Pin (1988) on Netflix
Since childhood Leon has treated his father's life-size dummy, Pin, as if it were alive. Orphaned now, he moves Pin into the home he shares with his sister Ursula, to her dismay.
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Plot summary
Dr. Frank Linden keeps a life-size anatomical dummy named Pin in his office and speaks through it, using ventriloquism to explain bodily functions to his children, Leon and Ursula, without embarrassment. The doctor is otherwise cold with them, and Leon, who has no friends, comes to believe the dummy is alive. He sees his father's nurse use Pin for sex, and grows to hate women he considers promiscuous. He guards his sister closely, and when she becomes pregnant as a teenager their father performs an abortion on her. At eighteen, Leon is caught talking with Pin in the voice he has learned, and his father takes the dummy to a medical school lecture. Driving there, the doctor and his wife are killed in a crash. Leon secretly takes Pin from the crash scene.
Cast
- Steven Bednarskias Leon - Age 13
- Katie Shingleras Ursula - Age 11
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pin (1988)
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- By the time filming on Pin ended, New World Pictures was dissolving its film division, so the film, intended as the company's final theatrical release, was pulled at the last minute and sent direct to video after a screening drew a negative response.
- Director Sandor Stern, who had started out as a medical doctor, spent five years working with author Andrew Neiderman to adapt Neiderman's 1981 novel Pin before New World Pictures finally set the project up.
- Pin was included in Fangoria magazine's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen and has since become a cult film.
