For Sale by Exorcist is what audiences want from small-budget independent horror: hit what you’re aiming for, don’t take your project too seriously, and do well with what you have given your budgetary or technical limitations.

‘This was a genius idea from conception and it came together at the right time. Animatronic toys were creepy as hell before anyone put a serial killer’s soul inside, and there are few things more quintessentially 80s than watching a struggling single mother sacrifice her financial and bodily security in order to chase the materialistic flotsam of the popular culture by buying a toy doll from a homeless man in an alley.’