The Classics: Pioneers of Doll Horror
Long before CGI took over, classic horror films utilized dolls to bring some of the most unforgettable scares to the big screen.Modern Nightmares: High-Tech Terrors
Advancements in film technology have only amplified the terror, making today’s horror dolls more realistic and horrifying than ever.Number 20
Lilly
Movie : Finders keepers 2014
Lily Finders Keepers some scary dolls play it subtle looking outwardly innocent if maybe a little creepy but this Tiny Terror goes all in looking like pure nightmare fuel right from the start found by a young girl in the vents of her new home Lily is one scary looking doll featuring deadly pale skin numerous scars and marks and lifeless black eyes.Number 19
Wooden Doll
Movie : Suddenly in the Dark 1981
This little known Korean horror film begins when a family hires a new housemade mioke things seem fine until mioke is seen holding a spectacularly
creepy doll one that housewife sonhe had been seeing in her nightmares sonhe begins to suspect mioke of trying to take her place and her visions of the doll become more and more violent and nightmarish but is it all just in her head or are mioke and the doll really up to no good .
Number 18
Vampire Clay
Movie : Vampire Clay 2017
Another creepy doll that puts its creep Factor front and center the lump of killer clay at the center of this Japanese horror comedy is not something you want to see your kid bringing home from art class a shape-shifting entity formed out of old clay found in the woods after an earthquake the clay monster looks terrifying even before it begins feasting on human flesh.much like our last few entries it’s the dead lifeless eyes that really bring the look home and make the doll scary enough to make our list as well as you know all the murder in Mayhem it spreads.
Number 17
Pinocchio
Movie : Pinocchio’s Revenge 1996
The aonomus wooden puppet has been delighting children for over a 100 years having first appeared all the way back in 1883 from the classic Disney film to more modern adaptations he’s almost a cultural icon but this ain’t your great great great-grandfather’s Pinocchio the doll is brought home by an attorney whose daughter bonds with it upon finding it the doll was formerly owned by a supposed killer but it soon becomes clear who the real culprit was all along when the doll comes alive and goes on a murderous Rampage.
Number 16
Billy
Movie : Dead Silance 2007
with a few exceptions ventriloquists and the dummies they speak through aren’t nearly as popular as they used to be part of this just comes down to shifting cultural Trends and tastes but it’s also because ventriloquist dummies are just playing creepy this unsettling doll was once used by a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw who was killed by the towns folk of Raven’s Fair after kidnapping a young victim.
Number 15
Blade
Movie : Puppet Master franchise 1998
Charles band’s Puppet Master Series is all about creepy dolls and it amassed quite the cast of creepy and murderous play things over the years but without a doubt the franchise’s most iconic character is the blade and hook-handed doll who serves as the poster boy for the series with a ghostly white face and a serious knack for spilling blood this puppet quickly Rose to become a fan favorite and even got his own spin-off movie a first for the franchise like all the puppets from the series this one is animated by a human soul in this case a surgeon who worked with the Nazis during World War 2.
Number 14
The Dolls
Movie : Dolls 1987
After being stranded by a thunderstorm a family takes shelter in a creepy secluded house only to find that it’s occupied by a seemingly kindly couple and their massive collection of handmade dolls honestly we would have run screaming in the other direction right away but the family sticks around long enough to see the dolls come alive and try to punish them for their selfish attitudes.Number 13
Hugo
Movie : Dead of Night 1945
The Dummy from this entry is definitely the oldest on our list having appeared way back in the 1940s but that doesn’t diminish the creep Factor even a bit appearing in one segment of an anthology horror flick this is probably the archetypal evil ventriloquist dummy bullying and demeaning his Hess partner with a cruelty that’s sometimes hard to watch. small chunk of the film the dummy sequence is by far its most memorable thanks in no small part to the Stellar performance by screen Legend Michael Redgrave who manages to be both sympathetic.
Number 12
Mannequins
Movie : Tourist trap 1979
we’ve all probably been creeped out by a department store mannequin at one point or another but if you haven’t this movie will change that. after getting a flat tire a group of friends finds an old tourist spot filled with creepy store mannequins and managed by the shotgun wielding Mr slaon. why are so many people running into killer dolls after car trouble obviously the tourist trap turns out to be just as Sinister as it looks and that hapless friends are soon menaced by a massed man in his army of plastic foot soldiers who are looking to add to their numbers.Number 11
Zuni Doll
Movie : Trilogy of Terror 1975
Another Anthology movie with a segment dedicated to a killer doll this entry should serve as a warning against impulse shopping after going shopping Amelia played by the great Karen Black returns home with among other things a doll carved in the likeness of a zi Hunter but rather than just a piece of harmless decoration the doll is revealed to be a malevolent entity possessed by a spirit called he who kills the spirit lives up to its name and viciously attacks its new owner who by now is definitely feeling a hint of buyer’s remorse next time leave it on the Shelf lady.
Number 10
Pin
Movie : PIn 1988
Anatomical dummies can be a great way to teach anatomy and medicine but you’re not alone if the sight of a life-sized skinless human gives you the heebie jeebies the mentally unbalanced Leon on the other hand develops a strange fixation on the anatomical dummy created by his doctor and even starts hearing it talk to him.Leon is being ordered by his new friend to kill an order he carries out other movies take the concept of a killer doll or dummy literally but this one instead deals with plain old human Insanity that heavily features an unnerving doll either way this lesser and Canadian horror film is one we definitely encourage you to seek out.
Number 9
Dolly
Movie : Dolly Dearest 1991
you know how it goes sometimes you buy an old doll factory in Mexico and wouldn’t you know it a nearby archaeological Expedition accidentally releases an ancient Mayan spirit that possesses a nearby doll. Next thing you know your daughter has picked the doll up and your household is thrown into turmoil. While it may have a pretty Bonkers premise this early ’90s killer doll movie generates a lot of scares by playing to the inherent creepiness of porcelain dolls and throwing in some good oldfashioned demonic possession for good measure.
Number 8
Brahms
Movie : The Boy (franchise) 2016
Babysitting isn’t the easiest gig but but this probably sounded like a cushy if unusual job after traveling to England Greta is offered a job as a nanny in a big spooky Mansion. She’s serving as a nanny to a doll named brahms which is doed on by a kindly couple we’d be a little skeptical but in this economy you take a job where you can get it naturally being alone in a Gothic mansion with a creepy doll boy Greta gets spooked out and begins to suspect that Brahms is more than just a doll unfortunately for Greta her suspicions just may be correct.Number 7
SLAPPY
Movie : Goosebumps (franchise) 2015
First appearing in the 1993 Goosebumps book Night of the Living Dummy. He started out as a normal ventriloquist’s dummy before coming alive and wreaking his own very special kind of pint-sized Havoc talking some serious smack the whole time naturally his place as one of the breakout characters earned him appearances on the Goosebumps TV show and movies allowing him to terrify whole new generations of children even after all these years.
Number 6
FATS
Movie : Magic 1978
Before he was terrifying the world as Hannibal lecor the legendary Anthony Hopkins starred as corki a mentally ill ventriloquist whose foulmouthed dummy seemingly served as a mouth for Cory’s inner turmoil and anger. This is another dummy who’s terrifying not because of some magic spell or demonic possession but because he’s a manifestation of a far more human kind of Darkness one that can lurk just under the surface waiting to be given a voice. Trailer was removed from TV broadcasts after scaring too many children.Number 5
Tiffany
Movie : Child’s play (franchise) 1988
Psychos whose Souls have become trapped inside a doll need love too you know after three cinematic outings serial killer turned possessed doll Chucky was given a love interest when an old flame found herself similarly trapped in a doll’s body and she’s been a staple of the franchise ever since. The Bonnie to Chucky’s Clyde she’s followed him through good times and bad spilling blood and serving onliners the whole time. The two even eventually had a kid together making them the premier killer doll family in all of horror not the most hardfought distinction but a distinction all the same .
Number 4
Clown Doll
Movie : Poltergeist 1982
Between ghosts portals to the afterlife and corpses exploding from the ground Toby Hooper’s 1982 horror classic has no shortage of stuff to be terrified by but when we think back to the film or revisit it on Halloween nothing gets the hairs on our neck raised quite like this clown doll that comes alive in the Final Act to Menace young Robbie freeling maybe it’s the slow buildup the stretching arms and demonic face or the fact that clown dolls are always scary .
Number 3
BILLY
Movie : SAW (franchise) 2004
Imagine you wake up in a dingy bathroom chained to a pipe totally unaware of how you got there by this point you’re probably already scared out of your wits but then in trundles a creepy doll on a tricycle who tells you he wants to play a game. we’d probably have a complete breakdown around now to the avatar for the mysterious jigsaw killer and poster boy of the soft franchise this iconic and often misnamed puppet is one of the most recognizable faces in horror these days just pray that the next time you see him is on a t-shirt or a movie poster and not when you wake up in a strange bathroom.
Number 2
Annabelle
Movie : The Conjuring Universe 2013
Over the course of their years as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren claimed to have encountered numerous terrifying entities but few have become as indelibly linked with their legacy as this demonically Poss doll in real life the doll in question is a normal enough looking raggedy and doll but when the Warren went to the big screen in The Conjuring movies the doll was reimagined as a petrifying play thing with a face that screams I am absolutely evil and should be run from at high speeds.
Number 1
CHUCKY
Movie : Child’s play (franchise) 1988
He may not be the first killer doll but this notorious toy is undisputedly the most iconic first appearing in 1988’s Child’s Play the serial killer turned evil Toy has become horror royalty with numerous sequels the aformentioned family and a devoted fan base .Once a human occultist named Charles le Ray he transferred his soul into a good guy doll after being fatally wounded a move that probably seemed like a good idea at the time all these years later he’s still around in kicking and still in doll form despite his efforts to find a new body after all you can’t keep a good guy down.
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