Devil Doll (1964) is a horror film about an evil ventriloquist, "The Great Vorelli", and his dummy Hugo. Decades after its initial release, it was featured on a 1997 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Devil Doll begins with a performance by Vorelli (Bryant Haliday) and Hugo before a packed London audience. There is an apparent tension between the ventriloquist and his dummy. The following night, for another portion of his act, Vorelli invit...
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Devil Doll (1964) is a horror film about an evil ventriloquist, "The Great Vorelli", and his dummy Hugo. Decades after its initial release, it was featured on a 1997 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Devil Doll begins with a performance by Vorelli (Bryant Haliday) and Hugo before a packed London audience. There is an apparent tension between the ventriloquist and his dummy. The following night, for another portion of his act, Vorelli invites a member of his audience, Marianne Horn (Yvonne Romain), onto the stage and succeeds in hypnotizing her and making her dance. Horn is left fascinated by Vorelli, and meets again with him subsequently, before falling into a strange semi-coma. Her boyfriend, Mark English (William Sylvester), a newspaper reporter, is puzzled by her new fixation on this bearded ventriloquist and her declining health and slowly begins to investigate the murky past of the Great Vorelli.
Vorelli's choice of Horn is no accident; he knows that she is an heiress and...
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