The Curse of Robert the Doll (2016) User Reviews

The Curse of Robert the Doll: Another frustrating mess

[Platypuschow · 2/10 · 21 January 2018]

Robert The Doll (2015) was a weak messy British horror so I was hugely surprised to see it spawn a sequel. Wait did I say sequel? I meant sequels, because at time of writing there are no less than four Robert movies.

Now for those of you unfamiliar Robert is based upon a real doll, a doll that inspired the existence of Childs Plays own Chucky. But make no mistake these movies are not on the same level, not even remotely.

What I find odd is that they don't use the real Roberts appearance because that is considerably scarier. Seriously, it's like a cabbage patch doll imitating leather face!

Well Robert The Doll is fresh off his last killing spree and is now an exhibit in a museum. It's not l.ong until he returns to his old ways and it comes down to the buildings security guards and newly recruited cleaner to save the day.

To it's credit it does remain consistent and even includes a cast member from the original. Sadly this doesn't make up for everything else being beyond awful.

The Good:

Meh

The Bad:

Pretty much everything

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

I still struggle to find a doll even remotely feasible

I need alcohol if I'm going to weather the next two films

Run for cover!

[RatedVforVinny · 2/10 · 7 March 2019]

Probably like me you got suckered into watching this, by the brilliant cover art on the DVD but that is about all the quality you will find, with this 'Robert' sequel. It's a shoddy, low budget affair with bad special effects and even worse acting. The story of a cursed doll is actually quite tantalizing but this is just a very poor and dull effort.

Not much of a curse...

[paul_haakonsen · 2/10 · 9 June 2018]

I must start out with a warning of sorts. Don't lured in by this movie, which obviously just cashes in on the success of "Annabelle".

The storyline in this movie was pointless and really uneventful.

The characters were essentially one-dimensional cardboard cut outs that you don't care about or invest any energy in.

The doll itself looked like something that was made by someone in primary school. And it was painstakingly clear that all the scenes with the doll was just some person holding it and moving its arms or legs. it was all so very, very low key.

This low budget horror movie is not worth the time or effort. I actually sat through it to the end but drifted off two or three times along the way. And I actually found myself with my attention on the phone a lot throughout the course of the snoozefest that is "The Curse of Robert the Doll".

An extremely poor film.

[sianclement-57879 · 1/10 · 29 April 2022]

Literally nothing to get you invested in the movie. The story is aimless and boring, the characters acting is stiff and dull. Like they were filming a school project.

The so called "cursed" doll looks like a bad paper craft and looks like someone awkwardly "playing dolls" with a child in every scene.

Would also like to point out that for 2016 the SFX are.. abysmal. Like I'm pretty sure an actual child could make better looking blood/guts with tissue paper and red paint.

I could complain for hours but not even worth it.

Not as much as some would lead you to believe.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 5/10 · 28 April 2022]

Right, let's be honest, it's no Annabelle, but in this second outing, Robert is now housed in a museum, and of course causes mayhem when the new cleaner arrives.

I'm not sure why expectations from some were seemingly quite high, surely they must have seen the first?

It's low budget, it's silly, but it's not without some level of charm, I liked the accompanying music, it was definitely a little creepy, and atmospheric.

The acting, was decent I thought, some of it was good, some was average.

Robert, if only he could have been a little more animated, he was perhaps a little static, his footsteps were rather cute I thought.

I loved the atmosphere of the opening and closing scenes, and that security guard was very cute.

It wasn't bad, 5/10.

watch Chucky instead

[kasperp-31874 · 1/10 · 12 September 2017]

The story is played out some years after the first movie. This time with Emily Barker. A student who takes a night job at a museum to pay of loans. Unfortanly for her this is the new home for Robert the doll. After a while working as a cleaner, Emily starts getting a feeling something's wrong in the museum. she is not wrong.

I love horror movies and i was so scared for dolls after seeing Chucky many years ago. Unfortanly this movie is nothing like Chucky or the newer Annabell. The first movie was badly written. Slow going Forward. The characters never felt realistic when they talked to each other and when the doll was on screen it was so bad it made you laugh. This movie is not better. The characters are still bad. The doll still just look so foolish and the story is so slow. Nothing happens the first 25 minutes.

If you as me love horror movies with killing dolls. Watch Chucky or The boy instead. Light years better than this school project.

Slightly better than the first movie... which isn't saying much

[VinnieRattolle · 5/10 · 19 September 2016]

A young woman takes a job on the night shift in a small curio museum. When her coworkers' bodies begin piling up, the prime suspect is one of the displays, a hideous doll which is purported to be possessed.

Very loosely based on a real story (relocated from early 20th century Florida to contemporary Britain), the original "Robert" was a tedious movie, paced at the speed of evolution, with characters who behaved idiotically and cheaper effects than the worst of the Charles Band killer-doll flicks. This time around, the pace is a little better (though it still takes far too long to get going), the characters are slightly more likable (a returning cast member steps up their game and the rest of the performances are decent) and the effects are... well, about the same. Frankly, it's a case of been there, done that, seen it - and much better. But sadly, I've also seen much worse. The biggest problem with these films is that suspense isn't handled well, it's draaaaagged out to the point of boredom and the payoff generally sucks.

It's sort of a shame that this trilogy (a third film is slated to be released next year) has been so painfully mediocre, cuz it's kind of disrespectful to the real Robert, who deserves a more faithful telling of his bizarre tale. Still, this sequel's a few rungs above the original, so perhaps the third film might actually be good.

A slight improvement, but not much sadly.

[vengeance20 · 3/10 · 13 April 2018]

Seen this film last year on DVD, but bough it the year before last after discovering there was a sequel! I didn't expect much from the film & knew it was going to be boring or crappy to some degree, but I had a whisker of hope it could be good...!

As usual, the film was rubbish, but somehow slightly better than the first, which really sucked! The film was slightly better because it had a slightly better premise, gorgeous actress lead & of course, had a bit more bloodiness to it.

But the story-line & pacing killed it! The film itself wasn't convincing with editing being so weak & sloppy it's as if the filmmakers don't care about the outcome but only just to make a sequel for the sake of it! What I don't understand, is why the film has to lack action sequences & have deaths that aren't the imaginative? They could at least watch Child's Play or Annabelle to give them some inspiration if they suck at creative ideas & thinking! But no, they didn't!

I also can't help but feel the film overall just felt isolated & dead! It seemed to lifeless, like Robert himself. But the film was slightly better than its predacessor, so that's something I guess...!

3/10

Robert wants to play

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 10 February 2018]

Robert is purchased from the evidence room and placed in a museum (cops don't care about stolen and sold evidence). Emily Barker (Tiffany Ceri) is hired as a night time cleaning woman and suddenly the doll comes to life and starts its killing, something it failed to do before the new hire. Once you get past these plot issues, we meet Stan Graves (Christopher Hale) who has "puppet kill me" all over his obnoxious self. The order of people who get killed is easy to figure out from the onset. The saving grace of the film is the ending which leads into a sequel "The Toymaker" out in 2017 because 12 or so Puppetmaster films are not enough.

The film is slow and predictable, which is not always bad in a horror film. In this case it was. I didn't care about the characters, even after I got to know Emily and Kevin Underwood (Jason Homewood) who were an item after knowing each other for 3 nights.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Slight improvement

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 31 May 2022]

A very slight improvement over the first film. But I mean slight. The action shifts to the modern day, where Robert's now a museum exhibit, except of course he's still up to no good. The acting's still cringy but not quite so much, and the inspiration seems to be CHILD'S PLAY which gives this one more of a slasher film feel.

DONT DIS MY BABES ROBERT

[vodcore · 10/10 · 28 August 2022]

I'd seen the first movie, and Robert was so sexy I had to watch the next one. The first one made me wet the bed because I was having nightmares (I'm a 52 year old). I showed it to my wife, Doris, and now she wants a divorce, Robert is that brilliant. The second one was amazing, the acting deserving of oscars, and the storyline was so original I don't know where they get it from. Lots of the movie shows Robert behind a glass case so you can see his delicious rocking bod. My favourite part is the end where he gets in a silly goofy mood and stabs lots of people, terrifying but how could you not love this hotsicle. Robert is my favourite film, because it's so scary. This brings me to tears, he's what I aspire to be.

Nice bridge between Robert and The Toymaker

[indie-55193 · 6/10 · 20 July 2019]

This Robert sequel is not as bad as some ratings claim, The story is well tied as a nice follow up to the first movie. There's no huge story here because it's like a bridge between part 1 and 3, also it's mainly based on the true legend of Robert the doll in the museum. Yet the film is enjoyable to watch and fast based, also the ending was very cool and unexpected.

Lame!!

[mbhdpg · 1/10 · 1 June 2022]

This film is just as the title says, LAME!

As soon as the actor/actress spoke the first line, I knew what I was in for. Depression.

The scariest part of the film was a 5p plastic bag moving across the corridor. I would have had more fun with a dose of clap.

Please, for your mental health, do not even entertain the idea of watching this poor excuse of a movie.

I think it was mistitled. "Curse the makers of Robert the Doll"...

[Cecil_B_DeFilm · 2/10 · 21 December 2023]

... seems more fitting.

Hopefully you can make it to your fall-out shelter before ever watching this bomb.

Terrible acting accompanied by UTTERLY TERRIBLE SOUND (poorest of leveling), a plot more transparent & flat than a pane of glass & poor direction, script (though there was a one liner that gave me a chuckle, mainly due to the inappropriate delivery) & lighting, round out the numerous reasons to go stare at a Raggedy Ann doll in any toyshop for a better scare than you'll find here.

The only curse associated with this film will likely be you cursing whoever is responsible for this mess & perhaps yourself, for not checking the reviews & avoiding this waste of film stock.

To be fair in closing; Tiffany Ceri was probably the best part of all this, but the movie itself essentially buries almost any shimmer of light from her under the dark cloud of incompetent film making.

Its really just bad all around.

Just Too Cheesey

[wandernn1-81-683274 · 3/10 · 3 January 2020]

Just not good. Not very original and I think even a documentary about Robert The Doll is scarier. Bad effects among other things just come off as negative. Since I know quite a bit about the real Robert The Doll I didn't find it very impressive.

Miles better than the original

[chrissyhyde · 5/10 · 15 September 2016]

After terrorising a schizo mother and her family in the original film the second outing for robert the doll starts with him taken out of a police evidence room and ending up in a crappy museum where he starts killing the security guards and cleaners. I didn't have high hopes for this one after the distinctly average first outing but thought there was a big improvement. This one is more of a run of the mill slasher but there is far better acting with two young leads who are quite good and entertaining characters like the museum owner and the cop. No effort to be psychological and the doll just slices through the cast one by one. So the story doesn't have much to it but the final ten minutes has the best scenes in both films with the Toymaker. Overall a much improved effort.

HORRIBLE!

[chocobear-06038 · 1/10 · 11 May 2020]

I just experienced the misfortune of watching this horrible, poor excuse of a movie. It's not scary at all, and I found myself rolling my eyes several times. The acting is poor, but the writing is even worse. Who on Earth allowed this movie to see the light of day?

Worse than the first one Robert the doll

[eventlaunch · 2/10 · 6 July 2019]

I wondered who they made this film for and so watched it to waste over an hour of my life. Acting terrible plot non existent and yet they made a way to continue this garbage by the end of movie

A doll's curse

[TheLittleSongbird · 2/10 · 21 September 2018]

Was drawn into seeing 'The Curse of Robert the Doll', with a cool poster/cover, an intriguing though far from original premise and as someone with a general appreciation for the genre it fits under. That it was low-budget, which from frequent personal experience is rarely a good sign due to that there are so many poor ones out there (though there are decent to good ones as well), made me though apprehensive.

It is sadly however yet another film seen recently, hence some reiteration because the exact same strengths and flaws present in those films are here, that to me was incredibly disappointing considering its potential which it doesn't do anywhere near enough with. 'The Curse of Robert the Doll' is really very bad, with so many huge flaws and doesn't do anywhere near enough with its potential, which was quite a good deal. There is very little good here in 'The Curse of Robert the Doll', which was seen by me hearing that it was better than the first. Actually for me they're on the same level and the flaws are exactly the same too.

Only the titular doll passes muster as a redeeming quality, he is quite creepy at times and it is a shame that the rest of the film isn't.

Going on to the negatives, the story does feel over-stretched and some of it comes over as vague and under-explained in the last third where the film especially became duller, more predictable, more senseless and less unsettled and never gaining momentum. All the characters are too sketchy and with cardboard thin and colourless personalities and with nowhere near enough to make one want to endear to them. Their annoying and illogical decision making and behaviours frustrates. The chemistry is bland and unfocused.

The sound quality is obvious and utilised cheaply (being too loud in the build ups and people's reactions), the effects are laughable and all of the acting is lacking severely on the whole, that's actually an understatement as the worst of it is horrendous from especially the mother. There is no sense of horror or engagement with the awful predicament they're in, and no connecting with the character, it just reeks of indifference which makes the viewer not care less too.

Dialogue can be stilted and rambling while the pace and film drags on forever, apparent from the very start, never recovering that interest is lost fast. The ending has no build-up and just ends ridiculously. Found too many of the supposedly shocking moments not surprising or scary and the atmosphere dreary, due to the excessive obviousness, a lot of dumb and vague moments and explanations and the lack of tension and suspense. Thrills are none, thanks to stodginess and excessive over-familiarity, and found myself never invested in the drama, which tended to be indifferently acted, interminably paced and statically directed.

A lot of 'The Curse of Robert the Doll' has really dull and going nowhere plot elements and often nonsensical and confusing character motivations, while too many of the things to make you shocked are far from creative or unsettling. It all feels rather tame.

Nothing freaky or interesting, no development and too derivative, while everything is unimaginative and are more odd than scary, completely failing to show any sense of dread. There is nothing interesting or illuminating with what the film was trying to do and the drama is overwrought with no momentum and a lot of weirdness. The direction is leaden, got the sense their heart was not in it, and the music is ill-fitting. 'The Curse of Robert the Doll' is very amateurish visually, too drearily lit and shows no care in the way it's shot. The editing has more continuity errors than one can count.

Altogether, very poor. 2/10 Bethany Cox

WATSE of time and money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stevenprosser-96206 · 1/10 · 20 June 2020]

I was excited to watch this film because i'm a massive fan of horrors and i loved chucky and annabelle but very very disappointed with the outcome, on the front of the dvd it says "CHUCKY and ANNABELLE were SCARY ROBERT is your WORST NIGHTMARE" and annabelle and chucky were heart rushing thrillers and as it says it's worse than annabelle and chucky and to be honest s you're wasting your time and money and in all honesty just don't. thank you for your time

Excellent - The little rascal is at it again!

[paulclemomail · 10/10 · 13 September 2016]

SPOILER ALERTS -------------- After watching the brilliant original Robert film, I eagerly anticipated this follow up. It doesn't disappoint at all. The little nutter looks evil and you have to wonder who would ever have wanted this as a doll? After his murderous antics in the original, he is obtained by an arrogant museum owner who makes Robert his star attraction. Profits increase and all is good.

Unfortunately for the main character Emily, she decides to get a night time cleaning job at the museum. She's pretty freaked by the doll straight away amid stories of its past. However, she cracks on with her cleaning. Well, actually she spends more time having cups of tea and flirting with the security guard, but she wipes a mirror at one point! She hears some footsteps and witnesses a few strange goings on that make her all the more scary.

She starts to wonder whether she's just seeing things. Maybe all this night time working is getting to her...even though it is only her second night! When a fat, obnoxious security guard ends up dead, things really get going. She considers leaving. I'd be out the door personally, but this job is just too good to leave! She perseveres, but things get worse. Robert pops up and scares the poop out of her cleaning colleague Ethel causing her to fall to the ground. Robert has a screwdriver and a menacing look in his eye. Now, at this point, I'd be inclined to get up and kick the little bugger's head off, but she freezes conveniently on the floor and inevitably gets a screwdriver in her head. Two down, two to go.

Emily and her love interest Kevin are obviously suspects. For some reason the police aren't having it that Robert is responsible. After visiting the mum from the first film, they realise that Robert is indeed responsible. They also discover the museum owner's shady past and attempt to set him up. They attempt to blackmail him and get him to admit that the doll is alive. This doesn't go well and the museum owner is just about to shoot them when Robert comes up behind him and gives him a karate chop in the leg. He falls to the floor and the couple get away, albeit with Kevin getting shot in the leg.

Robert catches up with them and Kevin is no more. There's a brief struggle between Emily and Robert which ends up with Robert being sliced in two. Emily gets away but with no other suspects, the film approaches the end with her being charged with the murders.

The final scene shows Robert's creator, a nutty old toy maker getting Robert back and doing some repairs on the doll. This toy maker is in fact Lee Bane, the main actor from the first film, as an old man.

I now eagerly await the third film in this trilogy. I really enjoyed this film and would recommend it to anyone.

entertaining B movie

[lukeyemen · 6/10 · 15 September 2016]

The filmmakers are shameless making Robert such a low budget Chucky clone but I still found this to be a pretty entertaining ride. It takes a while before the doll properly gets into the action, but once Robert starts knocking people off it's a fun watch. Honestly if you're expecting deep meaning to a film this isn't going to do it but its good by B movie standard. They probably should have gone a bit more extreme with the effects, there's only like a TV movie level of gore and no nudity which was a bit disappointing. But the story was pretty good and the actors did a decent job so I ended up digging it more than I probably should. 6/10

This movie is a total garbage.

[armindinamo · 1/10 · 26 April 2022]

The script and the acting from the second part of the movie, where the action starts it's literal garbage. The way the doll moves, looks, kill, the scenes and everything it's like made on a 500$ budget. I would't recomend this even to my enemyes.

Unoriginal Ripoff

[Grojniar · 1/10 · 6 October 2021]

The beginning was quite obviously a ripoff from "The Bride of Chucky". Honestly with how bad the first one was I'm surprised a sequel got made. There was very little horror element to the movie which alone makes this bad. For some reason they decided to give the person who dragged the first movie down some more screen time and naturally she was unbearable. Literally every issue the first one had got copied and ruined it's sequel, Andrew Jones learned nothing from his past mistakes. As I've said before the story of Robert can be turned into some awesome movies, all it needs is someone competent to write and direct it, unlike Andrew Jones.

Waste of time.

[misterbricks-21134 · 2/10 · 23 April 2022]

What can I say about this film? The acting was bad. The story was bad te special effects where bad. Where anabel was creepy because you never saw the doll actually move this doll moves a lot. Thats takes away from the suspense.

This is 90+ minutes of my life I am never getting back.