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Love, sweet love. PIN is proof that what we’re feeling isn’t always natural … or healthy. It’s also creepy as all get out.

Pin - or rather, Pinnochio, is an anatomically-correct medical dummy Dr. Linden uses to explain body processes to his children. Through Pin’s clear skin, there are organs and muscles visible. I am telling you … wackadoo. Any kid would be scarred by interaction with this thing, but apparently Linden was smart enough to become a doctor without picking up any common sense. When tragedy claims the lives of Linden and his wife, his son - Leon - forms a special attachment to Pin that we follow alongside into his adulthood.

If the dummy wasn’t ooky enough, there are bits of incenstuous obsession here, murderous intent there. David Hewlitt (Stargate Atlantis) plays the adult Leon, while Cyndy Preston plays sister, Ursula Linden, and John Pyper-Ferguson (Brothers & Sisters) plays Ursula’s fated boyfriend, Stan.

It’s kind of like Willard in the way that it’s just a weird movie. Strange. If that’s your kind of thing, with a healthy dose of bad acting thrown in, definitely check out PIN.