The Dollmaker

Dripping with Lynchian style, director José María Cicala's The Dollmaker is part charming, part funny, decidedly weird, and enjoyably bloody. Things are not all they seem in a cheerfully idyllic town that soon becomes a hotbed of female kidnappings. No one seems to care much about the missing women, including nerdy video store clerk and amateur dollmaker Tomás (Rodrigo Noya). But when a new inspector comes to town determined to solve the disappearances, Tomás soon becomes the unlikely prime suspect. A horror film that grows increasingly dark, gruesome, and unpredictable, The Dollmaker delivers a twisted mystery with plenty of surprises.