Pin is a hard film to categorise, I'd say horrorish.......maybe just a thriller.It tells the story of a strict family raising their two children. The father is a doctor who treats his anatomic educational mannequin as though it were a person and gets his children in on it as well.As you can imagine this effects the kids quite severely especially the son who grows up to be more than a little odd.Starring the excellent Terry O'Quinn and David Hewlett (Even though I didn't realise it was him until late in the film) this quirky little tale is filled with a combination of weird and deeply uncomfortable scenes.Not sure who the demographic for this one would be, I'd say a definite one for those with a taste for the less than usual.The Good:Terry O'QuinnDavid Hewlett is excellent but unrecognisableThe Bad:Unsettling filmNot exactly engagingThings I Learnt From This Movie:I'm genuinely concerned for the writer of the film and their level of mental health. Some of the conversation matter from the kids, sex with an anatomy dummy and more moments raise questions I may not want to know the answers to.

Great production values here! Looks sharp - not like a grainy, cheap 80s movie. Looks like it could have been made only a few years ago. This is is a really cool movie but I wanted it it go further. For example (spoiler coming here), in the scene in which child Leon hides behind the closet in the office and he watches the nurse put Pin on top of her...YES!! I wanted more of weird sh#t like that. I thought that ... this sounds weird and aggressive .... but I thought that there should have been a rape scene or something else twisted sexually involving Pin with Leon's sister. I thought the movie as is was a little bit "light". Do you agree? If not please don't roast me for it. Just my opinion. I also thought it was too slow. I wanted more action, more events, and more twisted, weird stuff to happen. But overall it was good. Maybe my 4/10 score lowballs it a little bit but I really did want more. Fantastic idea though! This one is ripe for a remake. Maybe John Carpenter can get to it before he passes away.

~Spoiler~ Pin is a subtle creepfest from the writers of The Amityville Horror and The Devil's Advocate. This was Sandor Stern's first gig directing for the big screen and he does a remarkable job. He never once overstates the horror. Pin is about 2 young siblings who are raised by unorthodox parents. Their mother is a neat freak and their father is a doctor who treats his children not much differently than his patients. He uses his anatomical dummy (named Pin, short for Pinocchio) to teach the children life lessons. He does this through ventriloquism. His daughter understands this, but his son believes Pin is real. Between the absentee parentism and bizarre father figure in Pin, Leon becomes a deeply disturbed individual. As he grows up, Leon becomes a classic paranoid schizophrenic. Playing Leon is David Hewlitt. Hewlitt, no stranger to the genre, is amazing here. Not since Norman Bates has a screen psycho been so seemingly harmless yet capable of anything. His sister is played by Cynthia Preston. She's also really good. You really care about her character and want to see her escape her brother's madness. It's nice to see Terry O'Quinn (The Stepfather) playing a different kind of father here. He's not playing a psychopath, but there is still something odd about his performance. The ending was truly brilliant and fans of Hitchcock's Psycho should really enjoy this movie.

First of all, I want to apologize for my English. I'm an Spanish speaker but I will try to do my best to express myself. I just watched PIN... on cable by mistake but I have to tell you that I loved it. I'm kind of confused with the end of the movie. Can someone help me? I read the end of the movie in 2 different ways...1. Ursula did not kill his brother. She just tore Pin up with the axe. At the end of the movie she visits her brother who is acting as if he was PIN. Pin is gone and he just took over his personality. This would be the normal interpretation but... why would he be living in his house instead of being in a mental hospital or in jail? He tried to kill someone so it is not very realistic that he is just living in his house by himself with the help of a nurse. Why Ursulas boyfriend let her go and see the person who almost killed him? wouldn't he be mad or afraid? 2. Ursula did kill his brother. She went nuts after that and now she has the same schizophrenia as her brother. She has made Pin look his brother and she talks to him the same way her brother talked to Pin. She has the same mental problem as her brother. I think the author leaves this open because it is real hard to distinguish at the final shot if he is Ursula's brother or a "maniquin". It is hard to tell so both interpretations could be fine. The only thing that ruins this interpretation is that if Ursula killed her brother she should be in jail.Both ends could be possible but both of them are kind of unrealistic. Either Ursula or her brother should be in jail (unless a long long time) had past... what do you guys think?