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Director: | Andrew Jones |
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Editing: | Morgan Conlon |
Cinematography: | Jonathan McLaughlin |
Music: | Bobby Cole |
Studio: | North Bank Entertainment |
Distributor: | 4Digital Media |
Runtime: | 90 minutes |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Robert is a 2015 British horror film written and directed by Andrew Jones. It stars Suzie Frances Garton, Lee Bane, Flynn Allen, Judith Haley and Megan Lockhurst. The film was inspired by a haunted doll named Robert.[1] [2]
Lawyer Paul Otto and his wife Jenny, an artist, decide that Agatha, the nanny to their son Gene, is getting past it and make the decision to dismiss her. Agatha takes the decision badly and the resentful former nanny promises this will not be the end of it. She departs, leaving Gene with a hideous doll called Robert. Shortly after Agatha's dismissal strange events start to occur in the house. Objects are thrown around, furniture is wrecked and ominous giggles are heard in the dead of night. Jenny soon becomes concerned about the relationship between Gene and Robert. Gene insists that Robert is alive and that it destroyed one of Jenny’s paintings and wrote ‘die’ on her bathroom mirror. Jenny soon comes to believe that Robert is alive and was responsible for pushing the cleaner Martha down the stairs and killing the babysitter Marcie. However, with no proof of this, Paul thinks Jenny’s mental health is playing up again…
4Digital Media acquired the distribution of the film in UK and US and was released on August 24, 2015.[3]
On Culture Crypt, the film has a review score of 25 out of 100, indicating "unfavorable reviews".[4]
Corey Danna of Horrornews.net wrote:
Four sequels have followed: The Curse of Robert the Doll was released on September 12, 2016,[5] [6] The Toymaker on August 21, 2017, The Revenge of Robert the Doll on March 6, 2018,[7] and Robert Reborn on June 24, 2019.[8]