10 Best Killer Doll Movies

4) Pin (1988)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um9rXGoMTv8 Not exactly a killer dolly movie, more a warped descendant of Psycho, Pin nevertheless features a scary mannequin doll that is used for anatomy teaching. The film uses ventriloquism to great effect. This cool little cult film is so good, I plonked it on the list. Dr Frank has a life size, anatomically correct dummy called Pin that he uses to teach his children Leon and Ursula about the body and bodily functions in a way that they will relate to. Unfortunately Leon is an undiagnosed schizophrenic and he believes the dummy is alive. His obsessive compulsive mother won't let Leon have friends so Pin is his bestest mate. He is traumatised when he catches his father's nurse using pin as a sex toy. When Leon is 18 his father finds him having a conversation with Pin via ventriloquism and realises how ill he is. He takes the dummy out of the house on a pretext to use it in a speech. As Dr Frank and his wife speed away, they crash. Leon retrieves Pin from the car and his parents are dead. After the crash, Aunt Dorothy moves in and encourages Ursula to take a job at the library. Leon is against this and uses Pin to frighten his aunt to death. Ursula continues to work in the library where she meets Stan and falls in love. Leon, meanwhile, has put latex skin on Pin and a wig along with his father's clothes. Upset with Ursula's romance, Leon invites Stan over and bludgeons him with a bit of wood. Pin tells him to put Stan in a bag and dump him in the river but he is interrupted by Ursula coming home early so he just dumps Stan's body in a woodpile outside the house. Leon tells a worried Ursula that Stan has been called to a sick friend. She believes him until she sees his watch lying under a chair and the wet spot where Leon cleaned up the blood. When confronted, Leon said that Pin made him do it. Ursula runs away in hysterics and Leon has a conversation with Pin in which Pin basically calls him a self righteous pr**k. Ursula comes back with an axe. She raises it in the air and Leon screams. The picture goes white. Stan, somehow, is still alive. We see Stan and Ursula visiting Pin. Ursula tells him that herself and Stan are going on a trip. Pin asks them have they heard from Leon. Pin says he misses him. It is revealed that Stan and Ursula are talking to Leon who is dressed in Pin's clothes and latex skin. When Ursula destroyed the doll, The Pin side of Leon's personality completely took over. A welcome breath of fresh air after all the 1980s slasher upon slasher horror movie fad, Pin puts the psychological back in horror. Raised in such a cloistered environment, it was only natural that Leon or Ursula would go nuts. And through their father using Pin, it was the only way they got nice, decent parenting. Their real parents were screw ups. David Hewlitt hits the right note of macabre in his portrayal of Leon and Cynthia Preston is wonderful as his sister who just wants some normality in her life. Pin the film has a seriously creepy ambience with disturbing psychosexual overtones. Granted, Pin the doll is an inanimate object and doesn't do anything physical himself, but he is brought to life via Leon's madness and his presence is far creepier than anything in Dolly Dearest or Dollman vs Demonic Toys.