COMMENTS
Ah doll movies, why did they ever stop? I suppose people don't find'em scary anymore thanks to Chucky's weed-smoking ass, but I'm still a fan of the sub-genre. This film is a little different than the usual doll movies, where the dolls are these tiny things that run around killing people. The dolls that do the killing in this movie are life-size and you don't fully see them move until towards the end, so a lot of times you'll see a hand moving towards the actor or their eyes would be moving. I think it's actually quite effective; seeing those freaky-looking dolls move their eyes will surely send shivers down certain people. Sadly the movie just turns into a huge mess towards the end, with its plot-holes and predictability.

So the story is about a group of people, ranging from a high school student, to a photographer, who are all invited to go to a secluded doll museum and get their likeness turned into a doll. Now according to the legend in the movie if someone cares a lot for a doll it will somehow get a soul. With that in mind things start out perfect for the group, until a doll-obsessed girl in the group hangs herself due to someone ripping her beloved doll apart. Then the deaths begin one after the other, until it's revealed that the strange dolls around the house are committing these crimes. My biggest complaint about the movie would have to be the fact that the photographer seems to know it all about dolls. He goes into detail about how dolls can get a soul and even how to kill a doll if it turns bad. How or why he knew so much was never explained. Actually, a lot of stuff in this movie was never fully explained.

I think if the movie had a better script that it would have worked. I actually liked the flick in the first 30-minutes-or-so, but once I realized all the plot-holes my opinion slowly began to change. The movie is decent otherwise, except for the fact that the last 5-minutes has absolutely no subtitles! But by then you pretty much get the gist of everything that's going on.

OVERALL
A decent flick that had potential, but falls apart as more of the story is revealed. It has some fairly decent scenes involving the dolls that are somewhat freaky, but it's nothing scary otherwise. Worth a check if you're desperate for a new Korean horror flick.