Your childhood doll just developed daddy issues and a kill list.
A doll maker and his daughter Erika live in a remote mountain villa. When some thugs break in and murder Erika and disfigure the old doll maker, he sets about getting his revenge. He creates a life-size doll and has it possessed by Erika's spirit. The doll then tracks down Erika's killers one-by-one...
Practical Effects
The doll itself: uncanny, awkward, deeply wrong.
Direction
Murata commits to every absurd frame.
Director
Shinobu Murata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shinobu Murata directed numerous direct-to-video Japanese horror films in the 90s; this sits alongside his 'Female Inquisitor' series in the 'pink horror' adjacent market.
The 'living doll' trope in J-horror often channels anxieties about female agency and vesselhood; Erika's weaponized passivity here feels like a cracked mirror of Ringu's Sadako.
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