DOLLY is a Southern horror about betrayal, madness, and the enduring hunger of a soul denied peace. Spirit Possession or Schizophrenia? May the spirits never be with you!

 

In 1912 Louisiana, thirteen-year-old Nanette D’Amour is forced into an arranged marriage with her cousin, Jacques Louvre. But the match is a cruel sham: Jacques is in love with Nanette’s older sister, Sophie. Within days, Nanette is cast aside, left to raise their love child, Ava, only to be banished and stripped of the one bond she treasures. Heartbroken and betrayed, Nanette drowns herself in the bayou. Her restless spirit binds itself to her childhood doll, Dolly—its void face hiding a rage that time cannot bury.

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Over a century later, Jessie Derouen, his wife Allison, and their teenage daughter Chloe return to Jessie’s family home in South Louisiana after his mother’s death. Living there with Jessie’s schizophrenic sister, Lisa, the family struggles under financial strain, marital discord, and Chloe’s rebellion. But strange disturbances in the house soon make Allison fear that Lisa’s “delusions” of speaking with the dead may be terrifyingly real.

As the haunting escalates, secrets surface: a failed exorcism, a diary that reveals Nanette’s anguish, and a sinister doll that links past and present. When vengeance erupts in bloodshed, Jessie must face the truth—that some spirits do not rest, and that the sins of one family can echo through generations.

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