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Howard is an introverted medical student, studying pathology, who's in love with cute-as-a-cup-cake Christine. Trouble is that Christine doesn't know, or even care, who Howard is and before our lovelorn protagonist can make the "big" move his object of desire is dead. Howard finds out the devastating news while keeping the "red eye" at the morgue and is ordered to assist in performing the autopsy. From this point the tone of "Living Doll," and Howard's mental capabilities, take a discouraging turn and along with Howie the viewer tumbles and fumbles forever downwards into a pit of stark raving madness and mayhem.

Things seem pretty hopeless for poor Howard. His best friend can't help him, his boss is a conniving slave driver and his landlady is constantly sticking her nose in his business. Howard's only comfort is knowing he's taken Christine's corpse back to his rathole apartment and she patiently awaits him. The fact his paramour's body is stinking and rotting hardly deters Howard from carrying on with their love life, and so he does. Howard talks with Christine and dines with Christine. Howard even marries Christine and summarily consummates the union as all good newlyweds should.

The more this craziness continues the more vexing things become for Howard and the film races to a shock and surprise ending. A surprise ending that will have fans of the genre tickled pink and wondering why they'd never heard of this little gem called "Living Doll." One can only wonder what would have happened had Lucky McKee's "May" met our new friend Howie the morgue attendant.

To no one's surprise the exploitative details of "Living Doll" are glowingly obvious and painted all about; nudity, partying, gore, etc., are slathered, without pretense, across the screen. Regardless, the directors' impressive trajectory, crossed with Paul Catling's ("Hellraiser") imagined and sickening special FX, coalesce fittingly with the arresting on-screen talents of lead actor Mark Jax. Altogether this charged cinematic concoction fires and fuels the film heads-n-shoulders above the drekk that it may have been in the hands of lesser qualified folk.

Being no stranger to DVD extras, Mondo Macabro got really busy and included: interviews with the cast and crew as well as a documentary involving the film's producer Dick Randall, trailers, stills and an interesting short film by "Living Doll" author Paul Hart Wilden entitled "Horrorshow."

What it was is how on the back cover it says the dead girl starts telling the guy to take revenge on everyone that killed her, well that isnt exactly true. She tells him towrd the end to kill her boyfirend that was in the car when the accident they got into killed her. I just want to clear that up so people dont expect some type of slasher flick, but what you can expect is a sick twisted love story of a man in love and living with a corpse as it rotts , he imagines the corpse talking to him as he cooks for it buys it clothes sleeps with it ( not seually , he does make out with it 1 time ). Overall the plot is good but at sveral points does drag and get boring but it still remains very wierd. I know this review is not to great but basically I just brought cause it sounded good and i was not really dissapointed that I did but its not a flcik i will watch tons of times, but I will watch it from time to time on some occasions. Bascally rent b4 you I wish I would have but since im stuck with it I will keep it. It really is notthat bad a good story line pretty good acting, like I said it does drag a bit but its worth a viewing you will have to see for your self.