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The sort of clumsy undertaking that trips up everyone and everything in it.
Droll and modestly creepy horror film.
The movie reaches with increasing desperation toward humor and grisly sadism, and the mood is broken.
While some pedestrian camerawork and spotty acting from supporting players deflate Love Object, it has enough juice -- and a surprising twist -- to keep fans of the slow-burn horror genre enthralled.
What might have been a commentary on the objectification of women becomes an unrestrained forum for twisted ideas of sexuality.
All the student-film hallmarks are here: deep-think pretentiousness, annoyingly arty camera-work, cardboard-cutout characters and robotic dialogue.
The film sends a false message about freaky sex.
As Kenneth dips into 'Norman Bates meets The Marquis de Sade' waters, horror fans will stand transfixed and will definitely not be disappointed by the shocking finale.
The comedy falls flat and the only real horror is having to sit through the whole damn thing.
Feels so depressingly vacant that it registers less as a film than as a pointed lesson in what not to do in the wacky world of non-traditional dating.
The biggest potential pitfall is that Kenneth starts the film as such a weirdo that some audience members may have problems relating to him
What's missing is any sense of why such a handsome man is afraid of women. That makes the premise hard to swallow, especially since Harrington is too commanding to be a believable dweeb.
Though you might admire bits and pieces of it, overall this movie is unlikely to be the object of anyone's affection.
You know you're having a bad day when you can't make a relationship work with your rubber doll - even with instructions...a nice little addition to the sick and twisted genre.
Has quite a bit to say about male fantasies.
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