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Pinocchio's Revenge (1996)

Pinocchio's Revenge poster
Directed by
Kevin S. Tenney
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
R
Rating
4.4 of 10 from 81 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lawyer brings home a wooden puppet found buried with a dead boy. Her 8-year-old daughter takes the doll as her own, and strange accidents begin. The mother struggles to figure out if the doll is evil or if her daughter is troubled.

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What happens

Pinocchio's Revenge is a 1996 American psychological horror film written and directed by Kevin S. Tenney and distributed by Trimark Pictures. It stars Rosalind Allen and Todd Allen and was released direct-to-video. The film's plot concerns a lawyer who brings home a wooden puppet that was found buried with a boy supposedly killed by his father. Her 8-year-old daughter Zoe sees the doll and takes it as her own. Soon accidents start happening and Jennifer struggles to find the cause as she begins to question her daughter's wellbeing and whether or not there may be something sinister to the doll. The movie is closer "to Don Mancini's original intent for Child's Play". The film was conceptualized as Bad Pinocchio, written as The Pinocchio Syndrome, shot as Pinocchio, and released as Pinocchio's Revenge on VHS and Laserdisc on 23 September 1997. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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