Morty (1995)
43KMorty: Directed by Vincent Robert. With Eddie Bowz, Heather Medway, Ann Turkel, Vince Edwards. A group of college seniors spending a weekend at a cottage for a psychological experiment called “fear therapy” find a human-sized wooden figure called Morty, which triggers everyone’s deepest and darkest secrets and emotions.
“Nice try but thatu0026#39;s about the only positive thing you can say about this lackluster attempt to blend psychological thriller with eerie horror monsters. The script desperately tries to be intelligent and innovating but the result is a very poor and tedious movie, even for the already low 90u0026#39;s standards. The story handles about an overly ambitious psychology student who motivates a clique of people to go on a mountain-weekend where heu0026#39;ll finish his thesis about phobias. The point is that all the participants get over their fears by talking about them and, in the meantime, our college boy can process his own childhood trauma. Upon arrival, everyoneu0026#39;s fear comes to life in the shape of a life-size wooden dummy. Of course the puppet means trouble! Itu0026#39;s made by Indians itu0026#39;s always the Indians with their spiritual evils, I tell you!! This movie takes itself way too seriously and the makers actually seem to believe that the subject matter is deep and complex! Itu0026#39;s not! Itu0026#39;s more than obvious that every character hides one of several dark secrets and the viewer figures them all out long before they reveal the u0026quot;truthu0026quot; themselves. Iu0026#39;ve rarely seen a movie so predictable than u0026quot;The Fearu0026quot;. The story gets more and more annoying near the end and, the more clever it tries to be, the more ridiculous it all looks. The wooden u0026quot;evil personifiedu0026quot; dummy isnu0026#39;t very impressive and the squeaky stretching-sounds he constantly makes arenu0026#39;t my idea of eerie sound effects. Pinocchio actually was a lot scarier at least he could do tricks with his nose. The acting performances are forgettable, even though Iu0026#39;m sure the guy who came up with the idea to offer Wes Craven a small role is very proud of himself. In case youu0026#39;re looking for some really unsettling evil-dummy horror movies, check out u0026quot;Pinu0026quot; (brilliant but disgracefully underrated 80u0026#39;s thriller) and u0026quot;Magicu0026quot; (staring a young Anthony Hopkinsu0026quot;.”
