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Pin (1988)

Pin poster
Original title
Pin : A Plastic Nightmare
Directed by
Sandor Stern
Genre
horror film, thriller film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
R
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 165 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man named Leon develops an intense and unhealthy relationship with an anatomical dummy named Pin that his father uses for medical demonstrations. After his parents die, Leon's reliance on Pin deepens, leading to increasingly disturbing behavior that isolates him from his sister and the outside world.

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What happens

Pin (stylized as PIN...) fully titled as Pin: A Plastic Nightmare is a 1988 Canadian horror film directed by Sandor Stern and starring David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston and Terry O'Quinn. It is based on the novel of the same name by Andrew Neiderman. The film was released direct-to-video in the United States on January 27, 1989. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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