Babydoll (2021, directed by Manfe Lozial)


A group of college students on holiday stay at an abandoned house, little knowing that it was once the sight of a Satanic ceremony.  After one of the women gets upset over a game of spin the bottle, she steps outside and finds a doll.  She gets possessed and goes on to stalk her friends.

A standard slasher/possession film, Babydoll would have worked better if the doll didn’t look like some demented version of Raggedy Anne.  It would have also helped if the characters had been memorable or at least likeable.  The possession scene is effective and it didn’t bother me that the movie left some questions unanswered at the end.  It’s a horror movie so it doesn’t have to wrap everything up in a neat package.  But I just couldn’t get past that stupid doll.  Truly evil dolls don’t look like something you would order as a joke from Etsy.