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How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Read the Instructions
Ah, the perils of office romance. Here we have Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) a man who works at a tech firm. He can't get a date because he's shy. So he spends his nights nursing a closet porn habit and goes to weird S&M shops.
We also have Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller, who looks quite good in a teddy) a newcomer who is having trouble fitting in around the office. See, she's a temp. She's also pretty, blond, and thin so naturally, everybody hates her. Even Kenneth shuns her at first when they are assigned to the same project together. However, Kenneth still takes note of her looks.
One night Ken decides to order a sex doll off of a website. For $10,000 you can have "Nikki" custom made to your specifications. Everything from eyes, nose, hair color, body shape, etc. Almost as an afterthought, he uses Lisa's appearance as the mold. Soon, "Nikki" arrives and Ken starts having fun. However, at the same time he also developes a closeness with Lisa. And perhaps subconsciencely influenced by Nikki's resemblence to her, Ken strikes up a romantic relationship with Lisa. Soon, all is bliss. Kenneth & Lisa are not only working like a well oiled machine on their assignment together, but they are pretty hot n' heavy too.
However, there's trouble afoot. Turns out "Nikki" is the jealous type...
I'm going to leave it right there. This movie is too much fun to give away the ending. It's made in the same spirit as "May" and "Ginger Snaps." It revels in its own twisted humor but smartly handles it to keep you glued to each to scene up to the last one. However, it's probably not the most ideal date movie.
Did I mention that Melissa Sagemiller looks quite good in a teddy?

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Surprisingly effective creepfest
Kenneth is a single bachelor who can't score with the ladies. It's not that he's a bad-looking guy really, he's just painfully shy and has no clue as to how to speak to members of the opposite sex. Kenneth has a crush on Lisa, a typist who he works with, but cannot bring himself to ask her out on a date. One day Kenneth sees an ad for ultra-realistic love dolls and chooses to purchase one for the sum of $10,000. He names the doll Nikki and customizes it to look exactly like Lisa, everything from body dimensions, to hair, make-up, lipstick, etc. Kenneth does everything with the doll; dining, dancing, movie-watching, kissing, intercourse. As his infatuation with the doll increases, so does his work relationship with Lisa and soon him and Lisa are actually dating each other. But within this love triangle someone is bound to become jealous and either Lisa or Nikki is gonna have to go...

Throughout the first half of the film I didn't even realize I was watching a horror film, it felt more like your routine drama picture. Kenneth's sense of loneliness and isolation is well-developed and we are made to sympathize with him and hope that he finds happiness and love. Then after a while, things take a turn for the worse as Kenneth turns into an absolute degenerate sicko right before our eyes. The film becomes increasingly dark as the minutes go on, leading to its blood-soaked ending. This is an example of a movie that chronicles the madness and despair that can be caused by loneliness. Comparisons to the film "May" are inevitable except that May Cassidy was someone we sympathized with throughout the entire picture. Towards the end of this film however you will come to loathe Kenneth.

"Love object" is a well-executed and engaging film. The acting by the two leads is first-rate especially for a straight-to-video release. Not to mention the delicious supporting role performances of Rip Thorn and genre veteran Udo Kier. Despite the outrageous central premise, the film has a very serious tone. It is haunting and disturbing not so much due to traditional horror movie scares but rather because of its unflinching realism. For those who live in apartments and live the single bachelor lifestyle, some of this stuff will really hit home on a personal level.

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Much better than it had any right to be!!!
Isn't it nice to actually stumble on a small movie and enjoy it way more than you expected? Here's your movie. It's creepy. It's actually laugh-out-loud funny in places. The acting is suprisingly good. And, well, the whole thing just works really well.
There are little pieces of "Frankenstein", "Reanimator" and "Magic" dropped here and there, but it really is it's own original idea. One sentence synopsis: A lonely, work-obsessed guy buys a $10,000 sex doll and things really go wrong from there....
If you like quirky horror movies, this is better than 90% of the garbage on your local video store shelf. Give it a try!!