IMP Studios and 4Digital Media have announced that production has wrapped on Robert Returns, a reboot of the cult British horror series Robert the Doll.
Robert the Doll is a real life infamous haunted doll that is currently housed within Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida.
The new film has been produced by Shepka Productions and Flickering Myth for IMP, and marks the latest collaboration between the two companies following the gothic horror feature The Baby in the Basket and the upcoming suspense thriller Death Among the Pines, which releases in the UK this September from High Fliers Films.
Robert Returns reimagines the infamous haunted doll, who made his screen debut in 2015’s Robert from the late UK genre filmmaker Andrew Jones, before returning for four further instalments in the original series – The Curse of Robert the Doll, The Toymaker, The Legend of Robert the Doll, and Robert Reborn.
I wasn’t a fan of the 2015 version, It was very poorly done so I’m hoping that Robert Returns at least papers over the many cracks left by that particular instalment.
The Baby in the Basket and Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned’s Elle O’Hara leads the cast alongside 10-year-old newcomer Iona McGill, with Death Among the Pines’ Stephen Kerr and Nathan Shepka also starring alongside Legend and Baby in the Basket’s Annabelle Lanyon and Robert series veteran Lee Bane. Other cast members include Ian Plunkett, Nico Palmieri, Gary Collinson, David McCallum, John Walker-Gray, David Rogerson and Zinny Udala.
Robert Returns is being produced by Gary Collinson of Flickering Myth Nathan Shepka of Shepka Productions, and Robert Graham of IMP Studios. Executive producers include Tony Taglienti and Sally Wood for 4 Digital Media, and Emmy Award-winner Kira Reed (The Bay).
It has been co-financed by IMP Studios and 4Digital Media, with 4Digital Media also handling UK and US distribution and holding worldwide sales rights.
Robert Returns will release in the US and UK in early 2027.
