History Main / CreepyDoll

* The animated short ''[[http://almashortfilm.com/ Alma]]'' has a little girl find a whole toyshop of creepy dolls including one that looks just like her. [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream Then she becomes that doll by touching it]] and the shop sets up for its next victim]]

* As you can see at the top of the page, Music/JonathanCoulton has a song about this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgfklKnOg4w very trope]]. In fact it's the {{Trope Namer|s}}. It tells a story in the second person about how you buy a rustic cottage with your "bag of big-city money" and discover a doll in the attic with "a ruined eye that's always open" and "a pretty mouth to swallow you whole." The doll begins popping up everywhere, tormenting you, and then the two of you [[ItMakesSenseInContext die in a fire]]. This [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may or may not be all in your head]]. Sleep tight!

* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/JeepersMedia This Youtube user]] lampshades this trope to its fullest.

* One of the modern monsters in ''WesternAnimation/MonsterMash2000'' is an evil wind-up doll named Chicky, the Doll of Destruction. She's a CaptainErsatz of [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]], only differentiated by her green skin and other gender. She wears her hair in GirlishPigtails, but one of the tails is the wind-up key. Her weapon of choice is a remote control with which she can change the environment around her.

* ''Film/ChildsPlay'':

** It should be. It's the animatronic Chucky doll used in ''Film/ChildsPlay'' (mentioned above) with its silicone skin removed.

* Music/IceNineKills' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8vKjIakHbA Assault & Batteries]] features a plot out of ''Film/ChildsPlay'', except the doll comes pre-damaged/patched up, and the whole band has clothes and makeup to make them look like said doll to up the creepy factor.

* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': A Malevolent Sentient Poogle Plushie looks like a patchwork plush toy, but with red eyes and a grinning mouth of sharp teeth.

** Lil' Cal, a DemonicDummy, is also owned by Bro. His [[CreepyDoll creepy]], [[NonStandardCharacterDesign jarring]], [[ThousandYardStare glass-eyed stare]] is bad enough. What's worse is that he seems to move around when Dave turns his back.

A specific type of CreepyDoll is the VengefulAbandonedToy, who is angry at having been abandoned or forgotten by their owner.

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* In the 1998 ad for Hostess cup cakes, a boy torments a doll by fake-feeding it a cup cake toy. The doll angrily comes to life demanding to get a cup cake with a creamy filling.

* One of V's targets in ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' has a huge doll collection. When V abducts the man, the punishment he devises for the ex-concentration camp official is to populate a mock concentration camp with the dolls, and send them all to the ovens. It successfully breaks the man's mind, and the effect on the reader of all those [[UncannyValley dolls burning]] is none too pleasant either....

* The razor-toothed killer dolls from ''Film/{{Barbarella}}''.

* ''Film/DeepRed'': the walking ''deformed'' doll provides a JumpScare.
* ''Film/ChildsPlay'':
** A dying serial killer Charles "Chucky" Lee Ray transfers his soul into a doll, and continues to cause havoc as he searches a proper new body.
** There's also Tiff and Glenn from the same series. Though Glenn is somewhat of a subversion and Tiff is... [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Tiff.]]

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* There are countless mannequins strewn across the bar in ''Anime/DeathParade'', which Decim collects as a hobby. Some are dressed up, most are nude, many are broken and faceless. As it turns out, [[spoiler: the mannequins belong to former guests whose souls were either reincarnated or sent to the void, leaving their featureless bodies behind. As such, Decim has taken to collecting their bodies and dolling them up in their likeness to ensure they are not entirely forgotten, especially when he's subjected to frequent mind wipes to prevent the inevitable psychological strain of possessing many lifetime's worth of memories]].
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** There's one in Asuka's MindRape sequence. The truly horrifying part is when the doll is ''hanging from the ceiling spinning on the end of a rope'' [[spoiler:along with Asuka's mother, Kyouko, who has just committed suicide]]. Scarier still were some of the scenes that were left in the director's cut of that episode. "Do you love me? Do you ''really'' love me?" "BUT YOU'RE '''LYING'''"
** After [[spoiler:piloting EVA 02, having half of her soul sucked out by it and going ''insane'' because of that]], Kyouko is seen holding the same doll in her arms and talking to it, believing it to be her daughter and refusing to acknowledge the real Asuka as her kid. Now you know where Asuka's hate of the "doll" word and concept comes. [[spoiler: Meaning Kyouko hanging the doll along with herself was an attempted murder-suicide. She wanted to take her daughter with her.]]
** Asuka possesses one, and plays with it at one point in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion 2.0''. Also, according to many, it's by far the creepiest thing to come out of anything Evangelion-related ever.
* In ''Anime/{{K}}'', it's revealed in the manga ''Days of Blue'' that Gotou has a collection of freaky dolls that creep out Hidaka, his roommate. In fact, Hidaka escapes to Enomoto's room at one point since he was attempting to read a magazine in his own room, but the dolls kept staring at him.
* Boogie-Kun of ''Manga/{{Karin}}'' is a doll possessed by a serial killer that holds a knife in its hand. And later on Anju mentions that [[http://www.onemanga.com/Karin/13/60/ she collects other creepy dolls]] that all have interesting histories. She then asks Karin if she wants to hear about them but Karin quickly leaves in fear.
* ''Manga/BlackButler'': The second opening of the second season has a scene where [[DarkActionGirl Grell]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Sutcliffe]] is holding a creepy doll version of Sebastian, which she kisses before placing it among doll versions of Ciel and Alois... which she then proceeds to drive her chainsaw through.
* ''Manga/GhostHunt'' has Minnie, a possessed doll.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** Near constantly plays with creepy toys and uses them to test his various theories.
** Misa Amane wears an ElegantGothicLolita style dress in one instance, [[spoiler:for when she was committing suicide after she thought Light died]]. Overall, the dress combined with her depressed facial expression and her dark make-up makes her look like a life-sized porcelain doll, to an eerie effect. That scene mirrors an earlier scene where Misa, dressed the same and traveling through the same setting, sings ''a capella'' about her devotion and trust to Kira. Though the lyrics are optimistic, her tone, and doll-like dress, makes the scene still quite creepy.
** UpToEleven in the live-action series, where Near communicates with Mello as a ventriloquist's dummy. It remains to be seen whether the dummy ''is'' Mello, or merely a representation of him, but either way, it's creepy.
** One of the Shinigami, named Gelus, looks like a creepy doll. It's actually quite innocent and forlorn compared to the typically assholish, apathetic Shinigami, and having no friends and obsessing with the aforementioned Misa Amane.
* In one episode of ''Manga/{{Mokke}},'' a bunch of abandoned Hina dolls are possessing a bridge to try to get attention.
* A creepy doll in traditional Japanese dress appears throughout ''Literature/{{Paprika}}''. [[spoiler:It starts out as a sort of dreamscape "avatar" of one character, but later takes on a life of its own.]]
* ''Manga/SailorMoon'':
** The episode "Shingo's Innocent Love! A Sorrowful French Doll" is all about the Creepy Dolls. Shingo's [[PuppyLove almost girlfriend]] Mika is a ChildProdigy doll maker who takes to working on her latest project nonstop after her and Shingo's friendship goes briefly sour, and once Nephrite targets her she starts making dolls who are REALLY damn creepy...
** Also, more than one MonsterOfTheWeek, such as [[https://sailormoon.fandom.com/wiki/Murido Murido]], a sweet dream princess that is a youma under her cute face.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' had a Stand called ''Ebony Devil'', which was this.[[note]]Ebony Devil in actuality possess the doll, while still being under Devo's command.[[/note]]
** Later in Part 3 is [[FauxAffablyEvil Telence T. D'Arby's]] doll collection. He uses his stand [[YourSoulIsMine Atum]] to cheat in competitions to seal his victims souls into dolls he makes in their image. The dolls can still move in [[MarionetteMotion herky-jerky movements]] and talk.
* An episode of ''Manga/{{Tactics}}'' featured a doll-maker and a house full of creepy dolls.
* ''Manga/RozenMaiden'':
** Suigintou, Barasuishou, and Kirakishou, the antagonist dolls. Interestingly, Suigintou is considered [[PerverseSexualLust the most attractive Rozen Maiden]], at least [[PsychoLesbian physically]], and Barasuishou is reasonably popular as well. Both have [[TheWoobie Woobie qualities]] that endear them to fans. Even Kirakishou comes off as somewhat sympathetic in her insanity as she gets more developed in the tales.
** The rows of lifeless dolls in Enzu's shop definitely count. Compared to the living dolls, even Suigintou, they are way ''creepier''.
* In ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'' part of Kazutaka Muraki's general state of madness stemmed from memories of his mother's enormous collection of porcelain dolls. It didn't help that the panels of the manga depicting the dolls copy-pasted four or five of them to horrible heights of creepiness. In the opening of the anime, a child Muraki is seen among dozens of dolls; he then picks up one from the floor and holds it in his arms.
* Dolls are a recurring motif in the ''Manga/CountCain'' series. One chapter featured a girl in a leg-cast who kidnapped other girls to turn their corpses into dolls.
* ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'':
** A line of stuffed animals that look like they committed {{Seppuku}} with their intestines sticking out, and two of their names translate to Suicide Tiger and Suicide Black Rabbit. These are FOR KIDS.
** And the girl who looks the most girly of the characters has a room of them. And the main character is expected to sleep in there.
* Season 1 of ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' had Friagne the Hunter, who, while he wasn't a doll himself, was way, ''way'' too attached to his Creepy Doll minion Marianne. The reason he's in town is so he can [[spoiler:dissolve the city to give her real life]].
* Sorta the point for ''Manga/HydeAndCloser'' as dolls are used as curses to attack people. Even Hyde, the protagonist's doll, isn't exempt from this, it has a chainsaw sword in his zipper!
* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'':
*** An episode has Jaden and his crew face a creepy doll come to life.
*** There's also the card Malice Doll of Demise, which serves as the figurehead for [[spoiler:Jinzo/Psycho Shocker]]'s deck. He even appears on the eyecatch.
*** And the "Rogue Doll" card.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'': IV (Four) uses a Gimmick Puppet Themed deck; his two Numbers cards are Gimmick Puppet -- Giant Killer and Gimmick Puppet - Heaven's Strings both of which are uber creepy.
** The original ''Anime/YuGiOh'' anime has one carried by Dark Necrofear -- a baby doll with a large piece missing from its head, and a ''really'' creepy laugh. [[{{Bowdlerise}} 4Kids apparently thought it too scary for the English dub, so it was edited out.]]
* In ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} NEXT'', one of the possible locations of the Clair Bible is a tower full of these. In truth the dolls were mostly harmless (aside of just floating around) and people ''thought'' they were creepy due to a legend about the person who used to live there, [[LonelyDollGirl a handsome yet lonely]] [[RareMaleExample male dollmaker]] who supposedly turned the girl he was a StalkerWithACrush to into a creepy doll so she'd stay with him forever. [[spoiler: Except for two of them, and one was a demon in the shape of the cutest doll of them all, making people believe that the ''other'' doll was a the dollmaker from the legend after a DealWithTheDevil.]]
* Road Kamelot from ''Manga/DGrayMan''. As well as possessing a number of creepy dolls, she herself can transform into an extremely creepy doll.
* The episode "Raindrops" from ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin''. A bunch of creepy dolls chanting "UNFORGIVABLE!" qualifies as some serious nightmare fuel.
* The Zashiki-Warashi arc of ''Anime/{{Mononoke}}'' has a ''lot'' of these, [[spoiler:representing aborted fetuses]].
* Gillen finds one of these in ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', in relation to a serial killer he is examining.
* ''Manga/DearBrother'':
** One of the rooms at Fukiko's summer house is full of creepy dolls and obsessively arranged items of memorabilia from the day she first met her crush [[spoiler: Takehiko Henmi]], which she has since kept completely unchanged for six years and forbids anyone else to enter, save for herself and a maid whom she specifically tasked with its cleaning.
** [[spoiler: Rei Asaka]] also keeps one. It's both one of the dolls seen in the OP and ED, as well as one of the two gifts that [[spoiler: Fukiko]] gave her some time ago (The other being [[spoiler: a gold bracelet]]). [[spoiler: That doll becomes Nanako's TragicKeepsake, though the circumstances vary: in the manga Rei gives it to Nanako before committing suicide, in the anime Fukiko gives it to Nanako after Rei's fatal accident.]]
* ''Manga/Reborn2004'':
** Ginger Bread is a CreepyChild and a vice-captain of the Millefiore Family's eighth squad, the enemies of the main protagonists in the future. He is also known as the Magician's Doll, primarily due to his usage of similar looking dolls that are clothed in a wizard's hat and cape, and have stars in their eyes (like he does), to fight. In addition, he uses spiders, summoned by what he calls sorcery. He claims to have had a hand in the death of Colonnello. As such, Lal Mirch engages him in battle, but after he loses, it is revealed that she was only fighting one of his dolls.
** One of the Six Funeral Wreaths, Daisy is the holder of the Sun Mare Ring. He has a rather uncanny appearance with scars on his face, dirty-looking hair, sunken eyes, and carries a creepy plushie in his hands.
* One shows up in the first episode of ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}'' while Ichise has sex with a bizarre, bionically augmented woman.
* ''Anime/GhostStories'' features a supernatural doll named Mary who stalks the main character Satsuki throughout episode 11. At the end of the episode the Mary doll also commands other dolls to gang up on Satsuki and attempt to kill her all while singing a song about how they plan to do so.
* ''Manga/PandoraHearts'':
** Will of the Abyss's Creepy Doll form, a rabbit in a dress with black, bleeding pits for eyes.
** The demonic doll that attacks Oz when he falls into the Abyss (anime only).
** The doll that Break keeps on his shoulder.
** The Will of the Abyss's RoomFullOfCrazy is full of these.
* ''Manga/{{Amatsuki}}'': The doll that Ginshu [[SoulJar keeps his/her soul in]], what with its high pitched voice and jerky movements.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In his released form, Szayel has the ability to create a small VoodooDoll that has his enemy's likeness. Any damage done to the dolls' internal organs, accessed by taking the doll apart (which doesn't happen to the original) removing the organs and then crushing them, is done to the original, debilitating them from the inside. The doll's exterior has some effect on the victim as well, as seen when Ishida felt Szayel scratch and flick his doll's face. And Szayel later makes a voodoo doll of Mayuri who is pretty creepy himself... [[spoiler: but Mayuri is so CrazyPrepared that he manages to out gambit Szayel, as he had replaced his own organs with doll-like substitutes so Szayel's powers had no effect on him.]]
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Chachazero, who doubles as a sort of [[GreekChorus evil peanut gallery.]]
* In a ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' story, Ranma accidentally breaks a typical Japanese doll during a trip to a hot spring. The doll has magic powers, and it starts to plan her revenge by targeting Akane and [[GrandTheftMe switching bodies with her.]]
* Episode 9 of ''Manga/BetrayalKnowsMyName'' features a shop full of creepy dolls. And ElegantGothicLolita Ashley always seems to be carrying one around with her and uses them to attack people.
* ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'' has dolls as a sort-of theme in both the TV series/OAV:
** In the TV series there is Matsukaze, a doll that WinterRoyalLady Reiha constantly carries around in her arms and seems to be there as a mouthpiece for Reiha's hate towards Miyu.[[spoiler:He ends up pullin an HeroicSacrifice to save Reiha's life.]]
** Also, this is the shinma [[spoiler:Ranka]]'s true form in the second OAV. [[spoiler:And she not only turns people into creepy dolls, but she does this to her love interest Kei. ''On Kei's own request'', since he wants to be with her forever.]]
** At the beginning of that same OAV, Miyu in a schoolgirl disguise passes by a toy store and sees a very pretty but creepy ''ichimatsu'' traditional doll ([[https://www.flickr.com/photos/22518148@N00/2312705616/ like these ones]]) and says "You're frozen in time too, hmmm" while smiling softly. [[spoiler: That's foreshadowing of Miyu's true nature as a Shinma who's [[OlderThanTheyLook Older than she looks]], having been turned into a Shinma at age 13 ''and'' given eternal youth at the same time.]]
** In the TV series episode 19 "Love of the Dolls" "Ningyōshi no Koi" (人形師の恋)- the episode revolves around a doll-maker, who falls in love with one of her creations... and how things get very creepy from there on...
** In the manga, there's another Shinma that pulls similar stuff on two of Miyu's school friends and a chubby OfficeLady. [[spoiler:His first victims were an antique shop owner and his son Takumi, whom he revived after they died in a fire caused by Miyu when she gave a MercyKill to Takumi's Shinma mother; then, he erased the two's memories and used them as his pawns.]]
* Tsukiyo's doll Luna, from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows''.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
** Some of the witches' minions counts, especially Oktavia's Clarissas during episode 10, [[spoiler: which are simply Sayaka's loosely copies of her friend and love rival Hitomi, in horrid colors]].
** Also, the witch Charlotte looks like a stuffed doll with creepy eyes. [[spoiler: Before evolving into a much bigger form and killing/eating Mami.]]
** As well, Albertine, as revealed in the official PSP game, appears as a giant [[MonsterClown clown-like]] doll.
* ''Manga/OtogiMatsuri'': The giant, eight legged cat/spider demon Kenzoku is accompanied by numerous creepy-looking dolls who refer to it as "Go-shu-jin sama" (meaning "Master of the House"), and who mainly serve to find humans to become the demon's next meal.
-->'''Doll #1:''' Go-shu-jin sama, here.\\
'''Doll #2:''' Over here.\\
'''Doll #3:''' The new offering is here.
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'':
** The gynoids in ''Ghost in the Shell: Innocence'' are modeled after Hans Bellmar's UncannyValley doll-sculptures, and are every bit as creepy.
** There's also the hacker Kim who lives in a (possibly virtual) giant dollhouse, and has his cybernetic body made to resemble a life-sized balljoint doll, and is more than eager to {{lampshade|Hanging}} his creepiness at every opportunity.
* ''Manga/HelenESP'' has a school mannequin that falls in love with is maker, and because [[IfICantHaveYou she can't have him, decides to kill him]], all the while knowing [[TragicVillain just how wrong her actions are.]]
* ''Anime/HellGirl'':
** [[spoiler:Mina]], but we don't learn it for a while since [[spoiler: she's a ThirdPersonPerson who manages to fool Hajime and Tsugumi with her speech patterns]].
** Invoked to great effect in an early episode. A girl from an orphanage, Inori, is picked up by a dollmaker old woman named Kyogotsu, supposedly [[ArrangedMarriage to marry her son]]... [[spoiler: on the condition that she acts like a doll: she should only sit around, looking pretty and quiet, without even interacting with the family or her new husband. Naturally, poor Inori snaps after a while and, despite Hajime's warnings, she sends Mrs. Kyogotsu to Hell; fittingly, the upcoming scenes feature many of these dolls coming to life and attacking Mrs. Kyokotsu, then transforming ''her'' in a Creepy Doll before sending the old woman to Hell as Inori's revenge.]] Even the title of the episode lampshades it: [[spoiler: it's ''Hanayome Ningyo'', which means ''Bride Doll'']].
* 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 ''Literature/{{Another}}''. There's a dark and deserted doll store in the series' TownWithADarkSecret, where really really creepy ("laying in coffins, like corpses" creepy) are displayed, including one that looks eerily like [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Misaki]], then there's the deal with her [[spoiler:doll eye under [[EyepatchOfPower her bandage]]]]. Also, in the anime, occasional flashes of dismembered sad eyed dolls dripping with UncannyValley-ness. Brrr.
* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' has cases where traditional dolls play rather bloody and creepy role:
** In one of them, there are mentions of a certain Shinto deity named the Kimono Goddess. She doubles as a goddess of revenge, and if a devotee of hers wants to ask her to sponsor their punishment of someone who has wronged them somehow, said person must make a creepy doll in paper and leave it in a box at the Goddess's shrine at midnight. [[spoiler: Conan, Ran and a woman named Eri find two dolls in the local Kimono Goddess Temple, and talks about revenge are had. That same night, another doll is found... and it's wearing a demon mask. Few afterwards, two women named Ema and Asuka are stabbed to death, and in Ema's case there's a fourth paper doll on her pierced chest. And the killer is ''Eri'', since they drove her long-lost sister Sakurako to suicide.]]
** In another, Kogoro is hired by a man who is a member of a BigScrewedUpFamily and makes creepy traditional dolls for a living. [[spoiler: Not only he makes dolls... but it turns out he ''uses said doll making business as a cover for drug traffic'', with the dolls being filled with cocaine bags.]]
** In at least two murders, some rather creepy and old [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakuri_puppet karakuri puppet dolls]] have been used by the killers to try giving themselves alibis.
* The titular character of ''Manga/TheUnforgivingFlowersBlossomInTheDeadOfNight'' is a youkai whose original form is that of a doll in the school infirmary. According to her ghost story, those who witness the doll dancing in the night will be cursed. Even in her human form, she is described as looking like a doll.
* In ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'', a girl named Shizuka has a traditional Japanese doll that grows its hair and asks Nube to check on it. [[EpicFail He does, but ''all'' of the doll's hair falls out.]] There are other creepy dolls around, like a very detailed "visible human" doll whose left half exposes all its internal organs... and then comes to life and believes itself to be a real boy, forcefully pushing itself into anyone it could think of as a "friend".
* In the ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' TV series, a creepy life-sized doll dressed in a red kimono is seen in [[spoiler: CLAMP]] Campus. [[spoiler:Tokiko gave it to the CanonForeigner Chairman of said Campus and told him that she'd die soon via [[PersonOfHolding giving birth to one of the Shinken]], and in that moment the doll would break and tell him not just what happened to her, but where to find the Shinken itself.]]
* In the ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'' 2001 TV series, one of these [[spoiler:with the looks and size of an adult woman]] is found in [[spoiler:the center of the BigFancyHouse that is [[GeniusLoci Cyborg 0012]]. The actual brains and control of [[EverythingTryingToKillYou the wayward house]] are implied to be inside the doll]].
* {{Creator/Junji Ito}} uses this trope to distressing effect in "A Doll's Hellish Burial", a one-shot comic included with some editions of his adaptation of ''Frankenstein''. Over the course of six pages, a disease transforms a small girl named Maria into a doll, which is creepy enough on its own. [[FromBadToWorse It doesn't stop mutating her there, though]].
* The principal of Jujutsu Specialty High School of Tokyo, Masamichi Yaga, from ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'' has a childish interest in creepy cute dolls. However, it is revealed that the cute dolls themselves are cursed and can become aggressive.
* In ''Manga/ShadowStar'', [[DudeLooksLikeaLady Norio Koga]]'s hobby is creating dolls and puppets based on [[{{mon}} shadow dragons]], and Needless to say, they're all kind of creepy. The creepiest of them all is a certain doll that's found hanging on the wall of Norio's best friend and UnrequitedLove Takeo's house... [[spoiler: '''with [[OffWithHisHead poor Norio's own head]] [[DeadGuyOnDisplay mounted on it]]'''. Needless to say, [[HeroicBSOD neither Takeo not Shiina's parents take the discovery well]].]]
* Q from ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs'' has a somewhat disturbing plush doll he carries everywhere. When he decides to use his ability, it starts laughing maniacally, even as he mutilates to activate his ability.
* Nono in ''Manga/UraraMeirocho'' has a doll that not only talks, but also speaks exactly what Nono is thinking.
* ''Manga/Overlord2012'': Nazarick uses them as part of a trap involving Albedo's sister Nigredo. When you enter Nigredo's room, you see a StringyHairedGhostGirl holding a doll as if it were a baby and with many similar dolls near her, then shrieking that it's wrong and attacking you with scissors... unless you present her with one of the dolls claiming it is her baby. Note that she's actually one of the ''nicest'' (that is, Good-aligned) [=NPCs=] in all of Nazarick.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Drusilla has a plethora of these. Her favorite doll is called Miss Edith. ("Miss Edith speaks out of turn. She's a bad example, and will have no cakes today.")
* On ''{{Series/CSI}}'''s seventh season, the Miniature Killer placed a picture of a creepy bisque doll in each of the crime scene miniatures. It turned out to be a symbol of her dead sister. Or possibly of her?
* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' had [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E126LivingDoll Talky Tina]], a surprisingly creepy and murderous doll.
** "Talky Tina" was inspired by a real toy, "Chatty Cathy," a doll produced by Mattel beginning in 1959. Creator/JuneForay, who provided the recorded voice Mattel used for Chatty Cathy, also provided CBS with the voice for Talky Tina.
** This was parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' "Treehouse of Horror" with a killer talking Krusty doll. However, unlike Tina, someone had accidentally set it to "evil" instead of "good."
** Also parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Little Talky Tabitha".
** Ironically in the case of Talky Tina, the creepy doll is more of the good guy of the story, especially considering what a {{jerk|assVictim}} the guy she torments was to his wife and stepdaughter. [[spoiler: At least until the end, anyway, when it's revealed she wasn't just trying to teach him a lesson, but actually made good on her threats to kill him, thus showing that the doll was not only murderous but selfish as well, as her actions had nothing to do with getting him to be nicer to his wife and stepdaughter, it's implied that she would then control the mother with fear and eventually reveal her true form to the daughter.]] At the end of the episode, Rod's closing statement says that while dolls can't really move or talk, children do pretend that they're friends and defenders.
* In the episode "Multiple Plots" of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' Doug delivers a package to a man who runs a doll hospital out of his home. While waiting, Doug picks up one of the dolls the guy is repairing. It says "Mommy!", Doug utters a terrified "Oh, my God!" and throws the doll away.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' had two creepy dolls in the episode "Tuesday the 17th"
** The first doll was a ''papier mâché'' pinata of Rick Astley created by Shawn when he was a kid
** The second was an exact replica of the ''Robert the Haunted Doll'' that was carried around by one of the characters.
** One could also argue that the two wrestling dolls Shawn and Gus played with in "Let's Get Hairy" were creepy
* A doll in ''Series/GhostWhisperer''. To make things worse, the doll was disfigured and its clothes were torn and stained. Ugh!
* Creator/RodSerling must have been a fan of this trope, because ''Series/NightGallery'' had the episode, "The Doll" which had, you guessed it, a creepy doll that was actually part of a revenge curse.
* Episode 12 of ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' had a skit called "Rock-a-Bye Ralph." A little girl (Amanda Bynes) can't sleep because of a thunderstorm, so her parents give her the titular toy--a smiling doll in pajamas that says cutesy bedtime phrases ("I love you! Time to go sleepy!"). While the girl thinks it's sweet at first, Rock-A-Bye Ralph [[MotorMouth refuses to shut up]] and endlessly blathers in his [[TastesLikeDiabetes saccharine voice]], driving her crazy and, paradoxically, keeping her awake even more. But no matter what she does--from ripping out his batteries to jamming him in a drawer to tossing him out the window--Ralph just keeps chattering. It looks as though the girl finally wins after calling her puppy to eat Ralph...that is, until [[HereWeGoAgain the doll starts talking from the dog's stomach.]]
* There were a few of these in ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'':
** The episode "The Tale of the Dark Music" had a ''life-sized'' walking and talking doll, with a creepy perpetual grin, dressed in a cute blue party dress acting innocent and nice, when it really had evil intentions and wished to lure the male lead in that episode into the dark cellar behind it.
** The episode "The Tale of the Dollmaker" was essentially about a girl who is distraught over the disappearance of her friend. She finds a mysterious doll house whose front door matches one she uncovers behind wallpaper in the attic. Through the door, she finds her missing friend who is slowly turning into a china doll. She herself almost turns into one as well.
** The episode "The Tale of the Crimson Clown" had a young bratty boy learn a lesson when an [[MonsterClown evil clown doll]] came to life and started to terrorize him.
** Heck, the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3pBBLN0w7NY#t=12 intro sequence]]'' features one at around 00:12. This show really loved its creepy dolls.
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' had a creepy doll called Molly Dolly chase her around her home in a Halloween episode.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Chinga" (written by Creator/StephenKing) had one that drove people to inflict harm on themselves ("Let's have fun!").
** In "Born Again", Michelle's therapist would sometimes leave Michelle alone in her office with a doll, and Michelle would disfigure every doll by tearing off an arm and gouging out an eye. She shows Mulder an entire shelf of these dolls. It's even more disturbing when we learn ''why'' Michelle was doing this: [[spoiler:she was the reincarnation of a murder victim and she was re-enacting the post-mortem mutilation that had been done to his body.]]
* ''Series/DarkShadows'' featured an episode where two children are turned into dolls.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' explained the backstory of Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket; his parents were turned into two creepy dolls now owned by Rumpelstiltskin.
* ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'': Susie's daughter Sammy has loads of these decorating her room.
* The incredibly creepy (at least, to a 12-year-old) 1985 BBC series ''[[http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/maelstrom/intro.shtml Maelstrom]]'' featured lots of scary dolls in the darkened attic of an old log cabin.
* Hidden camera show ''Series/ScareTactics'' has a collector of creepy dolls-one of which being his "mother"-as one of their favorite setups.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' "I"m Cindy Sunshine, and I want to be your friend." Uh... no thanks. (It's not the voice speaking through it - provided by a known character - but more ''Film/TheExorcist''-like head-turning at one point.)
* The doll that started off the [[GottaCatchEmAll merry cursed antique hunt]] of ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' even had a name: Vita. She talks, she kills, she has telekinetic powers!
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': A female [=UnSub=] ''made'' creepy dolls out of her victims, which she kidnapped, [[AndIMustScream kept chemically immobilized but conscious]], dressed up and played tea party with until they died from lack of stimulation. In her defense she didn't intend to kill them and had a FreudianExcuse: Her real, er, ''actual'' dolls (American Girls expies) were a gift from her abusive dad after he molested her then electroshocked her to make her forget (he was a [[CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure psychiatrist]]), but when she saw him giving them to his latest victim she snapped.
** The dolls themselves caused some creepiness: a costume and essay contest by the doll company accidentally revealed some disturbed little girls; it turns out they had accidentally stumbled onto an (actual) form of trauma therapy.
* An episode of ''Series/GhostHunters'' had the team visit a woman who claimed her house was haunted. Among other things, she said that the ghost made her doll "perform" for her (something like the face moving). The team recorded the doll, but thank God nothing actually happened. One of the crew members was visibly relieved he didn't have to witness anything.
** An episode of ''Series/DestinationTruth'' had Josh and the group on the Island of The Dolls. A doll's eye actually opens up.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
** In one episode, Susan had a doll that looked just like George's mother, Estelle. George couldn't sleep with it in the bed, and he kept imagining it talking to him in Estelle's voice. Meanwhile Susan kept insisting that it looked nothing like Estelle and George was being ridiculous. When Frank saw the doll at the end of the episode, he also imagined it talking to him in Estelle's voice, then strangled it and pulled its head off.
--->'''George:''' ''[to Susan]'' I told you it looked like her.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The episode "Playthings" is chock full of 'em.
* One episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' had a murder in a doll hospital. They ended up finding an important piece of evidence: a recording in a doll. To try and figure out how to activate it, they take off the doll's head, with all the wires hanging out of it, like veins and intestines. Then they turn it on and it says in a semi-demonic voice ''"My Name is Sophie."''
* ''Series/SesameStreet'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Rhm7kp-tk This creepy segment]] has nightmare inducing closeups of several dolls, accompanied by an extremely creepy march.
* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' used to have these brief skits where the jukebox had puppets that would play music. Let's just say the puppets were...horrifying and leave it at that.
* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': The episode "Strung Along" features a marionette puppeteer about to make a comeback and gets the help of a young animatronics engineer, but as he starts suspecting his wife of cheating on him, the doll seems to speak to him, indicating that he is starting to go crazy with stress. [[spoiler: In the final act, the doll does attack his wife, though it turns out to be the work of the animatronics worker, as he and the wife had set up the whole thing to kill him. But when the police arrive, the two of them are dead as well, wires dangling from their limbs and leading up to the old man, now dressed up as his doll, grinning eerily from atop the bed. It's pretty freaky.]]
* Invoked, in a way, on ''Series/MadMen'': Sally is terrified of her baby brother because he was [[DeadGuyJunior named after]] her deceased grandfather, whom she loved dearly, and he now sleeps in his bedroom. Betty tries to give her a barbie doll "from the baby" to make Sally like him, but she throws out in the front yard. Don makes the mistake of bringing the doll in and leaving it on Sally's nightstand, looking right at her. Cut to Sally screaming bloody murder in the middle of the night, staring at that doll in utter terror. Not creepy to the audience, but clearly ''damn'' creepy for the character.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has the Doll Children from "Night Terrors", who [[IronicNurseryTune sing nursery rhymes]], [[GigglingVillain laugh like children]] and [[spoiler:can turn you into one of them.]] They aren't as well-put-together as some of the examples here, either, which possibly makes it worse.
* Freaky dolls with frighteningly big eyes appear in several Toei tokusatsu series ranging from ''Series/SpaceSheriffShaider'' to ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger''. Probably the freakiest example is in ''Series/JikuuSenshiSpielban''!
* ''Series/HardyBoysNancyDrewMysteries'': The episode "House on Possessed Hill" has Joe Hardy walking into a room of a cursed house...with a creepy animated toy doll nodding its head in time to creepy tinkly music box chimes.
* ''Series/TheRiver'' gives us this en mass in an episode based on La Isla de la Munecas (see RealLife section).
* ''Series/WhiteCollar'' 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.
* ''Series/TrueBlood'' 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.
* ''Series/TowerPrep'': Senor Guapo appears as one of these during Gabe's dreams.
* ''Series/{{Psychoville}}'' has Freddy Fruitcake, Joy's ReplacementGoldfish for the real baby she lost to cot death. It's unclear whether or not there may be a spark of life in Freddy.
* ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' has Kiyo-chan, the bald, white-suited doll belonging to [[MadScientist Dr. Maki]]. [[spoiler:It originally belonged to his older sister, who he killed in a fire.]] It has a rather unsettling habit of moving apparently on its own.
* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' had a few of those:
** "Belly Speaker": The belly speaker's puppet was very disturbing. The fact that it was manufactured to look like its owner, complete with different colored eyes, added to the creepiness factor.
** In "Me, Myself and Murdoch", the constables found a rag doll without an eye found in a CreepyBasement. It was buried there with a chopped up skeleton.
** "Murdoch in Toyland": Detective Murdoch was taunted by a series of dolls with recorded messages as a part of CriminalMindGames scheme. Lampshaded by Inspector Brackenried: "I know it's supposed to be adorable, but to me it just looks bloody creepy."
** In "Friday the 13th 1901", Julia gets locked in a cold storage cellar and finds a childish drawing and a doll, which triggers her memories of James Gillies [[spoiler: who kidnapped her and buried her alive]]. She is later reminded of this again when going over Gillies case file and looking at a photo of one of the dolls.
* ''{{Series/Salem}}'': The poppet Mary puts in Anne's room.
* Prudence from ''Series/OneBigHappy'' has a pair of creepy marionettes that she used to entertain children with at a hospital. Marionettes just happen to be Luke's fear. [[HilarityEnsues She hangs the puppets above their bed]].
* ''Series/OneHundredThingsToDoBeforeHighSchool'': CJ's doll freaks out her father. It has one eye missing. He especially dislikes the accompanying knife that the doll can hold.
* ''Series/BarRescue'': Royal Oaks, one of the decrepit bars, is ''littered'' with them, amongst other equally uncomfortable and offensive decor.
* ''Series/FaceOff'' season 7 had a design challenge based around making these; every artist had to pick a different type of doll and make it into a fantasy/horror creature. Creepy dolls have also been made in other episodes, including one that was both a doll and [[MonsterClown a clown]].
* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': Season Four episode "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS4E7HellNoDolly Hell No, Dolly!]]", the Legends find themselves fighting against the spirit of a serial killer known as Mike the Spike that possesses dolls to murder his victims.
* ''Wrestling/LuchaUnderground'': Between Seasons 3 & 4, [[ButtMonkey Ricky]] [[FromNobodyToNightmare Mundo]] visited the Island of the Dolls and returned with Rosa the Doll, who ups the ante with a healthy dose of DemonicPossession. [[spoiler: At the end of the Season 4, Rosa possesses Taya Mundo and proclaims herself [[AGodAmI a god]].]]
* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' [[Main/PlayedForLaughs plays this trope for comedy]]: [[spoiler: After Dennis leaves in the finale of season 12, Mac has apparently purchased a life size male Sex Doll and dressed it to resemble Dennis. Initially it creeps out everyone who encounters it, but over time the cast begin hallucinating conversations with it (the waitress eventually ends up sleeping with it). At the end of the episode, it briefly appears that the Gang have lost their minds, as the doll suddenly speaks and moves about. It's then revealed that Dennis was actually back; he tossed the doll out of sight and took its place because he wanted to gaslight the rest of the Gang.]]
* Inverted by ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' in a cut-for-time ParodyCommercial for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWBNCnU_PK0 "My Little Step Children" dolls.]] The dolls are rather gothic-looking, but otherwise harmless and in fact [[TheWoobie sympathetic]]. The creepy part comes from the fact that they're marketed to kids who want to play WickedStepmother and abuse their "children" in campy, melodramatic fashion.
-->"The first time I bought Lisa a doll, she said she felt no real connection to it, like there was a sheet of glass between her and the doll. With My Little Step Children, she no longer feels forced to change that."
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* ''VideoGame/DeadRealm'': This is one of the ghosts you can play as in the game.
* Alma carries a doll around with her in ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon''. The effect is not really all that childish.
** Especially since she's covered in blood up to her ankles and typically surrounded by hellfire.
* The first boss of Stage 2 in ''VideoGame/NightSlashers'' is a duo consisting of an old man with a bell and a marionette who prevent the heroes from following the carriage. The marionette walks-or-dances around as if on strings, even though there are none. He sometimes throws his head to attack, laughs maniacally, and may temporarily fall apart if hit with a special move. He burns up upon defeat.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', there's a little girl in Ikana Valley whose father lives in the wardrobe in the basement because he's slowly turning into a Gibdo. Later on, if you look inside his wardrobe it's revealed that he had a mummified little doll resting in the corner.
** The skull kid slightly fits this... especially with how Majora plays with him.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'', when you meet the Great Fairy Queen, [[spoiler:she takes the appearance of a child, yet holds a doll that looks like a miniature Great Fairy, all of which look like grown adult women. The effect is rather unsettling, a fact not helped by the background music]].
* The HauntedHouse you explore in ''VideoGame/{{Pacify}}'' has plenty of these lying around. Sometimes, they'll [[LivingToy come to life]].
* ''VideoGame/Trenches2021'': You can find these. In fact, one of the first puzzles in the game is to follow the sounds of babies crying to discarded dolls in the trenches and picking them up.
* ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'': Brawl Doll, the boss of [[BigBoosHaunt Horror Manor]], is an evil baby doll with a {{putto}}-like appearance, having big blue eyes, angel wings, and a star-shaped halo. In the cutscene before the battle, it does an ExorcistHead while laughing sinisterly.
* ''VideoGame/{{Witchkin}}'': One of the titular characters is an eyeless, hairless doll in a tattered dress.
* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' cannot help but place them in every title.
** The first game had a room filled with long haired, creepy dolls with a little ghost girl wanting to 'play' with you.
** ''Fatal Frame 2'' took that to the next level with the Dollmaker and the lifesized doll of his dead daughter, who was promptly possessed by an evil spirit and convinced her sister to murder her father. Now the pair of them wander around as shuffling ghosts, while the father controls his dolls and convinces them to kill you.
** ''Fatal Frame 3''. The attacking handmaiden ghosts who look like little geisha dolls that will ''kill you'' with their ''hammers'' and ghostly tricks each have their own room. Their choice of decoration? Dolls. A whole ton of them. Skewered on the walls.
*** At the very beginning of the game, there's a doll in the mansion displayed in a nook. You can look at it through your camera; as you slowly walk towards it, will look up at you.
*** A doll in Miku's room will grow hair throughout the game.
** ''Fatal Frame 4'' has two examples:
*** The room of Ayako, a CreepyChild, is littered with dolls and severed doll limbs with a creepy laugh as the background music. There is also a sidequest to take pictures of dolls littered throughout the game. The downside is you after each one, a creepy image of a little girl alongside a creepy laugh plays to verify your picture was successfully taken.
*** "Watashi", the doll [[AngstySurvivingTwin Kageri Sendou]] keeps with her, has chipped paint at various spots. [[ZombieGait It also limps relentlessly towards you]] [[DualBoss when joining Kageri to fight you at least once.]]
** ''Fatal Frame V'' has a shrine dedicated to them. And some of them attack you. And Shiragiku summons dolls that [[ZombieGait limps toward you]] to attack you when you battle her.
* ''VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot'' features an abandoned factory full of creepy baby dolls that run at you and explode. You can also pick them up and throw them like grenades. Ethan even pulls a pin out when he does this.
* Calcobrina from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''.
** To put this in perspective, Calcobrina is actually formed ''via multiple individual Calcos and Brinas.''
--->''"Yip-ho-ho!"''
--->''"Guess who?"''
--->''"We're Calcobreanas!"''
--->''"We're cute!"''
--->''"And scary!"''
--->''"We love to kill!"''
--->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-9h4YV_PU "Let's take their heads!"]]'''
** They're back, and possibly even creepier, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''.
--->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2LLKa0Fsk "We are Calcabrina! Adorable dolls! Terrible dolls! Yip-ho-ho!"]]
* ''Franchise/SilentHill'' seems to LOVE these:
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' features the Mannequin, a monster made of two shiny plasticine women's lower torsos stacked on top of one another. [[spoiler: Possibly symbolizes the main character's objectification of women.]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'' features [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Ariel]], appearing as a doll that can either break your neck in the air... or run around on its hands to kill you.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming,'' however, cranks it up to Eleven with [[BossBattle Scarlet]]. A giant, elongated mannequin with porcelain armor that, when blown off, reveals that there's inexplicably ''flesh and muscle'' beneath it. Add this to the fact that it came out of a pool of [[spoiler: Doc Finch's blood]] and the OneWomanWail creating SoundtrackDissonance... it is EASILY the most frightening monster in the entire game. [[spoiler: Finding out WHAT and WHY Scarlett is doesn't help. [[IKnewIt Not that you]] ''[[IKnewIt probably]]'' [[IKnewIt hadn't figured it out by now anyway...]]]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' also contains a slightly more traditional example in the form of the dolls Stanley leaves behind for Heather in the hospital. The protagonist originally thinks of the doll as another child's, and is disgusted when she finds out it's supposed to be for her. [[spoiler: On his last journal entry, the doll is torn to pieces. Creepy...]]
*** And there's the dolls in the Otherworld Hillside Center. One's in a wheelchair, while another- only a few feet away- is held by a humanoid...thing, suspended over a hole. [[FauxSymbolism Symbolism?]]
** ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' has Walter Sullivan's doll, which if picked up and placed in the box, haunts Henry's room permanently ([[GuideDangIt unless you remove it from the box and carry it around with you for the rest of the game]]), making it impossible to get the best ending.
** The Robbie the Rabbit Doll pointing at [[spoiler:YOU]] when you look in a certain hole.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' has the aptly-named Dolls, which resemble (very creepy-looking) sex dolls. They summon shadows to attack Murphy, preferring to stand (almost) stone-still while they do so.
* ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'''s Quicksilver and Shrieker enemies.
* ''VideoGame/ClockTower: The First Fear'' has a room full of beat up dolls. One gives you a key. After that, another will attack you.
* If you're not careful whilst downloading custom content for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', you can unknowingly download a doll that will slow down your game loading times and crash your games.
** That's probably Dexter The Bear, a stuffed Bear that gives you the ability to kill other sims with either a knife, a poker, or a hammer. The hammer lets you kill toddlers too, which gives way to the creepy toddler behaviors. That is, when Dexter worked properly and didn't crash the game.
** In summer 2010 there was also a custom content girl doll in a dress that attached itself like a virus to any uploaded content you created. It got onto the official exchange and caused a number of crashed games before people found it.
** For actual creepy dolls rather then bugged ones, we have the Imaginary Friend doll from the ''Generations'' expansion pack, which is generally agreed to be extremely creepy, and is delivered in the mail most of the time when your sims have a baby, and to make matters worse, if you let your toddlers play with the thing it will evolve into an animated ''thing'' with a creepy walk that follows your sim kids around everywhere. Also, the developers went out of their way to make the thing [[ClingyMacGuffin hard to get rid of]], you can't even blow it up in an explosion.
** Your child will constantly play with it, ignoring their needs and their homework, along with constantly being interrupted when you tell them to do something. On top of that, if you take the doll away and leave it out, it will act like a gnome, which disappear in the night to show up elsewhere, often turning on [=TV=]s and stereos, or just poofing up beside a bed to stare at the occupant.
* Each game in the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series has a dungeon called the Doll House, which is the home to a demonically possessed doll. In the first game, the spirit possessing the doll is not quite as scary as the doll itself, which sits in the middle of an [[RoomFullOfCrazy extremely disturbing room]], on a rocking horse, creaking slowly back and forth. In the second game, there's a similar dungeon, meant for a character who has a doll of his own. Not quite as scary as the first, but still quite a bit disturbing, given that there are dolls all over the house watching you... In the third game, there are dolls all over the place, and the scariness comes from what you have to ''do'' to them - [[spoiler:plucking out their eyes]].
* The PC kid's game ''I Spy: Spooky Mansion'' has a wardrobe filled with nothing but dusty, antique dolls as a level where you were told a poem (like in the books) to find things. In the game, when you found an object you were told to find, the object would become animated and then the object was checked off the list. In the wardrobe level, nearly every object you were told to find was a doll, and when found would move and talk with high-pitched voices and squeaky joints. Very creepy to a kid playing the game.
* ''Website/GaiaOnline'' has a "joint puppet" feature for avatars to use. If that doesn't fit this trope, then the livid-patchy "dead doll" option will.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'''s gotten in on this trope with a few character designs.
** [[MarionetteMaster Alice Margatroid]] has a veritable army of dolls at her disposal, otherwise-innocuous toys armed with swords, lances or straight razors, some of which are even [[ActionBomb packed with gunpowder.]] Fan works usually portray them as cute, but with spellcard names like "Eerily Luminous Shanghai Dolls" and "Hanged Hourai Dolls" it's easy to go the other route. Alice herself is often described as slightly creepy, what with her habit of holding one-sided conversations with her dolls, and then there's the fan art that gives her doll joints or otherwise implies that she's just a larger puppet...
** Medicine Melancholy, an abandoned doll left in a field of poisonous flowers for so long that she became a {{youkai}}, is one of the creepiest characters in the series. She has a murderous grudge against humanity, rambles to herself about her toxins' effects, and talks to her victims about how wonderful it is that they'll soon die surrounded by poison. Simply touching Medicine is dangerous, she can manipulate her poisons to control her victims, and she even attempted to poison the Human Village on one occasion. [[CuteIsEvil Other than all that, she looks like a cute little girl.]]
** The curse goddess [[MeaningfulName Hina]] Kagiyama is a subversion - she collects Nagashi-bina dolls, whose purpose is to be filled with the misfortune of the user, but she does this to drain away that misfortune and ensure that it doesn't affect anyone else. She's actually pretty friendly, it's just that she's soaked up so much misfortune this way that [[PowerIncontinence simply being around her can be dangerous.]]
* There is a mod in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' called ''[=Unreal4Ever=]'', which has a doll for a weapon. When used, the doll skips around a map making doll-like noises, until an unlucky victim comes too close and detonates the doll, causing a nuclear explosion. Just imagine being chased by a seemingly harmless doll that's really out to kill you.
* Tails Doll, from ''VideoGame/SonicR.'' Can ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you]]'' feel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9kGZfE3VJY the sunshine?]] [[AscendedMeme The devs have]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXsGsALkOeU acknowledged this.]]
* The ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series has an animate man-size marionette with long-blond hair. It's lying around idly until the hero comes nearby. Then it giggles, twists its neck in a circle, and floats through the air with unnatural movement as if manipulated by invisible strings. There are also variations that emit electricity, said to be possessed by the ghosts of prisoners that died in the electric chair. ''Chronicle'' has small dolls, the walking clowns and hover dolls, though you might find the voiced hover dolls adorable.
* In ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'', your character has the option of buying a teddy bear for your child in chapter three. And then it turns out that the fucking thing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sNfxOL72YE blinks]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMgBvGdnmxQ moves]] and your child will hold conversations with it.
** Marionetta, the third boss or more specifically the guardian of Obsidian Mansion in ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'' has a description of “An old doll. Spookier than you can imagine” for a reason.
* Used very subtly in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. They're never in plain sight, but if you go out of your way to poke through the trash or explore the abandoned playgrounds, you can find normal children's dolls... in ruins. Missing an arm. Missing an EYE. Covered in something black. Very creepy.
* One of the hidden-object search scenes in ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Return to Ravenhearst]]'' consists of dozens of creepy, damaged dolls arranged on shelves.
** In the sequel, ''Escape From Ravenhearst'', you interact with dozens of creepy animatronic mannequins.
* ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}''
** ''[[VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords Genma Onimusha]]'' has Ayame, a demonic, AxCrazy Genma-doll which will randomly appear in the castle and will try to slash you to pieces with her gigantic claws.
** Fiendish puppets and dolls will appear hidden in some chests in ''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege''. They'll leave behind the object they're guarding when defeated.
* A creepy doll whose eyes move is part of the antique shop's decor in ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure''. Not exactly a doll, but this game also features [[spoiler: a spooky, headless dressmaker's dummy that inexplicably appears in the bathroom each night, looking like an intruder in the dark]].
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' has the thoroughly creepy Psycho Mantis and Sorrow dolls as unlockable weapons.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has the Misfit Doll accessory. A normal doll with black hair, white skin, and hollow eye sockets. Adds Spooky damage (which is apparently generated by frightening the opponent) to attacks. Also has the Evil Teddy Bear and Cymbal Playing Monkey familiar and Killer Rag Doll and Creepy Marionette off-hands.
** You can get a creepy clockwork monkey as a combat item. The item description is in the quotes page.
** An update to Spookyraven Manor in May 2014 added a "creepy doll" monster to the Manor, as well as the quest reward "Elizabeth's Dollie".
* There's a [[VendorTrash junk item]] in ''VideoGame/ForumWarz'', the Haunted Doll, but it doesn't really do anything... At least, nobody's ''seen'' it do anything.
** You can also wind up stuck with a Burnt Doll by pissing off a certain NPC.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' had a few moments with creepy dolls:
** First with ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code Veronica]]'' (and its remake level in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles Darkside Chronicles]]'') in which you travel through a house of dolls, filled with Zombies, Bats, Bandersnatches, oh and little dolls and a giant suspended doll, all of which are modeled after the games main antagonist Alexia Ashford. Plus there is also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIyNaHHpmxI the music]], and gets its worse in the games remake in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf587zCG2ec Darkside Chronicles]]''.
** And there was also the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' 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 Franchise/SilentHill. (Damn it would have been scary.)
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' has [[PsychopathicWomanchild Lady Donna Beneviento]] and her puppet, [[PerversePuppet Angie]], who during her section of the game has Ethan have to find Angie in a game of hide and seek with several other puppets and stab her. Not finding her in time will have the other puppets ZergRush him. Once she goes down... [[spoiler: Ethan has also killed Beneviento as well, [[LiterallyShatteredLives reducing her to dust]] and taking her crystal.]]
* ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' 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.
* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' has some of these in the Sunken Ship dungeon. They aren't exactly creepy on their own right, but combined with the surroundings, occasional chest-monsters and the sound world that at first makes them seem like they're laughing at you, we can't really blame you if you feel like Power Slashing them, just to be sure.
* One made to look like the game's protagonist spooks the player out near the beginning of ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose''. It makes an appearance later on, but its plot-significance is small.
** What makes this doll even ''creepier'' is the fact that it was created specifically to [[spoiler:be slapped around and beaten by a character that ''hates'' Jennifer '''that much''']].
** 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.]]
* Torned out and dirty dolls in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', which you can do a spinning attack on for restorative items. They're even creepier than an eyeless Dumbo ride.
* The second battle in ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' is against a possessed doll which one of your sisters owns.
* These are encountered as late-game enemies in ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns''. They are ''damn'' creepy, to say the least. They represent [[spoiler:the children that Dr. Bumby has brainwashed and broken into child prostitutes]].
* In ''Monster Girl Quest'', Gnome can be seen holding a mud doll, a marionette-like doll with hollow eye sockets. She created many of them, animated, to ease boredom. Gnome summons them during her battle to test Luka's strength. [[spoiler:They're even creepier if you lose, for Gnome will have these dolls repeatedly rape Luka.]] There is also a Cursed Doll in the Haunted House sidequest.
* ''VideoGame/{{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.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has Banette. Its Dex entry states that it was a doll that came to life as a Pokémon after being abandoned by a child. Mr. Mime also counts, due to its heavily puppet-like design and intentionally invoking the UncannyValley, and being part [[TheFairFolk Fairy-type]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Calling}}'' has a room filled with bisque dolls. You not only get scared by those but you also [[spoiler:get into that same room later in the game]].
* ''VideoGame/AmbridgeMansion'', an indie horror game, has a room full of dolls in it. In the second game, [[spoiler:the dolls even lock you inside the room for a little while when they're just there staring at you]]. It's [[NightmareFuel creepy as hell]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Puppetshow}}'' series is ''made'' of creepy dolls. Creepy ''mechanical'' dolls ranging from naked sexless automatons to a baby doll head mounted on a giant spider body.
* Near the beginning of ''Strange Cases 4: The Faces of Vengeance'' the main character discovers a doll of herself hanging - literally - inside an old fridge. When touched, the head falls off. Also, since the game is set in an abandoned mall, it gets a lot of mileage out of old mannequins in various disturbing poses. After solving a particular puzzle involving three child mannequins and a plastic birthday cake, she comments "It looks like someone is turning seven - if he was human and not a creepy doll."
* Howard the Bear in ''VideoGame/ForgetMeNotAnnie''.
* VideoGame/{{OFF}} has the Secretaries,, who resemble baby dolls. They're huge, they [[DemonicSpiders hit crazy hard]] [[WidgetSeries (with math equations, oddly enough)]], they're [[UncannyValley creepy]], they show up in zones devoid of all life, and they get even uglier as the game goes on. They're also good for EXP grinding, if you're careful.
* Twilight Town in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' is populated by Twilighters, green creatures resembling shadowy dolls with visible stitching and glowing yellow eyes. Fortunately it's the game's HalloweenTown and they're the ones in need of rescuing.
* ''VideoGame/SoulHackers'' features the shop "Robot Haus" which normally sells these. It is run by a creepy old lady who talks as if the dolls were alive, and when you show her the GUNP, she sells suspicious items to you such as water that attracts demons and molotov cocktails.
* ''VideoGame/{{Illbleed}}'' has Cutie Marie/Cuty Mary, a cute little doll who challenges you to a series of deadly games in the "Killer Department Store" level.
* ''VideoGame/{{Device 6}}'' has many creepy dolls, some more important then others.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' features the MonsterClown jack-in-the-box Mad Jack as the third boss, although for many he's more remembered as ThatOneBoss for the frustrations due to the camera angles than for being scary (unless the player was younger than about 7 or 8).
* The vision of a doll which an evil toymaker, Henry Stauf sees and recreates, is what kicks off the storyline of ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest''.
* In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' there's creepy animatronic sex-dolls in Club Hell, they ''giggle'' when a mook pushes them onto an electrified table.
* The game menu in ''Mishap: An Accidental Haunting'' consists of signs held up by extremely creepy dolls in various states of disrepair. Similar dolls appear throughout the hidden object scenes.
* Dolly from ''VideoGame/VoodooVince''.
* ''Maze: Subject 360'' has a number of them, including a disturbing mechanical baby doll you have to assemble in order to complete a task and a room full of decrepit mannequins in contorted poses which are intended to represent previous subjects who supposedly escaped the maze.
* Vivien in ''Phantasmat 4: The Dread of Oakville'' has an entire set of shelves of grotesque wooden dolls which can move by themselves.
* In ''VideoGame/HauntTheHouse'', one object that can be possessed is a doll. When the player character, a ghost, possesses it, the player can make it shriek.
* There are plenty of dolls lying around the house in ''VideoGame/NeverendingNightmares'', where most of them are cracked or have creepy facial expressions. In a few blink-or-you-miss-it moments, they sometimes wink at the player. Ultimately, they're harmless [[spoiler:unless you're on the Wayward Dreamer path, where they will disembowel you the chance they get]].
* [=BitmapWorld=] has a storyline that parodies the Music/JonathanCoulton song, but then swerves off into Creator/EdgarAllanPoe territory. It begins [[http://bitmapworld.com/comic/issue296/ here]].
* The eponymous Talking Tattletail doll from ''VideoGame/{{Tattletail}}'' seems like an annoying but harmless [[BlandNameProduct Furby knock-off]] that the KidHero can't wait until Christmas to open. Then it starts getting out of the box on its own, and other weird things start to happen. ''Then'' you meet [[MamaBear Mama Tattletail]], who doesn't like to see its child upset...
* ''VideoGame/EmilyWantsToPlay'' has Emily's "friends", each with a different mechanic: Kiki is a Japanese porcelain doll who will kill you unless you look right at her, Mr. Tatters is a MonsterClown doll who will kill you if you move while he's looking at you, and Chester is a DemonicDummy who will kill you if you linger in the same room as him for too long.
* ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}: Dark Days Ahead'' has talking dolls as items. They're not much use except for taking their batteries or disassembling them for electronic components. Most of the dolls, when activated, say cute doll things, but they have a small chance of being creepy dolls that say things such as "Go kill yourself!", "[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Die for me!]]", or "[[Music/JonathanCoulton Do you really need that much honey?]]".
* One of the treasures in ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'' is the head of a creepy baby doll called "The Silencer". In the Japanese version it was worth 666 Pokos (changed to 670 in the international releases) and its eyelids blink if it's moved around.
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', several dolls in [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Toy Box]] find themselves possessed by Heartless. The most noticeable cases are Angelic Amber, a goth girl doll who becomes a boss upon being possessed, and [[spoiler:Buzz Lightyear, who was possessed on Young Xehanort's orders]].
* A [[CreepyGood heroic]] version of this is in ''VideoGame/Boogeyman2''. It spends the game sitting unmovingly in its perpetually-rocking chair, and each night it warns you of the approaching boogeyman.
* At one point in ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', you discover an old abandoned inn that has an attic room filled with broken sex dolls. They’re harmless until you loot the nearby treasure chest, at which point they start giggling and attack. If you [[NonStandardGameOver lose the battle]], then Catie is [[BalefulPolymorph transformed]] into one of them.
* In ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'', one of the recurring enemies is Tommy the Evil Doll. These little terrors pop out of crates with a spine-tingling "MWHA HA HA HA HA HA!" Then they chase you while throwing axes. Even once they have burst into flames, they still chase you. And they never stop respawning.
* ''VideoGame/ShutEye'': This is one of the toys that stalks you each night. It usually starts appearing by the door.
* ''VideoGame/StringTyrant'' has life sized versions these as the most common enemy type.
* The attic of Boo Manor in ''VideoGame/HamtaroHamHamHeartbreak'' is filled with dolls with big staring eyes. Bijou thinks they're creepy and the mood isn't exactly lifted when it turns out that Spat is hiding among them while pretending to be a doll.
* In episode 1 of ''VideoGame/SongOfHorror'', the final leg of the game involves a puzzle of a dollhouse with five dolls that need to be placed in the correct rooms. Four of them are normal toys, but the fifth is a hideous gangly ball of rags in a vaguely humanoid shape found clogging a toilet like someone was desperate to get rid of it. The second part of the puzzle applies this to all of the dolls: [[spoiler:in the equivalent rooms of the mansion where you put the dolls in the dollhouse, desiccated corpses appear, and the room where the ugly doll was placed is taken by [[EldritchAbomination the Presence]], which will instakill you if you try to enter]].
* ''VideoGame/SophiesGuardian'': The enemies in the game are a whole host of creepy-looking broken dolls that the PlayerCharacter needs to shoot with the [[DualWielding two guns it wields]].
* ''VideoGame/TheDollShop'': The dolls themselves. Although they are quite pretty, there's also something unsettling about them, and as well about how seriously the doll maker himself takes them.
* The 2010 remake of ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'' has the boss of Phase 2, aptly titled "The Doll that Bled". This doll has the both the powers of telekinesis and the ability to form fleshy masses of tentacles. It combines these abilities in its boss fight to create a massive golem out of flesh and furniture, which it uses as an armored shell while fighting Rick.
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* The titular character of ''Manga/HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi'' is a youkai whose original form is that of a doll in the school infirmary. According to her ghost story, those who witness the doll dancing in the night will be cursed. Even in her human form, she is described as looking like a doll.

* The various mannequins in ''Tourist Trap'', which are controlled by their owner.

%%* ''TheDollMaster''.

* Subverted in ''Pinocchio's Revenge'', a B-slasher film. [[spoiler: The kid had a split personality which she projected onto her doll.]]
* ''Black Devil Doll'' is a {{Blaxploitation}} slasher flick with a radical black activist being reincarnated as the eponymous doll.

* Subverted in ''Summer School'', where the male lead is seen slicing the head off a Raggedy Andy doll. This could've been creepy, had he not immediately offered the cloth head to his dog, whose favorite doll-head chew toy has been misplaced.

** That same film's director, James Wan, would go on to make ''Film/TheConjuring'', featuring an especially scary doll, who ''is'' possessed by a demon.

* ''Baby Jane?'', a 2011 parody remake of the original ''Film/WhateverHappenedToBabyJane'', featured a creepy Baby Jane doll that would inexplicably animate itself in various scenes, culminating in the final scene where she comes to life and repeats a line said by Baby Jane earlier in the film.

* ''Webcomic/SolsticeTwins''. During Kiri's first nightmare, she runs through a hallway with a few of them staring at her.[[http://www.solsticetwins.co.uk/?id=16]]

* ''Manga/BlackButler'': The second opening of the second season has a scene where [[DarkActionGirl Grell]] [[{{Transgender}} Sutcliffe]] is holding a creepy doll version of Sebastian, which she kisses before placing it among doll versions of Ciel and Alois... which she then proceeds to drive her chainsaw through.

* The first boss of Stage 2 in ''VideoGame/NightSlashers'' is a duo consisting of an old man with a bell and a marionette who prevent the heroes from following the carriage. The marionette walks-or-dances around as if on strings, even though there are none. He sometimes throws his head to attack, laughs maniacally, and may temporarily fall apart if hit with a special move. He burns up upon defeat.

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' has [[PsycohopathicWomanchild Lady Donna Beneviento]] and her puppet, [[PerversePuppet Angie]], who during her section of the game has Ethan have to find Angie in a game of hide and seek with several other puppets and stab her. Not finding her in time will have the other puppets ZergRush him. Once she goes down... [[spoiler: Ethan has also killed Beneviento as well, [[LiterallyShatteredLives reducing her to dust]] and taking her crystal.]]

* At least [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFVyN8KKrEQ two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu7ZtNnL1Yo PVs]] for [[CreepyTwins Rin and Len]]'s [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} "Trick and Treat"]] contain creepy dolls. In the second example, [[spoiler: Rin and Len turn out to be [[TheWoobie 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 Music/{{Vocaloid}} example, specifically from the Franchise/EvilliousChronicles: KAITO's [[https://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 theatre populated by dolls who are the "vessels" of [[SevenDeadlySins sin]].