Black Puppet C*ck: Black Devil Doll (2008)

Black Devil Doll (2008)
Ratings: ***1/2
Starring: Heather Murphy, Natasha Talonz and Christine Svendsen

Mubia, an exiled black militant, gets sentenced to the fryer for murdering and raping a number of white women. Luckily for him, a buxom bimbo dabbles with an Ouija board at the night of his execution and this somehow results to him being reincarnated into the girl's ventriloquist dummy, thus turning into the Black Devil Doll. Frightened at first, the girl warms up to him (quickly) and they become a couple (in that second), with cheesy montages of them in the park, eating ice cream, riding a tricycle, having sex in the couch, all while the girl's ex-boyfriend tries to win her heart back. And I wonder, had it occur to this guy that his former girlfriend's doing a living dummy? Just one time, did that single misplaced idea ever came to him? That all of this very weird?

...Gah, moving on.

Soon, the boob and doll's relationship goes stale and Mubia demands more moist, buxom TaTas for his pleasure...and surprisingly, his girl lets him have his way and invites her friends over, not telling them about the living dummy with the insatiable libido. After she leaves them alone with her puppet boyfriend, who she assumes is just gonna have sex with them, Mubia starts attacking, raping and killing them one by one. Not necessarily in that order!

Sex, racism, rapes, murders, drugs, toilet humor, senseless sleaze, montages of busty gals in a car wash, Black Devil Doll (2008) blows a heavy load of love to the sleaze and rancid randomness of grindhouse films that it makes a perfect look back to those bygone days of drug-infused, hippie-happy low-budget retro flicks.

As you can tell, Black Devil Doll (2008) is not a film for everybody. It has every deviousness squeezed in a pint-sized puppet show that will surely upset a clean-cut soccer mom into organizing a hate group with tommyguns, but for those with a forgiving sense of humor and a bit of a "rock on" for these things, the film is a mini cult classic in the making.

Yes, at first glance, it's a bad movie; acting is awful, the effects look dodgy, and the story has no sense whatsoever in it. One can easily mistake it for a porno, but it's a fun raunchy affair all through out, at its silliest, cheapest and most politically incorrect way. I'm pretty sure the goal of this film is to entertain the morbidly minded so no Hollywood awards for this one, but at least we can enjoy watching it whilst boozed up close to a coma.

As a slasher, it actually covers everything by the book; we got creative kills going in and out, ranging from brutal knife stabbings and throat cuts, to death by hair dryer electrocution and a random blow dart to the neck. Worse comes around the end with the longest dramatic gun kill that I've seen in history and there's even a bodycounter-friendly short mid-credits! There's also a tribute to 70s/80s exploitation sub-genres, including blaxploitation (seeing majority of the cast, main "star" included, is African American), sexploitation (Must I elaborate? Maybe. We do have a full sex scene in one point, heads up to you guys) and even a bit of Rape and Revenge. (The finale) Just a real campy and sticky throwback to grindhouse shlock!

Black Devil Doll (2008) is, at the end, a funny, smutty future cult film that exists to upset and be silly at the same time. If you're easily offended, there's enough reason to skip this one but, if you're a cool curious cat, feel free to dive in!

Bodycount:
1 male executed via electric hair
1 female gets a knife through her chest
1 female electrocuted in a bathtub with a plugged hair dryer
1 female had her head bashed with bat
1 male gets a poison dart shot to his neck
1 female had her neck slashed with knife
1 male shot to death
1 female shot in the head
1 male repeatedly hammered on the head
Total: 9