The Curse of Robert the Doll

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Seen this film last year on DVD, but bough it the year before last after discovering there was a sequel! I didn't expect much from the film & knew it was going to be boring or crappy to some degree, but I had a whisker of hope it could be good...! As usual, the film was rubbish, but somehow slightly better than the first, which really sucked! The film was slightly better because it had a slightly better premise, gorgeous actress lead & of course, had a bit more bloodiness to it. But the story-line & pacing killed it! The film itself wasn't convincing with editing being so weak & sloppy it's as if the filmmakers don't care about the outcome but only just to make a sequel for the sake of it! What I don't understand, is why the film has to lack action sequences & have deaths that aren't the imaginative? They could at least watch Child's Play or Annabelle to give them some inspiration if they suck at creative ideas & thinking! But no, they didn't! I also can't help but feel the film overall just felt isolated & dead! It seemed to lifeless, like Robert himself. But the film was slightly better than its predacessor, so that's something I guess...! 3/10

I just experienced the misfortune of watching this horrible, poor excuse of a movie. It's not scary at all, and I found myself rolling my eyes several times. The acting is poor, but the writing is even worse. Who on Earth allowed this movie to see the light of day?

I'd seen the first movie, and Robert was so sexy I had to watch the next one. The first one made me wet the bed because I was having nightmares (I'm a 52 year old). I showed it to my wife, Doris, and now she wants a divorce, Robert is that brilliant. The second one was amazing, the acting deserving of oscars, and the storyline was so original I don't know where they get it from. Lots of the movie shows Robert behind a glass case so you can see his delicious rocking bod. My favourite part is the end where he gets in a silly goofy mood and stabs lots of people, terrifying but how could you not love this hotsicle. Robert is my favourite film, because it's so scary. This brings me to tears, he's what I aspire to be.

I wondered who they made this film for and so watched it to waste over an hour of my life. Acting terrible plot non existent and yet they made a way to continue this garbage by the end of movie

The story is played out some years after the first movie. This time with Emily Barker. A student who takes a night job at a museum to pay of loans. Unfortanly for her this is the new home for Robert the doll. After a while working as a cleaner, Emily starts getting a feeling something's wrong in the museum. she is not wrong. I love horror movies and i was so scared for dolls after seeing Chucky many years ago. Unfortanly this movie is nothing like Chucky or the newer Annabell. The first movie was badly written. Slow going Forward. The characters never felt realistic when they talked to each other and when the doll was on screen it was so bad it made you laugh. This movie is not better. The characters are still bad. The doll still just look so foolish and the story is so slow. Nothing happens the first 25 minutes. If you as me love horror movies with killing dolls. Watch Chucky or The boy instead. Light years better than this school project.

Was drawn into seeing 'The Curse of Robert the Doll', with a cool poster/cover, an intriguing though far from original premise and as someone with a general appreciation for the genre it fits under. That it was low-budget, which from frequent personal experience is rarely a good sign due to that there are so many poor ones out there (though there are decent to good ones as well), made me though apprehensive. It is sadly however yet another film seen recently, hence some reiteration because the exact same strengths and flaws present in those films are here, that to me was incredibly disappointing considering its potential which it doesn't do anywhere near enough with. 'The Curse of Robert the Doll' is really very bad, with so many huge flaws and doesn't do anywhere near enough with its potential, which was quite a good deal. There is very little good here in 'The Curse of Robert the Doll', which was seen by me hearing that it was better than the first. Actually for me they're on the same level and the flaws are exactly the same too. Only the titular doll passes muster as a redeeming quality, he is quite creepy at times and it is a shame that the rest of the film isn't. Going on to the negatives, the story does feel over-stretched and some of it comes over as vague and under-explained in the last third where the film especially became duller, more predictable, more senseless and less unsettled and never gaining momentum. All the characters are too sketchy and with cardboard thin and colourless personalities and with nowhere near enough to make one want to endear to them. Their annoying and illogical decision making and behaviours frustrates. The chemistry is bland and unfocused. The sound quality is obvious and utilised cheaply (being too loud in the build ups and people's reactions), the effects are laughable and all of the acting is lacking severely on the whole, that's actually an understatement as the worst of it is horrendous from especially the mother. There is no sense of horror or engagement with the awful predicament they're in, and no connecting with the character, it just reeks of indifference which makes the viewer not care less too. Dialogue can be stilted and rambling while the pace and film drags on forever, apparent from the very start, never recovering that interest is lost fast. The ending has no build-up and just ends ridiculously. Found too many of the supposedly shocking moments not surprising or scary and the atmosphere dreary, due to the excessive obviousness, a lot of dumb and vague moments and explanations and the lack of tension and suspense. Thrills are none, thanks to stodginess and excessive over-familiarity, and found myself never invested in the drama, which tended to be indifferently acted, interminably paced and statically directed. A lot of 'The Curse of Robert the Doll' has really dull and going nowhere plot elements and often nonsensical and confusing character motivations, while too many of the things to make you shocked are far from creative or unsettling. It all feels rather tame. Nothing freaky or interesting, no development and too derivative, while everything is unimaginative and are more odd than scary, completely failing to show any sense of dread. There is nothing interesting or illuminating with what the film was trying to do and the drama is overwrought with no momentum and a lot of weirdness. The direction is leaden, got the sense their heart was not in it, and the music is ill-fitting. 'The Curse of Robert the Doll' is very amateurish visually, too drearily lit and shows no care in the way it's shot. The editing has more continuity errors than one can count. Altogether, very poor. 2/10 Bethany Cox

I was excited to watch this film because i'm a massive fan of horrors and i loved chucky and annabelle but very very disappointed with the outcome, on the front of the dvd it says "CHUCKY and ANNABELLE were SCARY ROBERT is your WORST NIGHTMARE" and annabelle and chucky were heart rushing thrillers and as it says it's worse than annabelle and chucky and to be honest s you're wasting your time and money and in all honesty just don't. thank you for your time

I must start out with a warning of sorts. Don't lured in by this movie, which obviously just cashes in on the success of "Annabelle". The storyline in this movie was pointless and really uneventful. The characters were essentially one-dimensional cardboard cut outs that you don't care about or invest any energy in. The doll itself looked like something that was made by someone in primary school. And it was painstakingly clear that all the scenes with the doll was just some person holding it and moving its arms or legs. it was all so very, very low key. This low budget horror movie is not worth the time or effort. I actually sat through it to the end but drifted off two or three times along the way. And I actually found myself with my attention on the phone a lot throughout the course of the snoozefest that is "The Curse of Robert the Doll".

Literally nothing to get you invested in the movie. The story is aimless and boring, the characters acting is stiff and dull. Like they were filming a school project. The so called "cursed" doll looks like a bad paper craft and looks like someone awkwardly "playing dolls" with a child in every scene. Would also like to point out that for 2016 the SFX are.. abysmal. Like I'm pretty sure an actual child could make better looking blood/guts with tissue paper and red paint. I could complain for hours but not even worth it.