History Main / CreepyDollhouse

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Glessner_Lee Frances Glessner Lee]] was an American forensic scientist who created the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of gruesome dollhouse-style dioramas used to train forensic investigators and homicide detectives in solving crime scenes. The murder victims were represented by dolls who had "died" gruesome deaths, like a baby girl shot to death in her crib or a woman with a blue face.

* Frances Glessner Lee was an American forensic scientist who created the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of gruesome dollhouse-style dioramas used to train forensic investigators and homicide detectives in solving crime scenes. The murder victims were represented by dolls who had "died" gruesome deaths, like a baby girl shot to death in her crib or a woman with a blue face.

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'': In episode 7 of the second season, the main characters are trapped in a dollhouse where they can live their most desired life. The episode focuses on the Maid Anne and Katarina's friend Raphael entering the dollhouse to rescue their loved ones.

* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', [[LonelyDollGirl Sabrina]] uses her PsychicPowers to [[ToyTransmutation transform Brock and Misty into dolls]], and [[LivingDollCollector keeps them]] in a dollhouse. She has even done this to her own mother, who [[DissonantSerenity has come to accept it]].

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*** Not... quite. Shirley actually has a model of the ‘forever house’, the house their mother, Olivia, was designing during their stay at Hill House. It’s not quite clear if Olivia and Stephen’s plan was to build this house from scratch if if it’s a house the Cranes have bought and are planning to refurbish, but either way it’s the house that they are getting ready to work on and settle in after flipping and selling one last place for money. Unfortunately that place is Hill House so they never make it into their forever home. We don’t know if Olivia made the model itself or if Shirley had it made from her mother’s blueprints, but Shirley seems to keep it in remembrance of her mother. In an unusual example of this trope the model itself and the hypothetical house it represents are quite innocent - but it is the target of spiteful, solicitous attention from the haunted house that is determined to be the Cranes’ actual forever home: Hill House.

* Frances Glessner Lee was an American forensic scientist who created the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of gruesome dollhouse-style dioramas used to train forensic investigators and homicide detectives in solving crime scenes.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', [[LonelyDollGirl Sabrina]] uses her PsychicPowers to transform Brock and Misty into dolls, and [[LivingDollCollector keeps them]] in a dollhouse. She has even done this to her own mother, who [[DissonantSerenity has come to accept it]].

Not to be confused with ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}''.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', [[LonelyDollGirl Sabrina]] uses her PsychicPowers to transform Brock and Misty into dolls, and keeps them in a dollhouse. She has even done this to her own mother, who [[DissonantSerenity has come to accept it]].

* ''Film/AmityvilleDollhouse'': As the name suggests, the whole story revolves around a dollhouse found in a new house that is made up to look like the house from the original
** ''Film/TheAmityvilleHorror1979''. Taken UpToEleven as, while {{Creepy Doll}}s are involved, [[spoiler:the dollhouse itself is possessed.]]

* In ''Series/{{CSI}}'' there were a whole series of creepy dollhouses, as part of the CriminalMindGames played by the Miniature Killer. The dollhouses were exact replicas of the crime scenes of the killer's future crimes, including little dolls representing the victims. The last one replicated a crime scene involving a member of the team: [[spoiler: Sara, who was thankfully saved]].

* In ''Series/{{CSI}}'' there were a whole series of creepy dollhouses, as part of the CriminalMindGames played by the Miniature Killer. The dollhouses were exact replicas of the crime scenes of the killer,including a little dolls representing the victims.The last one replicated a crime scene involving a member of the team: [[spoiler: Sara, who was thankfully saved]].

* ''Film/AmityvilleDollhouse'': As the name suggests, the whole story revolves around a dollhouse found in a new house that is made up to look like the house from the original ''Film/TheAmityvilleHorror1979''. Taken UpToEleven as, while {{Creepy Doll}}s are involved, [[spoiler:the dollhouse itself is possessed.]]

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* ''Series/{{Creepshow}}'': In the episode "House of the Head", a young girl's dollhouse is haunted by a monstrous toy head that moves when she isn't looking and does awful things to her dolls.

* In an episode of ''Series/DoctorWho'', a young boy's fears are starting to manifest in reality and one of them is that he finds his dollhouse scary. The Doctor and his companions end up shrinking and going into the dollhouse, while dolls try to kill them and sing a creepy song about "Tick Tock Goes the Clock".

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The Pierpont Inn from ''[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E11Playthings Playthings]]'' features a very large one that takes up almost an entire room, modeled after the inn, with literally hundreds of very old porcelain dolls. Throughout the episode, the dolls seeming move themselves when no one's watching, their placement causing people to die in the real life hotel (i.e. a doll appearing at the bottom of the stairs with a twisted head, causes a man to fall down them and break his neck). Sam and Dean initially suspect it be some form of folk magic. Its eventually revealed that the ghost of its original owner Maggie Thompson, who drowned as a child back in the forties, is haunting the hotel. Her sister Rose has held her back all these decades, but suffered a debilitating stroke and can no longer do so. As the Inn is closing down, Maggie killing people due to being terrified of the prospect being left alone for all eternity.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', [[LonelyDollGirl Sabrina]] uses her psychic powers to transform Brock and Misty into dolls, and keeps them in a dollhouse. She has even done this to her own mother, who [[DissonantSerenity has come to accept it]].

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