A nanny is shocked to learn that her new employers’ son is actually a living doll in this Friday’s The Boy, inspiring this week’s 24 Frames gallery of the creepiest dolls from film and TV history!

Annabelle

Year: 2014

Tomatometer: 29%



See, people? Vintage kills! Buy your satanic dolls only from big box retailers! Child’s Play

Year: 1988

Tomatometer: 67%



Heeeere’s Chucky! The first Child’s Play scared the fanny packs off 80s kids, before the series settled into more comedic territory. Saw

Year: 2004

Tomatometer: 48%



The Conjuring/Annabelle creator James Wan is no stranger to using dolls to maximum creepy effect, as evidenced by the perennial Jigsaw from his Saw series. Poltergeist

Year: 1982

Tomatometer: 88%



In casa de los Freelings, the fear of clowns is REAL. Toy Story

Year: 1995

Tomatometer: 100%



Babyface, one of Pixar’s creepiest creations yet. The Twilight Zone

Year: 1959-1964



The verbose Talky Tina from one of The Twilight Zone‘s best episodes, “Living Doll.” Dolly Dearest

Year: 1991





One of many similar horror films that arrived in Chucky’s wake. Who couldn’t love a face like this? Dead Silence

Year: 2007

Tomatometer: 21%



Billy, from another James Wan film to prominently feature a doll. The X-Files

Year: 1993-present



Stephen King co-penned “Chinga”, a season 5 episode about a doll that drives people to madness. Puppet Master

Year: 1989

Tomatometer: 33%



Blade, one of the evil mini-denizens from the long running Puppet Master series, which is now up to part ten with the Nazi-soaked Axis Rising. Curtains

Year: 1983



Six women meet up with a film director to audtion for the same part while trying to avoid this doll, which foretells death and doom for each actress. Trilogy of Terror

Year: 1975

Tomatometer: 90%



Infamous segment from this TV movie features Karen Black tormented by a Zuni fetish doll. Tourist Trap

Year: 1979



A tourist trap is an establishment featuring a pond for skinny dipping, an Old West museum, and these dolls and mannequins who curiously look like your friends who’ve just gone missing. Deep Red

Year: 1975

Tomatometer: 95%



Dario Agento throws in this running doll during a kill scene for the hell of it. Magic

Year: 1978

Tomatometer: 83%



Anthony Hopkins stars as a cracked entertainer who relies on his dummy “Fats” to do his dirty murderin’ business. Barbarella

Year: 1968

Tomatometer: 73%



In-between scenes of getting it on with every life form in the galaxy, Jane Fonda was harassed by this volley of dolls. Tales From the Crypt

Year: 1989-1996



In “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy,” directed by Richard Donner and starring Bobcat Goldthwait and Don Rickles, an amateur ventriloquist gets more than he bargains for when he meets his idol. May

Year: 2003

Tomatometer: 69%



Grim horror tale about a lonely, trumatized girl whose only friend is this doll. Stick around to the end for the doll’s makeover! Making Contact

Year: 1986



Early Roland Emmerich movie about a boy whose telekinetic powers are matched by a possessed doll he finds in an abandoned house. Dolls

Year: 1987

Tomatometer: 64%



You’re never too old to play with dolls until you’re dead. Asylum

Year: 1972

Tomatometer: 60%



A horror anthology movie featuring this tiny feller molded in the visage of Herbert Lom. Dead of Night

Year: 1945

Tomatometer: 96%



Another horror anthology flick, which Martin Scorsese put on his list of 11 scariest movies ever. Batman: The Animated Series

Year: 1992-1995



Ventriloquist and Scarface, rather quirky members of Gotham City’s rogue’s gallery. Seinfeld

Year: 1989-1998



George can’t get no serenity in episode “The Doll” after discovering his fiancee has a toy that looks exactly like his mother.

