I once got trapped in an elevator for an hour and 20 minutes (the length of this film). I was without food, water, light or air but once I started this pile of sludge, I wish I was back there in the dark. Or stuck on the toilet -with no toilet paper! I thought the first film in this series was the worst thing ever committed to celluloid, but this is easily just as bad. And like the first one, this film is excruciatingly awful. Even 10 minutes of it feels too much. How I finished it is beyond me. I must have been drunk and just fell asleep half way through. The acting occasionally hints at adequacy but mostly it doesn't and as a film, it's stupefyingly boring with the most inept camera work and script imaginable. Yet again the camera is constantly in the actors' faces and you can almost smell their bad breath. The plastic "scary" doll Robert- with his comedy ruby hair, milky eye, 70's centre parting and soft baby shoes operated by "unseen" wires, still shuffles around, this time in a portacabin masquerading as a "spooky" museum -at a glacial speed. But strangely, he still seems able to catch humans running away from him at full pelt. Then his little rigid plastic hands the size of Shreddies manage to wield all sorts of adult weapons; including a screwdriver and of course, an old fashioned cut throat razor that happens to be lying around with predictable results. The sign on his glass case (which inexplicably he can escape from) says " don't take photos without Robert's permission ". If you do, you'll regret it. Well nobody takes any photos of him- yet they still end up dead! Totally illogical. In short don't watch this long film. If you've got laundry to do, do that because trust me, it's far more interesting.
Review of The Curse of Robert the Doll
