There are few things creepier than a doll, we all had one when we were kids that freaked us out and the uncanny valley nature of it just sets your teeth on edge. As we grow older we put away childish things so we have compiled our top 10 scary doll movies to help you relive your childhood nightmares.
M3GAN
Introducing M3GAN, an incredibly realistic doll crafted by the ingenious roboticist Gemma. This AI-powered doll serves as a child’s companion and a parent’s ally, effortlessly adapting to its role as friend, teacher, playmate, and protector with its exceptional listening, observing, and learning capabilities. Upon becoming the unexpected caretaker of her 8-year-old niece, Gemma gifts her a prototype of M3GAN, unaware of the unimaginable consequences that would follow.
Child’s Play
A dying murderer uses black magic to put his soul inside a doll named Chucky who is then purchased by an unwitting family. When Chucky kills the baby sitter, they realise the doll is alive and try to warn people. They must convince police of the murderous doll’s intentions.
The Boy
When Greta takes a job as a nanny for an 8-year-old boy in a remote English village, she learns that the child of her new employers is a life-size doll. They care for the doll as if it was human, which helps the couple to cope with the death of their own son 20 years earlier. When Greta violates a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring her worst fears to life, leading her to believe that the doll is alive.
Annabelle
John thinks he’s found the perfect gift for his expectant wife: a vintage doll in a beautiful white dress. However, the couple’s delight doesn’t last long: One terrible night, devil worshippers invade their home and launch a violent attack against the couple. When the cultists try to summon a demon, they smear a bloody rune on the nursery wall and drip blood on Mia’s doll, thereby turning the former object of beauty into a conduit for ultimate evil.
Dead Silence
After his wife meets a grisly end, Jamie Ashen returns to their creepy hometown of Ravens Fair to unravel the mystery of her murder. Once there, he discovers the legend of a murdered ventriloquist whose eerie presence still looms over the town. As he desperately digs for answers, Jamie encounters the curse that took his wife’s life and threatens his own.
Robert
A cash-strapped student who starts working the night shift at a museum however, her life turns upside down when she experiences unexplainable paranormal phenomena every night. She suspects that one of the exhibits, a creepy vintage doll named Robert, is alive and wreaking havoc after hours.
Separation
Eight-year-old Jenny is constantly caught in the middle of the feuding between her lawyer mother and artist father. She leads a lonely but imaginative life, surrounded by puppets called “Grisly Kin,” which are based on the works of her father. When her mother is tragically killed in a hit-and-run life in their Brooklyn town home takes a dark turn.
Puppet Master
A team of psychics discover that their compatriot has apparently committed suicide. Plagued by gruesome visions they sense that there’s still something sinister afoot and soon they find themselves hunted by a band of homicidal marionettes created by a twisted puppeteer.
Dolls
A group of stranded travellers seek shelter in a toy makers home in remote gothic countryside during a thunderstorm. The house’s strange owners offer overnight lodgings, but with the dastardly intentions of making their visitors the playthings of their murderous toy dolls.
Finders Keepers
A divorced mother and her young daughter move into a new home. However, their lives are soon turned upside down when the daughter becomes obsessed with a creepy and disturbing doll that was left behind by the previous occupants. There is a reason why children shouldn’t play with undead things…
