The Doll (A Movie From Mongolia!)

I have little info to share as this does not have an IMDb entry. I'll just link to its page on Amazon Video here. The 2015 movie is actually not bad, as I explain below:

Here is something truly unique: not only is this a film on Amazon Video that does not even have an IMDb entry, this is the only horror movie I know of that is from the country of... MONGOLIA. Besides the novelty of that there was Amazon's description of the film being like “the Chucky series”, which is not exactly accurate. Think more something like the site's “favorite” movie Wish Upon; it is a Monkey's Paw type of story where wishes are granted, but at a great cost due to fate being interfered with.

A young woman is not at a good point in her life. Her mom is in the hospital and the Mongolian healthcare system is not the best... it costs money to treat her for her unnamed malady, and she has to pay AND bring the medicine that her mom needs for her therapy? Yikes. Plus, at her desk job the boss is a total Harvey Weinstein. She decides to buy a creepy-looking doll from a creepy-looking guy walking the streets of Ulaanbaatar or wherever it was filmed at. It's not a large doll like Chucky or even the Annabelle doll-real or fictional-and instead is a small doll you'd see a little kid with, except it looks goth and is creepy as S, so no kid would actually play with it.

In a hilarious moment, you see the doll communicate with her via... a wacky dream sequence where the doll becomes a “little person” made to look like the doll and speaks in a demonic voice. Considering the CG you see in the film is not good, doing it that way was probably the best solution but the way this person looked was something I had to guffaw at as it was kind of absurd. Anyway, to give an example of the wishes the young woman asked for, she wanted “money” so she soon got a lot of cash, albeit from stealing it from a dead guy after the bus they were on crashes after a collision with another vehicle.

I had no idea if this'd be any good or not; I was glad then when the film ended up being average. It is filled with cliché and yet for the most part it was competently made and there's not only the exploitation element of seeing our heroine get assaulted, there is also some gore, which was practical and looks fine. I am sure Wish Upon is funnier but I will make the assumption that this is better. The fate of Mongolian Harvey Weinstein is at least pretty glorious as it is deliciously over the top. Plus, you get to see what life in Mongolia is like: besides there being even more Toyota Prius vehicles than you see in the United States, their nightclubs feature songs in English where the main refrain is, “I just wanna make you wet!”