sharonsailerandrews Where is his sailor suit? Where is the little bug-eyed dog that the real Robert holds in his arms, a dog whose expression seems to scream for release? This doll looks like a plasticine meat loaf that got run over by a couple of semis. Part of the creepiness of the original doll is that it manages to combine age and innocence, including a pock-marked face that makes you think this child's toy might have had some congress with syphilitic prostitutes in foreign ports of call. Neither of the parents in the movie has the least appeal; they are defensive, emotionally constipated, whiny idiots who should never have been allowed to breed in the first place. Twenty-five minutes into the plot, you find yourself wondering where this thing called a plot is. It doesn't get any better. This sucker is turgid; it moves at the pace of a 15-part BBC adaptation of a long-forgotten British novel about people who have nothing much to do with their time. I wound up hoping Robert would kill all of them just to rescue us from the tedium.

erist80 It was just awful, really bad acting , script and just seemed like it was written in 10 minutes , it seemed like a low budget film , no actors that we knew and its based on true events but doesn't seem like it is and that it is made up it was just a joke of a film , we turned it of after 20 minutes as it was so slow to get into it

bomenorange I gave this movie one star just for trying their best and made a 90min clip. First lets just talk about the weird looking doll, a 6 year old kid can make a better stuffed doll than this one, it's lame and not scary at all, well maybe just the face. Anyway i waited very much to see it move or try something scary but it barely moved during the entire movie, it was just sitting on the chair most of the movie.And of course you can't but notice the amateur acting and the boring side story of the family and the unnecessary events.To sum it all they had a good story elements for a good horror movie (a scary isolated house, hunted doll, and the old house maid witch).

John Aldridge 'Robert' is about a family who fires their maid for being too old and forgetful. Then, the maid gets revenge by giving the child of the family a possessed doll.I will start with the positive side of Robert. It is a very tense and atmospheric psychological horror film. And the fact that it is based on true events makes it all more terrifying. It uses haunting cinematography and camera tricks to unnerve viewers, instead of throwing in bucket loads of gore or cheap jump scares. I respect this film a lot for not scaring the audience by never ending false scares. Now to the negative parts. I don't understand why they can't just respect the source material. They changed the look of the doll - the real 'Robert' is nothing like the doll portrayed in the film. Also, the musical score in the film is quite scary first time, but gets repetitive... very, VERY REPETITIVE. They used the same music over and over again, and it got old very fast. However, the very worst part of Robert is the atrocious acting and dialogue. The dialogue has very long, awkward pauses and you start to mutter to yourself, 'get to the point!'. The acting is very poor, especially the mother and child's acting. The father's acting was slightly better, bit still very poor. I thought the writer focused on the story too much, sometimes too an extent where you thought it was a soap opera. Some scenes were too depressing and the characters were boring and tasteless. The writer added too much background plots and the film became too slow paced at times. Overall, I would give a four out of ten because they used the psychological aspect very well, using some great cinematography, but overall the acting and how the story was carried out was very poor and at times very boring.