Directed by Rocky Soraya, who wrote the film with Riheam Junianti, The Doll starts when Daniel (Denny Sumargo) and his wife Anya (Shandy Aulia) move to a new city thanks to his new job. The first person Anya meets is Niken (Vitta Mariana Barrazza), who believes in the supernatural. She also gets a doll from her husband’s new job after he destroys a sacred tree — I guess that’s some kind of benefit — but said doll is connected to the occult power that Niken feels and wants revenge. Also — both Niken and Daniel have dealt with the doll before, a strange toy that once belonged to a little girl named Uci. She and her family was killed in a robbery and now her spirit is inside her former doll.
There are some not bad CGI crows, some fun gore and sadly, a plot that goes on way too long. But hey, the scene where the doll attacks Anya while she’s trying to take a bath is pretty scary, which is more than you’d get from an American movie trying to be Child’s Play. Or Annabelle.
The Doll had a sequel in 2017 and 2022. It’s a mark of how much I liked this that I wouldn’t mind watching either of those.
You can watch this on Tubi.
