5.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Dolly (2026)
Dolly (2026)
Overview
Dolly is an independent slasher horror film directed by Rod Blackhurst, expanding his 2022 short Babygirl. A couple's remote hiking trip encounters Dolly, a masked deranged figure who abducts the woman, Macy, to raise as their child. Seann William Scott plays Chase, Ethan Suplee plays Tobe, and Michalina Scorzelli appears in a supporting role.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Positive
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
5.6
Overview
Dolly is an independent slasher horror film directed by Rod Blackhurst, expanding his 2022 short Babygirl. A couple's remote hiking trip encounters Dolly, a masked deranged figure who abducts the woman, Macy, to raise as their child. Seann William Scott plays Chase, Ethan Suplee plays Tobe, and Michalina Scorzelli appears in a supporting role.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's narrative centers on a victim's struggle against a captor's twisted maternal impulses, emphasizing psychological terror over ideological positions. The decisive factor is the story's confinement to horror conventions without promoting or critiquing political viewpoints.
The film employs an all-white cast without racial diversity or recasting of traditional roles. Its narrative examines gender dynamics through a monstrous take on maternal instincts and family longing, offering a subtle lens on traditional femininity without broader DEI focus.
Secondary
The film's LGBTQ+ portrayal features nonbinary actor Max the Impaler as the masked killer Dolly, whose gender identity enriches the character's obsessive parental role. This element is acclaimed for adding depth and promoting queer visibility in horror, framing the depiction with dignity and innovation rather than harm.
In this slasher's warped lens on domesticity, cravings for marriage and motherhood manifest as grotesque, abusive perversions, undercutting traditional family ideals with visceral dread. The protagonist's reluctance toward parenthood emerges as a bulwark against such normative traps, tilting the portrayal toward progressive skepticism of rigid roles.
No transgender characters or themes feature in the film. The story depicts a monstrous female killer without any reference to transsexual identity, focusing instead on survival horror elements.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Dolly presents original characters without alterations to established genders from prior canon. The titular antagonist is a female figure in both the film and its source short 'Babygirl,' with no legacy roles recast across genders.
Dolly presents original characters in a horror narrative derived from the director's short film, lacking any established racial depictions from prior source material or history, so no race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.1
6.2
Critic Ratings
6.3
4.6
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