Love Object

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Love Object
Love Object onesheet poster
Directed by	Robert Parigi
Produced by	Lawrence Levy Ed Pressman
Written by	Robert Parigi
Starring	Desmond Harrington Melissa Sagemiller Rip Torn
Music by	Nicholas Pike
Cinematography	Sidney Sidell
Editing by	Troy Takaki
Distributed by	Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Release date(s)	May 7, 2004 (USA)
Running time	84 min.
Language	English
Budget	1M
IMDb profile

Love Object is a 2003 film written and directed by Robert Parigi. Kenneth (played by Desmond Harrington) plays an efficient but socially awkward technical writer who develops an obsessive relationship with Nikki, a rubber sex doll he orders.

[edit] Plot

Kenneth Winslow is an extremely shy but brilliant technical writer who orders a rubber sex-doll.

He develops a relationship with "Nikki", to the point of talking and even arguing with her. Kenneth begins to display bizarre behavior, and starts to feel "stalked" by Nikki. His relationship with Nikki evolves into a love-hate situation, and at one point even beats her.
During the time he has a relationship with Nikki, he meets Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller), a temp that his boss, Mr.Novak (played by Rip Torn) has assigned to work with Kenneth.

Kenneth reluctantly accepts Lisa as his assistant, but the two slowly begin to develop a relationship. Kenneth encourages Lisa to resemble Nikki by cutting her hair the way Nikki has it and wearing the same clothes Nikki has (without Lisa knowing who Nikki is). It's during this time that Nikki "stalks" Kenneth (though it may be paranoia on Kenneth's part). Kenneth later "kills" Nikki by cutting her up with a saw and disposing the remains in a trash bin.
Lisa eventually becomes aware of Nikki's existence, and becomes disturbed when she finds out Kenneth wanted Lisa to be modeled after a rubber doll. Lisa promptly breaks up with Kenneth.

Nikki was already "dead" by this time, so Kenneth kidnaps Lisa. Kenneth's landlord discovers a bound and gagged Lisa in his apartment, and Kenneth bludgeons him with a hammer and later cuts him up with the same saw he cut Nikki with. Lisa hears the mutilation from the other room, but since she's restrained, she can do nothing.

Kenneth then places Lisa's bound and gagged body in the crate Nikki arrived in and forces her to spend the night there.

The next morning, Kenneth then proceeds to "transform" Lisa into Nikki. He dresses her up in Nikki's clothes, straps her down, and in a rather disturbing scene, begins to bleed Lisa and replace her blood with embalming fluid.

Lisa manages to escape from her restraints and attacks Kenneth. She hits him in the head with a small statue, rendering him unconscious. Lisa, at this point nearly deranged with shock, fear, and disgust, is about to stab Kenneth when the police arrive (after finding the landlord's body in the same dumpster the Nikki doll was left in), and when they see a raging Lisa about to stab an unconscious Kenneth, they shoot her. Lisa, wearing Nikki's clothes, falls dead in the crate Nikki came in -- Lisa has been "transformed".

The police notice an article for women in the apartment on "How to Hunt a Man." It was made to look like Lisa was obsessing over Kenneth, held him captive in his own apartment, and tried to kill him. Kenneth is never accused of his crimes.

Much later, he re-orders another Nikki. While buying flowers for Nikki, he notices the attractive brunette at the floral shop and begins to fantasize about her the same way he fantasized about Lisa.
The viewer is left to assume the Kenneth's obsessive cycle and love triangle will start all over again.