Are Dolls Really Just Toys?
With the release of another haunted doll movie, "Annabelle: Creation (2017)", it might be good to mention that not all dolls in the movies are haunted evil things. Some actually come to the rescue and some are just plain dolls. Here is a list of movies and a few TV series that feature a good or evil doll as a major part of the plot. Which is your favorite? You can play with the subject here.
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- DirectorJohn R. LeonettiStarsWard HortonAnnabelle WallisAlfre WoodardA couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.The Annabelle doll
This entry also includes "The Conjuring (2013)" (2013), and "Annabelle: Creation (2017)"(2017). - DirectorLee UnkrichStarsTom HanksTim AllenJoan CusackThe toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Bo Peep (only in the first film), Barbie, Ken (3rd film), The Martian doll, Mr. and Mrs Potatohead, the army solders, Stinky Pete (2nd film), and Evil Emperor Zurg. (I haven't forgotten Hamm the Piggy Bank, RC, Slinky Dog, and Rex the dinosaur. The definition of the word "Doll" says "Human form".) This also includes Toy Story (1995) (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999) (1999).
- DirectorRichard WilliamsAbe LevitowStarsClaire WilliamsDidi ConnMark BakerRaggedy Ann and Andy leave their playroom to rescue Babette, a beautiful French doll kidnapped by pirates.This also includes all the Paramount Noveltoons that stared Raggedy Ann and Andy like The Enchanted Square (1947) (1947) ( I just watched that short on YouTube and it rivals anything that Disney put out. The 1947 short is recommended viewing.), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0152630 (1944), and Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (1941) (1941) and more plus a TV series.
- DirectorJack DonohueStarsRay BolgerTommy SandsAnnette FunicelloMary Contrary is set to marry Tom Piper when he is kidnapped by Roderigo and Gonzorgo, two goons working for the evil Barnaby who wants to marry Mary for her inheritance.The toy solders.
This also includes any film version of "Babes In Toyland", including March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) (1932), Babes in Toyland (1986) (1986), and Babes in Toyland (1997) (1997). - DirectorJoe DanteStarsKirsten DunstGregory SmithDavid CrossWhen missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.The Commando Elite and The Gorgonites dolls
- DirectorTom HollandStarsCatherine HicksChris SarandonAlex VincentA struggling single mother unknowingly gifts her son a doll imbued with a serial killer's consciousness.The Chucky and Tiffany dolls.
This includes Child's Play 2 (1990) (1990), Child's Play 3 (1991) (1991), Bride of Chucky (1998) (1998), Seed of Chucky (2004) (2004) and Curse of Chucky (2013) (2013). - DirectorJames WanStarsCary ElwesLeigh WhannellDanny GloverTwo strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.The Jigsaw doll.
This includes Saw II (2005) (2005), Saw III (2006) (2006), Saw IV (2007) (2007), Saw V (2008) (2008), Saw VI (2009) (2009), and Saw 3D (2010) (2010), - DirectorGil KenanStarsSam RockwellRosemarie DeWittKennedi ClementsA family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces must come together to rescue their youngest daughter after the apparitions take her captive.The Clown doll
This also includes the orginnal version Poltergeist (1982) (1982). - DirectorWilliam Brent BellStarsLauren CohanRupert EvansJames RussellAn American nanny is shocked that her new English family's boy is actually a life-sized doll. After she violates a list of strict rules, disturbing events make her believe that the doll is really alive.The Brahms doll
- DirectorMichael GottliebStarsAndrew McCarthyKim CattrallEstelle GettyA young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.The Emmy Mannequin
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsRobin WilliamsMichael GambonJoan CusackWhen Lieutenant General Leland Zevo (Sir Michael Gambon) inherits a toymaking company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever.I know they don't come alive in the film, but how the final battle between the good toys and the war toys was filmed, it makes it look like they do. Oops, I forgot, Alsatia Zevo was a doll.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsAnthony HopkinsAnn-MargretBurgess MeredithA ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.The dummy "Fats"
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsIan Patrick WilliamsCarolyn Purdy-GordonCarrie LorraineA dysfunctional family of three stop by a mansion during a storm -- father, stepmother, and child. The child discovers that the elderly owners are magical toy makers and have a haunted collection of dolls.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsRobert BurtonJohn KarlenGeorge GaynesThree bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.The Hunting Fetish Doll
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsLionel AtwillFay WrayGlenda FarrellThe disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.This includes all screen versions of Charles Belden's play "The Mystery of the Wax Museum" which are this one and House of Wax (1953) (1953) and House of Wax (2005) (2005).
- DirectorDavid SchmoellerStarsPaul Le MatWilliam HickeyIrene MiraclePsychics find themselves plotted against by a former colleague, who committed suicide after discovering animated, murderous puppets.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsLionel BarrymoreMaureen O'SullivanFrank LawtonAn escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsJohn AgarJohn HoytJune KenneyLonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.The people who were shrunken into puppets.
- DirectorNorman FergusonT. HeeWilfred JacksonStarsDickie JonesChristian RubMel BlancA living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.Pinnocchio
- DirectorEmile ArdolinoStarsDarci KistlerDamian WoetzelKyra NicholsOn Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie falls asleep after a party at her house and dreams of a fantastic world where toys become larger than life.This stands for all film versions of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" ballet or of E.T.A. (Ernest-Theodor Amadeus) Hoffman's book "Nussenknracker Und Mausekonig" (in English, "The Nutcracker And The Mouse King", the story on which Tchaikovsky's ballet is based on). The Nutcracker, all of Marie's dolls and Fritz's toy Soldiers* come alive during the battle with the seven headed Mouse King.
* These are the names of the children in Hoffman's book which were later changed in the ballet to Clara and Fritz in the ballet. - DirectorJames AlgarGaëtan BrizziPaul BrizziStarsJames LevineSteve MartinItzhak PerlmanAn update of the original film with new interpretations of great works of classical music."The Steadfast Tin Soldier" section.
- DirectorMichael LembeckStarsTim AllenSpencer BreslinElizabeth MitchellScott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for eight years, but it might come to an end if he doesn't find a Mrs. Claus.The Toy Santa Claus doll and the Toy Solders. (It was like "Babes In Toyland" in reverse with the toy solders.)
- DirectorLawrence FowlerStarsHelen CrevelPhilip RidoutLayla WattsAfter a series of inexplicable events, Adeline Gray believes a haunted doll possesses the soul of a vengeful Witch. To have any hope of being reunited with her missing daughter, she knows she must defeat the evil curse of The Witch's Doll.
- DirectorCharles BandStarsKristopher LoganDebra MayerWilliam Paul BurnsVirgil, an eccentric freak billionaire, spends his days being a "biological inventor." The "blood dolls," his newest creation, aid him in getting revenge on those who betrayed him.
- CreatorDon FeddersonEdmund L. HartmannStarsBrian KeithKathy GarverAnissa JonesBill's comfortable lifestyle must change when he receives a group of unexpected long-term guests.Buffy's doll, Mrs. Beasley
- DirectorRichard C. SarafianStarsTelly SavalasMary LaRocheTracy StratfordA frustrated father does battle with his stepdaughter's talking doll, whose vocabulary includes such phrases as "I hate you" and "I'm going to kill you".The Talking Tina Doll