Very disappointing...

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

After the death of his parents, a teenager grows closer and closer to his father's anatomically correct medical mannequin called Pin in this offbeat Canadian thriller from 'Amityville Horror' screenwriter Sandor Stern. The film begins with two episodes from protagonist Leon's boyhood that capture his fascination with the dummy who would speak to him and his sister. Growing up, his sister came to believe that ventriloquism brought Pin to life, however, Leon grew up believing that Pin was alive with some grisly results. Stern litters the film with nice touches. Most notably, we never see any lips move and while we may assume that Pin isn't alive, it is ultimately left ambiguous with a few moments (Pin sitting up in the car) that could point otherwise. Another nice touch is how Stern avoids making Pin scary or menacing with all chills and thrills instead coming from the implied. The film also has a highly memorable ending. All that said and done, the earlier scenes are the best with voyeuristic shots as Leon watches a nurse 'use' Pin privately and so on. The film may have also benefited from emphasising the incestuous tones; we are left to assume that he has developed an unhealthy relationship with his sister as the result of overprotective parenting, but the extent of this is never clear. Whatever the case, the film still resonates a portrait of a mind turned mentally disturbed due to misguided parenting.

In this low-budget descendant of "Psycho", Ursula and Leon are sister and brother, living alone, save for a large wooden puppet they call "Pin" (for Pinocchio). When Ursula starts hanging around with new boyfriend Stan, Leon and Pin take action.What drew me to this film was Terry O'Quinn, who has never (so far as I'm aware) made a bad film. And although he is more of a secondary, supporting actor here, this film is no less good than anything else he has done.What makes this film good is its relatively slow pace, building the suspense, waiting for the moment when all heck will break loose. And, for first time viewers, there is the mystery: is Leon crazy or is Pin truly alive and only willing to open up to specific people? (The answer was not what I expected.)

Although I acknowledge that this film is well written and directed I can't say I personally enjoyed it. It was too boring for me, too slow. We do get to know the characters and even care about them a bit, but the pace is just too slow and doesn't really fit a horror film. We don't get any moments of sudden rage where people get murdered. I can see that this film was intended to be suspenseful and atmospheric - and it succeeds at achieving that, to an extent. But it's not enough for me, it doesn't have that "something" to grab my interest. I found some scenes quite creepy and sickening, particularly the one where the woman uses PIN as a sex doll. I also found the whisperings of incest disturbing. The ending was clever too. Overall though I would only recommend PIN to those that can tolerate very slow-paced, subtle horror that requires a bit of thought. Gore-hounds, look elsewhere!

"Pin" has a strong, troubling, psycho-sexual undercurrent -- that's why I like it. I didn't mind the Andrew Neiderman novel, either, which presented the character of Pin from a totally realistic perspective. The atmosphere director Sandor Stern conjures here reminded me of the Virginia Andrews novel,"Flowers in the Attic", though not the ghastly film version. The children's world is enclosed and corruption of some kind is inevitable. In this, Pin is a life-size medical mannequin who is used as a parental surrogate for two children whose parents are too screwed up and occupied with their own affairs to see the folly of their decisions. The film is dark and moody, sexually loaded, and awfully grim in parts. The "voice" of Pin is disturbing in the extreme and his mere presence in each scene is fascinating but unnerving. Directed with enormous skill and beautifully acted. A treasure.