppet Master series, one of the finest living toy/doll films out there.
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for me it's one of the movies that proves that Stuart Gordon was a master, because the setting, the story and title are so bland, yet the movie is so good, and the acting so awesome, it's a very funny movie. i'm still sadden by his death, he was a great director.
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Amazon
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Amazon.com: Dolls [DVD] : Ian Patrick Williams, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Carrie Lorraine, Guy Rolfe, Hilary Mason, Bunty Bailey, Cassie Stuart, Stephen Lee, Stuart Gordon, Ed Naha: Movies & TV
From horror director Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) and screenwriter Ed Naha (Troll) comes this "fiendish nightmare" (The Hollywood Reporter) that combines the pint-sized playmates of childhood with bone-chilling fun, resulting in "a bloody bonbon you chew with relish" (Los Angeles Times)!A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens in their dark, haunted mansion. The old couple make and collect dolls that, when not sitting still like good little mannequins, creep around in the night, offing the guests one by one!
IMDb
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Dolls (2019) ⭐ 3.8 | Horror
July 2, 2019 - A struggling children's book author and his rebellious teenage daughter move into a house they've inherited and find mysterious dolls in the attic. The father and daughter soon learn that the dolls have a sinister - and deadly - past.
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Dolls (1986)
I always thought of Dolls as Stuart Gordon’s The Old Dark House—this creepy little fairy tale is a super fun ‘dark and stormy night of the living dolls’ jam about a group of people stranded at a mansion during a storm discovering two magical toy makers and their haunted collection of dolls is… ... Now this is how you make a goddamn movie about bitchy, petty killer dolls!
DollDreaming
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A fun Horror film about Dolls to watch - Off-Topic - DollDreaming
November 2, 2022 - Hi, people! So... I was just lurking as usual when I came across Alrics thread about creepy doll comments and it reminded me of an entertaining little 80s Horror film I watched recently which was about creepy Dolls, and it was called... Dolls. While It is a Horror film, its also kind of goofy, wh...
Villains Wiki
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Dolls (film) | Villains Wiki | Fandom
The titular dolls are a mixture of (implied) disguised familiar fairies of Hartwicke couple Gabriel and Hilary and wicked people who were cursed into living dolls for their crimes, from being abusive towards their family to committing unforgivable atrocities, particularly ruining innocence and childhood in everyone with no hesitation, fear, or remorse.
Horrorthriller
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Dolls movie review
E.C.McMullen reviews Dolls starring Carrie Lorraine, Carolyn-Purdy Gordon, Ian Patrick Williams, and Stephen Lee. Directed by Stuart Gordon
Amazon
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Amazon.com: Dolls [Blu-ray] : Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Ian Williams, Ian Patrick Williams, Carolyn-Purdy Gordon, Carrie Lorraine, Guy Rolfe, Hilary Mason, Bunty Bailey, Cassie Stuart, Stephen Lee, Stuart Gordon, Brian Yuzna, Charles Band: Movies & TV
Movies & TV Pre-orders New Releases Best Sellers Deals 4K Store Steelbooks Amazon Exclusive Movies TV shows Blu-ray Prime Video ... London motorists seek shelter from a storm with an old couple who make killer dolls.
Peterson Reviews
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‘Dolls’ is a Different Kind of Children’s Horror Movie
May 2, 2025 - Dolls is a proto-Child’s Play (1988) slasher movie where Gabriel and Hilary’s creepy-faced, sinisterly giggling toys prove astonishingly gifted at collaboratively slamming a new victim’s head into crown molding or turning the human body into geography for a game of Whack-a-Mole where hammers are switched for a hodgepodge of ultra-sharp objects.
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January 1, 1987 - The Hartwicke's vast collection of dolls might be fun to play with and nice to look at, but beneath their lifelike faces lie murderous creatures.
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When an elderly couple hosts a motley crew of overnight guests, a charming doll collection turns into an unstoppable army of killers.
Actors Ian Patrick WilliamsCarolyn Purdy-GordonCarrie Lorraine…
Fandom
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Dolls is a 1987 American horror film directed by Stuart Gordon, written by Ed Naha, and starring Stephen Lee, Guy Rolfe, Hilary Mason, Ian Patrick Williams, and Bunty Bailey. Its plot follows six people who seek shelter during a storm in the ...
Roger Ebert
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Dolls movie review & film summary (1987) | Roger Ebert
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Ambitious horror movies always seem to be waging a subtle war between good and bad taste, and in the best ones, bad taste wins. Let's face it: At some Ambitious horror movies always seem to be waging a subtle war between good and bad taste, and in the best ones, bad taste wins. Let's face it: At some elementary level, horror is about bad taste - about unspeakable affronts to the notion of a well-ordered society. Let a horror movie grow too elegant and it will sit there on the screen, a boring decoration. One of the greatest of all horror films, Luis Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel," even too
Ravenous Monster
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Dolls Movie Review - Ravenous Monster Horror Webzine
July 11, 2019 - Once the “mystery” of the story is revealed, it comes off as predictable, and almost like a live-action episode of Scooby-Doo, but one where that Scrappy asshole is involved and makes the whole thing suck. The focus of Dolls is more on family drama than the scary, spooky dolls…and that’s a shame. I think had the whole Lifetime Movie feel been left out, Dolls could have been something a lot less mediocre.