THE PERSONAL TAKE: JEFFREY DOLLMER
The plot of Jeffrey Dollmer is as luridly campy as the title suggests: the infamous serial killer fused his spirit with a doll before going to prison and a few decades later, it’s thrown out of a police evidence morgue and revived when a dumpster diver bleeds on it. In short order, the pint-sized psychopath sneaks his way into a modeling shoot where everyone is too involved with ambition and cattiness to know they have a murderous toy in their ranks. Cue a sizable body count and plenty of dishy dialogue.
So what does a devoted filmmaker and walking encyclopedia of horror/exploitation cinema like Mark Savage do when confronted with this kind of gig? He gets into the spirit of it.
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2: Satire, Splatter And The Screw-You '80s
…as anyone who lived through the '80s knows, sequels had become an inevitability in the American film business. However, Hooper was not content to give audiences more of the same. What he created was as much a dark comedy as it was a horror film, a ruthless satire that took on the attitudes of the '80s as well as the legacy of the first film.
