When Punch comes to life near the end the strings and puppeteer's hand are plainly visible.
When Rosemary runs to jump through the window, it is cracked before she reaches it.
First time we see a doll speak there's a close-up shot of the dolls face, staring directly into the man.
But on the wide-shot we can clearly see the little girl is holding the doll and the doll is slightly tilting on to the side actually looking straight at the floor/wall.
There's during one scene many dolls on the stomach or chest area on the lady but when she tips over onto the floor face first there's no dolls or puppets anywhere near her or on her.
They however appear back again on the next scene.
When the little girl and the boy get into the room with lots of dolls, the girl is standing next to the boy, but all of a sudden when the boy is raising up and the camera gets behind him the girl is now in front of the boy.
As Isabel is getting rammed against the floorboard headfirst, the amount of blood splatter on the wall does not match the blood on her face, and in the opposing shots the floorboard is clean.
When she lays face down in the hallway, following, there is an ominous pool of blood about her head.
As she raises her head, disheveled, some of the blood amount disappears.
If you are a sensitive, emphatic person, you might love this movie. It creates this most real and delightful moments, where you cry and laugh at the same time.
I can remember looking at the VHS tape of this way back in the early nineties when I was nine or ten years old. The reverse cover which displayed rows of dolls looked pretty creepy.
Visually, Dolls is a meeting between the style of Kitano's "Fireworks" and "Scene at the Sea" with that of Yimou Zhang's "House of Flying Daggers" (what with the crazy colour saturation and all). It was slow, well directed, and beautifully shot, with at least passable acting and intermittent scripting.
Many years ago, I checked this movie out on the internet, it looked like a lame doll slasher pic and many years later, I checked the trailer out on YouTube! And I changed my mind about the film.
This movie is a mess. The dialog in many parts is forced and unrealistic.
From Director Stuart Gordon Of Re Animator And From Beyond Comes a Film About Six People Gets Stuck in a Very Bad Rain Weather And Had Taken Shelter in a Old House That's Own By Couple Elderly People And Once Seattle in The Six People Stars To Realizes That The Elderly Couple Share a Secret That They Both Make Defferent Kinds Of Dolls That At Night They Come To Life And Attacking The People That They Think Are a Treat And Mean. Stuart Gordon's Dolls Stars Ian Patrick Williams, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Carrie Lorraine, Guy Rolfe, Hilary Mason, Bunty Bailey, Cassie Stuart And Stephen Lee And The Special Effects Makeup And Antrominc Puppet Dolls Were Great Too.
A father, a daughter, a stepmother -- three components of a classic fairy tale -- stop at a creepy house where an old dollmaker and his wife offer them shelter. Certainly you and I, experienced film watchers, would run screaming into the night.
It's barely 70 minutes with a wafer thin story but there are some genuinely creepy moments, a bit of good gore, and a kind of fairly tale weirdness to it that all work well. Simple but effective.
6 people end up in a house hosted by two weird old folks and their all-so malevolent dolls. Dolls is kinda like a kids movie with an R rating the way music was all happy and upbeat and the supposed pervert with a lovable childlike mind who loves dolls and all that magical s···.
