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This makes sense, because she's intensely pixilated -- a devil doll with a hunger for mischief.
Whatever the case, Esther is more of a she-wolf, what with an exotic accent and predatory habits that suggest she worked for Spectre back in the motherland before landing in America as an undercover devil doll.
Salander, as she's usually called in the books, is a devil doll par excellence, and maybe if David Fincher makes good on the vaporous rumors wafting around about the inevitable American adaptation, she might one day make an equally delectable film character too.
Written by the brothers Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes, the movie opens with a jittery, funny prologue involving a couple of pretty nurses right out of a Roger Corman quickie, a devil doll named Annabelle (shades of Rod Serling and Chucky) and a pair of married paranormal experts, Ed and Lorraine Warren Patrickk Wilson and Vera Farmiga).
But if I had to choose The Burning Moon's truest doppelganger it would be Chester Novell Turner's 1984 underground classic Black Devil Doll From Hell.
In them a hundred-foot-tall Shirley Temple devil doll lumbered through the streets of America, crushing voters beneath her size-70 tap shoes, crowing "I'm not a corporation!
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During one sex scene between Hart and his mistress, the camera lingers on two ceramic angel and devil dolls.
She seduces Marty with her own philosophical sweet nothings ("There is nothing wrong with the way he made us"), and, since she's a gorgeous unknown, we get to see her ride Harrelson like a bronco, as ceramic angels and devil dolls look on from the dresser.
And let's hope Mr Turner – which has opened its account in style in the UK, expands to a career-best 250 cinemas for Mike Leigh this weekend, and also starts up in Germany – can put a harrumphing 19th-century painter up there with the devil dolls, tank commanders and talking turtles in the global top 10. 1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, $35.1m from 32 territories.
Annabelle, who takes an hour to stand upright, will go down as the laziest devil-doll in movie history; compared to her, Chucky's a Harvard MBA prospect.
In Tod Browning's 1936 horror The Devil-Doll, Lionel Barrymore posed as a devious, murderous old woman – a role that would find its most resonant echo in Psycho, quarter of a century later, with Anthony Perkins's Norman Bates taking on his mother's identity to kill.
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