Episode 143: Dolls

Watch If You Dare

Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

5.0 • 548 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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On this episode, the Spoop Bois Aaron and Derek cover 1987's killer toy flick "Dolls" directed by Stuart Gordon. They talk about the role of toys as a childhood attachment and gateway to fantasy, the exploration of younger generations moving away from toys, and the strange juxtaposition of kindertrauma and adult horror through the movie. They also touch on the history of dolls and killer toy movies, how the plot is simple and surreal, uncanny valley with living toys, whether or not the sub-genre is genuinely scary, among many other topics about the film. Derek can remember every toy he had as a kid. And they remember Aaron!Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WatchIfYouDareWe are on PodBean, Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Goodpods, Amazon Music, Spotify, iHeartRadio and CastBox. Please rate, review, subscribe, and share our show. Also, check out our Spotify Music playlist, links on our Twitter and Podbean page. Our socials are on Facebook and Twitter @WatchIfYouDare

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0:00.0	Guess what, ghouls and goblins? The spook boys have officially joined Patreon.
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0:14.0	Interviews, franchise deep dives, even are television.
0:17.0	Wait, did you say television?
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0:24.5	remains available on all platforms, and again, ad-free.
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0:32.9	the Spoop Troop today.
1:07.1	Thank you. Boop Troop today. Aaron, we got to do something, man.
1:12.0	Our last chunk of episodes have just been niche subgenres and movies just for you and I kind of deals. And our download numbers are not looking good lately. So we got to come up with
1:17.3	something popular, like a movie that we could do that everyone loves. Sure. Yeah. I mean,
1:22.3	we kind of said we were going to spread out all the big hitters for this kind of reason. We got to
1:27.4	get the small stuff in, but sure. I mean, I guess what type of movie are you thinking? Maybe, like, we haven't done a killer toys movie at all. We're 100 plus episodes in, and we still haven't done killer toys. Okay, sure. So, like, child's play? Childs play is too obvious. Uh, okay.
1:44.6	Uh, Annabel?
1:47.1	Derivided.
1:48.2	Uh, the boy.
1:51.2	It seems like art house nonsense.
1:54.6	Sure.
1:55.3	Okay.
1:56.2	Uh, well, fine.
1:57.2	Trashy puppet master.
1:59.3	Nah, we, we, we could say puppet master.
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