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Pretty Good

Fresh and Exciting

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I stumbled upon this movie late one night and after viewing it i immediately called at least 3 people even though it was probably 3 am, Telling them what a bizarre and different movie i had just seen. Its a horror movie to be sure but not blood and guts slasher. something else is happening with this movie and i wish more movies could be this intense, with it's silly premise which becomes less silly and more harrowing as you watch. I feel like i could almost compare it to Silent Night Deadly Night in a way without the holiday theme. anyways just watch the damn film. it will make you uncomfortable but utterly Rewarding as an 80's underrated gem.

After the death of his parents, a teenager grows closer and closer to his father's anatomically correct medical mannequin called Pin in this offbeat Canadian thriller from 'Amityville Horror' screenwriter Sandor Stern. The film begins with two episodes from protagonist Leon's boyhood that capture his fascination with the dummy who would speak to him and his sister. Growing up, his sister came to believe that ventriloquism brought Pin to life, however, Leon grew up believing that Pin was alive with some grisly results. Stern litters the film with nice touches. Most notably, we never see any lips move and while we may assume that Pin isn't alive, it is ultimately left ambiguous with a few moments (Pin sitting up in the car) that could point otherwise. Another nice touch is how Stern avoids making Pin scary or menacing with all chills and thrills instead coming from the implied. The film also has a highly memorable ending. All that said and done, the earlier scenes are the best with voyeuristic shots as Leon watches a nurse 'use' Pin privately and so on. The film may have also benefited from emphasising the incestuous tones; we are left to assume that he has developed an unhealthy relationship with his sister as the result of overprotective parenting, but the extent of this is never clear. Whatever the case, the film still resonates a portrait of a mind turned mentally disturbed due to misguided parenting.

I went into Pin not having a clue what it was about, but I would never have guessed in a million years that behind such an innocuous sounding title could lie such a warped tale. Tackling such delicate issues as parental abuse, incest, schizophrenia and psycho-sexual trauma, this is not your typical 80s horror by a long chalk, but rather a bold study of an extremely dysfunctional family and its eldest sibling Leon's gradual descent into madness.Given Leon's bizarre upbringing, though, one can hardly blame the poor guy for ending up more than a little disturbed: as children, Leon and his sister are led to believe that the medical dummy in their doctor father's surgery is able to talk (when, in reality, their father is simply throwing his voice); Leon's mother, a controlling germ freak, disapproves of his school friends; his younger sister, Ursula, develops an unhealthy obsession with sex at an early age, sharing intimate conversations with him about her 'needs'; at a crucial stage in his development, Leon witnesses a member of his father's staff sexually gratifying herself with his plastic pal Pin; and when his sister gets herself up the duff at age 15, good old dad performs the abortion and even invites Leon to watch!!! That's enough to send anyone loopy!As Leon enters adulthood, his mental state steadily deteriorates until he becomes a fully blown paranoid schizophrenic, still believing that Pin is alive, but now providing the dummy with a voice and personality by himself. After the sudden death of his parents Leon moves the dummy into the family home that he shares with Ursula. His sister, who has long realised that the dummy cannot really talk, is naturally very upset by her new house-guest, but things go from bad to much, much worse when Leon, who harbours suppressed incestuous desires, takes a dislike to her new boyfriend Stan.Although Pin might be a little slow going at times, its delightfully perverse subject matter ensures that boredom is never an option. David Hewlett as Leon Linden is extremely impressive in the key role, being convincingly off his trolley and more than a little bit chilling, and he is given excellent support by the gorgeous Cynthia Preston as his libidinous teenage sister, and the brilliant Terry O'Quinn of Lost fame (and The Stepfather, of course) as his father. Director Sandor Stern occasionally allows his film to stray dangerously close to the absurd, but for the most part he handles his material both intelligently and confidently, wringing a fair amount of tension from his bizarre set-up in the process.Pin's subject matter might be a touch perverse for casual viewers seeking more traditional edge-of-the-seat entertainment, its subtleties may be lost on fright fans yearning for more primal thrills (meaning there ain't a lot of blood and gore in this one), and I suspect that the going will be a little too slow for many, but those actively seeking an unusual and daring horror/thriller could do a lot worse than to check this one out.

Probably one of the best psychological horror films I have ever seen! I know I am going to seem like I am exaggerating, but this is up there with Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho'! The film was superbly directed and the score was superb. Fine acting by Hewlett and Preston.This is the type of film that gets under your skin, and frightens you more than any "horror porn" that gets spit out by Hollywood on massive levels, because this film is real. It's villain is just human being which makes it so much more terrifying and tragic because we watch this so called villain grow up and understand why he is the way he is, and then we realize his eventual fate.A brilliant film, I recommend this to all.