History Main / CreepyDoll

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl6hNj1uOkY Doll Face]] video features a doll face on a jack in the box type contraption that mimics images on the tv screen trying to find the perfect visage for itself. The worst part is the fact that the thing is apparently sentient, and it falls very ''very'' deep into the UncannyValley once it paints its face with makeup to give it such a healthy glow that it ''resembles a human face''.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' has one, although it's the face of a doll on top of metal spider legs. It's not exactly evil but it's still fearsome. The other toys can also be this way if they choose, as shown when they rebel against Sid.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' has an even scarier doll in "Big Baby", as well as... ''[[CymbalBangingMonkey the monkey]]''. [[spoiler:It takes the point further that while Sid's toys ''look'' creepy but are ultimately friendly in spite of their bad situation, Big Baby and the monkey are working for the film's villain until the very end.]]

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* Borderline example in Casey, Newt's doll in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. It's just a hollow plastic head, which probably used to belong to a baby doll. The girl comforted it when she was nervous to try to reassure herself.
* In ''Film/{{Amusement}}'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIlG1aobobk there is a scene where]] a babysitter goes to bed in a room filled with creepy clown dolls. She is so disturbed that she complains on the phone to the parents of the kids she's watching, especially about one freaky life-sized clown doll sitting in a chair. [[spoiler:The parents reply that there is no "big" doll. It turns out it's a killer in disguise, which the kids have for some reason let into the house because he said he wanted to play.]]
* ''Film/AntMan1'': The bunny doll that Scott gives to his daughter for her birthday looks like it came straight from Creator/MontyPython. [[NightmareFetishist She loves it]].
* ''Film/BabyJane'', 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.
* ''Film/BewareTheWoods'': In the prologue of the movie, when the unnamed hiker happens across the [[EvilOldFolks old lady]]'s house, the camera cuts to a shot of a doll inside with a slightly dirty, cracked face. It doesn't really do anything for the movie other than help the house look scary.
* The razor-toothed killer dolls from ''Film/{{Barbarella}}''.
* ''Film/BlackDevilDoll'' is a {{Blaxploitation}} slasher flick with a radical black activist being reincarnated as the eponymous doll.
* In ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'', the group is camping in the forest and encounters a bunch of stick-doll effigies hanging from the trees.
* ''Film/TheBoy'' prominently features one of these in Brahms, an effigy of a nine-year-old boy who died years ago. [[spoiler:However, that the movie is actually a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion, and there's nothing supernatural about the doll whatsoever, because the real Brahms didn't die at all, and is in fact now a grown PsychopathicManchild making the doll move when no one is watching.]]
** In [[Film/BrahmsTheBoyII the sequel]], [[spoiler:this is {{retcon}}ned into a straightforward example -- apparently, the doll was possessed by a supernatural creature all along, and the previous movie was just one in a long line of incidents caused by the doll]].
* ''Film/CainHill'': When Marcus is walking around the upper floor of the asylum gathering footage, he enters a room, and the camera (the movie's camera, not the one that Marcus is holding) zooms in on a creepy doll sitting in a chair. [[spoiler:The doll shows up at the end of the movie with a number next to them, possibly as a piece of crime scene evidence.]]
* ''Franchise/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. However, Glenn is somewhat of a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion and Tiff is... [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Tiff]].
* ''Film/ClownMotel'': There are plenty of creepy clown dolls on the property. The camera shows a couple of shots that just show the dolls.
* ''Film/TheConjuring'' and its spinoff ''Film/{{Annabelle}}'' features a truly creepy doll by the name of Annabelle that has been possessed by a demon, and is apparently based on a real-life case (see RealLife below).
* In ''Film/DeadBirds'', Clyde finds a ragdoll with stitching that makes it look like the eyes and mouth have been sewn shut. [[spoiler:This turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} as Clyde is eventually strung up as a {{Scary Scarecrow|s}} with his eyes and mouth stitched shut.]]
* ''Film/DeadSilence'' is a good example of how creepy a doll can really be even when ''not'' possessed by evil spirits bent on ripping out your tongue and making you into part of its collection.
* ''Film/DeepRed'': the walking ''deformed'' doll provides a JumpScare.
* ''Film/DollFactory'': The titular dolls are little grey bald-headed people in black dresses who are trying to collect souls for their master.
%%* ''Film/TheDollMaster''.
* ''Film/Dolls1987'' has several people taking refuge in an old mansion filled with all sorts of dolls. Turns out that they are inhabited by supposed "fairies" [[spoiler:(in truth, evil men)]], which start attacking the characters.
* ''Film/FullCircle'' features a cymbal-clapping clown doll, whose cymbals are dangerously sharp. [[spoiler:Sharp enough, it turns out, to slit a throat...]]
* The titular carnival attraction in ''Film/TheFunhouse'' is filled with them.
* In ''Film/ItsPat'', Kyle's obsession with Pat includes him having a Pat doll.
* ''Film/KillerUnderTheBed'': The antagonist of the film is a doll with white skin, white clothes, very little hair, a MouthStitchedShut, and long limbs. It has the power to either bless or curse anyone its owner wishes, but the wishes grow in intensity over time. [[spoiler:Oh, and the doll can move around and possess people.]]
* ''Film/LostCreek'': The mummy Halloween decoration with the large eyes and smile becomes this when it starts moving around Peter's room all by itself.
* The functional equivalent thereof in ''Film/MadLove'', in which Dr. Gogol, having been rejected by a pretty actress, buys a wax dummy of said actress. And has his maid brush the dummy's hair. And buys a negligee for the dummy.
* ''Film/Maniac1980'''s Frank Zito keeps various mannequins in his apartment as odd trophies that wear the clothes and scalps of his female victims. In the ending, [[spoiler:he has a hallucination where they come to life and rip him into pieces]].
* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': Freddy Krueger often decorates his victims' dreams with mutilated dollies and is occasionally seen holding one by its legs or hair. A symbolic nod to his past killings of young children, which we never actually see on-screen.
* In ''Onryō! Azawarau Ningyō'', Junichiro is killed because he's got evidence of a huge case of fraud by a colleague of his, Kitahara, who incidentally also is a former rival over Kumi, Junichiro's wife. The only thing of Junichiro that makes it back home is a doll he bought for his daughter Yukari. Said doll becomes a vessel for Junichiro's spirit, enabling him to protect his family from Kitahara and obtain justice for his murder. It kills Kitahara in an act of defending Kumi and Yukari when Kitahara's scheme comes to light. Thereafter, the doll returns to normal.
* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/PinocchiosRevenge'', a B-slasher film. [[spoiler:The kid had a SplitPersonality which she projected onto her doll.]]
* The Clown Doll from ''Film/Poltergeist1982''. For the first half of the movie, it just sits on a rocking chair, doing nothing. Then it disappears....
* All of the puppets from the ''Film/PuppetMaster'' franchise.
* ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'', the [[UndeadChild ghost of the little girl]] is carrying a porcelain doll. When the protagonist finds the doll in the attic, it is even creepier close up, with a maze of cracks running through its face. The flickering light causes its eyes to appear completely black.
* The second film adaptation of ''Literature/RedDragon''[[note]]The first was ''Film/{{Manhunter}}''[[/note]] focuses on a SerialKiller who murders families in their beds. While at one particular crime scene, the camera would often dwell on the creepy old antique dolls of a murdered child. The UncannyValley effect of the dolls' eyes actually helps the hero to [[TheProfiler figure out part of the killer's motivating fantasy]].
* ''Film/{{Reincarnation 2005}}'' (a.k.a. ''Rinne'') features one of the creepiest damn ones you may ever see.
* "Billy", in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films, whose image is used to relay to rules of Jigsaw's latest DeathTrap.
* In ''Film/Scrooge1951'', Tiny Tim is first seen gazing into a shop window with (authentic Victorian) mechanical toys, including a laughing-man doll that's pure nightmare fuel -- although Tim seems to find it charming.
* ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2004'' has a creepy bobble head doll called "the littlest elf" in the rear-view window of Count Olaf's car.
* ''Film/ShallowGrave'' features a perfectly normal laughing doll. It still manages to get a creepy scene.
* ''Film/{{Sheitan}}'': Eve's father owned a doll store, and the house contains a dollmaker's workshop full of partially built dolls and doll parts, and his collections of antique marionettes and giant dolls in the attic. All of this is quite creepy. Additionally, Marie is sneaking around the house assembling a doll with a broken head that she keeps attaching human parts to.
* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/SummerSchool'' when 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.
* The abandoned baby doll in Johanna's bassinet from ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''. It's decayed with age and probably smoke damage/mildew and is damn scary. (This scene also serves as an EmpathyDollShot for Johanna's current plight.)
* The opening of ''Film/Titanic1997'' features a group of divers exploring the Titanic wreck. A few shots pan across some of the destroyed trinkets and other such former valuables scattered across the ocean floor. One shot reveals an eerie white face that resembles a child and for a moment you think it's a child's detached head, but it turns out to just be a lone face separated from a doll. Based on a RealLife story. Bob Ballard on his first visit to the wreck by manned submersible encountered a disembodied doll's head just like the one in the Cameron film. The sub's crew of three hardened explorers freaked out at this discovery.
* In the miniseries for ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'', police officer Ruth has a collection of creepy dolls in her office. [[spoiler:After she finds out what's going on with the town, the aliens make the dolls come "alive" and attack her, to prevent her from phoning for help. The scarecrow doll is especially scary.]]
* The various mannequins in ''Film/TouristTrap'', which are controlled by their owner.
* The Zuni Fetish Doll from the last segment of ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'', which comes alive after a certain necklace is removed from its neck and starts vehemently chasing the main character.
* ''Film/UnderworldUSA'': After Cuddles passes out, she wakes up on the bed in the room that houses Sandy's doll collection, which are staring at her unnervingly.
* ''Film/TheWomanInBlack'' just ''loves'' this trope. Everywhere you look in the spooky ole house, there's a doll on a shelf with a truly hideous face. Even the 'normal' kids at the start of the film are playing with some creepy dolls.
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* The ''Podcast/SickSadWorld'' episode "Creepy Stories -- It Happened to a Friend of a Friend" starts with a story about a dancing baby toy Mari had, which Jasmine calls nightmare fuel. It's described as pale, half-naked, and having emotionless eyes. It also seemed to have moved on its own.

In horror, dolls are often used as part of the scenery to help establish the mood, even providing a theme for TheDollEpisode. 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.

* ''Film/{{Reincarnation}}'' (a.k.a. ''Rinne'') features one of the creepiest damn ones you may ever see.

* The titular puppet ''Film/{{Possum}}'' is the epitome of the UncannyValley. [[NonIndicativeName Despite the name]], it is more akin to a human head on a giant spider's body. Across the film, it harasses its creator Philip. Worse is that [[spoiler: Possum is just a coping mechanism for the sexual abuse Philip suffered under his uncle Maurice]].

* The titular puppet ''Film/{{Possum}}'' is the epitome of the UncannyValley. [[NonIndicitiveName Despite the name]], it is more akin to a human head on a giant spider's body. Across the film, it harasses its creator Philip. Worse is that [[spoiler: Possum is just a coping mechanism for the sexual abuse Philip suffered under his uncle Maurice]].

%%* Talky Tina from ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone''

* The dolls in William Sleator's book "Among the Dolls" belong to a girl who makes their lives as depressing as she thinks her own life is. Somehow she is turned into a doll herself and trapped in their house. The dolls, now fully alive, are definitely not pleased with her. The {{Tagline}} for the book: "Now she's their toy."

* Older "talking dolls," especially those made in the 80s. The problem lies in their distorted voices: for example, Talking [[Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse Pee-Wee Herman]] has the character's trademark "Secret Word Scream," which sounds more like a bloodcurdling ''roar''. The official [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Sheriff Woody doll]] ''averts'' this because it uses a state-of-the-art voice chip instead of the old miniature record player.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' has one, although it's the face of a doll on top of metal spider legs. It's not exactly evil but it's still fearsome. The other toys can also be this way if they choose, as shown when they rebel against Sid.

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* Rudy from ''Pinball/FunHouse''
* Talky Tina from ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone''
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* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': Freddy Krueger often decorates his victims' dreams with mutilated dollies, and is occasionally seen holding one by its legs or hair. A symbolic nod to his past killings of young children, which we never actually see on-screen.

* ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'', the [[UndeadChild ghost of the little girl]] is carrying a porcelain doll. When the protagonist find the doll in the attic it is even creepier close up, with a maze of cracks running through its face. The flickering light causes its eyes to appear completely black.

* ''Film/{{Sheitan}}'': Eve's father owned a doll store, and the house contains a dollmaker's workshop full of partially-built dolls and doll parts, and his collections of antique marionettes and giant dolls in the attic. All of this is quite creepy. Additionally, Marie is sneaking around the house assembling a doll with a broken head that she keeps attaching human parts to.

* ''Film/UnderworldUSA'': After Cuddles passes out, she wakes up on the bed in the room that houses Sandy's doll collection; which are staring at her unnervingly.

* The ''Podcast/SickSadWorld'' episode "Creepy Stories -- It Happened To A Friend Of A Friend" starts with a story about a dancing baby toy Mari had, which Jasmine calls nightmare fuel. It's described as pale, half-naked, and having emotionless eyes. It also seemed to have moved on its own.

*** A chilling trio appear in the Screaming Author case. When Akira returns there the second night, he finds life-sized dolls wearing masks and posed like humans. Each of them represent the tortured victims of the house owner, and Akira must figure out how to pacify them so that they can move on and he can retrieve their masks. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Yakumo turned the girls into dolls in order to offer them up to Kakuya, appeasing her for another ten years]].

** Even worse is the fact that the doll's owner's wife (who hated the thing...like ''everyone else'') apparently starting haunting their old house. Robert's old room, to be exact. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF7488WHcok This Travel Channel clip]] insinuates that [[AndIMustScream she has no choice in the matter]]. Oh, also, Robert ages, apparently. His hair's gone white and he's got liver spots now...
* Related to Robert The Haunted Doll is ''Annabelle the Haunted Doll.'', whose story would become the basis of ''Film/TheConjuring'' and its spinoff ''Annabelle''. Possibly even more terrifying than the former, this Literature/RaggedyAnn doll was first owned by a woman by the name of Donna, whose mother purchased the doll from a hobby store in the 1970s. She and her roommate were cool with having the doll at first... until freaky things started happening in their apartment, where the doll not only supposedly moved on its own, but also ''wrote messages.'' When a medium was consulted, she said that the doll was being inhabited by the harmless spirit of a girl named Annabelle who died on the property, and Donna and her roommate felt compassion for the spirit. However, Annabelle the Doll was not what she seemed as she reportedly violently attacked one of Donna's friends. After two incidents, the famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were consulted and eventually came to the conclusion that the doll was being haunted not by the spirit of a little girl, but by a demon. The doll was eventually relocated to the Warren Occult Museum in Moodus, Connecticut, where it is reported that the doll still moves and growls at visitors on occasion from behind its glass case.
*** Also related to this story, a skeptical man came in one day, and in TooDumbToLive fashion, began to ''taunt'' the [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu reportedly demonic doll.]] Result? He was [[ForegoneConclusion killed in a motorcycle crash mere hours later.]]

* Aaron Spelling's mansion had a room especially built to house a huge doll collection; unfortunately the kids it was intended for found it to be a little creepy.

* TruthInTelevision moment about these things, it turns out according to one [[http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/12/dead-or-alive-the-eyes-hold-the-.html?ref=hp "study"]] we perceive what is alive and what is inanimate by the look of the face and eyes more then anything else, so now we know the human truth. Dolls are just freaky soulless things!

* The Island of the Dolls (“La Isla de la Munecas”) south of Mexico City. Featuring trees decorated with hundreds of mutilated dolls. It also has a reputation of being haunted

* ''Film/{{Dolls}}'' has several people taking refuge in an old mansion filled with all sorts of dolls. Turns out that they are inhabited by supposed "fairies" [[spoiler:(in truth, evil men)]], which start attacking the characters.

* Related to Robert The Haunted Doll is ''Annabelle the Haunted Doll.'', whose story would become the basis of ''Film/TheConjuring'' and its spinoff ''Annabelle''. Possibly even more terrifying than the former, this Raggedy Anne doll was first owned by a woman by the name of Donna, whose mother purchased the doll from a hobby store in the 1970s. She and her roommate were cool with having the doll at first... until freaky things started happening in their apartment, where the doll not only supposedly moved on its own, but also ''wrote messages.'' When a medium was consulted, she said that the doll was being inhabited by the harmless spirit of a girl named Annabelle who died on the property, and Donna and her roommate felt compassion for the spirit. However, Annabelle the Doll was not what she seemed as she reportedly violently attacked one of Donna's friends. After two incidents, the famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were consulted and eventually came to the conclusion that the doll was being haunted not by the spirit of a little girl, but by a demon. The doll was eventually relocated to the Warren Occult Museum in Moodus, Connecticut, where it is reported that the doll still moves and growls at visitors on occasion from behind its glass case.

* "Doll Bones" by Holly Black 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.

** ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'' has Mary, a human-sized talking doll that belonged to the late Saya Kujou. She has a habit of startling those who meet her for the first time, though fortunately she's on the protagonist's side. [[spoiler:Or not; she's actually the BigBad who feeds on the pain and despair of her victims.]]

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* ''Film/RedDragon'' focuses on a SerialKiller who murders families in their beds. While at one particular crime scene, the camera would often dwell on the creepy old antique dolls of a murdered child. The UncannyValley effect of the dolls' eyes actually helps the hero to [[TheProfiler figure out part of the killer's motivating fantasy]].

* 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]]
* In Creator/RichardMatheson's short story "Prey", a young woman is terrorized by an African Zuni warrior doll that she brings home as a gift for her boyfriend, and which subsequently comes to life. (The story was memorably adopted as part of the ABC TV movie ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'' in the '70s.)
* Horror novelist Ruby Jean Jensen wrote extensively about creepy dolls: ''Annabelle,'' in which a small girl discovers a collection of living dolls in an abandoned mansion with a past; ''Victoria,'' where the killer doll has a good twin; ''Mama,'' where a mangled, barely mobile doll still manages to drag herself around and hug people to death; ''The Living Evil'' (spoilers: the evil is a doll); and ''Baby Dolly'' (self-explanatory), among others.

* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': Pretty Penny, a doll that Aunt Josephine gave Violet in ''The Wide Window''.
** Also the movie adaption of the first three books in the series has a creepy bobble head doll called "the littlest elf'' in the rearview window of Count Olaf's car.
* Creator/StephenKing:
** In the story ''[[Literature/FourPastMidnight The Sun Dog]]'', a character thinks that a toy (not exactly a doll, but a stuffed panda, that talks) that her niece has is very creepy, and imagines that one day, it will say stuff like: "I think tonight after you're asleep, I'll strangle you to death" or "I have a knife".
** ''[[Literature/SkeletonCrew The Monkey]]'', about a doll-like toy whose clanging on its cymbals signals someone's death. [[FridgeHorror Even if you]] [[ClingyMacGuffin throw it away]].
* ''Literature/TheRagwitch''. The titular Creepy Ragdoll is an EvilOverlord that takes over the body of the protagonist's sister, turning her into a half-human, half-cloth ''thing'' and [[AndIMustScream forcing her to watch helplessly from inside]] as the Ragwitch resumes Her interrupted reign of terror.
* In Elizabeth A. Lynn's ''The Silver Horse'', a world of animate toys includes broken dolls who are very, ''very'' bitter about the wrongs committed upon them by careless children.

* J.R. Lowell's ''Literature/DaughterOfDarkness'' is about Willie, a super-intelligent little rich girl who collects dolls -- not the cute kind, either -- from all over the world. The maid refuses to clean Willie's room because she feels like the dolls are "watching" her. She's right.
* There's a short story about a girl who goes to stay with her aunt for a vacation. While there, she finds her aunt's old china doll, which is described as being very beautiful, except for its orange-ish, creepy eyes. When she keeps the doll in her room at night, she sees the eyes are glowing and freaks out. [[spoiler:The doll becomes less creepy when we find out later why the eyes look the way they did - one of the doll's previous owners died in a fire and the doll, sitting on a mantleplace, had to watch. The orange coloring was the firey scene, replaying in her eyes. After the girl comforts the doll, the eyes turn to a normal grey color.]]

* In an 87th Precinct novel by Ed [=McBain=], a doll has a recording of an actual murder in it.

* ''Literature/TheBirthingHouse'' features one of these during one of the first nights Colin spends in the house.
* ''Literature/{{Robopocalypse}}'' Baby Comes Alive turns into this.
* ''Literature/JohannesCabalTheNecromancer'' has one of these as a prize in the title character's demonic carnival.
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'' Ruth [=McCausland=] has a doll collection which frightens two children and gives her brief uneasy feelings ''before'' the Becoming. After the Becoming first starts, they begin ''talking'' to her...
* ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr''. [=McCarthy=] becomes a ParentalSubstitute for several traumatised orphans, one of whom keeps a stuffed bear with its head missing. [=McCarthy=] thinks of sewing another head on the bear, but is warned against it by the other members of the orphanage, who explain the child is likely to freak out if his toy suddenly has unfamiliar features.
* The dolls in M. R. James' "The Haunted Dolls' House," which come alive to reenact a murder and its aftermath.
* The dolls in William Sleator's book "Among the Dolls" belong to a girl who makes their lives as depressing as she thinks her own life is. Somehow she is turned into a doll herself and trapped in their house. The dolls, now fully alive, are definitely not pleased with her. The tagline for the book? "Now she's their toy."
* In Literature/TheLonelyDoll books by Dare Wright, the doll herself isn't so creepy, but her situation is. The doll starts off apparently abandoned in a highrise penthouse, and when she finally gets company, there's a lot of disapproval and spankings.
* One of Gahan Wilson's cartoons, which was used as the cover and the title of a collection of his works, shows an attic with all the broken toys - rocking horses with broken legs and teddy bear without an eye or an arm. And the teddy bear is telling the others - "Someday when he's old and weak, he'll get nostalgic and come up here to see us. Then we'll get him."
* "Doll Bones" by Holly Black 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.
* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidCabinFever'', Greg recollects about a baby doll called Alfrendo his mother gave him in order to train him for being an older brother to his yet-unborn younger brother Manny. [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/doawk/images/9/90/Alfrendo_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111118193057 The doll is already rather unnerving]], having huge eyes being rather realistic looking in-universe, but then [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/doawk/images/6/6f/Alfrendo_found.png/revision/latest?cb=20141203140631 things get worse]] when Greg stumbles upon it in the basement several years after it disappeared.
* In the ''Literature/DeptfordMice'' book ''The Crystal Prison'', the well-meaning [[TheHero Audrey]] creates a corn dolly as a decoration for the Hall of Corn in Fennywolde. Without her knowledge, it is brought to life by [[spoiler:Jupiter's]] dark magic and becomes a serial killer that strangles several mice to death.
* Josh Malerman's "The House of the Head" is an unusual twist on the trope: a creepy doll's head menaces not the story's protagonist, but the dolls in her dollhouse.

* ''Literature/ElijahOfBuxton'': Emma Collins' doll is made from a sock that had rope tied around the neck to form a head. It also has two big brown buttons for eyes, and six little buttons for teeth. Elijah thinks it's scary.

* 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." [[TheCatCameBack 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!
* Laura Branigan's song "Self Control" begins and ends with a shot of a rather creepy doll.
* The video to the song "Technologic" by Music/DaftPunk.
** It should be. It's the animatronic Chucky doll used in ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' (mentioned above) with its silicone skin removed.

* There's a few of these in the Music/{{Pink}} video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eocCPDxKq1o Please Don't Leave Me]]" starting at 2:22. Notice all the dolls in the audience and then the close up on them. Brr...

* The video to the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU1ANLb4QPY He's My Thing]]" by Babes in Toyland, as well as some of the cover art for their albums.

* Music/TheDresdenDolls have a song called "Coin Operated Boy" while not wholly about a doll, the boy is a life size puppet of sorts that ran by dropping a quarter into its pay slot.
* The video for Velvet Eden's "..And schism".

* Finnish band [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Lordi "Lordi"]] have a song called Schizo Doll. Also, their keyboardist Hella acts as a living doll.
** See also the earlier video for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFfK9jbTS-U "Would You Love A Monsterman?"]]''
* Music/{{Kerli}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXMeZwO2qZ0 Walking on Air]] video.
* The doll family on the album cover of Music/MarilynManson's ''Music/PortraitOfAnAmericanFamily''.
* The artwork within ''Music/MusicForChildren'' by Music/JohnZorn shows a lot of creepy dolls, including the one on the original album cover, which was replaced on some copies for being too disturbing. It features a nude female doll with breasts.
* Music/DavidBowie's video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOy7vPwEtCw "Love Is Lost"]] features puppet versions of two past characters: the Thin White Duke and the Pierrot from the "Ashes to Ashes" video. The clown is the less creepy of the two.
* Music/IceNineKills' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8vKjIakHbA Assault & Batteries]]'' features a plot out of ''Franchise/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.

** In "Strange Music" the narrator finds in her dead grandfather's loft a trunk full of antique dolls with mouths like those of a ventriloquist's dummy, all but one of which are missing their lower jaws; the one with its jaw intact is a [[MonsterClown clown doll]] with a splash of red paint giving it an ugly smile. [[spoiler:It seems to be able to escape from the closed trunk.]] Later she notices another doll, jaw intact, that resembles [[spoiler:her ex-boyfriend - who is then found dead with his lower jaw torn off.]]
* A few are set up in the ''The Shining'' room in the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Creepy Town''. [[spoiler: A giant one that looks like Die appears and kills Stacey near the end]].
* ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneDust'' has Uncle Oni, a creepy Bunraku puppet.
* The ''Podcast/SickSadWorld'' episode "Creepy Stories - It Happened To A Friend Of A Friend" starts with a story about a dancing baby toy Mari had, which Jasmine calls nightmare fuel. It's described as pale, half-naked, and having emotionless eyes. It also seemed to have moved on its own.

* The ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting is home to doll golems, animated toys which cause uncontrollable laughter with their bite, and 'carrionettes', sentient puppets that can swap minds with their victims.

-->'''''The Scripture of the Maiden on the Shelf:'''''
-->''[[ArcWords Once, there was a maiden...]]''
-->''...who sat on a child's shelf and watched the entire world.''
-->''[[UncannyValley Her eyes were made of glass,]]''
-->''[[RedEyesTakeWarning And their pupils were red.]]''
-->''[[UncannyValley Her mouth was sewn on.]]''
-->''For years and years, she did not move.''
-->''[[ParanoiaFuel Then, when necessary, she was gone, and the head of that child with her.]]''
-->''"Survival is control," she said.''

* ''TabletopGame/BetrayalAtHouseOnTheHill'' has an event called "Creepy Puppet". The description: "You see one of those dolls that gives you the willies. It jumps at you with a tiny spear."
** The Legacy version has a Porcelain Doll omen that counts as a ghost on the doll owner's turn and the chapter that introduces that omen has two possible creepy doll-themed haunts: either the traitor is summoning an army of singing dolls to kill everyone else or the traitor wants to feed a hungry doll the blood of others until it grows big enough to burrow underneath the house.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent Soulbound Dolls]], crafted from a fragment of a creature's soul--either [[SoulJar donated]], or [[ImHavingSoulPains taken forcefully]]. In theory, they're {{Empty Shell}}s, but in practice they [[CloningBlues retain some of the donor's personality]], and it's not predictable ''which'' [[CameBackWrong personality traits will appear]]. On top of that, they're the only construct that's [[WeakWilled vulnerable to mind-affecting effects]], so even if they start out okay, they could still become BrainwashedAndCrazy later.

* Ghostrick Doll, a member of the Ghostrick archetype in ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' is based on a Bisque Doll, a doll made mostly or entirely of bisque porcelain and characterized by their highly realistic features and skin-like texture. These dolls were at their most popular in the late 1800's, and are now considered highly valuable among collectors. In addition, due to their eerie wide-eyed stares and historical nature these dolls have recently become pop culture fixtures in horror movies– often related to the ghosts of young girls.

* The ''Spirit Hunter'' series has two dolls based on well-known urban legends, namely those of Mary-san and Okiku, though the latter is a much more liberal take on the respective urban legend than the former:

* ''Webcomic/SilentHillPromise'' has a terrifying kewpie doll.
* Inverted in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', where Goth undead-phile Tsukiko keeps a doll of Xykon (who ''is'' creepy) in her bedroom. The doll, in contrast to the actual Xykon, is a cuddly plush toy.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

** The Squiddles are among Jade's toys. They are plush, smiling, tentacled friends. It is implied that their creation was inspired by the Horrorterrors, DreamWalker[=s=] that exert an unconscious influence on humanity: the cute Squiddles are the [[TheTamingOfTheGrue softened]] avatars of EldritchAbomination[=s=]. It is easy to agree with fans who always found them creepy.
** The Manthro Chaps, also Jade's. They feature grotesque FurryReminder[=s=] (and a ContinuityNod to the author's previous comics). [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Jade]] does not mind.

---> You made a DUTTLE! \\
The duttle is weirding you out a little. You believe you will keep your distance from the duttle.
* ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare''. Tina's [[BilingualBonus muñeca para el Dia de los Muertos]] looks outright hideous! Its true nature (assuming it is in fact more than a decoration for the Day of the Dead) has yet to be revealed, although given Tina's backstory, it is easy to [[WMG/WapsiSquare develop some theories about this]].
* ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' has Blair, a girl doll possessed by a male spirit. Rather stupid and very, very perverted one, at that. Though he's annoying rather than creepy and ends up as TheChewToy.
* In ''Webcomic/MinionComics'' the protagonists have Tur-Tor - a stuffed turtle with drugged-out eyes that plays tapes of gangster rap songs about children committing domestic violence.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZWL8WSAETY Very Creepy Doll Commercial From The 60's]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fObkkZf1pzY Extremely Creepy Doll Commercial]]
* ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'' v2 had Vice-Amiral Swasou, who owned a lot of creepy dolls. Even creepier is the fact that they appear to go places when nobody's looking.
* ''WebVideo/{{Fred}} [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Finds A Creepy Doll]]'': an [[MerchandiseDriven officially licensed]] Fred doll, which he thinks is a VoodooDoll of him. And then it starts talking...
* In ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'', the [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] doll Jay finds in an abandoned house may or may not count, but the baby doll in totheark's "Indicator" video '' definitely'' does.
* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', CreepyChild Rebecca has a teddy bear that speaks in a demonic voice, worships Satan, and makes death threats to the other characters.

* Any of ''WebAnimation/SaladFingers'' three finger puppets can be this. Hubert Cumberdale can become human-sized, gain red eyes, and scream for no apparent reason, as well as randomly turn into a black liquid that burns at the touch. Marjory Stewart-Baxter jealously watches Salad Fingers have a picnic with a little girl through the window. Jeremy Fisher can also become human-sized, stores a weird green fluid in his plugged-up mouth, and can suddenly transform into [[MindScrew a second Salad Fingers]] [[ImAHumanitarian to get eaten alive]] by the first.
* Music/DoctorSteel makes several of these.

* The... odd-looking... figurine from ''WebVideo/DoomHouse''. It haunts the protagonist by [[OffScreenTeleportation appearing]] [[ClingyMacGuffin wherever he goes]].
* [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=doll#/d4yydkt Toki's new doll]] The one who owned is looked the similar and was obviously suffering similar to her.
* WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}} has an entire sub-category of monsters based on this, some examples being [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/ragamuffet.htm a ragdoll stuffed with mind-control parasites]] and [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/despire.htm teddy bear that manipulates emotion]]
* One user's nightmare in ''Literature/NightmareBeings'' involved a slimy baby doll on the ceiling with empty black eye sockets and an enormous wide mouth with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
** The Nan Dumpster from Luke Harrap's dream in 2018 is a rusty dumpster with arms and legs made from multiple doll limbs, a tongue made from [[PrehensileHair doll hair]], and teeth made from giggling doll heads.

* ''WebVideo/BuzzfeedUnsolved'': Shane and Ryan (along with local [=BuzzFeed=] reporter Pepe) attempted to spend the night on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx8JkGHaGUI&t=119s Isle of the Dolls]] in Mexico.
* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' contains a number of anomalous dolls:
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-693 SCP-693]] is a set of string dolls that can "attune" themselves to a human and start imitating their movements and speech. However, the dolls will eventually begin tormenting their "owner" (the person who did the attuning) by misrepresenting the actions of whoever they are attuned to.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-707 SCP-707]] is [[RussianReversal a matryoshka doll that disassembles you]].
* [=YouTuber=] {{WebVideo/Grav3yardgirl}} collects creepy antique dolls, but one case, an eerily humanlike cloth doll she dubbed Robertina in reference to Robert the Doll, seemed to be haunted, giving her extreme anxiety and having a history of returns. It wound up in a creepy museum after she too gave it up, and it probably doesn't help that it was theorized to be a stand-in for a deceased child, wearing their clothes.
* ''WebVideo/PlayStationAccess:'' In a playthrough of ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'', Dave finds a map with "Doll Shrine" marked on it. His immediate reaction is "Doll shrine? TURN AWAY."

* A few of these appeared in certain ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episodes. Leading the list is Mr. Friend, a glitchy prototype doll Stu made in the episode "The Mysterious Mr. Friend", who couples this with MonsterClown.
* The animated short ''{{WesternAnimation/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]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' ChristmasSpecial, in the room full of defective equipment there is "a creepy doll whose eyes follow you around the room." After it's introduced its eyes fall out and roll across the floor.

* Played for laughs in a Halloween special of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' where Pops tells a scary story involving a doll named Percy.
* Again played for laughs in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' with a doll that repeats over and over the word 'KILL'.
** The same episode has another doll that repeats 'DIE'. When the two dolls meet, things [[CargoShip get weird...]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner", Homer takes the kids to see a movie Lenny had a bit part in. The movie turns out to be a horror film called ''The Re-deadening'', and Lenny's character is a gardener menaced by a haunted doll named [[http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Baby_Button_Eyes Baby Button Eyes]]
-->'''Lenny''': Baby Button Eyes! What are you doing possessed at this hour?

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Sanitation Insanity", one of the junk items that [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward find is a discarded doll that tells Squidward it wants to destroy him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Shippening", one of the items that the police find while raiding the Awesome Store is a singing doll that [[DemonicPossession possesses]] an officer when its string is pulled.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzvcQmkhznw One US Postal Service ad]] has a family creeped out by a clown doll that follows them around places. The mailman initially doesn't think it's that bad... until the doll moves from its previous place to appear right in front of him.

* 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...
* In an issue of the revamped CREEPY comics there was a story called The Doll Lady. Needless to say, it was creepy.
* The Tails Doll from ''VideoGame/SonicR'' made an appearance in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', being guarded by Cream the Rabbit. In the issue prior to the ''Franchise/MegaMan'' crossover, Team Freedom discovered its true identity as a Badnik and moved to attack it - only for it to transform into a MechanicalAbomination. The fight was cut off just after its transformation by the Genesis Wave that started the ''Mega Man'' crossover, and since the reboot at the end of that arc, [[AbortedArc hasn't been revisited]].
* ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac is constantly tormented by two vaguely human-shaped dolls called the Doughboys, which may or may not be alive. [[spoiler: They're eventually confirmed to be extensions of the [[EldritchAbomination thing in Johnny's wall]], working to [[TheCorruption drive him even crazier and/or render him suicidal]] for the sake of releasing it.]]
* One of DC's stranger creations was Brother Power, a.k.a. the Geek, a tailor's mannequin brought to life by a combination of bloodstained clothing and [[LightningCanDoAnything a bolt of lightning]]. Essentially a human-sized living doll, he moved by shambling around bonelessly and when wounded, he remained alive and could be repaired by being sewn back together, leaving him covered in ScaryStitches. Being a doll, the Geek was completely unaware of how horrific he seemed to other people--which only made him more horrific for his innocent obliviousness. Strangely, the Geek was not a proactive character: he was literally only a doll, with the plot revolving around people's reaction to him. The character was revamped by DC's DarkerAndEdgier Vertigo line in the 1990s and became, somehow, even worse, gaining the ability to invest his spirit into any other doll, which would then bear his voice and his face. Ironically, the original character was created during TheSixties to warn people that [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs drugs can make you do weird things.]]

* This is Naruto's reaction in the Naruto/Negima crossover [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6260492/1/Happy_Families_Are_All_Alike Happy Families Are All Alike]] when he meets Chachazero. Not that she didn't have plenty of that to begin with...
* In ''Fanfic/HorseshoesAndHandGrenades'', its side story ''Month of Sundays'' has [[FauxAffablyEvil Damballa]] a Serpent who transforms people into creepy dolls. The people he transforms? [[spoiler: ''Kamen Riders''. He's made Shotaro into a marionette with nails for teeth and Haruto into a cloth doll with gold button eyes. He then transforms Eiji into a porcelain doll before sending them off to be killed by the Cosmic Hunting Dogs.]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9484728/1/Prisoner-of-the-Magic-Kingdom This story]] turns [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks It's a Small World]] into an army of these. "You've been a very wicked man, Jacob..."
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7330591/3/Harry-the-Hufflepuff-2 Harry the Hufflepuff 2]]'' Harry gets some help charming a life-size mannequin so it can take his place in History of Magic classes. Dubbed "Larry" by Luna, it gives everyone but the two of them an inexplicably creepy feeling.
* The vocaloid fanfic ''Fanfic/RottingCamellias'' has Mimi, Mayu's stuffed rabbit that is featured in her knife-throwing act.

* ''Fanfic/SeventhEndmostVision'' makes this a cultural thing; while people from the Eastern Continent don't have many hangups along these lines, people from the Western Continent all share the sentiment that human-shaped dolls are inherently disturbing. This is apparently ''universal''; Tifa, Dyne, and Yuffie all think of dolls as creepy at various points, and they come from Nibelheim, Corel, and the Wutai diaspora, respectively! The reason is tied to Western beliefs in a "Lady Jenny", who is a Death figure, and the idea that she takes offense to human-shaped dolls; she'll [[PerversePuppet take control of them]] and kill those who dare piss her off by making them. Tifa saw an early model of Cait Sith and was ''bewildered'' by him, despite being a SOLDIER. [[spoiler: It's implied to be cultural memories of Jenova taking over other humans.]]
* ''Fanfic/ItsAlwaysSpookyMonth'': [[spoiler:The Happy Fella, or Todd, breaks many things and scares Monster multiple times, all while getting Skid blamed for all of it. It also moves, usually when nobody is looking at it. According to Pump, it kills people that it doesn't consider its best friend.]]

* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' as Dr. Facilier is being dragged away by his "friends" some of them take the form of voodoo and rag dolls.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' has an even scarier doll in "Big Baby", as well as... ''[[CymbalBangingMonkey the monkey]]''. [[spoiler: It takes the point further that while Sid's toys ''look'' creepy but are ultimately friendly in spite of their bad situation, Big Baby and the monkey are working for the film's villain until the very end.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', the walking girl doll that Mike and Sulley use to [[spoiler: creep out the human police]].
* 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 [[Franchise/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.
* ''Animation/ClubOfTheDiscarded'' features a variation -- mannequins. The whole film features mannequins with unchanging facial expressions repeating the same mechanical motions every day. Unlike other examples of this trope, the mannequins are not actual monsters seen in horror; they are more UncannyValley types.

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShell1995'':
** 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 ball-joint doll and is more than eager to {{lampshade|Hanging}} his creepiness at every opportunity.

* ''Film/TheBoy'' prominently features one of these in Brahms, an effigy of a nine-year-old boy who died years ago. [[spoiler: Except that the movie is actually a subversion, and there's nothing supernatural about the doll whatsoever - because the real Brahms didn't die at all, and is in fact now a grown PsychopathicManchild making the doll move when no one is watching.]]
** In [[Film/BrahmsTheBoyII the sequel]], [[spoiler:this is [[RetCon retconned]] into a straightforward example - apparently the doll was possessed by a supernatural creature all along, and the previous movie was just one in a long line of incidents caused by the doll]].

** There's also Tiff and Glenn from the same series. Though Glenn is somewhat of a subversion and Tiff is... [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Tiff.]]

* The 1987 movie ''Film/{{Dolls}}'' has several people taking refuge in an old mansion filled with all sorts of dolls. Turns out that they are inhabited by supposedly "fairies" [[spoiler: in truth, evil men]], which start attacking the characters.

* The various mannequins in ''Film/TouristTrap'', which are controlled by their owner.
* The Zuni Fetish Doll from the last segment of ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'', which comes alive after a certain necklace is removed from its neck and starts vehemently chasing the main character.
* The Clown Doll from ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''. For the first half of the movie, it just sits on a rocking chair, doing nothing. Then it disappears....

%%* ''Film/TheDollMaster''.
* ''Film/{{Reincarnation}}'' (a.k.a. ''Rinne'') features one of the creepiest damn ones you may ever see.
* Parodied in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhOhergl8GM fake French commercial]] under the brand of "Dolls Klaus Barbie". At that time, Klaus Barbie was a former Nazi being tried for crimes against humanity.
* The opening of ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' features a group of divers exploring the Titanic wreck. A few shots pan across some of the destroyed trinkets and other such former valuables scattered across the ocean floor. One shot reveals an eerie white face that resembles a child and for a moment you think it's a child's detached head, but it turns out to just be a lone face separated from a doll. Based on a RealLife story. Bob Ballard on his first visit to the wreck by manned submersible encountered a disembodied doll's head just like the one in the Cameron film. The sub's crew of three hardened explorers freaked out at this discovery.
* The abandoned baby doll in Johanna's bassinet from ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''. It's decayed with age and probably smoke damage/mildew, and is damn scary. (This scene also serves as an EmpathyDollShot for Johanna's current plight.)
* Subverted in ''Film/PinocchiosRevenge'', a B-slasher film. [[spoiler: The kid had a split personality which she projected onto her doll.]]
* ''Film/BlackDevilDoll'' is a {{Blaxploitation}} slasher flick with a radical black activist being reincarnated as the eponymous doll.
* Borderline example in Casey, Newt's doll in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. It's just a hollow plastic head, which probably used to belong to a baby doll. The girl comforted it when she was nervous to try to reassure herself.

* In ''Film/ShallowGrave'' there is a perfectly normal laughing doll. It still manages to get a creepy scene.
* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': Freddy Krueger often decorates his victims' dreams with mutilated dollies, and is occasionally seen holding one by its legs or hair. A symbolic nod to his past killings of young children, which we never actually see on-screen.
* Subverted in ''Film/SummerSchool'', 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.
* The titular carnival attraction in ''Film/TheFunhouse'' is filled with them.
* ''Film/Maniac1980''s Frank Zito keeps various mannequins in his apartment as odd trophies that wear the clothes and scalps of his female victims. In the ending, [[spoiler:he has a hallucination where they come to life and rip him into pieces]].
* In ''Film/{{Amusement}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIlG1aobobk there is a scene where]] a babysitter goes to bed in a room filled with creepy clown dolls. She is so disturbed that she complains on the phone to the parents of the kids she's watching, especially about one freaky life-sized clown doll sitting in a chair. [[spoiler:The parents reply that there is no "big" doll. It turns out it's a killer in disguise, which the kids have for some reason let into the house because he said he wanted to play.]]

* ''Film/DeadSilence'' is a good example of how creepy a doll can really be even when NOT possessed by evil spirits bent on ripping out your tongue and making you into part of its collection.
** That same film's director, Creator/JamesWan, would go on to make ''Film/TheConjuring'', featuring an especially scary doll, who ''is'' possessed by a demon.
* In the 1951 version of ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}'', Tiny Tim is first seen gazing into a shop window with (authentic Victorian) mechanical toys, including a laughing-man doll that's pure nightmare fuel - although Tim seems to find it charming.

* The functional equivalent thereof in ''Film/MadLove'', in which Dr. Gogol, having been rejected by a pretty actress, buys a wax dummy of said actress. And has his maid brush the dummy's hair. And buys a negligee for the dummy.
* The movie ''Film/TheConjuring'' and its spinoff ''Annabelle'' features a truly creepy doll by the name of Annabelle that has been possessed by a demon, and is apparently based on a real-life case (see RealLife below).
* ''Film/FullCircle'' features a cymbal-clapping clown doll, whose cymbals are dangerously sharp. [[spoiler:Sharp enough, it turns out, to slit a throat...]]
* In ''Film/ItsPat'', Kyle's obsession with Pat includes him having a Pat doll.
* ''Film/AntMan1''. The bunny doll that Scott gives to his daughter for her birthday looks like it came straight from Creator/MontyPython. [[NightmareFetishist She loves it.]]
* In ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject,'' the group is camping in the forest and encounters a bunch of stick-doll effigies hanging from the trees.
* In ''Onryō! Azawarau Ningyō'', Junichiro is killed because he's got evidence of a huge case of fraud by a colleague of his, Kitahara, who incidentally also is a former rival over Kumi, Junichiro's wife. The only thing of Junichiro that makes it back home is a doll he bought for his daughter Yukari. Said doll becomes a vessel for Junichiro's spirit, enabling him to protect his family from Kitahara and obtain justice for his murder. It kills Kitahara in an act of defending Kumi and Yukari when Kitahara's scheme comes to light. Thereafter, the doll returns to normal.
* ''Film/BabyJane'', 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.
* In ''Film/DeadBirds'', Clyde finds a ragdoll with stitching that makes it look like the eyes and mouth have been sewn shut. [[spoiler:This turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} as Clyde is eventually strung up as a ScaryScarecrow with his eyes and mouth stitched shut]].
* ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'', the [[UndeadChild ghost of the little girl]] is carrying a porcelain doll. When the protagonist find the doll in the attic it is even creepier close up, with a maze of cracks running through its face. The flickering light causes its eyes to appear completely black.
* "Billy", in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films, whose image is used to relay to rules of Jigsaw's latest trap.
* ''Film/{{Sheitan}}'': Eve's father owned a doll store, and the house contains a dollmaker's workshop full of partially-built dolls and doll parts, and his collections of antique marionettes and giant dolls in the attic. All of this is quite creepy. Additionally, Marie is sneaking around the house assembling a doll with a broken head that she keeps attaching human parts to.
* ''Film/UnderworldUSA'': After Cuddles passes out, she wakes up on the bed in the room that houses Sandy's doll collection; which are staring at her unnervingly.

* The doll that the Other Mother frequently remakes in ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}''. All of the Other people invoke this themselves, with their creepy button eyes. [[spoiler: The Other Mother's [[OneWingedAngel true form]] is especially doll-like, with cracked porcealin skin.]]

* ''Animation/ClubOfTheDiscarded'' features a variation - mannequins. The whole film features mannequins with unchanging facial expressions repeating the same mechanical motions every day. Unlike other examples of this trope, the mannequins are not actual monsters seen in horror; they are more UncannyValley types.

* Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer combined this trope with lolis for maximum creepiness. His dolls inspired the ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' Mannequins. See a Not-Safe-For-Work-Or-Sanity [[http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7426/292020la20poupee2020han.jpg photograph]].

* Music/IceNineKills' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8vKjIakHbA Assault & Batteries]] features a plot out of ''Franchise/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.

** In the sequel, [[spoiler:this is [[RetCon retconned]] into a straightforward example - apparently the doll was possessed by a supernatural creature all along, and the previous movie was just one in a long line of incidents caused by the doll]].

* [[http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Baby_Button_Eyes Baby Button Eyes]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons.''