Love Object

Love Object (2004) Bring an extra can of Creep Repellant when you rent this one and be sure to thoroughly spray the room after you finish watching. It is about a computer industry uber-nerd who writes instructions for new programs, you know, the booklets you never read when using new software. He always arrives before the office opens and leaves late and he has no social life. One day, he gets to work with a very cute assistant to finish a big job in a short time and soon goes off the deep end.

He has a creepy landlord (Udo Keir) and a creepy boss (Rip Torn) in addition to being a bit creepy himself. He sees an ad for a life like doll and orders it. Pretty soon he is taking instructions from the doll that starts to get jealous about his growing relationship with his assistant. He starts dressing the doll to look like his assistant and things then get really creepy and go steeply downhill for just about everyone in the cast.

My main creep factor here is that I actually know people like this…..well maybe not quite this bad but if you work with computers, you’ve met this guy. You know the type, very technical, intelligent, slightly repressed, no social life, drools a lot and not good with the opposite sex. The movie has a bit of a surprise ending and can be considered a pretty classy B-movie about a pretty sordid subject. The movie is rated R for: anatomically correct dolls, anatomically correct humans, doll dismemberment, human dismemberment, bondage themes, hammer violence, dumb police, and for the general all around creepiness generated by this flick.