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''That always follows you
''It's got a ruined eye
''That's always open''
|'''[[Jonathan Coulton]]''', "[[Trope Namer|Creepy Doll]]"}}
There's something scary about dolls. It's probably because many of them fit squarely in [[Uncanny Valley]] territory. The blank gaze and unmoving stare reminds us too much viscerally of corpses, perhaps. This goes even more when the doll is damaged in some way, such as missing limbs or eyes, or having holes in its head.
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* Anime film ''Unico in the Island of Magic'' by Osamu Tezuka, featured the main villain which embodies the creepy doll trope. {{spoiler|the evil Lord Kuruku plans to turn all living creatures, animals and people alike, into "Living Puppets" and he himself is a puppet who was mistreated by his owners and discarded. He washed up at the edge of the world - where all unwanted "junk" ends up eventually - and was brought to life, determined to take revenge on the human race.}}
* A major motif in ''[[Another]]''. There's a dark and deserted doll store in the series' [[Town with a Dark Secret]], where really really creepy ("laying in coffins, like corpses" creepy) are displayed, including one that looks eerily like [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|Misaki]], then there's the deal with her {{spoiler|doll eye under [[Eyepatch of Power|her bandage]]}}. Also, in the anime, occasional flashes of dismembered sad eyed dolls dripping with [[Uncanny Valley]]-ness. Brrr.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* "Scarface," the leering, knife-scored dummy that is an alter ego/tormentor of ''[[Batman]]'' villain [[Batman/Characters/Rogues Gallery|The Ventriloquist]]. He's particularly horrifying in scenes where he isn't being operated and his mouth's not moving, but the psychotic Ventriloquist ''still imagines that the puppet is talking to him''! An especially effective scene occurred in the animated "origin" episode "Read My Lips," where Batman - who is of course one of the smartest and most rational men on the planet - ''had to convince himself that the doll wasn't really alive''.
* It is revealed in her ongoing series that [[Zatanna]] has a deep-seated and crippling phobia towards puppets. Not voodoo dolls or wax effigies, those she can handle with no problem and occasionally uses herself, but normal, garden variety ''puppets''. It all stems from an unpleasant experience in her childhood, but even now, as a grown woman and powerful superhero, her unease is nearly paralyzing. When she tried to guest-star on an episode of ''[[Sesame Street]]'', reasoning that helping educate and entertain children was worth any sort of personal discomfort, she did not even make it through her scene before she vomited into an on-set trash can. She is currently in therapy to help her deal with this issue, [[Averted Trope|averting]] [[There Are No Therapists]].
* In an issue of the revamped
▲== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'', the cultist suffers a nightmare, where she hears a sobbing of a little girl. When she reaches the source, she finds five dolls, a large one and four smaller ones, laying broken before the large one. And then the larger doll starts screaming while sinking into the void. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]. [[Go Mad from the Revelation|Too much sense]].
* In ''[[The Secret Life of Dolls]]'', it's particularly bad with [[Twilight (novel)|Tonner Edward Dollen]], but at first when [[Van Helsing|Anna Dollerious]] says what she thinks about getting [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/cleoicons/dolls/secret_life/sld_nightterrors.gif The Littlest Edward]:▼
{{quote|"[I'm] not so lonely that I wanna go to sleep and have THAT lurking over me when I wake up. And you know he'll, like, imprint on one of us or some shit--knowing your luck, E, he'll imprint on Cleo, and he'll just sit on her pillow all night, rocking back and forth."▼
And we all shudder together. It's a nice feeling, sisterly solidarity. }}▼
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', [[Creepy Child]] Rebecca has a teddy bear that speaks in a demonic voice, worships Satan, and makes death threats to the other characters.▼
== Film ==
* In Disney's ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' as Dr. Facilier is being dragged away by his "friends" some of them take the form of voodoo and rag dolls.
* ''[[9
* ''Tourist Trap'': The mannequins.
* The Zuni Fetish Doll from ''[[Trilogy of Terror]]''.
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* The titular carnival attraction in ''[[The Funhouse]]'' is filled with them.
* ''[[Maniac (film)|Maniac]]'''s Frank Zito keeps various mannequins in his apartment as odd trophies that wear the clothes and scalps of his female victims. In the ending, {{spoiler|he has a hallucination where they come to life and rip him into pieces}}.
* In the 2008 anthology horror film ''
* In the miniseries for ''[[The Tommyknockers]]'', police officer Ruth has an entire collection of creepy dolls in her office. {{spoiler|After she finds out what's going on with the town, the aliens make the dolls come "alive" and attack her, to prevent her from phoning for help. The scarecrow doll is especially scary.}}
* The ventriloquist's dummy in the 1978 film, ''[[Magic (film)|Magic]]''.
* ''[[Dead Silence]]'' is a good example of how creepy a doll can really be even when NOT possessed by evil spirits hell-bent on ripping out your tongue and making you into part of its collection.
* In the 1951 version of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', Tiny Tim is first seen gazing into a shop window with (authentic Victorian) mechanical toys - including a laughing-man doll that's pure nightmare fuel.
* ''[[The Woman in Black (film)|The Woman in Black]]'' just ''loves'' this trope. Everywhere you look in the spooky ole house, there's a doll on a shelf with a truly hideous face. Even the 'normal' kids at the start of the film are playing with some creepy dolls.
== Literature ==
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* In [[Richard Matheson]]'s short story ''Prey'', a young woman is terrorized by an African Zuni warrior doll that she brings home as a gift for her boyfriend, and which subsequently comes to life. (The story was memorably adopted as part of the ABC TV movie ''[[Trilogy of Terror]]'' in the '70s.)
* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'': Pretty Penny, a doll that Aunt Josephine gave Violet in ''The Wide Window''.
** Also the movie adaption of the first three books in the series has a creepy bobble head doll called "the littlest elf
* In the [[Stephen King]] story ''The Sun Dog'', a character thinks that a toy (not exactly a doll, but a stuffed panda, that talks) that her niece has is very creepy, and imagines that one day, it will say stuff like: "I think tonight after you're asleep, I'll strangle you to death" or "I have a knife".
** He also wrote ''The Monkey'', about a doll-like toy whose clanging on its cymbals signals someone's death. [[Fridge Horror|Even if you]] [[Clingy MacGuffin|throw it away]].
* ''[[The Ragwitch]]'' takes this trope and absolutely ''runs'' with it. The titular Creepy Ragdoll is basically an [[Evil Overlord]] that takes over the body of the protagonist's sister, turning her into a half-human, half-cloth ''thing'' and [[And I Must Scream|forcing her to watch helplessly from inside]] as the Ragwitch resumes Her interrupted reign of terror.
* In Elizabeth A. Lynn's ''The Silver Horse'', a world of animate toys includes broken dolls who are very, ''very'' bitter about the wrongs committed upon them by careless children.
* The action figure in the short story [http://whisperingspirits.dragynspice.com/2009flashissue.pdf "Good Friends and Good Family" (scroll down)]{{Dead link}} by Desmond Warzel isn't particularly creepy at first, but [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]].
* J.R. Lowell's ''[[Daughter Of Darkness]]'' is about Willie, a super-intelligent little rich girl who collects dolls—not the cute kind, either—from all over the world. The maid refuses to clean Willie's room because she feels like the dolls are "watching" her. She's right.
* There's a short story (the title of which escapes this troper at the moment) about a girl who goes to stay with her aunt for a vacation. While there, she finds her aunt's old china doll, which is described as being very beautiful, except for its orange-ish, creepy eyes. When she keeps the doll in her room at night, she sees the eyes are glowing and freaks out. {{spoiler|The doll becomes less creepy when we find out later why the eyes look the way they did - one of the doll's previous owners died in a fire and the doll, sitting on a mantleplace, had to watch. The orange coloring was the firey scene, replaying in her eyes. After the girl comforts the doll, the eyes turn to a normal grey color.}}
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* In an 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain, a doll has a recording of an actual murder in it.
* The House of Dolls in ''[[Septimus Heap]]'' is filled with [[Replacement Goldfish|these]], to the point that even the protagonists find it creepy.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* ''[[White Collar]]'' has El's parents restoring a doll that they think she loved as a girl and giving it to her as a birthday present. It appears to be a beggar girl with enormous black eyes in an elongated head. El had shoved it into a crawlspace because she hated it so much.
* ''[[True Blood]]'' has one turn up in Bill's house, while Jessica and Hoyt are living there. The doll is so creepy, they give it to Arlene's baby, which attracts the ghost of a local witch.
* The marionettes used in the OP of the Chilean [[Soap Opera]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF6wKNJQGwI
** The lyrics of the song skyrocket it into scary: "You are not the owner of your life/We are puppets and nothing else/Our threads are Fate/Which moves us at its will"...▼
*** Not helped by the ''very'' [[Creepy Monotone]] singing voices and [[Hell Is That Noise|the just as terrifying background music.]]▼
== Music ==
* As you can see at the top of the page, [[Jonathan Coulton]] has a song about this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgfklKnOg4w very trope]. In fact it's the [[Trope Namer]].
* The video for [[Laura Branigan]]'s song "Self Control" begins and ends with a shot of a rather creepy doll.
* The video to the song "Technologic" by [[Daft Punk]].
** It should be. It's the
* The video to the song "[[Blue (video)|Blue]]" by [[The Birthday Massacre]].
** There's another one in the video for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Vf9HTgSEg In the Dark]".
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* [[Rasputina]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWnseq38bhM "Gingerbread Coffin"]. Kids find an old doll and say a black mass around her. [[Blatant Lies|Despite the subject matter, neither the music nor the lyrics are at all eerie.]]
* The Dresden Dolls have a song called "Coin Operated Boy" while not wholly about a doll, the boy is a life size puppet of sorts that ran by dropping a quarter into it's pay slot...
*
* Elise from [[Sound Horizon]]'s ''Märchen'' is an animated china doll that constantly compels the eponymous Märchen to enact revenge.
* At least [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFVyN8KKrEQ two] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu7ZtNnL1Yo PVs] for [[Creepy Twins|Rin and Len's]] [[Vocaloid|"Trick and Treat"]] contain creepy dolls. In the second example, {{spoiler|Rin and Len turn out to be [[The Woobie|Miku's]] old dolls that she threw away in favor of a new Luka doll. At the end of the video, Len rips out her heart.}}
* Another [[Vocaloid]] example: KAITO's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI_W9GA6Ppc "Heartbeat Clocktower"], composed by mothy, is about a clockwork doll covered in burn marks who apparently {{spoiler|needs (and inevitably gets) a human heart so that she can keep "living."}} Also mentioned is a theater populated by dolls who are the "vessels" of [[Seven Deadly Sins|sin]].
* [[Doctor Steel]] makes several of these.▼
== New Media ==
* Mary, from [https://fiction.live/stories/Dark-Waters/KYkdQi4zx8mxhuPGL/home ''Dark Waters'' (story contains nsfw)] is a sweet girl. She also has a more monstrous, but still doll form. {{spoiler|Also she was also born of a blaspheme so foul that it damned the American south, mankind, and the planet. She is Death made mortal and bound inside a doll. That said, people still usually die as normal, like before the atrocity that created Mary.}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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** The description: "You see one of those dolls that gives you the willies. It jumps at you with a tiny spear."
* [[Pathfinder]] has [[Our Homunculi Are Different|Soulbound Dolls]], crafted from a fragment of a creature's soul—either [[Soul Jar|donated]], or [[I'm Having Soul Pains|taken forcefully]]. In theory, they're [[Empty Shell]]s, but in practice they [[Cloning Blues|retain some of the donor's personality]], and it's not predictable ''which'' [[Came Back Wrong|personality traits will appear]]. On top of that, they're the only construct that's [[Weak-Willed|vulnerable to mind-affecting effects]], so even if they start out okay, they could still become [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] later.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** And there was also the ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' prototype, which featured Leon going through a castle owned by Umbrella (at least we assume) that is... weirdly enough haunted with hook-wielding ghost demonic dolls and tentacles in a black mist. It was as if he made a wrong turn at Raccoon City and went to [[Silent Hill]]. (Damn it would have been scary.)
* ''[[Haunting Ground]]'' has a room full of it, and is, in fact, a puzzle. Doing this incorrectly will prompt spikes coming out of the dolls to give you a game over.
* ''[[Ōkami
* One made to look like the game's protagonist spooks the player out near the beginning of ''[[Rule of Rose]]''. It makes an appearance later on, but its plot-significance is small.
** The Rose Princess also appears to be one. {{spoiler|It turns out that was just a stand-in for when the real one was ill.}}
*
* The second battle in ''[[MOTHER 1|EarthBound Zero]]'' is against a possessed doll which one of your sisters owns.
* These are encountered as late-game enemies in ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]''. They are ''damn'' creepy, to say the least. They represent {{spoiler|the children that Dr. Bumby has brainwashed and broken into child prostitutes.}}
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* ''[[Ib]]'' not only has a creepy doll that follows Garry around and keeps on asking him to play with it in one scene, but also an ''entire room'' of creepy dolls that lock him inside and force him to "play" with them to find the key to the door before a giant version of them finishes crawling through the window. If he fails to find the key in time, Bad Things happen.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Silent Hill: Promise]]'' has a terrifying kewpie doll.▼
* Inverted in ''[[The
* In ''[[Frankie and Stein]]'', there's [http://heavenstomurgatroyd.deviantart.com/art/SUTURE-tm-283254976 SUTURE tm]{{Dead link}}, this little doll "stitched together out of love, respect for your elders, and the ''remains of other stuffed toys''."▼
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' has [[Demonic Dummy|Lil' Cal]], who appears completely inanimate, if nightmarishly designed... as long as you're looking at him. When you're not looking, he moves around on his own. He's also the ectobiological father of [[The Dragon]], and the ectobiological grandfather of the [[Bigger Bad]]. Its implied they inherited their [[Complete Monster|disposition]] from Cal, although for obvious reasons we can't tell for sure.▼
* ''[[Wapsi Square
* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' has Blair, a girl doll possessed by a male spirit. Rather stupid and very, very perverted one, at that. Though he's annoying rather than creepy and ends up as a [[Chew Toy]]—sometimes literally.▼
* In the now-defunct web comic ''[
== Web Original
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZWL8WSAETY Very Creepy Doll Commercial From The 60's] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fObkkZf1pzY Extremely Creepy Doll Commercial]
* ''[[Open Blue]]'' v2 had Vice-Amiral Swasou, who owned a lot of creepy dolls. Even creepier is the fact that they appear to literally go places when nobody's looking.
* The ''[[Fred]]'' video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QURja9e_EnQ Fred Finds A Creepy Doll]'' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin
▲* In ''[[The Secret Life of Dolls]]'', it's particularly bad with [[Twilight (novel)|Tonner Edward Dollen]], but at first when [[Van Helsing|Anna Dollerious]] says what she thinks about getting [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/cleoicons/dolls/secret_life/sld_nightterrors.gif The Littlest Edward]:
▲{{quote|"[I'm] not so lonely that I wanna go to sleep and have THAT lurking over me when I wake up. And you know he'll, like, imprint on one of us or some shit--knowing your luck, E, he'll imprint on Cleo, and he'll just sit on her pillow all night, rocking back and forth."
▲And we all shudder together. It's a nice feeling, sisterly solidarity. }}
▲* ''[[Silent Hill: Promise]]'' has a terrifying kewpie doll.
▲* ''[[Fred]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Finds A Creepy Doll]]'': an [[Merchandise-Driven|officially licensed]] Fred doll, which he thinks is a voodoo doll of him. And then it starts talking...
▲* Inverted in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', where Goth undead-phile Tsukiko keeps a doll of Xykon (who ''is'' creepy) in her bedroom. The doll, in contrast to the actual Xykon, is a cuddly plush toy.
* In ''[[Marble Hornets]]'', the [[Slender Man]] doll Jay finds in an abandoned house may or may not count, but the baby doll in totheark's "Indicator" video '' definitely'' does.
▲* In ''[[Frankie and Stein]]'', there's [http://heavenstomurgatroyd.deviantart.com/art/SUTURE-tm-283254976 SUTURE tm], this little doll "stitched together out of love, respect for your elders, and the ''remains of other stuffed toys''."
▲* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', [[Creepy Child]] Rebecca has a teddy bear that speaks in a demonic voice, worships Satan, and makes death threats to the other characters.
* ''[[Chad Vader]]'' has Baby Cookie who seems to be trying to the creepiest of creepy dolls. She wears nothing but booties and a zorro mask while making her chosen minion play, dance and kill.
* Any of ''[[Salad Fingers]]'' three finger puppets can be this. To elaborate, Hubert Cumberdale can become human-sized, gain red eyes, and scream for no apparent reason, as well as randomly turn into a black liquid that burns at the touch. Marjory Stewart-Baxter jealously watches Salad Fingers have a picnic with a little girl through the window. Jeremy Fisher can also become human-sized, stores a weird green fluid in his plugged-up mouth, and can suddenly transform into [[Mind Screw|a second Salad Fingers]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|to get eaten alive]] by the first.
* ''[[Desert Bus for Hope]]'' had a creepy doll which was actually ''named'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120702172732/http://desertbus.org/2011/11/23/creepy-doll-art-contest/ Creepy Doll].▼
▲* ''[[Homestuck]]'' has [[Demonic Dummy|Lil' Cal]], who appears completely inanimate, if nightmarishly designed... as long as you're looking at him. When you're not looking, he moves around on his own. He's also the ectobiological father of [[The Dragon]], and the ectobiological grandfather of the [[Bigger Bad]]. Its implied they inherited their [[Complete Monster|disposition]] from Cal, although for obvious reasons we can't tell for sure.
▲* [[Doctor Steel]] makes several of these.
▲* [[Wapsi Square|Tina's]] [[Bilingual Bonus|muñeca para el Dia de los Muertos]] looks outright hideous! Its true nature (assuming it is in fact more than a decoration for the Day of the Dead) has yet to be revealed, although given Tina's backstory, it is easy to [[Wapsi Square/WMG|develop some theories about this]].
▲* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' has Blair, a girl doll possessed by a male spirit. Rather stupid and very, very perverted one, at that. Though he's annoying rather than creepy and ends up as a [[Chew Toy]]—sometimes literally.
▲* In ''[[Video Game/Minion Comics|Minion Comics]]'' the protagonists have Tur-Tor - a stuffed turtle with drugged-out eyes that plays tapes of gangster rap songs about children committing domestic violence.
▲* ''[[Desert Bus for Hope]]'' had a creepy doll which was actually ''named'' [http://desertbus.org/2011/11/23/creepy-doll-art-contest/ Creepy Doll].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* A few of these appeared in certain ''[[Rugrats]]'' episodes. Leading the list is Mr. <s>Friend</s> Fiend.
* The animated short ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131106175121/http://almashortfilm.com/ Alma]'' has a little girl find a whole toyshop of creepy dolls including one that looks just like her. {{spoiler|[[And I Must Scream|Then she becomes that doll by touching it]] and the shop sets up for its next victim}}
* Breach of ''[[Generator Rex]]'' collects creepy dolls, [[Collector of the Strange|among other things]].
* In the [[Christmas Special]] of ''[[The Grim Adventures of
* Yoki the [[Trash Talk]] spewing doll from ''[[Jimmy Two-
* Played for laughs in a Halloween special of ''[[Regular Show]]'' where Pops tells a scary story involving a doll named Percy.
* Again played for laughs in an episode of ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' with a doll that repeats over and over the word 'KILL'.
* [http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Baby_Button_Eyes Baby Button Eyes] in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]].''
{{quote|'''Lenny''': Baby Button Eyes! What are you doing possessed at this hour? }}
== [[Real Life]] ==
* ''Robert the Haunted Doll'' is a doll on display at the Fort East Martello Museum. It is the former doll of painter and author Robert Eugene Otto. When he was a child, Otto was given the doll as a gift from a servant who, according legend, used black magic to curse it. Through the years, family members reported hearing Otto speaking to the doll, and hearing a strange, inhuman voice answering back. They also reported that the doll seemed, at times, to move. People who visit the doll where it currently resides sometimes claim the doll moves and that, if they want to photograph it, they need permission first otherwise their cameras don't work.
** Even worse is the fact that the doll's owner's wife (who hated the thing...like ''everyone else'') apparently starting haunting their old house. Robert's old room, to be exact. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF7488WHcok&feature=related This Travel Channel clip] insinuates that [[And I Must Scream|she has no choice in the matter]]. Oh, also, Robert ages, apparently. His hair's gone white and he's got liver spots now...
** Related to Robert The Haunted Doll is ''Annabelle the Haunted Doll.'' Possibly even more terrifying than the former, this Raggedy Anne doll was first owned by a woman by the name of Donna, whose mother purchased the doll from a hobby store in the 1970s. She and her roommate were cool with having the doll at first... until freaky things started happening in their apartment, where the doll not only supposedly moved on its own, but also ''wrote messages.'' When a medium was consulted, she said that the doll was being inhabited by the harmless spirit of a girl named Annabelle who died on the property, and Donna and her roommate felt compassion for the spirit. However, Annabelle the Doll was not what she seemed as she reportedly violently attacked one of Donna's friends. After two incidents, the famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were consulted, and eventually came to the conclusion that the doll was being haunted not by the spirit of a little girl, but of a demon. The doll was eventually relocated to the Warren Occult Museum in Moodus, Connecticut, where it is reported that the doll still moves and growls at visitors on occasion from behind its glass case.
* One thing that can make dolls really creepy in real life is the fact that kids aren't gentle with toys. If you ever see a doll in a kid's playroom, stuffed uncomfortably in a toy box, or in the middle of a toy pile, often getting "crushed" under other, heavier-looking toys, and ''still having that smile,'' it becomes a quick way to convince anybody to clean that room.
* How about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqkNPcUMffU this commercial] for [[Play Station 3]]?
* The ''Struts'' fashion doll line. Toy ''ponies'' with big come-hither eyes that can be dressed up Barbie-style. [http://www.amazon.com/Struts-Fantasy-Fashion-Runway-Sierra/dp/B0014UFCZI No, really.]
* The ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl6hNj1uOkY Doll Face]'' video features a doll face on a jack in the box type contraption that mimics images on the
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-8wGbWMro&feature=related This] might help, although it does increase the tear-jerker quality. If nothing else, the song is amazing.
** If it makes you feel any better, it ''is'' a human actress' face on the doll.
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* Any doll that has a function (most commonly crying) and being given to someone without being warned about it will cause distress and alarm in the unsuspecting recipient.
* Then there's that ghost story...Dolly one step, dolly two step, Dolly's gonna get you...Don't tell me you weren't scared of that as a kid!
* A lot of people find the Doll Room in Wisconsin's [[w:House on the Rock|House on the Rock]] to be hard to get through.
* Aaron Spelling's mansion had a room especially built to house a huge doll collection; unfortunately the kids it was intended for found it to be a little creepy.
▲* The marionettes used in the OP of the Chilean [[Soap Opera]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF6wKNJQGwI "Los Titeres"]. [[Uncanny Valley|Brrrrr!]]
▲** The lyrics of the song skyrocket it into scary: "You are not the owner of your life/We are puppets and nothing else/Our threads are Fate/Which moves us at its will"...
▲*** Not helped by the ''very'' [[Creepy Monotone]] singing voices and [[Hell Is That Noise|the just as terrifying background music.]]
* [[Monster Clown|Clown dolls]].
** Invoked by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXdSH2Co78 this USPS commercial].
* It's taken ''this'' long to mention [http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii163/Motherfuckernumber1/Hands_Resist_Him.jpg "The Hands Resist Him"] (more commonly known as the [https://web.archive.org/web/20060319160515/http://www.castleofspirits.com/hauntedpainting.html "Haunted eBay Painting"])? This troper was 14 when she researched this painting, and she ''still'' feared supernatural retribution.
* [[Truth in Television]] moment about these things, it turns out according to one [https://web.archive.org/web/20130607223532/http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/12/dead-or-alive-the-eyes-hold-the-.html?ref=hp "study"] we perceive what is alive and what is inanimate by the look of the face and eyes more then anything else, so now we know the human truth... dolls are just freaky soulless things!
* Who the Hell in Japan came up with [http://nonstopkarate.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/for-all-your-woody-murders-the-rest-of-the-toy-story-cast-play-scenarios/ this horrifyingly creepy Woody toy]?!
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2xEwEHbrE&feature=related "My Buddy, My Buddy...wherever I go, he goes..."]
** ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HAlW9KQyXA shows the other dolls in the toyline.]
* The Island of the Dolls (“La Isla de la Munecas”) south of Mexico City. Featuring trees decorated with hundreds of mutilated dolls.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110828163332/http://www.nightmare-fuel.com/saucy-doll-from-mattel/ Mattel's Saucy doll.] The website is appropriate. ''Look at that face''.
* Deliberately invoked by Imezco with their ''[http://www.livingdeaddolls.com Living Dead Dolls]'', and BeGoth's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131224161217/http://www.begoths.com/ Bleeding Edge]'' dolls-these are dolls that take the idea of Creepy Dolls and run with it. Living Dead Dolls come in coffin-shaped boxes and have dates of death, while the Bleeding Edge dolls are pierced and have odd eyes. Not surprisingly, both of these kinds of dolls are very popular with [[Goth]]s.
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