"so now after they saw this guy awaken some WWII PTSD and this woman could suddenly do the twist, the audience is completely sold on the magical powers of the magician" #monsterdon
pure unadulterated hatred is such a great schtick to do with your dummy, everyone can relate to hating the arrogance of some little piece of shit kid #monsterdon
i mean assuming the hypnotist has already established persistence and implanted a backdoor in the woman why would he need to even go to the party, just open up a shell and make her grab the gold from the vault or whatever #monsterdon
for the plot of this movie to work they need to establish that this guy is suddenly direly interested in this doll and is willing to sacrifice his wife to get a closer look at it, which totally tracked for 1950's audiences #monsterdon
oh crap i forgot to start a #monsterdonBingo card, but starting off with a bunch of easy checks glimpsing leg in the car scene and the creepy eyes and whatnot #monsterdon
wow what an awesome show, the guy who hypnotizes people into thinking they're about to be shot came over and made it seem like the dummy he fucking hates was about to stab him, we really need to keep inviting this guy around everywhere #monsterdon
in an act of unpredecented integrity, i am not counting that as a sneak attack even though it would give me bingo, since the dummy didn't sneak shit and he didn't attack shit, he just raise the knife and failed to execute #monsterdon
wow the hypnotist sure has been talking to this woman with a completely blank stare while he whispers commands with unbroken eye contact for awhile, it's probably nothing #monsterdon
the doll so far doesn't seem like a devil doll at all, he's just sort of a slave and nothing about the hypnotist's behavior is making me think it wouldn't be sick as hell for the doll to escape and be free #monsterdon
so the movie revolves around the hypnotist trying to mind control and fuck marianne and the dummy trying to get free. so again it seems like if the dummy is free then all conflicts resolve and he gets to go off and be like a longshoreman in baltimore or whatever he wants to do #monsterdon
so she was hypnotized once publicly, then a bunch of times privately on the same night that a hypnotist stayed in her house, and they are CONSULTING THAT HYPNOTIST about her medical care as she lies in bed sick with being hypnotized to shit???? #monsterdon
holy shit we have 20 minutes left and we're doing a full "visit the old country and discover the origin of the dummy" instead of getting 15 minutes of dummy carnage #monsterdon
stop talking about whether the dummy has this kids soul in it and get on with breaking into the goddamn house and breaking the goddamn dummy out #monsterdon
who even is this magic doctor anyway, why are you listening to him he just keeps saying "sometims magic breaks your wife's mind what can you do about it" #monsterdon
I come back to the movie for a moment to discover that the husband has just totally accepted it as normal that his wife is running away with the hypnotist and is just moving on with his life???? or did i mistake what happened in that scene i half watched #monsterdon
So uh the dummy just uh popped that other doll (?)'s head and then was able to mind swap with the hypnotist because uh... .. and then the entire plot with the wife just sort of evaporated and was... unrelated... #monsterdon
ok i'm watching back and the last 5 minutes are just a trainwreck. they spent most of the movie on the marianne subplot and they literally wrapped it up with three scenes:
marianne says "whelp i'm running off with the hypnotist" and the husband says literally nothing
husband just sort of accepts that as being fine despite spending the whole movie investigating the hypnotist and his supernatural abilities to control peoples minds with "dang i can't believe my wife fell in love with that hypnotist, oh well"
the husband appears with no explanation in the hypnotist's den immediately after the dummy has mind swapped with him and problem solved marianne is fine