24 Creepiest Dolls of Movies and Television
A nanny is shocked to learn that her new employers’ son is actually a living doll in this Friday’s The Boy, inspiring this week’s 24 Frames gallery of the creepiest dolls from film and TV history!
Year: 2014
Tomatometer: 29%
See, people? Vintage kills! Buy your satanic dolls only from big box retailers!
Year: 1988
Tomatometer: 67%
Heeeere’s Chucky! The first Child’s Play scared the fanny packs off 80s kids, before the series settled into more comedic territory.
Year: 2004
Tomatometer: 48%
The Conjuring/Annabelle creator James Wan is no stranger to using dolls to maximum creepy effect, as evidenced by the perennial Jigsaw from his Saw series.
Year: 1982
Tomatometer: 88%
In casa de los Freelings, the fear of clowns is REAL.
Year: 1995
Tomatometer: 100%
Babyface, one of Pixar’s creepiest creations yet.
Year: 1959-1964
The verbose Talky Tina from one of The Twilight Zone‘s best episodes, “Living Doll.”
Year: 1991
One of many similar horror films that arrived in Chucky’s wake. Who couldn’t love a face like this?
Year: 2007
Tomatometer: 21%
Billy, from another James Wan film to prominently feature a doll.
Year: 1993-present
Stephen King co-penned “Chinga”, a season 5 episode about a doll that drives people to madness.
Year: 1989
Tomatometer: 33%
Blade, one of the evil mini-denizens from the long running Puppet Master series, which is now up to part ten with the Nazi-soaked Axis Rising.
Year: 1983
Six women meet up with a film director to audtion for the same part while trying to avoid this doll, which foretells death and doom for each actress.
Year: 1975
Tomatometer: 90%
Infamous segment from this TV movie features Karen Black tormented by a Zuni fetish doll.
Year: 1979
A tourist trap is an establishment featuring a pond for skinny dipping, an Old West museum, and these dolls and mannequins who curiously look like your friends who’ve just gone missing.
Year: 1975
Tomatometer: 95%
Dario Agento throws in this running doll during a kill scene for the hell of it.
Year: 1978
Tomatometer: 83%
Anthony Hopkins stars as a cracked entertainer who relies on his dummy “Fats” to do his dirty murderin’ business.
Year: 1968
Tomatometer: 73%
In-between scenes of getting it on with every life form in the galaxy, Jane Fonda was harassed by this volley of dolls.
Year: 1989-1996
In “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy,” directed by Richard Donner and starring Bobcat Goldthwait and Don Rickles, an amateur ventriloquist gets more than he bargains for when he meets his idol.
Year: 2003
Tomatometer: 69%
Grim horror tale about a lonely, trumatized girl whose only friend is this doll. Stick around to the end for the doll’s makeover!
Year: 1986
Early Roland Emmerich movie about a boy whose telekinetic powers are matched by a possessed doll he finds in an abandoned house.
Year: 1987
Tomatometer: 64%
You’re never too old to play with dolls until you’re dead.
Year: 1972
Tomatometer: 60%
A horror anthology movie featuring this tiny feller molded in the visage of Herbert Lom.
Year: 1945
Tomatometer: 96%
Another horror anthology flick, which Martin Scorsese put on his list of 11 scariest movies ever.
Year: 1992-1995
Ventriloquist and Scarface, rather quirky members of Gotham City’s rogue’s gallery.
Year: 1989-1998
George can’t get no serenity in episode “The Doll” after discovering his fiancee has a toy that looks exactly like his mother.
