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* How about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqkNPcUMffU this commercial]] for UsefulNotes/{{P|layStation3}}S3? Besides the baby doll falling smack into the Uncanny Valley, it has unsettling emotions like an EvilLaugh or adult-sounding weeping.

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* How about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqkNPcUMffU this commercial]] for UsefulNotes/{{P|layStation3}}S3? Platform/{{P|layStation3}}S3? Besides the baby doll falling smack into the Uncanny Valley, it has unsettling emotions like an EvilLaugh or adult-sounding weeping.



* "Doll Bones" by Holly Black, a 2014 [[UsefulNotes/NewberyMedal Newbery Honor]]-winner, is centered around a china doll made from the ground-up bones of a murdered girl. The children have to find the girl's grave and bury the doll or be cursed/haunted forever.

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* "Doll Bones" by Holly Black, a 2014 [[UsefulNotes/NewberyMedal [[MediaNotes/NewberyMedal Newbery Honor]]-winner, is centered around a china doll made from the ground-up bones of a murdered girl. The children have to find the girl's grave and bury the doll or be cursed/haunted forever.
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* Toys/PlushieDreadfuls: The Antisocial Personality Disorder and Sleep Paralysis bunnies are positively unsettling, intentionally so to represent the stigma attached to the former and the often frightening symptoms of the latter.

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** A similar western story is Dolly One-Step (known by various names), in which a doll announces which step of the staircase she's on before killing the listener. It dates back at least to the 1990s, but as with many slumber party staples, tracing the origins is difficult. It and Mary-san both seem to derive from a 200-year-old tale called The Golden Arm, about a ghost trying to retrieve a grave-robbed prosthetic. When dolls entered into things is anybody's guess.



* The psychological horror book "Frozen Charlotte" by Alex Bell features a collection of creepy dolls. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Charlotte_(doll) The author based it on a real creepy doll]].

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* The psychological horror book "Frozen Charlotte" by Alex Bell features a collection of creepy dolls. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Charlotte_(doll) The author based it on a real creepy doll]].doll]], though recent research shows that [[https://www.beachcombingmagazine.com/blogs/news/the-true-story-of-frozen-charlotte-dolls the term "Frozen Charlotte" was coined by collectors in the 1940s.]]
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* Inner Child, aka Charlie the Doll from the ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' is a subversion. While he looks creepy as hell and has a backstory you'd expect to find in a horror plot (Old sentient doll found by innocent kid who just moved in), he is actually [[CreepyGood an unambiguously good person]] [[NiceGuy who becomes Dorothy's first true friend]].
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* ''WebAnimation/FlipnoteWarrior'': Mome gets scared after stumbling on a traditional Japanese doll, but quickly gets frustrated.
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In horror, dolls are often used as part of the scenery to help establish the mood, even providing a theme for an episode. Like [[MonsterClown clowns]], what should be a silly, innocent bit of childhood fun can make a scene [[MoodDissonance ironically unnerving]], depending on where they're placed, what they're doing, or even simply how they're lit. They may even [[PerversePuppet be the antagonist]] or [[LivingDollCollector be used by the antagonist]]. Despite how ridiculous a doll trying to kill people ''should'' be, it's still seen as quite frightening. A similar idea lies behind the DemonicDummy and ScaryScarecrows.

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In horror, dolls are often used as part of the scenery to help establish the mood, even providing a theme for an episode. Like [[MonsterClown clowns]], what should be a silly, innocent bit of childhood fun can make a scene [[MoodDissonance ironically unnerving]], depending on where they're placed, what they're doing, or even simply how they're lit. They may even [[PerversePuppet be the antagonist]] or [[LivingDollCollector be used by the antagonist]]. Some lore has it that dolls are more likely to be possessed because ghosts prefer [[UncannyValley something that looks human-like]]. Despite how ridiculous a doll trying to kill people ''should'' be, it's still seen as quite frightening. A similar idea lies behind the DemonicDummy and ScaryScarecrows.

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* Porcelain dolls by Marina Bychkova, a Canadian artist of Russian descent, are beautiful beyond any words - and creepy beyond any words, as well. [[http://www.enchanteddoll.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/salome-052.jpg Here's Salome]], [[http://www.enchanteddoll.com/galleries/snowwhite/images/snowwhite4.jpg here are Snow White and her prince]] (look at Snow White's neck - [[{{Squick}} it's pretty obvious that she is]] ''[[{{Squick}} dead]]'') and here is [[http://www.enchanteddoll.com/galleries/surviving/images/surviving-8.jpg Bychkova's tribute to breast cancer patients]] - beautiful, scary, [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] (the dolls expression has a bit of sadness about her situation to it) and heartwarming at the same time.

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* Porcelain dolls by Marina Bychkova, a Canadian artist of Russian descent, are beautiful beyond any words - and creepy beyond any words, as well. [[http://www.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20190403000512/https://www.enchanteddoll.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/salome-052.jpg Here's Salome]], [[http://www.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20190403000517/https://www.enchanteddoll.com/galleries/snowwhite/images/snowwhite4.jpg here are Snow White and her prince]] (look at Snow White's neck - [[{{Squick}} it's pretty obvious that she is]] ''[[{{Squick}} dead]]'') and here is [[http://www.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20190221102957/https://www.enchanteddoll.com/galleries/surviving/images/surviving-8.jpg Bychkova's tribute to breast cancer patients]] - beautiful, scary, [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] (the dolls expression has a bit of sadness about her situation to it) and heartwarming at the same time.
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* Deliberately invoked by Imezco with their ''Toys/LivingDeadDolls'', and [=BeGoth's=] ''[[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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* Deliberately invoked by Imezco with their ''Toys/LivingDeadDolls'', and [=BeGoth's=] ''[[http://www.''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20120217190950/http://www.begoths.com 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.



* Some Japanese dolls can be very creepy-looking. The aforementioned [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/22518148@N00/2312705616/ ichimatsu ningyou]] are the most famous examples, but [[http://antiquejapanesedolls.com./pub_artinfocus/pub_iki/iki.html Iki-ningyou]] and some [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunraku Bunraku]] puppets aren't slouches on this either.

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* Some Japanese dolls can be very creepy-looking. The aforementioned [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/22518148@N00/2312705616/ ichimatsu ningyou]] are the most famous examples, but [[http://antiquejapanesedolls.com./pub_artinfocus/pub_iki/iki.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200217004822/https://www.antiquejapanesedolls.com/pub_artinfocus/pub_iki/iki.html Iki-ningyou]] and some [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunraku Bunraku]] puppets aren't slouches on this either.
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* ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest'': Episode 15 of "TRUE Scary Stories" features an unsettling doll given to the protagonist as a Christmas gift.

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