A precious girl named Judy Bower (Carrie Lorriane) along with her nasty father David and her stepmother Rosemary are stranded with their vehicle near an old mansion as they encounter a dollmaker named Gabriel Harwicke (Guy Rolfe) and his wife Hilary (Hilary Mason) as they all stay for the night including some wild teenage partygoers too.
Judy is excited about the dolls but they are very suspicious as she encounters one of the teenage girls named Isabel Prange (Bunty Bailey) being tortured to death by some of them.
She goes to the aid of a sensitive and caring man named Ralph Morris (Stephen Lee) who doesn't believe her story until he sees for himself and also talks to her parents but they get verbally abusive with her and accusing her for making up such ridiculous tales.
But the guests there are being offed one by one and possibly becoming dolls themselves.

The performances and everything else is incredibly stale and doesn't whip the film in shape all that much.
The first scene was not at all believeable that involves a family of three, David, Rosemary and Judy when they are driving in their car in a storm and then trying to look for shelter after it breaks down. However, after the vehicle breaks down and to what they are trying to do about it all looked very energetic in which this almost left an impression that this was going to be a fun low budget horror.
While they hike to a place to stay after the storm innocent Judy brings her cute teddybear along but her wicked stepmother Rosemary insists on her to throw it away as this leaves a hearbreaking moment on a loveable toy we all remember and want nothing happening to it.
When they hike it a teasing moment with the teddy bear growing gigantic with fangs attacking both David and Rosemary giving it a nice low budget horrror feel to it. The special effects looked pretty decent here. While watching this scene it makes you wonder if this is really happening.
When they find an old mansion there's some interesting camera shots like on both the owners of the place Gabriel and Hilary as they look creepy in their first appearance especially when Gabriel himself is pointing a gun at the family for trespassing.
Then the family stays for dinner in which Gabriel has a nice charming discussion with Judy and being generous by offering her a doll which is a jester in which this moment looked a bit cute by what they were talking about. It looked effective for sure.
Then a nice surprising moment when some other people crash into the place trying to look for shelter with their vehicles breaking down in the same area as this looked mildly suspenseful to watch as it took me by surprise when I saw this but it was a far cry to make me jump.
Then while everyone heads for shut eye some of them gets aggressive when they spot a room full of dolls in which there's nice focused shots on these objects as well as having a bad feeling that the terror will strike.
Plus when Judy tries to convince her dad and stepmom on what's happening their reactions are very dysfunctional towards her. It left me a feeling in which I hope they will get theirs in the end. Especially during a moment when her father David tries to wreck her toy in which I got an impression that he's in for danger when he tries to do this.
When Judy tries to convince a nice guest at the mansion whom is Ralph Morris things looked uplifting when they discuss as to what is going on. It looked impressive when they work as a team against the struggle of the dolls that are killing others.
When the horror happens with the dolls going in for the kill or doing other evil deeds it looked uninspired and pretty bland. Yet there's a moment when a wild girl Enid looks for her friend and spots her as to how she was transformed. I admit that this was done in a nice horror style.
Near the end of the film both Gabriel and Hilary tries to tell little Judy a lie as to what happened with her parents leaving her as if she was dreaming on what went on. This moment seemed to work in cleverly compared to the whole plot.
Bottom line is that this was like a pre-version of Puppet Master and Demonic Toys but a very lame and boring one too. The film tries to be scary but due to a lack of a good budget and comedic conversations it fails miserably. However, there are some interesting effects so it is saved from bombing but that doesn't mean much. Good thing a sequel never arose as near the end it opened for one.

The acting is badly performed by most of the cast members in this one. Lead actor Ian Patrick Williams (David Bower) is way too over the top as an abusive father in the film and really gets too carried away. Yet he seemed to do well onto the camera as someone whom is arrogant and impatient. He definetely came across as someone unlikeable.
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon (Rosemary Bower) is almost passable as a wicked stepmother and second wife but yet she is a little too silly. She for sure came across as an ice queen along with showing a hatred atttiude. You'd almost want to smack her for being so cold blooded.
Child actress Carrie Lorraine (Judy Bower) tries to be cute and charming as the daughter that's what I mean she TRIES to be and is very annoying. Yet she shows off some okay energy as well as being happy go lucky type during the beginning of her performance.
However, Guy Rolfe (Gabriel Harwicke) seems to know his craft as the dollmaker in the film and carries on his trait as Toulon for the Puppet Master series. He shows off his warm hearted charming behavior towards a child in which he was belieaveble by behaving go generously. Certainly made you want to like him for how he behaves.
Hilary Mason (Hilary Hartwicke) also stands out well playing his wife and performs quite well. She for sure showed off a good mysterious type. Certainly had a nice horror feel to her if anyone was out of line by acting a little emotionless or expressionless.
Stephen Lee (Ralph Morris) seems pretty good at being a comedic type to the film and so we should give him some credit too. He was believeable by acting down to earth and likeable. Shows off a ton of spunk and energy with everything that he does here and probably the best in the cast.

A woman's arm is bitten off by a monstrous gigantic teddybear
Eyeballs are popped out
A face is sliced off

Fuzzbee Morse has real lame synthesizer playing to the film as he tries very hard to make it sound original as possible but doesn't succeed. Yet during the opening credits it sounded effective with the chiming sounds to it all as well as some magical sounds. I was hoping that some of this would be used in the story. It is used a little bit but again nothing that is too memorable.