{"id":39865,"date":"2023-10-26T00:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39865"},"modified":"2023-10-25T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T18:03:54","slug":"benny-loves-you-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/26\/benny-loves-you-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Benny Loves You (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you invest in a ride that\u2019s more about senseless gore and grue with a killer doll on a rampage that feels like a long, internet comedy skit, Karl Holt\u2019s \u201cBenny Loves You\u201d might just satisfy your appetite. I\u2019m not one that ever really turns down a movie about killer dolls or puppets, so \u201cBenny Loves You\u201d kept my attention most times. It\u2019s weird, and bizarre, and gloriously deadpan. Plus, Benny is such an interesting and menacing monster, that I bought his ability to inflict sheer chaos on anything with a pulse.<\/p>\n

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Jack as a young boy was terrified of the dark, and was given the talking doll Benny to help him. Growing up with Benny, he decides to give him away. But strange supernatural forces turn Benny in to a sentient doll with a thirst for murder, and chaos. Anxious to keep Benny\u2019s habits under wraps, Jack deals with Benny all the while garnering affection for a co-worker, and competing for a bigger position as a toy designer in his company.<\/p>\n

If you want any kind of reasoning or logic behind anything that happens here, you\u2019re plum out of luck. That might sound like nitpicking since it\u2019s a movie about a killer kids\u2019 toy that delights in murdering people, but I would have loved to learn more behind the scenes. Director and writer Karl Holt seems to allude toward some kind of supernatural force at play and can never decide what motivates Benny. Is Benny a monster or a conscious being? Is he jealous or just sadistic? Is he mad at his owner Jack for pushing him aside, or is he feeding in to Jack\u2019s intrusive thoughts? While \u201cBenny Loves You\u201d revels in just being a senseless parade of the killer doll destroying everything from hapless apartment dwellers, to stray cats, Holt just brushes past a lot more pressing questions we\u2019re left with.<\/p>\n

What brings the toys to life? Why are they brought to life? What or who empowers them? Why do they emerge as violent and murderous? How in the heck did Jack and his girlfriend talk their way out of murder charges? How were any of them able to convince others that killer dolls were the culprits? Did anyone ever find the bodies Jack buried in his back yard? Did Jack like when Benny inflicted violence on others or not? Can Benny die? In the annals of killer toy movies, \u201cBenny Loves You\u201d is one of the okayest that\u2019s ever been made. I say that because while Karl Holt\u2019s horror comedy is creative and funny, Holt cuts corners in terms of story and exposition quite often. Things happen in \u201cBenny Loves You\u201d because. That\u2019s it. Take it or leave it. There\u2019s a masterpiece hidden within \u201cBenny Loves You,\u201d but as is, it\u2019s a perfectly serviceable and entertaining bit of absurdist horror comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you invest in a ride that\u2019s more about senseless gore and grue with a killer doll on a rampage that feels like a long, internet comedy skit, Karl Holt\u2019s \u201cBenny Loves You\u201d might just satisfy your appetite. I\u2019m not one that ever really turns down a movie about killer dolls or puppets, so \u201cBenny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[219,477,501,3201,874,950],"class_list":["post-39865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-killer-toys","tag-romance","tag-slasher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39867,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39865\/revisions\/39867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}