Ever wondered where all the dead shop window dummies go? Well, after Mannequin, you’ll wonder no more – and be sorry you’ve asked …
On their way to a shady but well-paid photo shoot, a group of models run into car troubles, and with no phone signal and no town for miles, they make it through the woods on foot – until they arrive at a farm, cultivating the oddest sort of crops – mannequins. The farm’s yard and storage are filled to the brim with severed mannequin spareparts, and the assembled mannequins look so life-like one may be excused for developing instant paranoia. But if that’s frightening enough, wait until you meet the farm owners, the Ropers, a depraved family that has long given up making a distinction between humans and mannequins, and is as likely to dismember the former as the latter …
Shot in the last pandemic-free summer, Mannequin was almost as big of an adventure to make as the story that unfolds on screen, as the main part of the movie was filmed at an actual mannequin farm, housing some 25,000 discharged shop window dummies, so it’s fair to say the cast and crew lived and breathed mannequin for the 15-day shoot, and the creepy atmosphere on screen only reflects the location’s atmosphere. Plus, without a proper village with bed-and-breakfast for miles, everybody was forced to camp next to the location for the duration of the shoot, weathering everything British summer weather had to offer, from torrential rain to … actually pretty acceptable temperatures. But suffice to say, all of us made it out alive – with a healthy respect for mannequins …
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