Especially Leon has a special relationship with him as he can speak with the doll. This creature is a true member of the family. In Franks office sits a medical dummy that’s named Pin. Daughter Ursula (Cynthia Preston) has the doubtable fame of being the easy screw at school, and with son Leon (David Hewlett) things are even get worse. The story that’s based on the book by Andrew Neiderman might seem like a lightweight, but due to its remarkable directing the film gets close to the masterpieces David Cronenberg used to make in his early days.ĭoctor Frank Linden (Terry O'Quinn) raises his two children in a severe way, but it soon appears that there’s something wrong with them. Even if the picture wasn’t what you’d call a massive success at the theatres, Pin got later its deserved recognition throughout the video market. This movie was made in 1989 under the name of Pin, A Plastic Nightmare. Andrews' library at large, I don't think anything here will outright shock you-it's much the same style and touches on some of the same types of questionable behavior, without doubt-though you might be surprised by how blatantly perverse some of the humor here is.Most readers probably have never heard from Pin, but fanatic horrorfans classify this Canadian gem as a real cult classic. If you're tempted by this book, I will say that you need to go into it expecting to read some disturbing material the book requires content warnings for incestuous behavior and non-consensual sex. I think Neiderman implemented so much foreshadowing that the end being predictable was in some ways a foregone conclusion, and especially considering how eerie and atmospheric and unsettling the beginning and middle had been, I would have expected more from the end. At around the halfway to two-thirds point, everything became clearer (to me, at least-I know other readers in my book club who felt differently), so that I found the ending fairly predictable, and a lot less interesting than I might have hoped.

I found that the end dragged, although I was pulled along non-stop for the first half of the book. The depravity pictured here is obscene in many spots, and hard to read in some, so the book is an unsettling one.

As the book goes further, there's more and more material that will, at least, make any reader raise an eyebrow and feel a bit of shock. For much of the work, the reader questions what's real and what's not, uncertain even if there's a supernatural element to the book, or if it's only a matter of psychosis. Andrews (certainly helping to explain why Neiderman became the ghostwriter for her later books), Pin is an eerie, strange read that revolves around a brother and sister who live with the life-size dummy which their father once used for his medical practice. Gothic in nature, and told in a style similar to that of V.C.

Pin by andrew neiderman