The Doll Master
- Andrea Ayala
- Jul 6, 2017
- 3 min read
With the success of Annabelle, we have been given another Annabelle movie coming out this August. Not to mention that Chucky is getting a new movie as well. So let’s go back to 2004 when South Korea made their own horror doll movie titled “Doll Master”
The story began about years ago when a doll maker fell in love with this girl in red kimono (I don’t know why she is wearing a kimono in a Korean movie). He loved this girl so much that he created a life size doll that exactly looks like her (creepy eh?)
When the red kimono girl was found murdered the village people took it upon themselves to blame and beat the doll maker to death. The only witness was the doll he made in the image of the girl wearing a red kimono.
In present day, five people were invited to a doll museum up in the woods.
They were invited because the resident doll maker has chosen them to create dolls in their own image. It may be a creepy factor for some, but in Asian culture, ball jointed dolls are famous and very expensive; they are often made in the image of an anime or a pop idol. So I guess it is a privilege to be invited by a doll master to be immortalized into a doll.
The showroom of the museum is nice.
All the rest of the place is creepy and the place being up on a hill in the middle of nowhere doesn’t help to lessen its creepy factor as well. As you can see at the picture to the left, the rooms have life size dolls in it. Hae-mi got the room with a doll holding the mirror. The other rooms have a doll up on the ceiling holding the light like a chandelier. And then there is the bathroom that has dolls inside the cubicles. So when you have to go pee or poo, you are practically sitting on a doll’s lap.
Aside from the 5 invited guests, the museum curator and the doll maker, there was also a mysterious girl in a red dress that is being seen on the museum grounds. Later into the movie, things started to get creepy when the guests are starting to die one by one. Hae-mi then remembers that the red dress girl looks exactly like her doll when she was a child. Tae-seong, one of the guests finally revealed himself that he is an undercover cop trying to investigate about a recent murder that happened in the museum. He thought it was Hae-mi so he handcuffs her. It was then revealed that the red dress girl was the one killing the guests with the doll maker’s command. But she couldn’t kill Hae-mi, all she wanted to be is with Hae-mi again and asked why she threw her away. Even though Hae-mi couldn’t give her an answer and was terrified she still helped her from the doll master, she sacrificed herself to protect Hae-mi.
This is also the time we learned that the doll maker whose name is Im was possessed by the Red kimono doll. That all five guests are descendants of those men who beat the doll maker to death years ago. That recently Im and her husband found the doll in the woods and took it back home and that is when his wife Im got possessed by the doll. Hae-mi and Im successfully defeated the red kimono doll by killing Im. In the end, they burned all the dolls and only Hae-mi and Im’s husband survived this ordeal.
Although this movie is a horror movie, I cried. I cried in this movie. I cried when the red dress girl doll whose name was Mi-na cried and asked Hae-mi why she threw her away. I cried that Hae-mi was so terrified by her childhood doll that came to life, I cried for Mi-na for how she felt being feared by the person she loved. It may sound weird, but ever have something you so love that sometimes you feel like it is alive? I feel that way on some of my things. Even cars, I look at cars and I can tell if it’s a male or a female or how it is feeling. Ever went shopping and you see something that is calling you to buy it. It’s like you hear a faint voice telling you to “buy me”. Perhaps the lesson learned in this movie is that we shouldn’t attach ourselves to much on something coz we might give it a soul. And if we do love it too much to give it a soul, then please do not throw it away or forget about it.
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