- Suzie (May, 2002)
- Brahms (The Boy, 2016)
- Fats (Magic, 1978)
- Slappy (Goosebumps, 2015)
- The clown (Poltergeist, 1982)
- Billy (Dead Silence, 2007)
- Blade (Puppet Master, 1989)
- Billy the Puppet (Saw, 2004)
- Annabelle (The Conjuring, 2013)
- Chucky (Child’s Play, 1988)
Suzie (May, 2002)
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May Canady is a woman in her mid-twenties, who suffered from a troubled childhood due to her lazy eye. She has very few social interactions, The only confidante of the lonely title character doesn’t have any supernatural abilities, but Suzie is still eerie as heck. Crafted by May’s mom to be her blind daughter’s only true friend, with the adage “If you can’t find a friend, make one.” the doll causes May to gruesomely devise another playmate, Frankenstein style.
Brahms (The Boy, 2016)
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‘The Boy’ tells the story of a young woman named Greta who is asked to be the nanny of a young boy. Looking for a break from her old life, she accepts the offer, but to her surprise, this boy turns out to be a seemingly sentient doll. Not just like a normal doll, it is a human size doll. With this, her curiosity gets the best of her and she sets out to find out more about the doll’s past. But along the way, she ends up unraveling some very dark forbidden secrets that the doll’s family had kept buried for years.
Fats (Magic, 1978)
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Magician’s assistant Corky performs disastrously at his first solo appearance. He is given a ventriloquist dummy called “Fats” to improve his act, and within a few years, Corky is at the height of fame. However, Fats has developed a mind of his own, and wants to control his master. And corky suffers from severe mental issues, and that even off-stage he cannot control Fats. Corky tries to find love, but the jealous, murderous Fats pretty much puts the kibosh on that.
Slappy (Goosebumps, 2015)
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Given vocal life by Jack Black, the villain from R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books unleashes fellow monsters on an unsuspecting town. He also throws down with his maker: Slappy injures Stine (also Black) by crushing his fingers in a typewriter. Not cool, dummy.
The clown (Poltergeist, 1982)
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The Clown Doll is a minor antagonist in the horror film Poltergeist, although it is more accurately described as an aspect of either the Beast or the other vengeful spirits – it’s main purpose was to act as a distraction so that the other spirits could abduct Carol Anne but it is remembered as being one of the more frightening entities in the film (in part due to many people fearing clowns).
At one point in the film Robbie sees the clown doll staring at him and, finding it creepy, covers the doll with his jacket. This foreshadows the events later in the film.
Later in the film when Robbie is about to go to bed he notices the clown is gone. He starts looking for it, looking under one side of the bed, only to see nothing. He checks the other side of the bed and sees nothing too, but when he gets up the clown doll is behind him, grabbing his face before dragging him under the bed.
The clown continues to choke him until Robbie fights back, ripping the clown doll’s stuffing out before bringing it on top of the bed and continuing to attack it before finally stopping.
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Billy (Dead Silence, 2007)
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When this guy gets regifted, people die and get their tongues ripped out. Billy is the property of a murdered ventriloquist who’s out for vengeance with one caveat: She only kills those who scream, Jamie Ashen and his wife, Lisa, receive an anonymous gift of a ventriloquist doll called “Billy”.
As Lisa is playing with Billy while Jamie goes to pick their carry-out dinner order, a figure approaches her, causing her to scream. Later, Jamie returns home and finds Lisa dead with her tongue cut out. After Jamie is released from custody by Detective Jim Lipton due to lack of evidence, he spots inside Billy’s box a mysterious message about “Mary Shaw”, a deceased ventriloquist from his hometown, Raven’s Fair.
Blade (Puppet Master, 1989)
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Blade is a living puppet created by Andre Toulon in Berlin during the second World War. He was designed after the Gestapo Major Kraus. He has the soul of Dr. Hess a German surgeon and medical doctor who betrayed the Nazis to work with Toulon and was stabbed to death in the process. Among fans of the series, Blade is easily the most wellknown.
He is a spy puppet with weapons for hands the 2-foot-tall dude with the hook for a left hand, knife for the right and a dastardly. Within the films themselves he appears to be the leader of the puppets. He has been featured in every Puppet Master film thus far.
Billy the Puppet (Saw, 2004)
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Billy, the mechanical ventriloquist puppet designed by John Kramer, was a recurring item throughout the Saw franchise. It was used to inform the victims of Jigsaw’s deadly games about the rules and instructions they had to follow in order to survive and in the event of their survival, it would deliver a message of congratulations.
Typically Billy would appear via video, though occasionally a doll would appear physically in dramatic fashion, such as riding in on a tricycle or crashing through a window in a cage.
Annabelle (The Conjuring, 2013)
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Parents need to know that Annabelle is a prequel to the horror movie The Conjuring, about a possessed doll. There’s lots of bloody horror, splattering blood, and scary images, plus some jump-shock moments, shooting, fighting, and dead bodies. A pregnant woman and, later, a small child are in jeopardy. It’s all pretty terrifying. But on the upside, other than the scary/gory stuff, there’s not too much other iffy content of note. The “true” history of the doll adds an air of kookiness, but even if she didn’t house an evil spirit,
Annabelle would still terrify with her garish makeup, dead eyes and old-fashioned wardrobe that even Barbie wouldn’t touch.
Chucky (Child’s Play, 1988)
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Chucky is a killer Good Guy doll, that had his soul transferred into the doll by using voodoo. Despite his small size, Chucky has the strength of a full grown man. Charles Lee “Chucky” Ray is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the child play slasher. Chucky is portrayed as a vicious serial killer who, as he bleeds out from a gunshot wound, transfers his soul into a “Good Guy” doll and continuously tries to transfer to a human body.
The character has become one of the most recognizable horror icons and has been referenced numerous times in popular culture. In 1999, the Chucky character was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for the film Bride of Chucky. He was created by writer-director Don Mancini and is portrayed by Brad Dourif in both live action and voice over. For the 2019 remake of the same name, Mark Hamill voiced Chucky, having previously voiced the Charles Lee Ray version of the character in an episode of Robot Chicken.
