Product Details

• Actors: Mark Jax, Katie Orgill, Gary Martin, Freddie Earlle, Marcel Grant
• Directors: George Dugdale, Peter Mackenzie Litten
• Writers: George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, Paul Hart-Wilden
• Producers: Dick Randall, Frank Green, Mark Pollard
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Mondo Macabro
• DVD Release Date: July 26, 2005
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009WFESW
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #123,391 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Living Doll" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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no genre fan should miss the opportunity to discover this oft-ignored necrophilia classic.Essential!

Product Description

Medical student Howard is a troubled young man. He is in love with the beautiful Christine, the girl who sells flowers at the hospital where he works. Unfortunately she barely knows he exists. Then, one night, the body of an accident victim is brought into the morgue. To his horror, Howard discovers it is the body of Christine...

Unable to believe that she is really dead, Howard takes the body back to his apartment. Suddenly Christine starts to talk, asking Howard to take revenge on all the people who caused her death.

With stunning SFX from Paul Catling of Hellraiser fame, this is one of the most unusual love stories ever told

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A lost gem given the good ole DVD treatment...., September 2, 2005

By	Christopher W. Curry (Norfolk, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Howard is an introverted medical student, studying pathology, who's in love with cute-as-a-cup-cake Christine. Trouble is that Christine doesn't know, or even care, who Howard is and before our lovelorn protagonist can make the "big" move his object of desire is dead. Howard finds out the devastating news while keeping the "red eye" at the morgue and is ordered to assist in performing the autopsy. From this point the tone of "Living Doll," and Howard's mental capabilities, take a discouraging turn and along with Howie the viewer tumbles and fumbles forever downwards into a pit of stark raving madness and mayhem.

Things seem pretty hopeless for poor Howard. His best friend can't help him, his boss is a conniving slave driver and his landlady is constantly sticking her nose in his business. Howard's only comfort is knowing he's taken Christine's corpse back to his rathole apartment and she patiently awaits him. The fact his paramour's body is stinking and rotting hardly deters Howard from carrying on with their love life, and so he does. Howard talks with Christine and dines with Christine. Howard even marries Christine and summarily consummates the union as all good newlyweds should.

The more this craziness continues the more vexing things become for Howard and the film races to a shock and surprise ending. A surprise ending that will have fans of the genre tickled pink and wondering why they'd never heard of this little gem called "Living Doll." One can only wonder what would have happened had Lucky McKee's "May" met our new friend Howie the morgue attendant.

To no one's surprise the exploitative details of "Living Doll" are glowingly obvious and painted all about; nudity, partying, gore, etc., are slathered, without pretense, across the screen. Regardless, the directors' impressive trajectory, crossed with Paul Catling's ("Hellraiser") imagined and sickening special FX, coalesce fittingly with the arresting on-screen talents of lead actor Mark Jax. Altogether this charged cinematic concoction fires and fuels the film heads-n-shoulders above the drekk that it may have been in the hands of lesser qualified folk.

Being no stranger to DVD extras, Mondo Macabro got really busy and included: interviews with the cast and crew as well as a documentary involving the film's producer Dick Randall, trailers, stills and an interesting short film by "Living Doll" author Paul Hart Wilden entitled "Horrorshow."

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I want to clear one thing that actually tricked me !, August 9, 2005

By	J. Kramer "Carpenter L..U 45" (Bronx/Queens , NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

What it was is how on the back cover it says the dead girl starts telling the guy to take revenge on everyone that killed her, well that isnt exactly true. She tells him towrd the end to kill her boyfirend that was in the car when the accident they got into killed her. I just want to clear that up so people dont expect some type of slasher flick, but what you can expect is a sick twisted love story of a man in love and living with a corpse as it rotts , he imagines the corpse talking to him as he cooks for it buys it clothes sleeps with it ( not seually , he does make out with it 1 time ). Overall the plot is good but at sveral points does drag and get boring but it still remains very wierd. I know this review is not to great but basically I just brought cause it sounded good and i was not really dissapointed that I did but its not a flcik i will watch tons of times, but I will watch it from time to time on some occasions. Bascally rent b4 you I wish I would have but since im stuck with it I will keep it. It really is notthat bad a good story line pretty good acting, like I said it does drag a bit but its worth a viewing you will have to see for your self.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, July 6, 2005

By	gorehoundster "gorehoundster" (NYC) - See all my reviews

Dick Randall's last elegant paen to death! Mark Jaxx is superb as the twitching nervous Howard whose love for the local hospital flower girl takes him over the edge and into a relationship that couldn't be described as domestic bliss!

Watching Howard go about his day to day business with a slowly rotting corpse in tow is at times funny, at times tragic but Jaxx never camps it up.

Fantastic SFX too from Hellraiser guy Paul Catlin ... a great little movie and finally on dvd!