Horror Doll Movies: The Creepiest Movies With Evil Toys

Malevolent toys are one of the spooky elements of horror movies that never fail to frighten viewers, along with haunted houses, masked attackers, and spine-tingling jump scares. This unsettling theme first appeared in the 1938 horror film ‘The Devil Doll,’ in which a prisoner uses a shrinking formula created by a scientist to get revenge, thus establishing the precedent for evil toys in movies. Let's go back to the legendary 1988 release of ‘Child's Play,’ which introduced Chucky—the evil Good Guy doll that has gone on to become a horror legend.

The lifelike appearance of inanimate objects—especially dolls—that hide evil intentions behind their innocent façade instils a sense of inherent dread. These films deftly play on this fear, adding a sense of dread and unease to stories about creepy toys and doll-like entities.

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– Farheen Ali