Blood Dolls (1999)

   

Produced, Written & Directed by: Charles Band

Starring:

Jack Maturin .... Virgil Travis
Debra Mayer .... Moira Yulin
William Paul Burns .... Mr. Mascaro
Warren Draper .... Harrison Yulin
Nicholas Worth .... George Warbeck
Jodie Fisher .... Mercy Shaw
Phil Fondacaro .... Hylas

Release Date: Direct-to-Video: August 31, 1999

 

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An eccentric and crazed billionaire named Virgil Travis (Jack Maturin) who has a head the size of a avacado has made his latest creation on some blood thristy killing dolls while residing in his mansion as well as keeping a female rock group forcing them to play on command while he has killed people he trusted and betrayed him sets them out to kill more on his enemies who have wronged him
He meets up with his match on a woman named Moira Yulin (Debra Mayer) and finding love, both of which come in the form of a woman who is even more evil and twisted than he is.

 

Opening credits surrounding objects and so fourth looked amusing to watch as I thought that maybe I'd be entertained but I was wrong while starting to watch this flick.
When the story starts a businessman of some sort named Howard Loftus enters a mansion with his assistant Cindy Agami doing a deal with Virgil Travis as this person is wearing a mask to hide his head. The situations looked fair while watching this.
The bizarre happenings surround them as in a cell there's a female group of rockers belting out music in which this happens as to when Virgil is going to do something deadly. Plus he introduces these two to his doll creations in which has nice close up camera shots on them as their facial looks were supposed to look creepy but I found them to look funny.
Then the death toll happens when these two innocent people are tied to a chair with a good shot on Howard when a drill is about to plurge in his chest as he shows good frightening expressions but however isn't convincing with the yelling or screaming. At the same with Cindy when something happens to her. She was quite annoying in fact. However, the scene grabs attention wondering if the drill will kill them. Plus the dolls do something deadly too. Sound familiar to another Full Moon Pictures of the makers? What's more bizarre is when Virgil moves his mask and reveals his tiny head. This was more corny than it was scary.
Along in the story I spotted a seductive mistress Moira Yulan talking nasty towards what seems to be her bitch and husband Harrison when he kisses her and acts silly. I rolled my eyes when spotting this outcome. It was pathetic.
A good scene involving a bodybuilder George Warbeck in his weightlifting room trying to find out who's spying on him with good shots on the dolls peeking as well as attacking too.
While this is happening I spotted a terrific reaction on another person by getting aggressive and pointing his gun when he enters the room and being attacked too. Which both of these scene's were probably the best scene's in this golden turkey.
Often other times in Virgil's headquarters by forcing the girl rock band in their cell to perform while another killing spree was happening as this was getting to be totally ridiculous and annoying as hell. Yet good shots on all of this.
The perverted Yulin couple start to get kinky again wearing leather and the husband is chained up with whipping devices and so fourth which was of course lame to watch.
Afterwards, Moira gets charming and lustful towards Yulin in which he is wearing his mask while these moments are happening but this like the rest of the story is uninspired.
Moira goes back to her husband to do more kinky stuff which includes tying him up with barbwire as this doesn't look too comforting. Then she leaves the room in which she has a deadly plan for him and boy it doesn't look pretty when the dolls arrive which may please certain fans that like horror violence.
A nice shocked look on Moira after Virgil Travis removes his mask as well as the dolls attacking her and her lying on the ground screaming with him looking over her and speaking evilly towards her.
All hell breaks loose in Virgil's femlae rock group escapes from the cell and so fourth with deadly situations.
Afterwards Virgil's clown sidekick Mr. Mascaro announces to us watching an alternate ending with a happier vibe. So they show this which was ridicoulous and moronic.
Bottom line is that Charles Band tried to make another version of Puppet Master but he failed majorly as this was difficult to watch cause it will bore the hell out of you with no point to the story at all so what's the point? Well Full Moon Pictures probably was hurting for money so they'd try anything and I bet were humiliated after the results.
The vhs box cover looks impressive and the story may seem like something to watch while reading it on the back but by all means a complete torture to watch and not the least bit scary either.

The acting is in average taste as lead actor Jack Maturin (Virgil Travis) seemed to be so-so with his evil attitude but he tends to get carried away alot and lose that evil charm he's supposed to have. His energy seems to shine off in a fair matter thpough so I will give him credit for that.
Debra Mayer
(Moira Yulin) however does her job well enough with her slick, sleazy and evil speaking as well as trying to seem innocent and charming too which showed her versatality in a descent mode. She does well speaking smoothly in a scene and acting tempting towards someone to marry her.
William Paul Burns
(Mr. Mascaro) had the right looks and deep speaking as an assitant to the evil Travis which he knew his part inside out and had good timing with his seriousness that it's quite comedic on what is going on with him.
Warren Draper
(Harrison Yulin) was cheesy with his performance but yet really lived to play a perverted type in the film making his role realistic at the same time and a reminds you of those morons you can't stand that has only one thing on their mind when it comes to women. He reacts well while getting tortured to death.
Phil Fondacero
(Hylas) annoyed the hell out of me the most with his high strung attitude as you'd want to kill him to shut him up. However like his other performances in shows that I've seen he comes off memorably.

A woman briefly takes off her top with her breasts exposed.

A person is drilled in the chest with tons of blood splurting out
Some bloody stabbings mainly by the dolls
The odd blood smears on corpses
An eye is stabbed
A person is tortured in wire

Richardo Bizzetti was impressive with his synthesizer playing along with the heavy metal guitar riffs in certain scene's especially the tragic moments when the dolls attack and kill. Almost reminds me of a scene in Carrie at the senior prom when she unleshes her powers in a cheesy kind of way. He also has the odd circus type music which almost sounds similar to the Puppet Master flicks.