I'll tell you why so serious

Don't listen to the negative reviews

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

"Black Devil Doll From Hell" is now easily available in a two-fer package of the films by Chester N. Turner. Once an urban legend seen by few but talked about by many, BDDFH has returned to horrify everyone with witless incompetence in absolutely every way possible. This is genius work, only realized once seen.Turner dared to go where no one had gone before, except that the "possessed doll" genre had been around a long time before he got his hands on somebody's camcorder and a Casio keyboard. One thinks of the "Talky Tina" sequence from an ancient Twilight Zone episode, or the truly unsettling "Devil Doll" starring Hugo the Dummy way back in 1964. BDDFH however, goes the extra mile throwing puppet-on-human sex into the mix. You don't need to see this, but actually, you do.Helen Black (a bravura performance by Shirley L. Jones) is a prim and proper church lady who is saving herself for marriage. Her home is chockablock with religious artifacts and numerous Bibles within easy reach. She encounters a sinister shopkeeper in a thrift store who sells her a black ventriloquist dummy complete with cornrows and 50 pounds of beads on the ends of the braids. This doll has the power to grant anyone their heart's desire and then go back to the store after wreaking havoc on the current buyer. Helen, entranced, buys the puppet and takes it home. Helen, for some bizarre reason, places the puppet on the toilet. The puppet immediately spies on Helen taking a shower. Bad things begin to happen. Evidently, Helen is a sex monster under all that church veneer. The doll gives her what she wants: a serious booty call. Unpleasant but hilarious sex ensues. Helen, now given her heart's desire, goes on the prowl for real meat. Unfortunately, she's been ruined by the sweet moves and dirty talk of the puppet so real penises don't hit the spot. Unfortunately for the new improved hot pants Helen, the puppet has returned to the store. So Helen returns to the store , buys the puppet back and begs it for some lovin'. It kills her instead. Ha! She knew what she was getting into, but too late for Helen to say "no". The bad puppet is then resold to another unsuspecting victim. You run away screaming that you lost seventy some minutes of your life watching this but still tell everyone at work the next day about it.Perhaps Chester N. Turner really was an unrecognized auteur, but alas, he has vanished. BDDFH is a masterpiece of annoyance and brilliance. I defy anyone to not laugh wildly while watching this, and then not feel badly for poor Helen. By the way, the box the dummy comes in must be possessed as well, since Helen brings it from the store twice and the last buyer has it as well. Duct tape and all.

Black Devil Doll from Hell (1984) * (out of 4) Visiting the one and only Wild and Woolly store in Louisville, KY, you always come across some sort of weird, forgotten flick. On my latest visit I came across this one here and the weirdness certainly lived up the hype brought on from the title. The storyline is fairly simple and unoriginal as a deeply religious black woman (Shirley L. Jones) buys a doll in an antique shop and of course it turns out the doll is possessed and soon starts to make the good woman bad. This forgotten film was one of many movies that were shot on video and released straight into rental stores across the country. There's no doubt the horror genre got most of these type of releases but we've gotten some decent stuff like VIDEO VIOLENCE but we also got many, many horrid titles and this one falls into that group. However, there's a catch to this one here because while it's true that the thing is unoriginal, poorly shot, poorly acted and poorly directed, somewhere in your heart you must admit that it's hard to make a movie and on that level this low-budget horror film has some charm. There were a few things I was shocked about. I thought Jones was actually fairly decent in the film considering she didn't have too much to work with. I also thought she was rather brave to do her nude scenes, which included some sequence where the doll was sexually attacking her. It appears this was her first film and she only made one more, again with the director of this one. If you're a movie snob or someone who can't get a laugh out of something bad then there's not a single reason in the world to view this thing. If you enjoy all of what cinema has to offer then this one here is a must see just because of its low-budget roots as well as some of the decent things it does do. The music score is downright awful and obviously done on some keyboard bought at a small store so keep ear plugs near by.

Shot on video monstrosity about a repressed deeply religious black woman who buys a ventriloquist dummy with dreadlocks that happens to be possessed. The Dummy seduces her and then takes her over turning her into a sex fiend.As they say you have to see it to believe it. Obviously the intent was to make a serious film about the fall from grace, yadda yadda yadda, but the result is painful, Mostly because scenes run on and on and on with no end in sight. We get a long phone conversation while the camera pans around the house showing all the religious items in it. The opening credits take almost 7 minutes of screen time (thats about one tenth the length of the film). The music is awful. And the sex scenes...well did you ever want to know what it would look like if Charlie Mc Carthy ever managed to marry a real live girl? Yea, me neither. This is a painful film that is only recommended for seasoned bad movie lovers or mental patients, preferably people who are both. This walks that fine line between MST3K good bad and mind destroying bad.You've been warned.

The plot of "Black Devil Doll from Hell" is fairly simple:a foul-mouthed ventriloquist dummy terrorizes a defenseless religious zealot.Helen Black,a prim and deeply religious woman,buys a strange doll in a curio shop.The shop's owner tells her that the doll has been purchased four different times,and each time it has found its way back to the shop.Soon the Helen is thrown into a nightmare as the doll begins to terrorize her...Wow,this piece of blacksploitation sleaze is completely abysmal.The acting is horrible,the score is incredibly awful and there is no gore.The special effects are some of the worst I have ever seen.Still the lengthy sex scene between Helen and a doll is hilarious.That sequence,with the puppet(obviously controlled by a guy shaking it off-screen)humping this plump but ecstatic Bible-thumper had me laughing so hard I was crying.The action drags tremendously,with most scenes going on for way too long and others being totally unnecessary.Overall,a must-see for fans of trash cinema.