Pin

{{Infobox film | name = Pin | image = Pin Poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | native_name = | director = Sandor Stern | producer = | writer = Sandor Stern | based_on = {{Based on|Pin (April 1981)|Andrew Neiderman}} | starring = | music = Peter Manning Robinson | cinematography = Guy Dufaux | editing = Patrick Dodd | studio = | distributor = New World Pictures | released = | runtime = 102 minutes | country = Canada | language = English | budget = | gross = }}Pin (stylized as PIN...) fully titled as Pin: A Plastic Nightmare is a 1988 Canadian horror film directed by Sandor Stern and starring David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston and Terry O'Quinn. It is based on the novel of the same name by Andrew Neiderman. The film was released direct-to-video in the United States on January 27, 1989. Plot Dr. Frank Linden has a life-size, anatomically correct medical dummy in his office which he calls "Pin". Via ventriloquism, Dr. Linden uses Pin to teach his children, Leon and Ursula about bodily functions and how the body works in a way the children can relate to without it being awkward. Dr. Linden's interactions with the children are otherwise cold and emotionally distant, and his ventriloquism act is the only sign of a more warm and playful side to his nature. Unknown to Dr. Linden, Leon is mentally ill and has come to believe that Pin is alive. Due in part to his mother, who discourages Leon from playing outdoors or bringing anyone home, Leon has no real friends and sees Pin as the closest analogue. Leon is further traumatized when he secretly witnesses his father's nurse use Pin as a masturbatory sex doll. From that day on, he hates women with large breasts or who engage in promiscuous behaviour. Leon and Ursula discuss the sex education they've had, and Ursula admits she is looking forward to being older, as she thinks she will enjoy 'the urge'. The film segues to the point where they are in their teens, and Leon discovers graffiti suggesting Ursula sleeps around. He discovers her in a car with boy who he assaults, and makes her promise never to do this again. Later she admits to him that she is pregnant, and Leon - via Pin - insists that they tell their father, who performs an abortion on fifteen year old Ursula. When Leon turns eighteen, Dr. Linden, having come back to retrieve case studies for a speech, catches him having a conversation with Pin (via ventriloquism, which Leon had learned).