Pin Reviews

We've seen split personalities on the screen many times, in films from PSYCHO to SYBIL, but never before PIN has one of these personalities belonged to a plastic see-through medical teaching dummy. Leon (David Hewlett) and Ursula (Cyndy Preston) are the children of a well-to-do but rigid physician (Terry O'Quinn of THE STEPFATHER) who frequently communicates with them by throwing his voice into Pin, the aforementioned dummy. As he grows up, the much troubled Leon not only begins to transfer his personality to the dummy, but also determines to protect his sister from sex--no easy task since she's blossomed into a real beauty. When their parents die, Leon begins treating Pin as a member of the family. Finally, consumed with jealousy because of the attention Ursula pays to her boy friend, Leon becomes a violent madman. PIN is an interesting, albeit macabre, psychological thriller that adds an unusual twist to a fairly common theme. Hewlett is convincingly intense as the crazy son, Preston is believably sweet and innocent as his sister, but its a little hard to swallow that she would let him carry on with his oddball behavior without consulting a professional. Still, all in all, PIN is a sometimes fascinating, different kind of film and painless enough to sit through, especially for fans of the weird.