Robert (film)

Robert is a 2015 British horror film written and directed by Andrew Jones. It stars Suzie Frances Garton, Lee Bane, Flynn Allen, Judith Haley and Megan Lockhurst. The film was inspired by a haunted doll named Robert.

Plot
Lawyer Paul Otto and his wife Jenny, an artist, decide that Agatha, the nanny to their son Gene, is getting past it and make the decision to dismiss her. Agatha takes the decision badly and promises this will not be the end of it. She departs, leaving Gene with a hideous doll called Robert. Jenny soon becomes concerned about the relationship between Gene and Robert. Gene insists that Robert is alive and that it destroyed one of Jenny’s paintings and wrote ‘die’ on her bathroom mirror. Jenny soon comes to believe that Robert is alive and was responsible for pushing the cleaner Martha down the stairs and killing the babysitter Marcie. However, with no proof of this, Paul thinks Jenny’s mental health is playing up again…

Cast

 * Suzie Frances Garton as Jenny Otto
 * Lee Bane as Paul Otto
 * Flynn Allen as Gene Otto
 * Judith Haley as Agatha
 * Megan Lockhurst as Martha
 * Cyd Casados as Debbie
 * Samuel Hutchison as Steven
 * Annie Davies as Marcie
 * Ryan Michaels as Claren

Release
4Digital Media acquired the distribution of the film in UK and US and was released on August 24, 2015.

Reception
On Culture Crypt, the film has a review score of 25 out of 100, indicating "unfavorable reviews".

Corey Danna of Horrornews.net wrote: "Andrew Jones is slowly growing into an interesting filmmaker and he really seems to have a passion for the subject matter. So much passion he’s already hard at work on sequel that will follow Robert the doll to his final resting place of the museum. Hopefully in the sequel, we will get to see the doll in more depth. That’s what this film was missing."

Sequels
Four sequels have followed: The Curse of Robert the Doll was released on September 12, 2016, The Toymaker on August 21, 2017, The Revenge of Robert the Doll on March 6, 2018, and Robert Reborn on June 24, 2019.