YMMV / Living Dead Dolls

• Awesome Art: Though the line is often quite gruesome, some dolls have elegant or artistically gory designs that show a lot of effort and just look plain cool.
• Creepy Cute: Some of the less hardcore-scary dolls could qualify.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Toto in the "The Lost in Oz" set is roadkill, a flat piece of felt dog with a tire mark across it. Horrifying? Yes. Being dragged around on his leash anyway? Hilarious.
• Follow the Leader: Teddy Scares is a line of dead teddies with corpse tags, obituaries, and various gimmicks and accessories, although they are not a Living Dead Dolls series.
• Genius Bonus:
  • Frozen Charlotte, who is white and has shattered frozen skin, is a reference to the "Frozen Charlotte" style of porcelain dolls that were fairly common in the Victorian era. She’s also a reference to the story “A Corpse Goes To The Ball”, in which a girl freezes to death on her way to a ball because she doesn’t want to get her dress wrinkled.
  • Eeriel is billed as a Fiji Mermaid, in reference to a popular hoax taxidermy of the same nature.
  • Tommy Knocker's name is a reference to tommyknockers, gnome-like mining fairies who supposedly menaced human miners. Tommy is the ghost of a mining-town resident, seeking to exact revenge on the old town, so it's pretty fitting. There is also a Stephen King novel called “The Tommyknockers”, further adding to the horror theme.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The party-themed series includes Onyx, a frilly girl with half-black, half-white hair. Not much later, singer Melanie Martinez, known for her half-and-half hair colors and childlike aesthetic, released her song "Pity Party".
  • Resurrection The Lost, released in 2016, has clown-skull makeup which, a year later, would likely remind people very strongly of Pennywise's.
• Narm: Some think the dolls try too hard to be scary and edgy, with liberal Satanic themes and sometimes over-the-top designs.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Eeriel, the Fiji Mermaid. A normal girl cut in two and stitched to a fish bottom, a manufactured freak, who died from the injuries and may not even be undead.
  • Chloe and Posey were buried alive.
  • Mildread kills everything she touches.
  • The three dolls based on real-life killers are Lizzie Borden (murdered her parents), Countess Bathory (bathed in the blood of virgin girls in an attempt to look younger), and Jack the Ripper (murdered British prostitutes).
• Tear Jerker: Several of the dolls are actually innocent and undeserving of their fates, such as Sunday, who simply fell several feet from a tree after a misunderstanding, and Eggzorcist, who was accidentally strangled by her costume.
  • Simone died because she was allergic to cats and a cat scratched her.
  • Spider Bite died after a spider laid eggs in her face and the spot burst.
  • Quack and Squeak were poisoned.
  • Rain is an angel based on the death of co-creator Ed Long’s mother, who provided the angel dolls on which the series was based.
  • Ember’s death is a reference to the Salem Witch Trials.
  • Maggot died from an unknown disease, possibly smallpox or the plague.
  • Purdy fell down the stairs and suffered a brain injury, but the doctors couldn’t save her.
  • Elisa Day was murdered when her boyfriend threw a rock at her head.
  • Jennocide had her face melted off because she mistook acid for tea.
  • Camilla was murdered just because she was different.
  • Ava was killed by a zombie when she simply went outside to play in the rain.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?: It is a brand of horror dolls aimed at a 15+ audience. The dolls have been banned in Greece and were almost banned in both Ireland and Singapore because people thought they were aimed at kids.