How come when movies or TV shows show dolls coming to life, they're always evil? "Child's Play", "Dolly Dearest", "Trilogy of Terror" I & II, "The Twilight Zone", "Night Gallery". Has anyone seen a doll come to life and be good?
"I'm in such bad shape, I'm wearing prescription underwear." Phyllis Diller 1917-2012
The movie 'Devil Doll' from the 60's (As seen on MST3K). Yes, the doll killed some people, but only because he was under the control of the movie's true villain. The soul in the doll was actually a good person who had no control over what he was doing.
I also believe the dolls from the Puppet Master movies were also portrayed as the good guys in later movies.
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Was the Devil Doll under the ventriloquist's influence? It looked like it killed that woman on its own.
"I'm in such bad shape, I'm wearing prescription underwear." Phyllis Diller 1917-2012
Yeah, he was under the ventriloquist's influence the entire time.
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Also, I thought that they had traded spirits and that it was the true ventriloquist's soul that was in the doll the whole time.
"I'm in such bad shape, I'm wearing prescription underwear." Phyllis Diller 1917-2012
There was an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer that had a ventriloquist's dummy possessed by a demon hunter. He was a good guy, though creepily horny.
shareA simpsons treehouse of horror has a krusty doll that comes to life, he starts out evil but at the end becomes good(he was only evil because the switch on his back was set to that and not good).
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There was also Dead of Night (1945), Making Contact (aka Joey), Magic (the Anthony Hopkins movie), Curtains, Poltergeist, Dead Silence and Dolls
You killed Captain Clown, YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN-The Joker on Batman TAS
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Dolls and you'd arent always evil, you just don't think of good toys when someone brings up "killer toy"
Glenn from Seed
Toy Story toys
The soldier in Demonic Toys
Sid the Dummy from Buffy
Rocky the Dummy from Goosebumps
Those are all examples of good toys and in most cases the fight the bad.
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shareMy ex-boyfriend was unnerved by my doll collection because dolls made him think of dead children. If this is a widespread sentiment, it could explain why dolls are often up to no good when they come to life in films because, as a rule, the living dead are usually evil in fiction.
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In heaven everything is fine.
In "Dead of Night" and "Magic", those dolls didn't come to life so much as they housed the alternate personalities of the ventriloquists who were using them. I haven't seen the "Toy Story" movies (I know, BLASPHEMOUS!), but do the dolls come to life or do they only act and move around when there are no humans around?
I'll confess that on a whole, dolls don't frighten me, but I get a little creeped out when I see dolls based off of real people. The ones done for Pee Wee Herman and Urkel from "Family Matters" ESPECIALLY get under my skin!
"There will be blood. Oh, yes! There will be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"
do the dolls come to life or do they only act and move around when there are no humans around?
Lol. There is an appeal to something cute and innocent looking being vicious, deadly and aggressive. I like the contrast of look and behavior. The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book (not pop culture versions) featured pint sized pudgy cute anthropomorphic turtle teens who hacked and slashed, gouged eyes, disembowled, decapitated and bombed their enemies.
Chucky and Gage from Pet Semetery serve the same except they are evil and can prey on the vulnerability of your affections. The Zuni doll from Trilogy Of Terror is a little different: it preys on the paranoia that voodoo is not something that can be laughed off as primitive and superstitious. The PC crowd might see it as subtle work of racism and xenophobia as Predator has been construed.
All good things must come to an end - Chaucer