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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.
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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]].
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