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Title: Doll from Hell (1996)

Genre: Horror

Plot Synopsis:
After his daughter Erika is murdered by a gang of thugs, a reclusive doll maker crafts a life-sized doll and infuses it with her vengeful spirit. Now possessed, the doll begins hunting down her killers one by one, enacting bloody revenge from beyond the grave.

Cast and Crew:

• Director: Shinobu Murata
• Writers: Toyoshi Yoshioka, Toshio Yoshioka
• Cast:
  • Yuko Sakaki as Erika
  • Rie Kondoh as Emi
  • Hōka Kinoshita as Detective
  • Tomomi Nishizaki as Kana
  • Kenji Mizuhashi as Hiroshi

IMDb Link:
Doll from Hell (1996) 

Reviews from Letterboxd:

1. Scumbalina – ★★½
   “Terrible low-budget splatter-eros flick had just enough of my kind of aesthetic to keep me interested but not enough to recommend in good conscience. The doll character is cool looking but there’s not nearly enough of her. Mostly just a lot of run-of-the-mill humdrum Japanese trash.”

2. Pink⚸Meanie – ★★★
   “In which a dude tries to relate to the killer doll by saying basically ‘we’re both dolls that need to kill people to survive’. Nothing makes any sense, but if muddled cheap 90s pink J-horror is your thing then this is a thing.”

3. J.R. – ★★★
   “Muddy synth drone gurgling under video-smeared neons. The planes of beautiful human faces carved out of three or four colours at once. Fog and light bleeding pink from the dutch angles themselves, a house haunted by a music video’s parody of Argento. A movie doesn’t need to be ‘good’ if it looks like this.”

4. Jon Hillman – ★★½
   “While decent for something that clearly had a nothing budget, it was never as interesting as its potential.”

5. Film Blitz – ★★
   “The main problem is we don’t see nearly enough of her in action: likely under ten minutes tops. Even given the short running time of sub-75 minutes, that leaves an awful lot of screen-time to be filled by intra-gang bickering, creeping around corridors, and the previously mentioned gratuitous s&x, all of which are considerably less interesting.”

Meta Description:
Doll from Hell (1996) is a Japanese horror film about a murdered girl whose soul is placed into a life-sized doll by her grieving father. Directed by Shinobu Murata, the film delivers a supernatural tale of vengeance, blending eerie atmosphere with low-budget gore and surreal visuals.