A screenwriter is haunted by the very thing he created in his stories, an evil doll by the name of Genevieve.
Overall, this was a highly enjoyable genre effort. That the first half here is a meta take on the series with the previous entries in the series comes off as a great way to tie everything together by featuring the various clips and props from the series to help enhance the attempted storyline. It serves not only as a nice storyline feature to make unique use of the footage of the other films but also a fun highlight reel of what's been featured without overtly feeling like one. As well, that this serves as a fine way of mixing together the world of the previous films with the idea of those being imaginings of how the writer's effort will play out before finding himself going through the same thing which is an enjoyable setup.
When it moves beyond this and offers up the real-life hauntings of the screenwriter against the supposedly real-life doll, this segment becomes an enjoyable if routine series of paranormal encounters and incidents that revolve around a similar formula. A strange noise or whoosh of something going by in the distance prompts an investigation into it only to encounter the doll which results in a confrontation followed by an escape. This is impressively filmed and generates some great tension but is repeated too often, especially against these being repeated frequently in the first half with the clips usually devolving into the same type of scenes. This isn't a detriment at all but still is worth pointing out.
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