Best movie of this year hands down!

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

In this low-budget descendant of "Psycho", Ursula and Leon are sister and brother, living alone, save for a large wooden puppet they call "Pin" (for Pinocchio). When Ursula starts hanging around with new boyfriend Stan, Leon and Pin take action.What drew me to this film was Terry O'Quinn, who has never (so far as I'm aware) made a bad film. And although he is more of a secondary, supporting actor here, this film is no less good than anything else he has done.What makes this film good is its relatively slow pace, building the suspense, waiting for the moment when all heck will break loose. And, for first time viewers, there is the mystery: is Leon crazy or is Pin truly alive and only willing to open up to specific people? (The answer was not what I expected.)

On paper, this film sounds really lame and something that would probably be better suited for an unintentional comedy rather than a psychological thriller. However, thanks to a great performance from the lead, some really strange tones and themes and a killer ending, I found I enjoyed this film a whole lot more than I originally anticipated.David Hewlett is just captivating as the lead with a screw loose that thinks a medical dummy is speaking to him. He carries the movie through and helps makes the film feel less like a bad B-horror movie and more like a "Psycho"-style psychological thriller. Yes, the movie gets uncomfortably weird at points but it proved to be more engaging that I thought it would be.

I went into Pin not having a clue what it was about, but I would never have guessed in a million years that behind such an innocuous sounding title could lie such a warped tale. Tackling such delicate issues as parental abuse, incest, schizophrenia and psycho-sexual trauma, this is not your typical 80s horror by a long chalk, but rather a bold study of an extremely dysfunctional family and its eldest sibling Leon's gradual descent into madness.Given Leon's bizarre upbringing, though, one can hardly blame the poor guy for ending up more than a little disturbed: as children, Leon and his sister are led to believe that the medical dummy in their doctor father's surgery is able to talk (when, in reality, their father is simply throwing his voice); Leon's mother, a controlling germ freak, disapproves of his school friends; his younger sister, Ursula, develops an unhealthy obsession with sex at an early age, sharing intimate conversations with him about her 'needs'; at a crucial stage in his development, Leon witnesses a member of his father's staff sexually gratifying herself with his plastic pal Pin; and when his sister gets herself up the duff at age 15, good old dad performs the abortion and even invites Leon to watch!!! That's enough to send anyone loopy!As Leon enters adulthood, his mental state steadily deteriorates until he becomes a fully blown paranoid schizophrenic, still believing that Pin is alive, but now providing the dummy with a voice and personality by himself. After the sudden death of his parents Leon moves the dummy into the family home that he shares with Ursula. His sister, who has long realised that the dummy cannot really talk, is naturally very upset by her new house-guest, but things go from bad to much, much worse when Leon, who harbours suppressed incestuous desires, takes a dislike to her new boyfriend Stan.Although Pin might be a little slow going at times, its delightfully perverse subject matter ensures that boredom is never an option. David Hewlett as Leon Linden is extremely impressive in the key role, being convincingly off his trolley and more than a little bit chilling, and he is given excellent support by the gorgeous Cynthia Preston as his libidinous teenage sister, and the brilliant Terry O'Quinn of Lost fame (and The Stepfather, of course) as his father. Director Sandor Stern occasionally allows his film to stray dangerously close to the absurd, but for the most part he handles his material both intelligently and confidently, wringing a fair amount of tension from his bizarre set-up in the process.Pin's subject matter might be a touch perverse for casual viewers seeking more traditional edge-of-the-seat entertainment, its subtleties may be lost on fright fans yearning for more primal thrills (meaning there ain't a lot of blood and gore in this one), and I suspect that the going will be a little too slow for many, but those actively seeking an unusual and daring horror/thriller could do a lot worse than to check this one out.

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?