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Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent but underrated film

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

PIN was written by Andrew Neiderman, who has written forty-seven novels under his own name, but is perhaps better known for the sixty-eight -- and counting -- that's ghostwritten from V.C. Andrews and her Flowers in the Attic series.1988's Canadian movie adaption skips most of the incest, but trust me, it's no less strange.Directed by Sandor Stern (the writer of the original The Amityville Horror and writer/director of the Patty Duke starring Amityville: The Evil Escapes), PIN starts with Dr. Frank Linden (Terry O'Quinn, forever The Stepfather in our hearts), who keeps a human size, anatomically correct Slim Goodbody-esque medical model in his office that he's named Pin. He uses Pin -- throwing his voice to make him speak -- to explain how the body works without it being awkward. The doctor is a cold and distant man; only his interactions through the doll seem warm.Leon has problems. He probably has some mental illness, which isn't helped by his domineering mother, who doesn't allow him to play outside or bring friends home. Pin is his only friend in the entire world. Imagine his shock when he goes to visit Pin one day and a nurse is having sex with the doll. Isn't it delightful when a movie can just make your jaw hit the floor? Well, keep watching Pin.The doctor and his wife constantly feel like they could kill one another at any moment. And Leon may not ever want to think about sex, but his sister can't stop thinking about it. Jump cut ahead in time and she's literally having sex with most of the football team while her brother is scrubbing graffiti about her off a locker. After Leon angrily fights several boys who are lining up to have their way with her (remember what I said about the surprising strangeness of this one), she agrees to stop having sex. That said, she needs an abortion, an operation that her father coldly does in front of Leon, telling him that he needs to watch this procedure for when he does it himself. They'll just tell mother she had some cramps.One night, Dr. Linden and his wife are leaving for a speech. He forgets his notes and runs back to his office, where he finds Leon talking to Pin. Realizing his son has lost his mind, he takes Pin away. However, a car accident caused by his speeding (or is it Pin?) kills the parents off. As Leon investigates the crash, he takes Pin with him.Leon and Ursula enjoy their freedom from their mother's strict cleaning habits and menus, but as other people try and enter their lives, like Aunt Dorthy or Stan, Ursula's love interest, Leon and Pin take them out. At this point, Pin is now dressing in Dr. Linden's clothes and has latex skin and a wig so he can appear human.Oh! In the middle of all of this, Leon has a date with a redhead who is all over him. He panics and runs to Pin for help, then uses the frightening doll to chase the girl away from the house.Leon believes that Stan is only interested in Ursula's money and to put him away. To be fair, they did discuss how crazy he's been acting and what they should do. I've never had to meet the doll friend of a girlfriend's brother, somewhat amazingly. Pin tells Leon how to dispose of Stan, but he's interrupted by Ursula, who is on her way home from her library job.Upon finding blood on the carpet, Ursula starts to run. Leon blames Pin, who flips out on him, telling him that he has never lied for him or to him. His sister returns with an axe as the screen goes white.Fast forward: Stan is OK and still with Ursula. She comes home to see Pin, who asks whether or not she's seen Leon. She answers, "No." It's then revealed that Ursula destroyed the doll, but now Pin has become Leon's full personality. He is now the doll.Pin is unsettling. It's relatively bloodless, but that doesn't stop it's power to shock, whether you're reading it in book form or watching the movie. Read more at http://bit.ly/2Alliik

Just a heads up.... the full plot synopsis on IMDb stupidly gives away the whole story so try not to read it. I wish they wouldn't do that it ruins so many movies.Anyway - back to my review - which contains NO spoilers at all.Although it does lean towards drama more than horror it still delivers in a similar way to Hitchock's atmospheric style. This is a superbly crafted chiller and even more so given it was a low budget offering in the middle of the 80's horror flick bonanza. There's no gore, excessive violence or cheap thrills in this baby. A fascinating tale refreshingly free of cliché or predictability and beautifully directed with excellent acting add up to a must see movie. Although those looking for the slash & scream/giggle end of the horror genre might be disappointed. I loved this. And I think you will too. Why is it always so hard to find these gems?

I wouldn't call this movie a horror, but more a psychological thriller. 'Pin' is a story about two kids growing up with parents who are hardly there for them in their childhood. Their mother is a clean freak, their father is a doctor and a ventriloquist, who uses a dummy called Pin to 'help him out' in his practice. As children, both Ursula and Pin believe Pin to be real, and though he doesn't speak to them when father is not around, Pin does give birthday presents and is a really helpful chap. When both parents die in a car crash, Leon takes Pin home as a family member.The acting of David Hewlett as Leon is impressive. This on itself makes the movie worth to see. Leon is a clean cut boy, who has more in common with both his parents than he would want to. His loneliness, jealousy, and the subtlety of his slowly growing madness is very well done. The bad is, that even though there is some focus on the why Leon gets mad, personally I think this could have been done better. I would have liked to see more of his inner world going down hill. But what the script lacks, the acting of Hewlett makes up for. There is an important sexual undertone in this movie, which also could have been worked out better. Ursula going to her own father for an abortion, Leon's dark poetry, yes they gave an unsettling feeling, but all a bit too subtle. Maybe it was done this way to please the mainstream watchers, and it would have been too shocking otherwise. Anyway, it gave me the feeling that only the surface of all the underlying problems and feelings was scratched. 'Pin' was different then I expected it to be. When reading about it before I saw it, I thought it would end up much more like a horror cliché of the dummy coming to life. And constantly I was hoping that the end would not be that cheesy. When the movie was finished, it did leave me satisfied. Today, which is the day after I watched it, I feel that this movie is still with me, in a positive way. And I always consider that a good sign. Even with all it's flaws, it impressed me more than I thought it would do. I give it an 8 because I can not give it a 7,5.

I watched this movie expecting some kind of a horror/thriller from most of the comments here. Of course the basic story has quite some resemblances of the famous "Psycho" but I think that this movie is far more into the psychological level and less into thrills and chills. Thats why I now get some of the negative remarks because if you want to get a psycho axe wielding maniac and his rotten mom you sure will be disappointed by nice guy Leon and his pretty boring doll.If you just watch Pin for what it is and that to me is a kind of apsychological drama, then it makes much more sense and has some interesting insights. The story revolves around two kids Leon and his Sister Ursula who grow up in a very conservative upbringing. Their mother a 60s cliché of a cleaning obsessed house woman and their father a doctor whom his kids call "Sir" and who teaches them several things through an anatomical doll using ventriloquism. The doll named "Pin" becomes a part of their lives and especially Leon becomes attached to it also talking to him in his fathers absence. Years later their parents die in a car crash and Leon and his sister start living on their own. From here on Pin becomes Leons Alter Ego and kind of a family member ... the downward spiral picks up pace and troubled Leon who desperately tries to keep his "family" together by keeping Ursula from other peoples influences starts going over the edge.Ursula know about Leons mental state and plays along with his schizophrenic role play and the Pin doll which Leon gives his voice just like his father did. She doesn't want her brother to end in a sanitarium, realizing too late that her playing along just makes things worse.The movie is very slow and the deterioration of Leons mental state is not thrilling, everything is shown in kind of a normal way because thats what it is for Leon. People die in this movie but its not for thrills and especially the ending shows that "Pin" is rather a drama than anything else. If you are interested in a psychological study in a "Psycho"-like set watch this movie, if you want corpses, thrills and scary horror dolls this sure is the wrong movie for you.