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* Played terrifyingly straight in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''. Alfred and Alexia's private residence is full creepy dolls from the darkest pit of the UncannyValley. The worst part is when you're walking up the stairs for the first time. There is a massive doll that is disturbingly lifelike despite being in terrible condition. The camera angles only show its feet but as you keep moving up, you see more and more of it until it's staring you in the face. And then there's the lovely musical number that accompanies this monster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AI3pmwKnMw

** The mansion of the Beneviento familiy in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' is full of creppy dolls, and the lady of the house herself appears to be a horrifying skeleton-like doll. The boss fight against her consists of a TimedMission where you must find her and stab her before all the dolls in the house come to life and gang up on you. Upon killing her you find out [[spoiler: she's a human who controlled dolls by placing pieces of her Cadou parasite in them.]]

* In the Sabrina arc in the first season of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', there was an episode where she used her psychic powers to turn the protagonists into small, living dolls. Also, the green-haired doll she has isn't a doll; it's [[spoiler: the childlike spirit her mind and body rejected as she grew older and become more obsessed with exercising her psychic abilities]].

* Actually played for laughs in an episode of ''[[{{LightNovel/Slayers}} Slayers Next]]''. Lina and the gang search for the Claire Bible in a tower filled with magically animated dolls. HilarityEnsues even as the party is slowly transformed into dolls. [[spoiler: It turns out that the villain is a demon who takes the form of a doll, and uses another doll to pose as the supposed opponent.]]

* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame''

* The Tails Doll from ''VideoGame/SonicR''. A series of joke {{urban legend}}s even formed around it, it was so creepy to the fan base. The urban legends and creepiness are actually canon to [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog one non-game Sonic continuity]].

* The ''[[{{VideoGame/Puppetshow}} Puppetshow]]'' casual game series is based on this trope.

* ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}''. A large clown doll figures prominently in one scare scene.

** An episode with an evil doll.
** An episode where Sabrina is turned into a doll.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' did it, in a story where Veronica inherited a doll from her misanthropic great aunt; it was called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Lucifera]], and caused mischief around the house, and was only destroyed when [[spoiler:Jughead's dog Hot Dog ate it]].

* In ''Literature/GhostRadio'', one of the show's callers speaks of a dollhouse that a child she babysat was always playing with. When she got close, she saw that the dolls and their dismembered pieces were alive and moving. [[NightmareFuel Some were even screaming in agony.]]

** And the episode earlier that season where there's a necromancer who used to buy bodies from Wolfram & Hart's grave robbing department and use them to create a scene of an old-fashioned tea party.

** The Ventriloquist's Dummy that is really alive. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in that he's a good guy.]]

** The evil puppets on "Smile Time".

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** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E7TheCelestialToymaker "The Celestial Toymaker"]], the Doctor and his companions have to fight the [[HumanoidAbomination Celestial]] [[WickedToymaker Toymaker]] and his living dolls, [[spoiler:which apperantly used to be people]].

* There was a ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'' episode about the owner of a doll hospital being murdered. The opening featured a creepy scene of the hospital filled with broken dolls, various doll limbs and eyeballs, and actual blood from the murder. It was enough to make the person who found the body run screaming.

* One episode of ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'' was actually about King Dedede ordering thousands of dolls shaped like him, and move whenever he moves so he can torture his subjects. At the end of the episode, Franchise/{{Kirby}} swallows up one of said dolls, and as a result King Dedede is literally flung high up into outer space, ''and is last seen orbiting a planet shaped like him!''

* The ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E10Chinga "Chinga"]]. Noted for being written by Creator/StephenKing (and set in Maine, of course), but ''not'' being as scary as most of the other episodes!

* There are a number of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episodes featuring scary dolls or [[spoiler:people as dolls]].
** "The Invaders", a 1961 episode, features a pair of tiny, doll-like aliens terrorizing an almost-silent woman living alone in a remote farmhouse. Who turn out to be [[spoiler:NASA astronauts landed on a planet of giants]]...and attacking one of them for some reason.
** The 1963 episode "Living Doll" features a talking doll that says both "My name is Talky Tina, and I love you." and "My name is Talky Tina, and I'm going to kill you."
** "The Collection", which actually makes the ''dolls'' [[spoiler:sympathetic and the little girl [[CreepyChild incredibly creepy]].]]

* Type Four in the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' HalloweenEpisode "Terrifying Tri-State Trilogy of Terror". Candace unintentionally invokes a spell that brings her Ducky Momo to life, and the stuffed animal spends the rest of the story stalking her around the house, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK55Fio4qmo to this delightfully creepy number]]. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out Ducky Mom only wants a hug, but ''then'' the spell kicks in and her teddy bear Mister Miggins turns evil.]]

** It gets even better: the main reason Asuka hates [[{{Kuudere}} Rei]] so much is that she reminds her of a doll. Asuka also regards Unit 02 as ''her'' doll which is ironic, considering whose soul is in the core. (And this may explain why she has a harder and harder time controlling Unit 02 as the series goes on... until she makes the realization at the very end.)

* ''Manga/ShinryakuIkaMusume'', usually rather light and fluffy, featured an episode about an old doll recovered from a storage shed, toward which it seemed to mysteriously move by itself, overnight. It's revealed that that's a feature of the doll: it and its counterpart, still in the shed, automatically rotate to face each other via magnets. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Probably]].

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', the villain is a man who shrinks people and turns them into porcelain figurines.

* In ''Literature/GhostRadio'', one of the show's callers speaks of a dollhouse that a child she sat was always playing with. When she got close, she saw that the dolls and their dismembered pieces were alive and moving. [[NightmareFuel Some were even screaming in agony.]]