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!
See, people? Vintage kills! Buy your satanic dolls only from big box retailers!
Child’s Play
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.
Saw
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.
Poltergeist
Year: 1982
Tomatometer: 88%
In casa de los Freelings, the fear of clowns is REAL.
Toy Story
Year: 1995
Tomatometer: 100%
Babyface, one of Pixar’s creepiest creations yet.
The Twilight Zone
Year: 1959-1964
The verbose Talky Tina from one of The Twilight Zone‘s best episodes, “Living Doll.”
Dolly Dearest
Year: 1991
One of many similar horror films that arrived in Chucky’s wake. Who couldn’t love a face like this?
Dead Silence
Year: 2007
Tomatometer: 21%
Billy, from another James Wan film to prominently feature a doll.
The X-Files
Year: 1993-present
Stephen King co-penned “Chinga”, a season 5 episode about a doll that drives people to madness.
Puppet Master
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.
Curtains
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.
Trilogy of Terror
Year: 1975
Tomatometer: 90%
Infamous segment from this TV movie features Karen Black tormented by a Zuni fetish doll.
Tourist Trap
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.
Deep Red
Year: 1975
Tomatometer: 95%
Dario Agento throws in this running doll during a kill scene for the hell of it.
Magic
Year: 1978
Tomatometer: 83%
Anthony Hopkins stars as a cracked entertainer who relies on his dummy “Fats” to do his dirty murderin’ business.
Barbarella
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.
Tales From the Crypt
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.
May
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!
Making Contact
Year: 1986
Early Roland Emmerich movie about a boy whose telekinetic powers are matched by a possessed doll he finds in an abandoned house.
Dolls
Year: 1987
Tomatometer: 64%
You’re never too old to play with dolls until you’re dead.
Asylum
Year: 1972
Tomatometer: 60%
A horror anthology movie featuring this tiny feller molded in the visage of Herbert Lom.
Dead of Night
Year: 1945
Tomatometer: 96%
Another horror anthology flick, which Martin Scorsese put on his list of 11 scariest movies ever.
Batman: The Animated Series
Year: 1992-1995
Ventriloquist and Scarface, rather quirky members of Gotham City’s rogue’s gallery.
Seinfeld
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.
