SPOILERS AHEAD: One of two notorious movies from low-budget writer/director Chester Novell Turner.
Willie Tyler is a famous ventriloquist from the 1970’s and 1980’s, often appearing with his puppet Lester. In Black Devil Doll From Hell, there is a Lester-esque doll purchased by Helen Black (Shirley Jones) from an oddities shop. The shop owner gives Helen a cryptic warning about the doll always winding back up at the shop, and had been sold several times before.
Helen is a wholesome, Christian woman living alone and lacking any real form of companionship in her life. And wow, does the Devil Doll change things up for her! Via rape. He comes to life and sexually assaults her, full on oral sex and vaginal intercourse (implied, not really shown). Helen quickly gets into the brutal sex.
She wakes up the next morning, thinking it was all a dream but notices vaginal bleeding. The doll has disappeared. Helen’s sexual awakening leads her to seduce a few guys and bring them home for sex, but she is unsatisfied each time.
She returns to the shop and finds the doll there, and buys him again. Bringing him home in anticipation of wild sex, he remains immobile. In anger, she tries to destroy him but he comes to life and kills here.
The movie ends with another woman having purchased the doll and brought him home.
One very memorable element of the movie is Turner’s repetitive Casio keyboard soundtrack, which is mixed VERY loudly and often drowns out everything else.
