Bad Movie Review: Miss Leslie's Dolls
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Who hasn't played with Real Dolls at sometime or other? We review Grindhouse oddity Miss Leslie's Dolls (1973)
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Summary: A young college professor and three of her students seek shelter during a storm in the rural farmhouse of a strange woman who collects lifelike mannequins.
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Written and presented by Robin Bailes @robinbailes
Directed and Edited by Graham Trelfer
DARK CORNERS OF THIS SICK WORLD S12E47
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"This isn't exactly The Crying Game, it's Mrs Doubtfire Snaps."😂
If there is a horror movie set in a vast mansion with countless secret passageways, that is where I want to spend the cold, dark night.
If you like the clever & silly Carter Brown mysteries,
you can pick
"So What Killed The Vampire ?"
a Larry Baker mystery (1966) set in a medieval castle.
This seems almost like they threw Velma from Scooby Doo into a dozen different movies all stitched together.
My favorite line: "...it's 'Mrs. Doubtfire Snaps'." XD
''I don't know what it is, but i'm glad that i watched it'' is actually quite a good recommendation.
Old Dark House meets Valley of the Dolls (no pun intended) and Psycho with a little Doctor Phibes for good measure
Who calls full sized mannequins, dolls? Kim Cattrall "Mannequin" and I are outraged! :)
I watched this movie recently and the first thing I thought was that it would be a good movie for Dark Corners to review.
In the spirit of weird bad movies, I'm thinking the house from Manos, the Hands of Fate.
This movie always cracks me up - it's so inept, yet so sincere. I love it!
The creepy movie house to end up in is the original. The early 1930s The Old Dark House with Karloff and Raymond Massey. It's the only house in film history that gets set on fire but doesn't burn down.
Because it would be rude for such an old house to simply burn down. Have a potato!
‘Mrs Doubtfire Snaps’ would be kind of amazing
‘It was a run-by decapitation!’
The dolls in this remind of the - much better - movie, Tourist Trap from 1979 with Chuck Connors. It's a pretty good little oddity with a great performance from Connors.
Interesting film, also.
There's a light
Over at the Frankenstein place
There's a light
Burning in the fireplace
There's a light, a light
In the darkness of everybody's life
Given a choice of what cinematic home I'd want to spend the night in, I'd go with Cary Grant's Riviera villa in "To Catch a Thief".
Robin, I've never heard of this before, but I definitely want to see it. Definitely agree with you, this is WAY too weird to be just bad.
I love Robin's comment about leaving immediately once he hears that the dolls "are not made out of wax".
As for a house that I would not mind spending a cold dark night in, I think it would be cool to stay in Doctor Strange's Sanctum Santorum. Plenty of interesting rooms, artifacts and protection spells against anything dangerous.
If I would have to pick a horror house/castle film site to spend a night, I would stay in The Ennis House in Los Angeles (built in 1924), designed by Frank Loyd Wright, used for the exteriors in THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959). The interiors for the movie were shot on a sound stage, but the real interiors are spectacular. While the exterior is creepy, the interior is less so.
"When the sun goes down...Miss Frost melts" lol!! Indeed.
Both my mother and (owing to intense parental lack of creativity) my sister are named Martha, although my sister refuses to use it and goes by a variation of her middle name instead.
Great review! Just watched it on Amazon Prime UK, and yes it's totally bonkers, but glad to have seen it.
My goodness I need to watch this asap. Never heard of it until your review. Thank you Robin
This keeps coming up in my BFI player recommendations. Not sure how to feel about that… Great review - you put these things together brilliantly.
This was pretty much the perfect movie for you to review! The way you joked about it was great, made me both laugh and want to watch it.
I think I’d opt for the house from _Murder by Death_ 🤔 There were a lot of neat things there, and no one was _actually_ killed 😄
I mean, the host was.
Maybe.
Perhaps?
Who knows.
The final final plot twist was all kinds of "wait, what?" Lol
Death of weekend
@@andrewyoung2796 Lol, yes! “Killed good weekend. Drive, please.” 😆
@@edisonlima4647 Well, all the “deaths” were actually all the same person, who was still alive at the end, so…
@@shannondore “Good God… _franks and beans!”_ 😆
Where wouldn't I mind spending a night? Well...
In the velvet darkness
Of the blackest night
Burning bright
There's a guiding star
No matter what
Or who you are
There's a light
Over at the Frankenstein Place
There's a light
Burning in the fireplace
There's a light, light
In the darkness of everybody's life
As long as you don't need to make a phone call, the place is tops.
And really, who needs a land line in this day and age?
@@richmcgee434 I hear they've got an indoor swimming pool. 👄
1:20-1:28 Reminding me of that "Martha" moment in BVS was both painful and hilarious.
I hope that meme never dies. Imagine what Ben Affleck would do if he ever visited the Washington memorial and someone started talking about George’s wife.
Did you... Did you just spoil the twist of The Crying Game? For 30 years that secret was kept safe!
You forgot a little "Tourist Trap" thrown in with the weird mannequin collection
And that movie---though surely far from perfect--is a much better viewing experience than this screwball affair. And it's way weirder.
The Brothers Grimm were a major
inspiration to movies like this.
When she said the dolls were cymbals that would have been a perfect time for a version of the Knights of the Round Table song. It's all about the spelling.
I think it's pretty clear that the castle in Rocky Horror is the best "movie home" place to spend the night. Unless you're prudish, or you happen to be Meatloaf.
Oh, no, meatloaf for dinner again!?!
If stating that's a man in drag and dubbed is incorrect then saying the surface of the sun is a tad hot is incorrect. Also, finding out about odd movies I have never seen is the main reason I love DC and became a patreon supporter, I encourage you to join!
I kept being reminded of Monty Python's "And Now For Something Completely Different", where the US distributor didn't understand the guys dressing up in the sketches, and dubbed real female voices over Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam.
@@ericjanssen394 lol, didn't know that, bet it made it very bizarre!!
"She" meets
"Psycho" meets
"House of Wax"
all permeated by Russ Meyer.
That cinematic house, I would love to spend a night in, would be Mrs. Bates house. You know, the one right behind, the motel😏!!!!
For about 2/3 of the review, I thought that the otherwise unexplained "Miss" Leslie was the director's own self-indulgence, until Leslie started to talking to Mother and picking up an axe--
Yep, before the slasher 80's came along, or up through and including "Black Christmas", Norman Bates was pretty well coin of the realm for movie killers, who all had to have sexual-related mother issues and dressup hobbies.
You always have great T-shirts. I bought the one you had of Faust, now I want that overlook shirt
you can get that one from www.lastexittonowhere.com/
@@DarkCornersReviews THANKS! Awesome!
I would think Wayne manor of any incarnation would be an interesting place to spend the night.
But just to be different, what about the castle (including it’s occupants) from *The Ninth Configuration?*
Why does one of them make me thank of Velma
Miss Frost? I was getting that vibe too. Initially it was the glasses and the orange top; but it was reinforced at 4:47.
😂😂😂
I want to know what Miss Leslie is doing with a modified Green Lantern Corps lantern.
I would like to stay in Bates Manor, no doubt about it!
Running around screaming in a nightgown would attract attention usually.
It certainly does in my neighbourhood.
@@euansmith3699 But not in my neighborhood. And that's scary.
@@ashleys9397 😆
Dracula's castle from 1931, that's where I want to spend the night. But in a pinch, any castle or mansion during a storm in the middle of the night, set in some scary woods, a cliffside, or a mountain will do -- the castle in Roger Corman's "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a good one, for example .
I would love to spend a night in the original Old dark house with Boris Karloff and the rest of the cast.
At least you'd get a potato out of it.
Well,.Robin if you’re glad I’m glad.🤣
BWAHHAHAHAHAHA !! Sorry guy , every time you flash the word ,
BOOBIE , can't help but start laughing 😆
Oh oh , here's that word again...
BWAHHAHAHAHAHA !!
( I'm obviously easily entertained )
Which house would I like to spend the night in? Let's all sing: "There's a light over at the Frankenstein place" Of course, Franknfurter's house, as long as I didn't end up like Eddie.
excellent job
I just watched it. I agree with your opinion. Now, the possession scene at the end. I believe that was the "spirit" or "soul of Ms. Frost wandering into the forest and disappears? Am I right about that?
Like, yes, it's all very strange, but... I think I would draw the line at the hanging red-curtain room/stage. Did big houses from back in the day have curtained stages? I mean, if not someone a put a bit of time and money into that, but also, did a good job hanging the curtains for the stage.
Secret, and hidden passages come with the old creepy territory, however, that stage doesn't.
I just wrote myself into a corner here, the mansion in Rocky Horror had that big stage and pool, and the radio tower set piece in the back, and I didn't question it, but I also didn't question the... Everything else about the movie, and I think I know why; Rocky Horror was a good movie.
I'm just being mean.
One does not question Rocky Horror, one can only experience it.
That said, one of the 120+ year old houses in my childhood stomping ground did, in fact, have a small stage in what amounted to the living room, or maybe was originally the music room. It even had semi-circular rails for a stage curtain on the ceiling, although the curtain itself had long since been removed. The owners when I knew them stuck the family television up on the stage and you could comfortably sit a dozen people around it - or twice that if everyone was feeling friendly. The place had no exterior windows and was very dark with just the TV going. I never got a firsthand shot at it (we moved away when I was 11) but I've been reliably informed it was the A Number One makeout spot for the lucky high schoolers who knew the family well enough to get invited over on the weekends while the parents were out on the town.
So...maybe stages or performance platforms aren't that weird an architectural feature in older homes? No RKO radio tower, though.
There is another surprising ending in a horror movie. The teen Sleep away camp movie from the 1980s.
I saw that at a drive-in when it came out. The ending messed me up. Not because of the big reveal but that face she made scared the crap out of me. Watched it again as an adult to get that scene out of my head. I love that movie now.
and Unhinged and Fatal Games
@@MissSallyB1 There is a twist in the opposite way in "The House with the laughing Windows"
For every Godfather or Gone With The Wind there's twenty of these!
And just like Krusty said, what the hell is that?
It felt like they were going for something but forgot some of the steps to get there.
The title got me thinking of House Beneviento and Dona Beneviento and her psycho dolls from RE: Villiage. Then the rest of the review happened and I thought, now thats just silly.
8:16 I didn't see that coming
You shoud review the movie "The Name of the Game is. . Kill!" starring a young Jack Lord. It also rips off Psycho and has a gender switching, non-surprise ending that is telegraphed far in advance.
Yes, I submitted that one about a year ago; when I went looking for it after seeing it on tv when I was about 10, (didn't remember the title), I would ask on IMDb and people would tell me I imagined it! (The mom/dad actor also played a woman on alfred hitchcock show and wild wild west, lol!)
@@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat Wow! I didn't know that the same actor made a small career from being a female impersonator. Like Robin said, I don't want to offend anyone, but. . . Yikes!
@@zandorvorkov986 yeah, the guy's name was t.c. jones, he was born with hormone imbalance which is why he had such a soft voice, also, believe it or not he was married and apparently straight, died at only 50, RIP
@@zandorvorkov986 side note: i know about your name, "dracula vs frankenstein", right? Takes one to know one, lol
@@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat Yes.
Now I know where Robin gets all those nifty T-shirts!
I would go back and sleep in the car. 😂
The minute I saw that room with the alter there would be a loud pop of in rushing air filling the void left by me legging to me it looks like a wonderful night for a panicked run in the rain
With Austin Powers as the lead, this movie would have been over after two minutes.
This looks great. This will be Friday night's enjoyment.
Is the new DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED series referencing this?
Totally bizarre stay--overnight--in--the--wrong--place cult movie. First I've heard of this. I should see this creepy movie & judge for myself. Thank you, Robin, for posting this on YT. 🙀😹
How was this not an Ed Wood film?
That's most likely because Edward D. Wood Jr. died in 1978 from presumed heart failure. And this movie looks more recent.
@@ashleys9397 That being said, killer who is a cross dresser, that would have been right up Ed Wood's alley.
This movie is from ca. 1972-73 and the hair and wardrobe looks like their from a couple of years earlier. Ed Wood died years after this came out.
They're, not their. Accursed autocorrect.
Saw this not too long ago, and you said it Robbin, it's very 'weird'.
So this is what happened to Joe Marshall after Samurai Cop.
You should have also cut to I Love Lucy Routine about Martha. LOL
The redhead with glasses makes a sexy Velma from Scooby Doo.
Maybe it's me, but I'm getting Manos vibes from this.
I picked up a definite vibe as well. I kept expecting Torgo the weird manservant to put in a drop-in cameo appearance.
Thought that too during the girl fight scene.
Nice Scooby-Doo vibes.
Wow, that plot twist was ALMOST as excruciatingly obvious and predictable as that "Batman v Superman" reference
like to Stay at the House in the movie.. "Hell House" or is it " Hill House " . Already Stayed at Stanley Hotel.
I know this is my second comment, depending on where the first one is, you know too. Anyway, and to me, this is important. Back in the early 90s, 93 or 4, I used to live in an old "Farm house" in Vermont, it was an inn or something back in the 1700s, because back in the 90s you could still buy stuff like that, I was a child, so it's not like I'm the one who paid for it. My dad used to follow something called "The herd's dairy man" because he was a vet-tech, and would normally end up managing the farm he worked for, and when you do that, you get to live in the old farm houses.
Do you know what happens when a dairy cow has a miscarriage in sub-zero weather? The calf freezes in the womb, and someone has to get it out of the mother cow before she is dead too, and they make saws for that. Dad did stuff like that, and it's why we (I) got to live in old farm houses, but just to keep it in this story, the one from the 1700s was the oldest I can remember.
What was my point? I've never found, in the houses we lived in, a "Secret passage" or a hidden room, I have found old hand guns, a box of Reader's digest from 1901-19??, old knives, wash boards for clothing, a bag of old diet pills hidden under a big porch, money (Not a lot of it, but I did find an ancient $20 bill from the 50s or 60s), and stuff like that, but nothing more spooky than old wooden stairs that creaked, and stuff like that... And mice, lots of mice in one of them.
The house from the 1700s became a historic site, sometime after we moved out, and burned down at the start of the millennia.
if you found the hidden room, it wouldn't have been that well hidden. ;)
Larry, his brother Darryl, and his other brother Darryl did an excellent job camouflaging the secret, hidden room.
Maybe the GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI house, full of beach movie actors and actresses.
I think it would be smashing to spend a lovely evening with the Femms in "The Old Dark House". Thank you, I will have a potato.
has a Manos the Hands of Fate vibe
I'm wondering if you gents have done The Atomic Submarine yet?
Man, I love that movie. Fantastically, gloriously cheesy from start to finish. And easily watched on youtube.
@@richmcgee434 Yes, special effects right out of Timmy's toybox. If giving your alien a mouth would break the budget simply explain that it's telepathic! There's some good ideas but if the living flying saucer derives its energy from earth's magnetic field what powers it when it's in deep space?
@@keithwright1621 The answer is clearly Space Magnetism. :)
Such a wonderful terrible movie.
Movie location I'd want to spend time in: the place where Picard finds Kirk in Star Trek Generations. Alright, it's not real. But it's nice. There's horses to ride. And Capt Kirk himself to spend time with. I could get used to it.
I'm sure that Kirk would make the hours fly by, singing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" around the campfire 😄
@@euansmith3699 I was once treated to Bill Shatner's "novel" interpretation of said song. Excruciatingly funny.
@@ashleys9397 For a true thing of beauty, have you witnessed the Cartoon Star Trek Shatner cover of "Common People"? 🤩
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I Thought Miss Leslie looked a Lot
like Ozzy Osborne.
SHAROOOOOON!!
It it just me, or does "Miss Leslie" look like Nathan Lane?
The dialog in this movie feels like it was written for porn but the director decided to make a Psycho rip off at the last minute instead.
Have you done _Tourist Trap_ yet?
No they haven't as of yet. And that's a movie well deserving of the Dark Corners treatment.
@@ashleys9397- I expected this movie to hit some of those same elements.
Any horror movie house designed by Bernard Robinson
To be fair the crucifix is pretty weird in any context.
Nobody saw that coming. Have you been America.
That one look like a so bad it's good flick. Might have to find it. It reminds me of another one I'm dying to see again... it also has a man dressed as a woman (no one questions it) and it's a bad one too. I think it's late 60's early 70's and the "woman" is a insane killer. And no it's not "Homicidal" and it wasn't played by Devine. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Nice movie
Bro, where did you get this one!
It is on Amazon Prime in the UK
Am I the only one who gets a Rocky Horror Vibe???
I see you shiver, with... an... tic... i...
@@euansmith3699 Say It! ...pation...
@@thrashpondopons8348 Thank you!
@@richmcgee434 You are quite welcome!
Bodega Bay Hotel (Puppet Master).
What is it with people and axes? Seriously. Although it's a popular and widely used---even overused-- concept in the movies and elsewhere, has there really ever been a real-life ACTUAL axe murder? That's just plain preposterous. Axes are made of hard wood and metal; how could you possibly kill any of them?
1:22 is when the horrible part comes. 😒
The funny thing is it is not a bad plot. Just a problematic execution.
Oooomy🎉
OMG, I totally didn't see it coming that Miss Needs-A-Shave would turn out to be a man!
Wow
Can't blame Miss Leslie I always liked pretty girls
Miss Leslie, oh so not convincing with her heavy brow ,big hands and five o'clock shadow. Still a somewhat enjoyable low budget horror.
Miss Leslie goes to GameStop